[Sidenote: 1467 or later]
Requests ‘her Highness’ to confirm some grants of her late husband to
him of land at Basyngham. William Swan claims, and has taken from him 2
perches of ground in breadth near his (Swan’s) gate, which has always
been parcel of Herlyng’s tenement of Greyve’s during his and his
father’s time. John Pykerell, too, has made mean to the Abbot of St.
Benet’s to remove a boundary stone which has stood there sixty years.
Pykerell also took the writer’s horse and used it in his field without
leave, on Friday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 6 Edw. IV.,
which made the beast unserviceable till Fastegong next following.
Pykerell has also done him other injuries.
[As this petition refers to the ‘Fastegong’ or Shrovetide after
Holy-Rood Day 6 Edw. IV. as a past date, it cannot have been drawn
up earlier than the year 1467. The manor of Basingham, in Norfolk,
belonged to the Mauteby family, and came to John Paston by marriage.
This paper, therefore, was addressed to his widow Margaret.]
[Footnote 290.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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