[Sidenote: 1464 / APRIL 11]
Copy of an indenture bearing date 11th April, 4 Edward IV., witnessing
the delivery to Richard Calle, servant of John Paston, Esquire, by John,
prior of the monastery of Holy Trinity, Norwich, by virtue of the King’s
writ, of a red box containing seventeen bundles of evidences, with £40
of silver in groats, and 80 nobles of gold, in a bag, and other
valuables.
An inventory of the articles referred to in the foregoing indenture
is contained in a separate paper mutilated in the right-hand margin,
which we give verbatim as follows:--
This is the parcell be endenture received by Richard Calle of . . . . .
. . . . . . day of Aprile the forthe yere . . . . . . as it apperit by
the copye that the seyde Richard sendeth me by John Threcher.
Unam cistam rubeam cum xvij. bundellis evidenciarum in eadem cista
contentis.
Quadraginta libras argenti in grossis et iiij^xx. nobil.
Duo turribula[97.2] argenti et deaurata.
Unam pixidem argenti et deauratam.
Unum osculatorium cum imagine Sancti Jacobi et . . . .
[Sidenote: I left no cruet in the cofer.[97.3]]
Unum cruett argenti et deauratum.
Unum crismatorium rotundum. Md.[97.3]
[Sidenote: I left non soch in the cofer but chalis of gold.[97.3]]
Unum calicem argenti et deauratum. }
Unum alium calicem cum imagine Sanctæ Trinitatis.}
This is the copy of a bille drawin in Englyche that I sent home [of all]
manner of suche stuff as was in myne coffre in the abb[ey] . . . . . .
by a letter sent with the same bylle that he chowlde take hede that
. . . yf he fonde aney more, well be it, as it aperit in the seyd
lett[er] . . . woulle be lokyd [_locked_] uppe.
[Sidenote: Thes to chalis after the unc’ xx. _s._ ar worth xliij.
_li._[98.2]]
Unum calicem de auro playne ponderis duas li[bras].
Unum alium calicem de auro cum scriptura ‘Cal[icem salutaris
accipiam,’[98.1] ponderis xix. unc’].
[Sidenote: This is worth xiij. _li._ xv. _s._[98.2]]
Unam tabulam de auro cum imagine Sancti J[acobi positam cum lapidis
pretiosis,] ponderis xiij. unc’ et iij. quarteria.
[Sidenote: Thes be worth, after xxx. _d._ the unch xxviij. _li._ xiij
_s._ ix. _d._[98.2]
Unum par turribulorum argenti et deaurat’ cum scriptura, viz., in
prima parte ‘Dat’ est eis,’ &c.; et in secunda parte ‘Ascendit
fumus,’ pond’ xiij. lb. et [x. unc’].
Unam pixidem argenti pro sacramento deaurat’ cum cruce [in summitate
ac chased cum] liliis, pond’ v. lb. et iij. unc’ di’.
Unam ampullam argenti deaurat’ pond’ i. lb.[98.3]
[98.4]All this was put in a paner togyddre and . . . . for to berit
in to the coffre.
Item, xl. mark in noblis and xl. li. in gro[tis].
Item, evydens.
[Footnote 97.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 97.2: Thuribula, censers, from _thus_.]
[Footnote 97.3: These marginal notes are in John Paston’s hand.]
[Footnote 98.1: Psalm cxv. [cxvi.] 13.]
[Footnote 98.2: _See_ Note 3 on last page.]
[Footnote 98.3: The plate in this list is the same as that
described in No. 554, by which the words lost in this MS. have
been supplied.]
[Footnote 98.4: Added in John Paston’s hand.]
[[Sidenote: This is worth ...
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_all values (li. s. d.) printed in roman (non-Italic) type_]]
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