To J. P. c.[315-1] at London.
Item, I had foryete to hafe remembred your maystershyp to hafe a bille
to your baylly Pecok for to delyver my fermour of Tyrkbye C. or ii C.
lawre and asshe, and than to plant yn my tenement at Thyrkbye, or foras
many ye lust; for I lost the last waraunt that ye wrote me truly, and so
I was not served.
* * *
Item, yff ye wryte to me, hyt hath nede to be by a sure comer, for I had
levyr a letter be brent then lost _ne forte videant Romani_ . . . and at
reverence of Jhesu that my Robert lose no tyme, nether be idelle, for
doubt of ymaginacions and temptacions. I trust wyth your principale help
to be wyth the worshypfull gentleman that made promysse to yow, &c.
[Footnote 313-1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 152.] This letter would seem
to be of the year 1478. It will be seen by No. 925 that in the
beginning of that year Sir John Paston wished to arrange with Dr.
Yotton to get a priest to sing in Caister.]
[Footnote 314-1: Is this Robert, son of Sir John’s brother Edmund,
who is mentioned in Margaret Paston’s will? The will, dated 4th
February 1482, will be found printed in the next volume.]
[Footnote 314-2: Caister.]
[Footnote 314-3: Easter.]
[Footnote 315-1: John Paston, Chevalier.]
[[Footnote 314-1, Gairdner’s addition:
This suggestion is quite a mistake.--See ‘my Robert’ in the PS.,
p. 315.]]
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