JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON[36.1]

_To my right singler maister, J. Paston, Squyer, in hast, &c._

[Sidenote: 1462 / MARCH 24]

After due recomendacion, please it your maistership to wyte Maister

Yelverton, justice, seid in the Sessions that the Kyng shulde kepe his

Estern at Bury, and from thens come unto this cuntre and se suyche

riottes as have be in this cuntre punyshed in suche fourme as happely

summe shulde hange by the nekke. And he tolde what thank he had of the

Kyng at Cambrigg for cause he declarid so well the charge of extorcions

doon by Shirefs and other officers, &c., for the whiche declaracion the

Kyng tooke hym by the hand, and seid he cowde hym grett thanke, and

prayed hym so to do in this cuntre, &c.

In hast, at Norwich, the Wednesseday next tofore th’Annunciacion, &c.

Your povere,

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