_To John Paston, Esquyer, be this delivered._
[Sidenote: 1472 / NOV. 23]
I grete you wele, letyng you wete that Doctor Aleyns wyffe hath be with
me and desired me to write to you to desire you to be good mayster to
her husband and to her in her materes, for she tellith me that her trost
is full in you, and if she myght have walked she shuld have come to have
spoke with you or than ye departed; therfor, I pray you do your devoir
for her, for I conceyve that she feyneth not, notwithstandyng that I had
her in suspecion as I have wretyn to you before, be cause that she came
not, but I conceyve now the trought and that sikenesse caused thatt she
absent her. Therfore I pray you help her, for, so God help me, I have
right gret pete on her, and it is right grete almes to help her, and I
trow she wull put her most trost and sewe specialle to you. Also I wuld
ye shold desire your brother to be good mayster on to her, for I suppose
be that tyme ye have herd her excuse in such materes as he shuld be
displeased with her husband, ye shall hold you pleased. God kepe you and
send you Hes blyssyng, with myn. Wretyn on Sent Clementes Day at nyght,
in hast,
Be your Moder.
[Footnote 164-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] It is evident that this
letter was written in the same year as No. 814.]
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