_To the right worshipffull Sir John Paston, Knyght, in haste._
[Sidenote: 1475 / AUG. 10]
Right welbeloved sone, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .[236-2]
As for tidyngs here in this contre, we have non, but that the contry is
bareyn of money; and that my Lady of Yorke[236-3] and all her howsold is
here at Sent Benetts,[236-4] and purposed to abide there stille, til the
Kynge come from be yonde the see, and lenger if she like the eyre ther,
as it is seide.
I thynke ryght longe tille I here some tidyngs for [_quære_, from?] you
and from your brethren. I prey God sende you and al your company goode
spede in your journeys, to His plesure, and to your worshippes and
profights.
Wreten at Mauteby, on Sen Lawrens Even, the xv. yere of the regne of
Kyng E. the iiijth.
Be yor Moder.
[Footnote 236-1: [From Fenn, ii. 180.]]
[Footnote 236-2: The chief part of this letter relates to Sir John
Paston’s private affairs, his rents and lands, and informs him
that William Jenney had entered into Holme Halle, in Filby, ‘in
the ryght and titell of his douterlawe, weche was Boys doughter,’
etc.--F.]
[Footnote 236-3: Cecily, Duchess of York, daughter of Ralph
Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, was the widow of Richard
Plantagenet, Duke of York, and mother of King Edward IV., etc. She
died in 1495, and was buried near her husband in the college of
Fotheringay.--F.]
[Footnote 236-4: The Abbey of St. Bennet at Holm.]
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