_To the ryght worshypfull Sir, John Berneye, Scuier, at Castre beyng._
[Sidenote: 1460 / JAN.]
Ryght wohypfull Sir, I recommaund me to yow.[203.2] . . . . . . . As for
tydyngs here, I sende som of hend wreten to you and othyrs how the Lord
Ryvers,[203.3] Sir Antonye, hys son, and othyrs hafe wonne Calix[203.4]
be a feble assault made at Sandwich by Denham,[203.5] Squyer, with the
nombre of viij^c. men, on Twyesday betwene iiij. and v. at cloks yn the
mornyng. But my Lady Duchesse[203.6] ys stille ayen receved yn Kent. The
Duke of York ys at Debylyn [_Dublin_], strengthed with hys Erles and
homagers, as ye shall see by a bille. God sende the Kyng victorie of hys
ennemyes, and rest and pease among hys Lordes.
I am rygt gretly hevyed for my pore wyfe, for the sorow she takyth, and
most leefe hyr and hyr contree. Y shall nothing take from hyr more then
a litell spendyng money, tille better may bee. And the Blessed Trinite
kepe and sende you helth.
Wret at London hastly, the Monday after I departed from you, 1459, x.
Your,
W. BOTONER, called WYRCESTER.
[Footnote 203.1: [From Fenn, i. 182.] The date of this letter is
ascertained partly by the reference in the suppressed passage to
Sir John Fastolf’s interment, and partly by the allusion to the
capture of Rivers and his son by John Denham. Compare the letter
following.]
[Footnote 203.2: ‘Here,’ says Fenn, ‘follow complaints against
Frere Brakle, etc., concerning Sir John Fastolf’s interment,
affairs, etc.’]
[Footnote 203.3: Richard Widville, Lord Rivers, afterwards
created an Earl by King Edward IV., who married his daughter
Elizabeth.]
[Footnote 203.4: This must be a sneer. The truth, as recorded by
Botoner himself in his annals, was that John Denham and others
secretly sailed from Calais, and surprised Sandwich, where they
took Lord Rivers and his son Anthony prisoners, and carried them
back to Calais.]
[Footnote 203.5: John Denham or Dynham, afterwards Lord Dynham.]
[Footnote 203.6: Cecily, Duchess of York.]
[[Ryght wohypfull Sir _text unchanged: error for “worshypfull”?_]]
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