_To my moost reverent and wurshipfful mastre, my Master John Paston of
the Enner Temple, this be delyvered._
Plesith your maystership to undrestande that as for the ferme that
Cheseman had in Boyton, that is to sey, xl. acre lond erable, j. medwe,
and other smale parcell, payng yerly for it iiij_li._, weche I can not
lete the xl. acre lond abowe xl. comb barly or xl_s._, and ye to bere al
charges of the reparaucion and fense aboute the place, weche shulde be
gret cost. The lond is so out of tylthe that a nedes [_uneath_, _i.e._
scarcely] any man wol geve any thyng for it. Ther can no man lete it to
the walwe that it was lete before, and that I reporte me to my master,
Sir Thomas Howys, not be gret gold. Wherfore I wol not do therin unto
the tyme that I have answere from your mastership, weche I beseche you
it may be hast. And as for Spitlynges, I have lete som of the lond in
smale parcell, because I cowde gete no fermor for it. And as for Sir
T. H., in good feythe I fynde [him] weele disposed in all thynges,
excepte for Sir W. Chamberleyn for Rees in Stratton. And so the blissid
Trinite preserve and kepe you from all adversite. Wrete at Blofeld, the
Thorsday next after Hallowmesday.
Your pore servaunt and bedman,