_To my ryth reverent and worchepfull fadyr, John Paston, be thys
delyveryd in hast._
[Sidenote: 1462 / NOV. 1]
Ryth reverent and worchepfull fadyr, I recomand me on to yow, beseechyng
yow lowly of your blyssyng. Plesyt you to have knowlage that my
Lord[58.3] is purposyd to send for my Lady, and is lyke to kepe his
Crystmas here in Walys, for the Kyng hathe desyered hym to do the same.
Wherfor I beseche yow that [ye][58.4] wole wychesave to send me sume
mony by the berer herof; for, in good feythe, as it is not on knowyng to
yow that I had but ij. noblys in my purse, whyche that Rychard Call took
me by your comandement, when I departyd from yow owt of Norwyche. The
berer herof schuld bye me a gowne with pert of the mony, if it plese yow
to delyver hym as myche mony as he may bye it with; for I have but on
gowne at Framyngham and an other here, and that is my levere gowne, and
we must were hem every day for the mor part, and one gowne withowt
change wyll sone be done.
As for tydyngs, my Lord of Warwyk yed forward in to Scotland as on
Saterday[59.1] last past with xx.^ml. [20,000] men; and Syr Wylliam
Tunstale is tak with the garyson of Bamborowth, and is lyke to be hedyd,
and by the menys of Sir Rychard Tunstale[59.2] is owne brodyr.
As sone as I here any more tydyngys, I schall send hem yow by the grace
of God, who have yow in Hys kepyng. Wretyn in hast, at the Castle of the
Holte,[59.3] upon Halowmas Daye.
Your sone and lowly servaunt,
J. PASTON, Junior.
[Footnote 58.2: [From Fenn, i. 266.] In the month of October 1462,
as we learn from William Worcester, Margaret of Anjou came out of
France, whither she had fled in spring, with a force of 2000 men,
landed on the coast of Northumberland, and laid siege to
Bamborough, which she took and placed in the keeping of the Duke
of Somerset.]
[Footnote 58.3: The Duke of Norfolk.]
[Footnote 58.4: Omitted in original.]
[Footnote 59.1: 30th October.]
[Footnote 59.2: Sir Richard Tunstal was on Queen Margaret’s side,
while his brother William, it seems, was on that of King Edward.]
[Footnote 59.3: In Denbighshire.]
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