_To the worshipfull John Paston and Wylliam Rokewode, Squyeris, and to
everych of them._
[Sidenote: 1461 / JULY 10]
Right worshipfull cosynes, I recummaund me to yow. And for as mech as I
am credybilly informyd how that Sir Myles Stapylton knyght with other
yll dysposed persones, defame and falsly noyse me in morderyng of Thomas
Denys the Crowner, and how that I intend to make insurexyones contrari
unto the law; and that the seyd Stapylton ferthermore noyseth me with
gret robries; in whech defamacyones and fals noysyngs the seyd
Stapylton, and in that his saying he is fals, that knowith God, &c. And
for my playn acquitayll, yf he or any substancyall gentylman wyll say
it, and avow it, I say to it contrari, and by lisens of the Kyng to make
it good as a gentylman. And in this my playn exskeus, I pray yow to opyn
it unto the Lords, that the seyd Stapylton, &c., makyn gret gaderyngs of
the Kyngs rebelyones, lying in wayte to morder me. And in that I may
make opyn proff. Wretyn in hast the x. day of July anno regni Regis E.
iiij. primo.