SIR JOHN FASTOLF ‘TO THE WORSHIPFUL LADY AND MY RIGHT WELLBELOVED
SISTER, WHYTYNGHAM.’
[Sidenote: 1456 / JAN. 20]
As all the executors of my Lord Regent, except himself, are dead, and as
he would not have her troubled in her age ‘for execution of my said
Lord’s goods,’ nor for the evidences of his purchased lands, etc., which
were left in keeping ‘with my brother your husband,’ sends John Paston
and other his attorneys to common with her, and settle the matter, which
will be a great discharge for her husband’s soul.
Castre, 20 Jan.
[This letter must have been written after the death of Lord
Cromwell, who was one of Bedford’s executors, and who died on the
4th January 1456. --_See_ his Epitaph in Dugdale’s _Baronage_, ii.
46.]
[Footnote 69.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 266.]]
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