[Sidenote: 1475]
Ryght welbelovyd son, I gret yow well, and send yow Goddes blyssyng and
myn, letyng yow wete that I marveyle that I have had no wrytyng from yow
sethyn ye sent me the lettyr that ye sent me be for the Kynges comyng to
Norwych; in the whyche lettyr ye wrot to me that ye shuld a wretyn azeyn
to me or ye shuld de part owt of London. It ys so that yowyr hunkyll
William hath do payd to my cosyn Robard Clere but iiij^xx._li._ of the
C_li._ and he wol no mor pay but yf [_unless_] he hath delyveraunc of my
plegges, the wych was leyd to plegg for xx^ti_li._; the wych ben bettyr.
I wot well, be cause of the good well that he owyt to me, as ye know, he
wold ben in possessyon therof. My cosyn, Robard Cler, was her with me
thys weke, and told me, that yf he wold a delyveryd them, he myth an had
the seyd xx_li._; but he seyd he wold nowt, tyll he had spokyn with me;
be my trowth I fynd hym ryght kyndly dysposyd to yow, and to me bothe;
and so I have desyryd hym to kepe styll the plegge in hys possessyon,
tyll I have word from yow how ye ar agreyd with yowyr hunkyll for the
payment of the seyd mony: I wen veryly that ye have fownd hym swerte for
alle, and yff ye have soo do, I wold ye shuld wryt to yowyr hunkyll
therfor, that I myth have my plegges ageyn, for I war loth that they
shuld com in hys fyngyers.
Item, as for Sporyl wood, be ffor the Kynges comyng into Norffolk,
I myth an had chapmen to abowtyd [_have bought it_] a gret [_in whole_]
for xij^xx. [_twelve score_] mark, and now ther wol no man by yt a gret,
bycause of the gret good that the pepyll ys leyd to for the Kyng; werfor
we ar a bowth to retaylyt as well as we may, and as well as yt can be
browth too; and I send yow word how we shall do as astely as I may. As
for yowyr barly in thys cuntre, yt cannot be sold above x_d._ or xj_d._;
that ys the gretest prys of barly her, and but yt be at a bettyr prys,
I purpose for to do yt malt. And as for mony, I cowd not get yet of
Pecok but iij_li._; and he seth that be than that the owt chargys be
boryn, and the repracion of the myll at Wyntyrton, we ar lyke to have
but lytyll mor mony besyd the barly. Malt ys sold her but for xiij_d._
and whet ij_s._ or xxvj_d._ at thys time, and otys xij_d._ Ther ys non
owtlod suffyrd to goo owth of thys cuntre as yet; the Kyng hath
comaundyd that ther shuld non gon owth of thys lond. I fer me that we
shall have ryth a straung ward [_world_]; God a mendyd, whan Hys wyll
ys. I thank yow for the flakons that ye sent me; they be ryght good, and
plesyth me ryght well: I shall be as good an huswyff for yow as I can,
and as I wold be for myselff. Send me word how ye doo of yowyr syknes
that ye had on yowyr hey [_eye_] and yowyr lege; and yff God wol nowt
suffyr yow to have helth, thank Hym therof, and takyt passhently, and
com hom a geyn to me, and we shall lyve to geddyr, as God woll geve us
grase to do; and as I have seyd to yow beffor thys, I wold ye war
delyveryd of my mastres A. H.,[223-1] and than I wold trost that ye
shuld do the bettyr.
As for the bokys that ye desyryd to have of Syr Jamys,[223-2] the best
of alle and the fayrest ys cleymyd; ner yt ys not in hys inventory.
I shall a say to get yt for yow, and I may; the prys of the todyr bokys,
besyd that, ys xx_s._ vj_d._ the wych I send yow a byll of. Yf ye lyk be
the prys of them, and ye wol have them, send me word. And also I pray
yow send me an ansswere of thys lettyr, be cause I thynk long seth I
hard from yow. God have yow in Hys kepyng.
Wretyn at Mawdby, on the Sattyrday nex be forn the Purificacion of owyr
Lady, the xiiij. yer of Kyng Edward the iiij^{t}.
Yowyr Modyr.
_Endorsed_--Anno xiiij^{o}.
[Footnote 221-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 221-2: _See_ p. 220, Note 2.]
[Footnote 223-1: Anne Haulte.]
[Footnote 223-2: Sir James Gloys.]
[[he hath delyveraunc of my plegges
_spelling unchanged_]]
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