I hafe and do purchasse malgre to remembre of evidenses lakkyng by
negligence, &c. And therfor I most be muet and suffre gretter losses but
[_unless_] it be othyrwyse concydered. I sende yow the copie of your
patentes,[105.1] in parchement, and I hafe remembred as well as I can
both the stuard and Bertilmeu Elys for execucion ayenst the pleggs of
your seyntuarye, carpenter (?) Snow, that evere ys disposed to breke
promysses. Foryefe me of my leude lettre wrytyng, and I pray yow laugh
at it.
[Footnote 104.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this
letter is uncertain, but must be between the years 1454 and
1459, when Botoner was at Caister. Bocking and Barker seem to
have been in London at the time, which we know was the case in
February 1456; and as we have evidence that Bocking at least was
still there in October, we may perhaps attribute this letter to
the October of 1456.]
[Footnote 104.2: The _apposing_ of accounts was the charging of
an accountant with the balance due by him to his employer.]
[Footnote 105.1: Probably the patent of 6th June 1454, granting
the wardship of Thomas Fastolf to John Paston and Thomas
Howes. --_See_ No. 248 (in vol. ii.), also the letter following.]
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