_To Sir John Paston, Knyght._
[Sidenote: 1468(?) / JULY 18]
Right worshipfull, and my especiall true hertid frende, I commaunde me
un to you, preying you to ordeyne me iij. horsse harneys as godely as ye
and Genyn kan devyse, as it were for yourselfe; and that I may have
thyme in all hast, ordere. Also Skerne saith ye wolde ordeyne ij.
standarde stavys; this I pray you to remembre, and my wife shalle
deliver you silver,--and yit she most borowed it; vj. or vij_li._ I wold
be stowe on a horsse harneys, and so Skerne tolde me I might have. The
Lord Hastings had for the same price, but I wolde not myne were lik his;
and I trust to God we shalle do right welle, who preserve you. Wreten at
Canterbury in hast, the xviij. day of Juyll.