_To the right worshipful Seres, my right welbeloved and trusted cosyns,
William Yelverton, Justice, and John Paston._
[Sidenote: 1460(?)]
Sir, please your right worshipfull maystership that Mayster Paston come
to London as on Thursdaye att none last past, and I trust verelye all
maters here were resonablye labored to his comyng, and now they shal be
better. Neverthelesse, I have ben mevid of tretye by dyvers personez
sith I came hidre, as wele for Tudenham, Wentworth, Heydon, and other at
this tyme not wel willed to yow and yourez, seyng that such money as is
spent a twix yowe is but wastfully expendid and to non use vertuouse.
I fele by theym they be not right corageous in theyr werkes, ner nought
wold if they myght have a resonable trete. I meve not this that ze shold
thenk that they had conquered me by noyans, but I do it to avertyse yow
for th’eschewyng of the importable costes that hath ben born by yow, and
yet lyke to bee, aswele in the elde maters hangyng as in newe at this
tyme to be grownded, if this werre shal rest and hold a twyx yowe, and
specially for the ease of hym that shalbe solicitour in the same. Ye
nede at this terme rather to have had thre solicitours than in any other
terme past this iij. yere, on concyderyng the maters hangyng, &c.; of
which please yow to send yowr gode advyse and wille yf ye thenk it to be
don, and els not, for this is but a mocion, &c.
[Footnote 225.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is by an
unknown writer, and very uncertain as to date. It shows that
Tuddenham, Wentworth, and Heydon, all adherents of the House of
Lancaster, were desirous of a compromise with Yelverton and
Paston. The year 1460, some time after the battle of
Northampton, is perhaps as likely a period as any.]
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