[Sidenote: 1474 / NOV. 3]
When my master Sir John’s baily was at Paston he scared your tenants,
bidding them pay no rents to Mr. William Paston. On which Harry Warns
wrote to Mr. William, who bade him warn them not to pay money to any one
else; otherwise he would meet them at London ‘as the law would,’ or at
some market or fair, and make them pay arrears to Midsummer. Beware of
Warns, for he made Master William privy to all the examinations of the
tenants by my master your son. He also charged the tenants not to sell
as my master desired, else Master William would undo them. ‘_Ideo_,
putte no trost in hym, _quia duobus dominis nemo potest servire_.’
Pastun, 3 Nov.
[This and the letter following both appear to have been written at
the time of Sir John Paston’s dispute with his uncle William, at the
end of the year 1474.]
[Footnote 208-3: _Ibid._]
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