THE KING TO JOHN NEDHAM AND THOMAS LITILTON, JUSTICES OF THE COUNTY
PALATINE OF LANCASTER
[Sidenote: 1460(?) / JULY 26]
Desires them to show favour to the defendants in an appeal of robbery
sued before them out of malice by Thomas Bury against John Berney of
Redham, Norf., Junior, Esq., John Paston of Norwich, Esq., John Berney
of Redham, Norf., Senior, Esq., John Hevenyngham, of Norwich, Esq., and
Christopher Norwich of Brundehale. They are to receive no writ returned
in the name of the Sheriff of Norfolk touching that matter except by the
hands of the sheriff himself, or of John Bernarde his under-sheriff.
London, 26 July.
II. Another letter, similar in substance, in which no justices’ names
are given.
[These documents cannot be later than 1460, as the younger John
Berney died in July of that year (see next letter). But as Judge
Littleton was only made a King’s Serjeant in 1455, they cannot be
many years earlier, and they are not unlikely to be of the year 1460
itself.]
[Footnote 222.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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