[Sidenote: 1456 / JUNE 24]
To-day my cousin Sir Miles Stapleton, Sir James Braylyes, Andrew
Grygges, ‘hyr resseyvor,’ and Grymston have been with Fastolf at Castre,
and brought him 253 marks, which they would have paid if he had had the
obligation here. Sends therefore a letter by his servant Colyn how Sir
S. and he are agreed for its deliverance, etc. Sir S. made many strange
insinuations that the money was paid before, partly by assignment to
Clyffton, etc. On the 18th and 19th inst. ‘long Bernard, with a priest
of Kent, to the number of 16 horse, hafe, at Nacton, Bentley, and other
places of F., and entered by colour of a deed of feoffment made to the
Lady Roos and others, and hafe right proud language to the farmers, that
they will obtain their intent.’ Russe has written more plainly by Nich.
Colman.
‘Item, I charge right greatly the matter of my Lord of Bedford for my
discharge, and for the recovery of my Lord’s goods.’ Begs Paston to
common with the Lord Chancellor and others about it; and desires him to
give ‘mine attorney, Raulyns, and my serjeants’ a warning ‘to take more
tenderness’ about the process of Hykelyng that has been so many years
and days driven off.
St. John Baptist’s Day.
[From the reference to ‘the matter of my Lord of Bedford,’ this
letter was most probably written in the year 1456.]
[Footnote 93.2: [_Ibid._, No. 263.]]
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