_To my right wurchepfull husband, John Paston._
[Sidenote: 1461 / DEC. [3]]
Right wurchepfull husbond, I recomaund me to you. Please it you to wete
that myn awnte is dissesid, whos sowle God assoyll. And if it please you
to send word how ye wull that we do for the lifflode that she had at
Walcote, wheder ye wull that any body take possession thir in your name
or not. And if it like you to have with you my cosyn William her sone,
I trow ye shuld fynde hym a necessary man to take hede to yowr howshold,
and to bye all maner of stuffe nedefull therto, and to se to the rewle
and gode gidyn therof. It hath be told me be for that he can gode skill
of such thyngs; and if ye wull that I send for hym and speke with hym
ther of, I shall do as ye send me word, for in feyth it is tyme to crone
your old officers for diverse thyngs wher of I have know parte be
Dawbeney, and more I shall telle you whan ye come hame.
Also it is thought be my cosyn Elizabeth Clere, and the viker[13.2] and
other that be your frends, that it is right necessary for you to have
Hew of Fen to be your frende in your maters; for he is callid right
feythfull and trosty to his frends that trost hym, and it is reported
her he may do myche with the Kyng and the Lords, and it is seid that he
may do myche with hem that be your adversaryes: and therfor, Godds sake,
if ye may have his gode wille, forsake it not. Also it is thought the
more lerned men that ye have of your owyn contre of your councell, the
more wurchepful it is to you.
Also if ye be at home this Cristmes, it wer wele do ye shuld do purvey a
garnyssh or tweyn of powter vesshell, ij. basanes, and ij. hewers, and
xij. candlestikes, for ye have to few of any of thes to serve this
place. I am a ferd to purvey mych stuffe in this place till we be
suerrer therof. The Blissid Trinyte have you in His blissid kepyng.
Wretyn the Thursday next after Sent Andrew.