_To my worchipful cosyn, John Paston._
[Sidenote: 1465(?) / NOV. 10]
Rygth worchipful cosyn, I comaunde me to yow. And forasmoch as ther was
a child ded at Asteles, and on other lik to be ded in the same place,
what tyme that I rode oute aboute my litil livelod, my lady and I bothe
thoughte pite on my mastres your wif to se her abide ther, and desirid
here to com to my pore hous on to soch tyme as ye shuld a be othirwise
avised, wyche, if it plese yow, I am right wel apaied.
Sythen, I undirstande be my lady that ye desire to knowe whedyr that I
shulde abide here stille or nowe [_or no_]. As to that, I have non other
place that I wold abide at, and my lady seith how she is avised to ende
hir lif here. Also she seith how ye desire to have a stabil with inne my
plas; and as to that, afeith, sir, I have none, but that must nedis
serve for my wode. As for a chambre, ye shall have on for your men al
redy, and as touching a stabil, Sir John Sparham and I have gote yow on
ther [_where_] your hors stode the last tyme ye were in this town, and
an hows to ley inne hey and straw, and cost yow not but making of a rak
and a mangeour, and more to your ease there than here; and yf ye wyl
that it be made redy for yow, send werd be the bringer of this letter.
And, cosyn, as towching to paiment, I can not sey how ye shal be pleasid
with my pore fare, but aftir that ye arn com home, and arn aqweintid
there with, we shal so acorde as shal be plesir to us bothe, with the
grace of God, which have [you] in His blissid governaunce, and send yow
your moderis blissing.
Wreten at Norwich, on Seint Martyn is Even.
Your poer cosyn and ffrend,