[Sidenote: About 1456]
Please yow to wete that as for ease of my maisters[68.3] tenaunts in
Dedham, yff a lettre were devysed by Maister Geney yn my maister name or
youres to Thomas Hygham, one of the justices of pease in Suffolk that
toke the veredyt, he myzt do grete ease, as yn disavowyng of it or yn
wythdrawyng it owte of the bokes. Robert Dene, clerk of the pese, seyth
that lete my maister councell avise that whych he may do undammaged
hymsylf, and he wille with all hys hert. John Bokkyng ys well remembred
that my maister caused the seyd Thomas Hygham, by Maister Geney mocion,
to be one of the justice of pease, and one Jermyn of Suffolk also. Whych
both Hygham and Jermyn hath suffred my maister hafe, savyng your
reverence, tweyn shrewde tornys seth that they mizt hafe letted, as now
the seyd Thomas Hygham myzt hafe letted the presentment or a moderated
othyrwyse, &c.
At reverence of God, beyth as sone as ye may with my maister to ease hys
spyryttes. He questioneth and desputyth with hys servauntes here, and
wolle not be aunsuerd ne satisfyed som tyme but after hys wylfulnesse,
for hyt suffysyth not our simple wyttes to appease hys soule; but when
he spekyth wyth Maister Zelverton, yow, or wyth William Geney and suche
othyrs as be auctorised yn the law, and wyth haboundance of godes, he ys
content and haldeth hym pleased wyth your aunsuers and mocions, as reson
ys that he be. So wold Jesus, one of yow iij., or som suche othyr yn
your stede, myzt hang at hys gyrdyll dayly to aunsuer hys materes.