[Sidenote: 1463 / JAN.]
Please your maistership wete, that as for my Lord of Norwich cosyns
deth, Thomas Gurneys man hath confessed that he slewe hym by
commaundment of his maister, and confessed over that the same dager he
slewe hym with, he kest it in a sege [_a jakes_] whiche is founden and
taken up al to-bowyd [_bent together_], for he cowde not breke it, and
in prison is bothe he and his maister.
. . . . . . . .
Also on Thursday next after Cristemasse was a man slayn, by whom no man
woot, nor what he is that was slayn no man knowe, his face is so
mangled.
[Footnote 67.7: These extracts are quoted by Fenn from a letter
now lost, in reference to what is said in the last letter about
Thomas Gurney and his man.]
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