[Sidenote: 1471(?) / NOV. 4]
Has received Wheteley’s letter, but though he has spoken to Sir John’s
tenants at Paston, Bakton, etc., has obtained no money to send him. They
are better pleased to pay Sir John than Master ‘Will. P.,’ so they be
saved harmless. Has put them in good comfort, and Sir John must take
care that they be not sued this term. The fishing was never worse. No
herring to be got under 13_s._ 4_d._ a barrel, and 8_s._ 4_d._ a cade.
The swans were sent the week after your departure. John Osborn and Munde
are merry. None dead at Caster and Mawteby since Michaelmas, but much
mortality still at Fylby, Ormysby, and Scrowby.
Mawteby, 4 Nov.
[This letter most probably belongs to the year 1471, which it will
be seen by the letter immediately following was a year of great
mortality.]
[Footnote 117-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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