[Sidenote: 1475 / JAN. 29]
I gret yow well, and send yow Goddes blyssyng and myn, letyng yow wet
that my cosyn Robard Clere was her with me thys weke, and told me that
he was nowt payd of the mony that ye know that was borowd of hys modyr
and of hym, but iiij^xx._li._ The xx_li._ that my plegges ly for ys on
payd. He seyd that he was desyryd to delyvere my plegges, and to have be
payd the xx_li._; but he wold not, tyll he had spokyn with me, because
of the promys that he had mad to me befor that he shuld not delyver them
to non withowt my assent. I seyd to hym that I suppose veryly that yowyr
brodyr hys a greyd with yowyr hunkyll that he shuld paye all the hole,
for I suppose he hath a swerte for ale that and more. I wold undyrstond
how yt ys, and how that my seyd cosyn shall be content, for I war loth
to lese my plegges; I wot yt well, yowyr good hunkyll wold ben in
possessyon with good well, but I wol not soo. I wold that ye shuld speke
with yowyr hunkyll ther in, and send me word in hast what he seet
[_saith_].
I marvyll, be my trowth, that I had no wrytyng fro yowyr brodyr, er he
departyd fro London, as he promysyd in the last lettyr that he sent me,
the wych was wretyn be for the Kynges comyng to Norwych; I went
[_expected_] veryly to have hard from hym ar [_ere_] thys tyme. I wold
ye shuld send hym word of yowyr hunkyles delyng in thys seyd mater, and
send me an ansswer ther off.
Recomaund me to yowyr grauntdam. I wold she war her in Norffolk, as well
at es as evyr I sy hyr, and as lytyll rewlyd be hyr son as evyr she was,
and than I wold hope that we alle shuld far the bettyr for hyr. Yt ys
told me that yowyr hunkyll hath mad gret menys and larg profyrs to John
Bakton to make a relesse to hym of Oxinhed. Whedyr that be don or nowt,
I wot nowt yet, but I shall wot in hast, yf I may.
I wold ye shuld spekyn with my Lord of Norwych, and a say to get a lysen
of hym to that I may have the sacrement her in the chapell, because yt
ys far to the chyrche, and I am sekly, and the parson ys oftyn owt. For
all maner of casweltes of me and myn, I wold havyt grauntyd, yf I myth.
Send me word yf ye her ony tydynges from yowyr brodyr how he doth of hys
seknes, and in odyr thynges, as farforth as ye know, as astely as ye
may. I thynk long tyll I her from hym for dyvers causys. God kepe yow.
Wretyn in hast at Mawdby, on the Satyrday next be for Candelmes Day.
Send me an ansswer of thys lettyr in hast, and odyr tydynges, &c.
Be yowyr modyr.
My cosyn Robard told me that ther was mor than vij_li._ of the mony that
was payd hym that was ryght on rysty, and he cowd nowt havyt chaungyd.
He was on goodly servyd ther in.
[Footnote 220-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was
evidently written on the same day as that immediately following.]
[Footnote 220-2: This is the customary contraction of the name
Jesus, which was frequently written at the head of a letter.]
[[to have hard from hym ar [_ere_] thys tyme
_printed without space between “ar” and brackets_]]
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