_To my Mastyr, Sir John Paston, Knyght, be thys delyveryd._
[Sidenote: 1472 / DEC. 18]
Ryght worchepfull Syr, I recomand me to yow, thankyng yow most hertly of
your gret cost, whyche ye dyd on me at my last being with yow at London;
whyche to my power I wyll recompence yow with the best servyse that
lythe in me to do for your plesure, whyll my wytts be my owne.
Syr, as for the mater of Caster, it hathe be mevyd to my Ladys good
grace by the Byshope of Wynchester, as well as he kowd imagyn to sey it,
consederyng the lytyll leyser that he had with hyr; and he told me that
he had ryght an agreabyll answer of hyr, but what hys answer was, he
wold not tell me. Then I axyd hym what answer I should send yow, in as
myche as ye mad me a solysyter to hys Lordship for that mater; then he
bad me that undyr consayll I shold send you woord that hyr answer was
more to your plesure than to the contrary, whych ye shall have more
pleyn knowlage of thys next terme, att whyche tyme bothe my Lord and she
shall be at London.
The Byshop cam to Framlyngham on Wednysday at nyght, and on Thursday by
x. of the clok befor noon, my yong Lady was krystend, and namyd Anne.
The Byshop crystend it and was godfader bothe, and with in ij. owyrs and
lesse aftyr the crystenyng was do, my Lord of Wynchester departyd
towards Waltham.[171-2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And I let
you pleynly weet, I am not the man I was, ffor I was never so roughe in
my mastyrs conseyt as I am now, and that he told me hymselff before
Rychard Sothewell, Tymperley, Sir W. Brandon, and twenty more, so that
they that lowryd, nowgh[172-1] laughe upon me; no moor, but god look.
Wretyn at Framlyngham, the Fryday next aftyr that I depertyd fro yow.
Thys day my Lord is towardys Walsyngham, and comandyd me to overtake hym
to morow at the ferthest.