[Sidenote: 1462(?) / [JULY 5]]
Cannot inform him how much malt he has at Castre, ‘for the malters have
not moten all up yet,’ --probably 400 quarters new and 160 comb old malt
of Castre and Mauteby, of which 40 quarters will be spent in the
household by Hallowmas. At Yarmouth it is now 2_s._ 2_d._ a bushel--it
was 2_s._ 6_d._ But London is a better market. Thinks the price will
fall here, as the fields are reasonably fair in Flegge, and so up to
Norwich. The carriage from Yarmouth to London will be 6_d._ per quarter,
‘and I understand j. quartre of Yermothe mette makethe at London but
vij. busschell.’
Norwich, Monday after St. Peter’s Day.
[As John Paston does not seem to have been in undisturbed possession
of Caister before 1462, and we have evidence of Richard Calle having
been there in that year about the time of year when this letter was
written, we may with great probability refer it to that year.]
[Footnote 46.2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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