I pray yow be as mery with yowr felachep as ye kan.

Item, I send hom writt and prasens for yowr servaunts and myn.

Item, I may sell you woll for xl_d._ the ston, redi mony, as Arblaster

can tell yow, and malt for iiij_s._ the quarter at days xxj. for xx.

delivered of Yermouth mesur. If ye fayle mony ye most make it of yowr

wole or malt.

I send you hom writts of replevin for the shep and the horses that wer

take, and avise yow lete the writtis be delivered be fore my Lord of

Norwich, and god rekord; and if ye may make men with fors to take the

catell agey[n] be waran of replevyn, spar not rather than fayle.

On the back of the letter is the following memorandum in a different

hand:--

Md. there lefte behynde of Heylesdon folde of my mastre schepe xlj.

modreschep. Item of lambes xxxiiij. Item of my mastres xij.

modreschep. Item of her lambes xij.

[Footnote 164.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] As this letter is dated

on a Saturday, and refers to the Duke of Suffolk’s attempt on

Hellesden as having been made on the Monday preceding, there can

be no difficulty in fixing the precise date, both of day and

year.]

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