_This is the Instruccion for the Messenger._
That ye grete well Sir William Yelverton, letyng hym wete in our behalf
we be informed that certeyn persones, in the name of the right
worshipfull our cosyn the Duc of Suffolk, have enterid in the manoir of
Drayton that was Fastolffes, and have dreven from the seid manoir and
other xiij^c. shep and other bestes pastured upon the seid manoir.
Notwithstandyng, we merveyle gretly that the seid Sir William, his sones
and servauntes, as it is seid, assiste and comfort the seid persones so
entryng and withdrawyng the seid catell, seying that he is named both
feffe and executour. And all be it so that there is variaunce bithwene
hym and our welbelovid John Paston in our coort, consernyng as well the
seid manoirs as other goodes that were Sir John Fastolffes, whom God
assoyle, yit it may not acorde with worship and consiens for the seid
Sir William to assiste the distruccion of the seid manoirs and goodes in
the meane tyme. Wherfore we desire hym that he woll do his devoir
effectually to help to save the seid manoirs from all such pretense of
titell, and to cause the seid catels to be restored to the manoirs
aforeseid, and not to be withdrawen and distroyed as they be; and that
he do his feithfull part in this behalf acordyng to the trust that he
was put in, as we may do for hym in tyme to come.
[Footnote 208.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This appears to be a
message from the King rebuking Judge Yelverton for partizanship in
assisting the Duke of Suffolk against Paston in his entry into the
manor of Drayton. The date is therefore 1465. The MS., however, is
only a corrected draft, and it is not certain that such a message
was actually sent.]
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