[Sidenote: 1459 / APRIL 13]
As you desire me to write letters to certain lords, etc., on ‘such
matters as ye beth now to London for,’ and as you know best what it
would be most expedient for me to write, I send my servant Colyn Newman
to you with my signet sealed in a little leather bag, under a signet of
a ram, that you and William Jenney, or two of you, may make out letters
in my name as you think fit, keeping copies of those you write. When Sir
Thomas comes home again, let him bring back my signet sealed under your
signets and the copies you have sent. ‘And also peradventure I might as
well write to them that ben away as to those that been present. And
among others ye may say to my nephew, Henry Filongley, I trust right
greatly in my Lord Treasurer’s good Lordship that he will be my good
Lord’s supporter to me in my right.’
Castre, 13th April 37 Hen. VI.
(_Signature not Fastolf’s own._)
[Footnote 138.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 254.]]
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