_To myn right reverent and worchipphull Maisterez Paston, be this
delivered._
[Sidenote: 1460]
Right reverent and wurchippfull maisteres, I recomaunde me un to yow,
beseching yow of your good maisteresshipp to be myn good maisteres to
help wit your gracious woord un to myn right reverent and wurchipphull
maister and your to take of me, his pore presoner and your, suerte
queche I xall fynd to be bounde for me to brynge me un to all answere,
in to the tyme that myn maister and ze have dimisse me wit myn suerte.
And bescheche your good maistereschipp to prey myn mayster that he will
yeve yow lycense wit his wurchippfull counsaill and youre, in case that
myn maister may nout tarie, that ze in his absence may take myn seid
suerte. And if it please his heyghnesse and youre, that I may have
answere ayene be the bryngere of this, and here up I xall send for myn
suertes, queche I trust in Good xul be to your plesure. No more att this
tyme. I prey God evyr have yow in kepyng.
Be your pore presonere,