_To the right wurchepfull Sir, and my goode mayster, my Mayster John
Paston, be this delivered._
[Sidenote: 1455 / JULY 25]
Reverent and right wurchepfull Sir, and my gode mayster, I recomaund me
to you, prayng you to wete that ther is reysed a slandrows noyse in this
countre up on my Mayster Yelverton and you and my Mayster Alyngton,
which I suppose is do to bryng you ought of the conceyte of the pepyll,
for at this day ye stand gretly in the countreys conceyte. It is seyde
be Heydon and his disciples that my Mayster Yelverton and ye and my
Mayster Alyngton shuld have doo oon Sir John Tartyssale, parson of the
Estchurche[45.3] of Warham and chapeleyn to the priour[45.4] of
Walsyngham, to put in to the Parlement, a bille of divers tresons don be
my Lord of Norwich,[45.5] Sir Thomas Tudenham, and John Heydon, and ye
shuld have set to your seales; and if that Heydon had be vj. howrs fro
the Parlement lenger than he was, ther had be granted an _oyer
determiner_ to have enquer of hem, &c. This was told yesterday in right
wurchepfull audience, and a mong the thrifties men of this countre; and
thei seyd right shrewedly, for my lord of Norwich hath so flatered the
lay pepill as he hath redyn a bought his visitacion that he hath thers
herts. Wherfor, and it plese you to lete me have knowlech what ye wuld I
shuld sey to it, wher as I her any such langage, I wull do my parte, and
have do hed toward as I have thought in my conceytes best, &c. And if
ther be any other servyce that ye wull comaund me, I am and wull be redy
at yowr comaundment with the grace of God, how [_who_] ever have you in
his blyssed kepyng.
Wretyn at Wighton in hast, on Sent James day,
Be your servaunte,