_To John Paston the yonger, be this delivered in hast._
[Sidenote: 1470(?) / DEC. [28]]
I grete you wele, and send you Godds blyssyng and myn, latyng you wete
that sith ye departed my Cosyn Calthorp sent me a letter, compleyning in
his wrytyng that for asmych as he can not be payd of his tenaunts as he
hat be befor this tyme, he purposith to lesse his howshold, and to leve
the streytlyer. Wharfor he desireth me to purvey for your suster Anne;
he seth she waxeth hygh, and it wer tyme to purvey her a mariage.
I marveyll what causeth hym to write so now; outher she hath displeased
hym, or ell[es] he hath takyn her with diffaught. Therfor I pray you
comune with my Cosyn Clere at London, and wete how he is dysposyd to her
ward, and send me word, for I shall be fayn to send for her, and with me
she shall but lese her tyme, and with ought she wull be the better
occupied she shall oftyn tymes meve me, and put me in gret
inquietenesse. Remembr what labour I had with your suster, therfor do
your parte to help her forth, that may be to your wurchiep and myn.
Item, remembr the bill that I spake to you of, to gete of your brother
of such money as he hath receyvid of me sith your faders disseas. Se
your Unkyll Mautby, if ye may, and send me sume tydyngs as sonee as ye
may. God kepe you.
Wretyn the Fryday next befor Sent Thomas of Caunterbury, in hast.
By your Moder.
[Footnote 93-1: [From Fenn, iv. 288.] This letter was probably
written in or about the year 1470. Anne Paston, the sister of John
Paston, here mentioned, was married to William Yelverton, a
grandson of the Judge, in 1474 (Itin. W. Wyrc. 369), and the match
had been already determined (as will appear in a future letter)
before June 1472. At the date of this letter she was still staying
in Calthorpe’s household, into which, after the manner of the
times, she had been sent for her education; and Calthorpe desiring
to reduce his establishment, suggested, somewhat earlier than her
mother anticipated, that it was time to provide a husband for
her.]
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