_To the right reverent and worshippfull John Paston, in haste._
[Sidenote: 1454(?) / OCT. 6]
Right reverent and worshippfull Sir, and my right trusti and welbelovid
cosin, I recomaund me unto you, praiyng you hertily to remembr me unto
my Master Radclyff, so that by your gode meanes I shall mowe have his
gode mastershipp, the whiche I have effectuelly to [m]y power sewed fore
iij. yer, and never deserved the contrarye to my knowlegge, by my
trouth; and if it can or may be founden that I have, I will obeye me,
and offre me to abyde the rewle of you and my cosin your brothir, &c.
Also my Lord of Caunterbury[4.1] Master Waltier Bl[a]kette will help
forthe, if nede be; and as to the remenant of the Lordes, if the case
requir that ye may understand by your wysdum thei be displeased with
me--as I trust to God thei be not,--I beseche you to remembr that I have
aforetyme b[en] accused unto the Kings Highnesse and the Quenes for
owyng my pore gode will and service unto my Lord of York and other, &c.
Wherof I suppose that Thomas Bagham is remembred that I brought hym
oones from my Lady a purs and v. marc therin, and to Sir Phelipp
Wenteworth an other and a C_s._ [100_s._] therin for their gode will and
advise therin to my Lady and all us that were appelled for that cause,
notwithstanding the King wrote to my Lord by the meanes of the Duc of
Somersette,[4.2] that we shuld be avoyded from hym, &c. And within this
ij. yer we wer in like wise laboured ageyns to the Quene, so that she
wrote to my Lord[4.3] to avoyde us, saiyng that the King and she coude
nor myght in no wyse be assured of hym and my Lady as long as we wer
aboute hym, with much other thing, as may be sufficiently proved by the
Quenes writing under herr own signett and signe manuell, the whiche I
shewd to my Lord of Caunterbury and other Lordes, &c.
I prey you have me excused that I encombr you with thees matiers at this
tyme, for me thinketh ye shuld will and desire me to do any thing to
your honour and pleaser at any tyme, wherto I shal be redy and welwilled
to my power by the grace of God, who have you ever in his keping, and
all youres.
Writon at Norwiche, on Seint Feithes day, in haste.
Youres,