[Sidenote: 1458 / MAY 24]
Yesterday ‘I and other of yours’ were at your manor of Bentlay--a right
fair manor, in the shrewdest rule and governance. You have had many
officers there who, for ill-will, have put out the tenants, and let the
lands to your hurt. Some owe for six, some for seven years, etc.
Yesterday Harry Sotehill, of your learned counsel, was with us, and has
taken ways in the law, etc. As Barker sends word that the attaint held
not, we shall stay the longer. The Lord Egremont sent for my brother,
and told him ‘he would see you homeward, as he supposed.’ Take care,
therefore, you make no more grants, for you have made too many. Could
let Bentlay, with surety, for 500 marks a year; but will not venture,
because of the trouble of letting Wyghton, ‘and also till Scrope hath
spoken with you,’ who will be with you now, etc.
Doncaster, Wednesday in Pentecost week.
[It appears from an account of Paston’s expenses, of which an
abstract is given farther on, that he was at Doncaster in the 36th
year of Henry VI.]
[Footnote 129.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 267.]]
[Footnote 129.2: John Paston signs for both.]
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