_To my right good mayter, Sir John Paston, Knyght._
[Sidenote: 1467(?) / JAN. 29]
My right especiall good mayster, I recomand me to yow, thankyng you
right hertely of your gentell letter late send to me. And as to
Pynchester mater, &c., I wulde I were youre nygh kynnesman, yef hit
plesed God, and than shuld I know yef hit shuld greve your herte asmeche
as hit dothe other of my kynne and frendes to see me thus cowardly hurte
and maimed[267.2] by Pynchester, causeles; and of myn entente in that
mater, Wylliam Rabbes shall telle you more. All so I beseche yow to
recomand me to my Lordes good grace, as to hym whom of erthely estates,
next my dewte, I moste love and drede, and that shuld he well knowe and
hit lay in my power, praying you hertely to declare his Lordship such
mater as Wylliam Rabbes shall enfourme yow, and to send me my Lordes
answere.
All so in asmoche as I understode by yow that money shuld cause you
conclusion in your mater this next terme, and ye wull be at London on
Monday at nyght or Tewsday by none, I truste that I have studyed such a
mene that, up on surete as ye may make, to gete yow an C_li._ or CC.
mark to be lante un to yow for an halfe yere, with oute any
chevysshaunce or losse of good by yow, as Wylliam Rabbes shall telle you
more, &c.
And as to Ovyde ‘De Arte Amandi,’ I shall send hym you this next weke,
for I have hyt not now redy; but me thenkeyth Ovide ‘De Remedio’ were
more mete for yow, but yef [_unless_] ye purposid to falle hastely in my
Lady Anne P.[268.1] lappe, as white as whales bon, &c. Ye be the best
cheser of a gentell woman that I knowe, &c. And I pray you to recomaunde
me to my Lord of Oxford,[268.2] and to my goods Maysters Nedeham,
Richemond, Chyppenham, Stavely, Bloxham, Stuard, and Ingulton in
speciall, and all other good masters and frendes in generall, &c. And,
sir, Maystres Gaydade recomand me [? _her_] to yow and said bessyng fare
for charite, and she said me she wuld fayne have a new felet, &c.
Wreten at London, this xxix. day in Janyver.
With herte and servyse your,