_To my mestresse, Margaret Paston by thys letter delivered._
[Sidenote: 1465 / SEPT. (?)]
Please your good mastreschep to have knowlage that as thys day was
Master Stevyn of Norwich at Caster, and ther he told me he was yesterday
at Hoxhon with the Byschop of Norwych; and ther he seythe that ther is
gret labor mad be Master Phylyp[186.7] and be the baly of Cossey; in so
moche ther is mad a comission on to Master John Salet and Master Robert
Ipyswell for an inquerry that the parson[187.1] that my master[187.2]
mad last at Drayton ys deed, as they sey, and in so moche they purpose
to put in the parson of Felthorp, as he hard sey, for the Duk of
Suffolk. And thes he thynkyth it were a gret urt to my master tytyll.
And also another inquerry howe [_who_] ys patorne of the seyd chyrche;
and thys is leke to come in revelicion but yf [_unless_] ther be gret
labore mad to morowe be tymys and that ye have a man at Hoxhon in all
hast for a newe comicion; and in that commysion Master Stevyn wold that
ye shuld have Master Jon Salet, Master Symond Thornaham, Master Nicholl
Stanton. And that it be mad be the avice of Master Jon Bulman; for he
told Master Stevyn he wold do for you that he may, in so moche Master
Stevyn hathe promyssyd hym a nobyll; and so the seyd Master Stevyn wold
ye shuld send hym a letter and late hym have knolage that Master Stevyn
shall reward hym that he shall hold hym pleasyd.
Item, a told me that a sent a letter to Sir William Maryys of all this
mater yesterday, weder ye have er not he can not sey, but in noo wyse
that ye dyskure not Master Stevyn, for he wold not for an C_li._ that it
ware knowe that ye knewe ther of by hym, for he seythe gold gothe gret
plenty at Hoxhon on ther part. And yf it be labord be tymys it may be
remevyd to Caunterbury. Also yet it is good to send to Norwich to the
seyd Sir William for the letter ar the massanger goth, &c.
[Footnote 186.6: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was probably
written about or before the beginning of September 1465, as the
proceedings of Salet and Ipyswell on the commission of inquiry
here referred to are alluded to in a letter of Margaret Paston to
her husband on the 27th of that month.]
[Footnote 186.7: Doubtless Philip Lipgate.]
[Footnote 187.1: This must be John Flowerdew, presented by John
Paston and Thomas Howes in 1461.]
[Footnote 187.2: John Paston.]
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