[Sidenote: 1467 / AUG. 31]
A small slip of paper close written on both sides with accounts of
wages. In the margin on one side is the name John Braham, with the
memorandum, ‘Thys wrytynge, made the iiij^th yere of Kynge Edward the
iiij^th, and in the monyth of Novembre, wytnessez of the wagez that my
master payith to his men.’ A blank seems to have been left below this at
first, but it was afterwards filled up in a different hand: ‘Memorandum
that the v^e yer of Kyng Edward the iiij^e I rekenyd wyth my master at
Stoke; and on the v. day of Aprylle for the yerys that I have be wyth my
mastyr, whesche shal be at Hocke Monday next cumyng v^e yer and an
halfe; for the whesche yerys I have reseyvyd at sondery tymeys v_li._
and iiij_s._, and thys seyd v. day I reseyvyd of my master v. marcs.’
On the other side, in the first hand, is an account extending from the
11th April, 5 Edw. IV. (1465) to the last day of August, 7 Edw. IV.
(1467), of payments to a female named Rose,[289.2] for wages by ‘my
master,’ Braham and Thorpe. These sums vary from 3_s._ 4_d._ to 8_s._
4_d._, at a time; but there are also two items for presents made to her,
viz. for 4 ells of Holland cloth at 8½_d._ the ell, 2_s._ 10½_d._, and
for a pair of hosen, 12_d._ On the 7th Oct. 6 Edw. IV. (1466) it is
said, ‘My master toke her for wages at Stoke, 5_s._’
[Footnote 289.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 289.2: It appears by other letters that she was a
servant ‘dwelling before Mrs. Paston’s gate.’]
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