[Sidenote: 1477]
Memorandum.--To kepe secret fro my moder that the bargayn is full
concludyd.
Item, to let hyr have fyrst knowlage that in the chapell, wher as ye
wold had ben no book nye by x. myle, that whyn Mastyr Brews seyd that he
wold shortly have eyther more lond in joyntour then Sweynsthorp and x.
mark ought of Sparham, or ellys that some frend of myne shold paye the
vj^xx._li._, so that it shold not be payed of the maryage money, that
then I sware on a book to hym that I wold never of my mocyon endanger
moder nor broder ferther then I had done; for I thought that my modyr
had done myche for me to geve me the maner of Sparham in syche forme
as she had done. But Mastyr Breus wyll not agre, with ought that my
mastress hys doughter and I be mad swer of it now in hand, and that we
may take the hole profytes, what so ever fortune.
Item, to enforme my moder that if so be that we may be pute in
possessyon of all the hole maner duryng oure two lyves, and the lengest
of leveing, that then Mastyr Brews wyll geve me in maryage with my
mastresse hys doughter CCCC. markes, payable in hand l_li._, and so
yerly l_li._ tyll the some of CCCC. mark bew full payed.
Item, that wher as he had leyd up C_li._ for the maryage of a yonger
doughter of hys, he wylle lend me the same C_li._ and xx_li._ more, to
pledge ought my lond, and he to be payed ayen hys C_li._ and xx_li._ by
x_li._ by yer.
Item, to avyse my modyr that she brek not for the yerly valew of Sparham
above the x. mark dwryng hyr lyve.
[Footnote 284-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This paper, which is in
John Paston’s hand, was evidently written about the same time as
the letter immediately following, in which it is mentioned that
Margaret Paston had given up the manor of Sparham to her son. The
paper is endorsed in a more modern hand: ‘Notes touching the
mariage betwene Jo. Paston, Ar’, and Margery Brews.’]
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