_To my ryght reverent and worschippfull master, Sir John Paston,
Knyght._
[Sidenote: 1465 / JUNE 15]
Plesith it your gode masterschip to wete that as for the examynacion of
Master Robert Popy, his examinacion was wreten in a longe bille of
parchemyn accordyng to the deposicion in the Spirituall Coorte. And
Master Robert come into the Chauncery, and was sworne that all that was
wreten in the seide bille was trewe, and so delyverd the same bille to
the Mastre of the Rolles; and he bare it forthe with hym in his hande,
for it was delyverd hym at the risyng of the Coorte. Tounesende was by
and I bothe, &c. And as for delyveryng of money to Dawbeney, I do that I
may do, and more thenne I may weele doo, for I have put my selfe in gret
daunger for that I have borwyd, &c. Almyghty God spede you in all your
maters, &c. Wreten the Saterday next after Corpus Christi Daye.
Your servaunt R. C.
[Footnote 152.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter seems to
have reference to the depositions touching Sir John Fastolf’s will
in the suit brought by Sir William Yelverton and William Worcester
against John Paston and Thomas Howes. Robert Popy seems to have
been examined in the spring of 1464 (_see_ No. 565); but the suit
was still going on in 1465, and in a letter of Margaret Paston’s,
of the 24th June following, Richard Calle is mentioned as having
recently left her and gone to her husband in London.]
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