And I wolde this bille were devised by my Lord of Caunterbury is avis
and agreement, to th’entent that he may tender the mater the more whan
it shalle come in revolucion before hym. And I pray you hertely to take
this mater tendirlye to hert, for it shall be to me my most singuler
comfort, and for my discharge a grete record as of myne acquitayle to my
said Lordis soule. Also ye must make frendes of suche as be nere aboute
my said Lord of Caunterbury, and may do, as Maister John Stokys and his
styward, for to remembre his good Lordship as ofte as nede is. And that
Davy Breknok ne Sir Robert Whitingham wyffe be not foryeete.
[Footnote 70.1: [The original of this letter is the property of
W. A. Tyssen Amhurst, Esq. of Didlington Park, Brandon.] As this
letter was written during Sir John Fastolf’s residence at
Caister, and Parliament appears to have been sitting at the
time, the date must be 1456.]
[Footnote 71.1: Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury.]
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