_To my ryth welbelovyd brodyr, Clement Paston, for to delyver to hys
brodyr Jon, in haste._
[Sidenote: 1460 / OCT. 29]
Ryth w[urshepfu]ll husbonde, I recomande me to yow. Plesyth yow to weet
that I receyvyd a lettyr on Seynt Symondys evyn and J[w]d, that came
frome Jon Paston,[245.2] in the wyche lettyr he wrot that ye desyryd
that I scholde do Jon Paston or Thomas P[layter] looke in the gret
standyng chyste in on of the gret canvas baggys whyche standyth ageyns
the lokk, for the copys of the fals inqwest of ofys that was fownde in
Northefolk, and for the kopy of the comyssyon that came to Jon Andrewys
and Fylpot and Heydon, and othyr thyngys towchynge the same mater,
I have do. Jon Paston sowte all iij. grete baggys in the seyd kofyr at
ryth good leyser, and he can non swhyche fynde. Plesyth it yow to
remembre ye sent me word in the fyrste lettyr that ye sent me, that ye
wolde that Playter scholde asent hem up to yow to London, and I schewyd
hym yowyr wryttyng howe that ye wrote to me ther in. I suppose be cawse
he purposyd to come up to London hym selve hastely, he sent yow none
answer ther of. Rychard Calle tolde me that alle swhyche thyngys were
lefte with Hery Barbore at the Tempyle Gate when the last terme was doo,
and soo I sent yow worde in a lettyr whyche was wretyn on the Twesday
next aftyr Seynt Looke,[245.3] and ther in was an answer of all the
fyrst lettyr that ye sent me. I sent itt yow by yonge Thomas Elys.
I sent yow anothyr lettyr by Playter, the whyche was wretyn on
Saterday[245.4] last past.
Item, I receyvyd a lettyr frome yow on Sonday,[245.5] of the wyche I
sent yow an answher of ma lettyr on Seynt Symondes Evyn and Jwde by
Edmunde Clere of Stokysby; and as sone as I hade the seyd lettyr on
Sonday, I sent to Syr Thomas Howes for the mater that ye desyryd that he
scholde inqwer of to Bokyng, and I sent a yene sethe to the seyd Syr
Thomas for to have knowlage of the same mater yestyrdaye, and I have non
answher of hym yet. He sent me worde he scholde do hys part there in,
but othyr answer have I none yet of hym. I sende yow in a canvase bage,
inselyd by Nycolas Colman, as many of Crystofyr Hansonys acomptys as Jon
Paston can fynde ther as [_where_] ye sent worde that they were. Rychard
Harbard recomawndyth hym to yow, and prayth yowe that ye wole wychesave
to remembre the lettyr that scholde be sent fro my Lorde of Warwyk to a
man of hys beyng at Lowystofete; and if it be not sent to hym, that it
plese yow to do purvey that it may be sent to hym in haste, if it maye
be, as to morow ther schall be keppyd a day at Bowunggey for Mastyr
Fastolfys londys be for the exchetore, and there schall be Wylliam
Barker and Rychard Call. Ye schall have knowlage in haste what schall be
do ther. And the blyssyd Trinite have yow in Hys kepyng.
Wretyn in haste at Norwyche on the Wednysday next aftyr Seynt Symond and
Jwde,