[Sidenote: 1475 / MARCH 5]
John Paston, I send yow Godds blyssyng and myn, letyng yow wete, that I
hadd non er thys lettyr than on Sent Matheus Evyn; yf I myth a had an
massenger or thys tym I had sent yt yow. I con yow thank for the lettyr
that ye sent to my cosyn Calthorpp and me of the tydyngs; I wold ye
shuld do soo mor. As ye may remembyr that I spak to yow for the
xx^ti_li._ for my cosyn Clere, spek to yowr hunkyll therof, and send me
an answer therof in hast. And for the lycens that I spak to yow for, to
have the Sacrement in my Chapell, yf ye cannot getyt of the Busshop of
Norwych, getyt of the Busshop of Caunterbery, for that ys most swyr for
all plase. God kepe yow.
Wretyn on Mydlent Sunday.
[Footnote 227-1: [From Fenn, ii. 178.] This letter was written on
the back of Letter 861.]
867