_To John Paston the younger._
[Sidenote: Before 1466]
I grete you wele, letyng you wete that as for[213.2] your sustrys[213.3]
beyng with my Lady, if your fader wull aggrey therto I hold me right
wele pleasyd; for I wuld be right clad that she shuld do her servyse be
for any other, if she cowde do that shuld pleas my ladyes good grace.
Wherfor I wuld that ye shuld speke to your fader therof and lete hym
wete that I am pleasid that she shuld be ther if he wuld, for I wuld be
right glad and she myght be preferrid by mariage or be servyce, so that
it myght be to her wurchep and profight in dischargyng of her frendis;
and I pray you do your parte therin for your owyn wurchep and herys. And
assone as ye may with ought daunger, purvey that I may have ageyn the
vj. marks that ye wote of, for I wuld not that your fader wust it. Item,
if ye pas London, send me ageyn my chene and the litill chene that I
lent you be for, be sum trusty person; and if ye wull have my good
wille, eschewe such thyngis as I spake to you of last in owr parisch
chirch. I pray God make you as good a man as ever was any of your kynne,
and Goddis blissyng mote ye have and myn, so that ye do wele, &c. Wretyn
the Sonday next after your departyng.
And I pray you, send me sum tydyngis as sone as ye may after that ye be
comyn to London, how your fader spedyth and your brother in here
materes.
Be your moder.
[Footnote 213.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 208.] This letter was
written at a time when John Paston, the writer’s husband, and one
of his sons, was in London, while the other, to whom this letter
is addressed, was going thither. The date must therefore be before
May 1466, but what particular year or month it is impossible to
say.]
[Footnote 213.2: ‘affor,’ MS.]
[Footnote 213.3: This may be either Anne or Margery Paston. Who
‘my lady’ was does not appear.]
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