[Sidenote: 1463 / FEB. or MARCH]
Please you to wet that Will. Jeney and Debham cam to Calcote on
Wednysday before none, and ther they spake with Rysyng and John Smythe,
and haskyd hem rent and ferme, and they seydyn they had payed you, and
so they myght not paye hem. Also, ferthermore, they told hem that ye had
hold a corte ther syn that they enteryd there. Than Jenney answerd ageyn
‘Be cause he held a corte here we mad hym hold corte at London, and so
shall we make the to hold a corte at Ipysweche withowt thow wolt pay us
the rent and ferme.’ ‘Sir,’ quod Rysyng, ‘I toke the ferme of my master
and of Sir Thomas Howys.’ Jenney seyd, ‘And as for Sir Thomas, he and we
schall acord well i nowe.’ And so they hahte seled up the berne dore and
woll dryve a wey the catell bothe of the fermores and of the tenauntes,
withowt the fermor and John Smythe woll fynd hem suerte to pay hem at
Esterne, and Jenney and Debham woll [be] bownd ageyn to hem in a
obligacion of xl_li._ to save hem harmelese ageyns you. And so as yet
Rysyng standythe under award at Leystofte. So Rysyng hathe sent word to
me that I shall knowe thys nyght or ellis to morowe what end they hathe
mad.
Item, as towchyng the burges of Yermothe they wer chosyn on Wednysday.
The Baly Wydwell ys on; and as for the todyr the Bischoppe sent to the
towne for to have a man of hys owne, and so they be not acordyd yit of
hym; en cas they may not acord, John Rus shall be the todyr.
Item, as towchyng Grene, a came not to Caster on Thursday, for he went
to Norwich the same day, and so he is yet ther. Daubeney hathe spokyn
with Watkyn Shypdam for to be at Beyton on Monday to kepe a corte ther;
and so he woll be at Caster on Sonday and spek with you, for he seythe
that Fastolfe[70.1] hathe mad a cleyme ther to; that is the cause he
wolle comon and speke with you ther of hym selff.
Item, I can not, ner Daubeney nowther, fynd your wyght boke; it is not
in the trussyng cofyr, ner in the sprucheste nothyr. Jon Walsham toke me
a quayer, I suppose it lo[n]gythe to the same boke, that same I send
you, and the byllis of Walcote with ale sealyd. Wretyn this day.
By your,