[Sidenote: 1463 / APRIL 6]
Testimony of Sir Roger Chamberlain, witnessed by Reginald Tylneye, prior
of Ixworth, and Sir John Rose [a brother of the house], that he was with
the Duke of Norfolk in September before Sir John Fastolf died, when my
Lord urged Fastolf to sell him the reversion of Caister, or (as he
wished to give it to the Abbey of St. Benet’s) to exchange it for a
manor of my Lord’s in South Walsham, which lay more convenient for the
Abbey. Sir John, however, begged him not to press it, as he had
appointed with his cousin, John Paston, to have Caister and all his
other livelode in Norfolk and Suffolk in order to endow a college of
seven priests and seven poor men. My Lord said, many thought Sir John
would make Paston his heir; to which he replied that there was no man
living that he would like better to be his heir, and begged my Lord to
be his good lord if it so fortuned, which the Duke promised to do. Has
heard the Duke since often acknowledge that Sir John had declared
plainly he would make Paston his heir. Not having his own seal present,
has sealed this with that of the prior of Ixworth, and requested him to
put his seal to it besides. Ixworth, 6 April 1463.
[Footnote 73.2: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 280.]]
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