[Sidenote: 1455 / JAN. 24]
Must pay £40 to the Exchequer this term for the ward of Thomas Fastolf,
in part payment of £80, and other great payments at the same time,
amounting to £200 or more. Desires him, therefore, to speak with my Lord
of Canterbury, whose day of payment is long past, that he may have ‘the
rather ready payment’ of his duty; ‘for he is one of the Lords earthly
that I most trust upon.’ Hopes he will consider the great loss Fastolf
already sustains by ‘the great good the King oweth me, and other divers
Lords to my great discomfort.’
Castre, 24 Jan.
[This letter could not have been written before the year 1455, as
Sir John Fastolf only came to reside at Castre in the autumn of the
year preceding. The wardship of Thomas Fastolf was procured by Sir
John for John Paston in June 1454, so that it is highly probable he
had to pay for it in the beginning of next year. In the year
following, again, Fastolf was endeavouring to make good those claims
against the Crown, which he here merely mentions as a ground of
indulgence to himself.]
[Footnote 14.5: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 260.]]
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