_On the back:_--Item dixit magistro Clementi quod ipse non vult esse
Frere, veni mecum, nec canta secum, nec Dacok, nec facok, nec Frater,
lava pedes, &c. Item dicit vos instruxisse magistrum suum contra eum de
auferendo evidencias, &c., et ipse plures labores habuit pro eo quam vos
vel aliquis alius, &c. Custodite literam ultimo a me vobis missam, &c.
Utinam Upton et ipse essent extra locum, &c., quia hic fiunt
consumptiones maximæ, &c.
_Endorsed in a 16th century hand:_-- A lettre much dispraising
W. Wircester, from Doctor Brakley.
[Footnote 231.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter appears by
the contents to have been written about the beginning of the
Parliament of 1460, to which it would seem Paston did not
immediately repair to take his place, thus giving occasion to an
insinuation that he did not wish to be called upon to vote money
for the King and Queen.]
[Footnote 231.2: _See_ p. 213.]
[Footnote 232.1: The word is ‘ft’ in the MS. And to make sense
of the passage, I must suppose another word to be omitted. ‘Non
fecit vos _amicum_ magistri sui,’ _i.e._ he did not make you out
to be any friend of his master.]
[Footnote 232.2: William Yelverton.]
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