I wold ye shuld make mech of the parson [of] Fylby, the berer herof, and
make hym good cher yf ye may.
[Footnote 84.2: [From Fenn, iv. 168.] As Sir John Paston was
knighted in the year 1463, and his father died in May 1466, the
date of this letter must lie between the years 1463 and 1465.
I think the first of these years is probably the true date. Sir
John Paston, it seems, had left home without letting his mother
know of his intention. Whither had he gone? Not to London, because
he addressed a letter to his father there; besides he had passed
by Lynn. One would naturally suppose, therefore, that he had gone
to wait upon the King, at a time when Edward was at a distance
from the capital. And in this view we are confirmed by the passage
in which Margaret desires her son to speak with Wykes, who, as we
know by Letter 514, was an usher of the King’s Chamber. Now Edward
IV. was in Yorkshire, staying, for the most part, at Pomfret,
during October and November 1463, while about the same time of
year in 1464 he was at Reading, and in 1465 at Greenwich. Sir John
would naturally have passed through Lynn on his road to the
North.]
[[I conseyve that ye thynke
_text has “thar”: corrected from Fenn_]]
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