_To my right worshipfull, and my moost best beloved Lord Fadre, my Lord
Beaumont._
[Sidenote: Between 1454 and 1459]
Right worshipfull and my moost best beloved Lord Fadre, I recomaunde me
unto youre good Lordship. Please it yow to wit, I have consayvid your
writyng right well; and for asmoche as ye desure the stiwardship of
Baggeworth for youre wilbeloved Thomas Everyngham, which y trowe verely
be right a good and a feithfull gentilman. How be it, my Lord, youre
desure shall be had in all that is in me; and at the instaunce of your
Lordship, y by th’avise of my counceill, shall gyf it hym in writyng
undre suche fourme as shall please yow, wheryn y wold be glad to doo
that at might please youre good Lordship, prayng yow right hertly ye
wold be myn especiall good lord and fadre in all suche [matters] as ye
can thynk shuld growe to my worship or profite in any wise, as my
synguler trust is moost in yow. And y alwey redy to doo yowe servyse
with Goddes grace, who have yow, my right worshipfull and my moost best
beloved Lord Fadre, ever in His blessid kepyng.
Written at Rotherfild Gray, the xxiiij. day of Juyle, &c.
Furthermore, my Lord, and it like yow, my Lady my modre recommaundid her
unto your good Lordship, yn whom her moost feith and trust is in, prayng
yow, ye woll be good brother unto her, for she hath taken yow for her
chief counceill, &c.