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Item, Mastyr John Smythe tellyth me that Sir T. Lyneys goodys ar not
abyll to paye a quarter of hys detts that be axyd hym; wherfor syche
money as is be left it most be devydyd to every man a parte aftyr the
quantyte, whyche dyvysyon is not yet mad, but when it is mad he hathe
promyseyd me that your part shalbe worthe iij. the best, &c.
Item, as for J. of Barneys hors, whoso have leest need to hym he shall
cost hym xx. marks, not a peny lesse.
Ye send me woord of the maryage of my Lady Jane; one maryage for an
other on, Norse and Bedford were axed in the chyrche on Sonday last
past. As for my syster Anne, my modyr wyll not remeve fro W. Yellverton
for Bedyngfeld, for she hathe comend ferther in that mater, syn ye wer
in this contre, as it aperyth in hyr lettyr that she sendyth yow by
Thyrston.
Tydyngs her, my Lady of Norffolk is with chyld, she wenyth hyrsylf, and
so do all the women abowght hyr, insomyche she waytys the qwyknyng with
in thes vj. wekys at the ferthest. Also W. Gernay wenyth that Heydon is
swyr of Saxthorp, and that Lady Boleyn of Gwton. John Osberne avysythe
yow to take brethe for your wodsale at Sporle, for he hathe cast it,
that it is woorthe as good as ix.^xx._li._ Bewar of Montayn, for he may
not pay yow so moche mony with hys ease.
I prey yow recomand me to Sir John Parre with all my servys, and tell
hym by my trouthe I longyd never sorer to see my Lady than I do to se
hys Mastershepe; and I prey God that he aryse never a mornyng fro my
Lady hys wyff, with owght it be ageyn hyr wyll, tyll syche tyme as he
bryng hyr to Our Lady of Walsyngham.
Also I prey yow to recomand me in my most humbyll wyse unto the good
Lordshepe of the most corteys, gentylest, wysest, kyndest, most
compenabyll, freest, largeest, most bowntesous knyght, my Lord the Erle
of Arran,[144-1] whych hathe maryed the Kyngs sustyr of Scotland. Herto
he is one the lyghtest, delyverst, best spokyn, fayrest archer;
devowghtest, most perfyghte, and trewest to hys lady of all the knyghtys
that ever I was aqweyntyd with; so wold God, my Lady lyekyd me as well
as I do hys person and most knyghtly condycyons, with whom I prey yow to
be aqweyntyd, as yow semyth best; he is lodgyd at the George in Lombard
Street. He hath a book of my syster Annys of the _Sege of Thebes_; when
he hathe doon with it, he promysyd to delyver it yow. I prey lete
Portland bryng the book hom with hym. Portland is loggyd at the George
in Lombard Street also.
And thys I promyse yow, ye schall not be so longe ayen with ought
a byll fro me, as ye have ben, thow I shold wryght how ofte the wynd
changyth, for I se be your wryghtyng ye can be wrothe and ye wyll
crosse it.
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for lytyll.[144-2] Wretyn the v. day of June.
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