_Pro Johanne Paston._
[Sidenote: 1461 / JULY 27]
Rex omnibus ad quos &c. salutem. Cum Nos indebitati sumus Johanni Paston
armigero et Thomæ Hows clerico in septingentis marcis legalis monetæ
regni nostri Angliæ eisdem Johanni et Thomæ solvendis juxta formam
cujusdam billæ manu nostra signatæ cujus tenor sequitur in hæc verba:--
Edward, Kyng of Inglond and of Frauns, Lord of Irlond, recorde and
knoweleych that we have receyvyd of John Paston, Squyer, and Thomas
Hows, clerk, be the assent of oure trusty and welbelovyd cosyn Thomas
Archebysshop of Caunterbury, [and?] Mayster John Stokys, clerk, an
nowche of gold with a gret poynted diamaunt set upon a rose enamellid
white, and a nowche of gold in facion of a ragged staff with ij. ymages
of man and woman garnysshed with a ruby, a dyamaunt and a gret perle,
which were leyd to plegge by oure fader, whom Crist assoyle, to Sir John
Fastolff, knyght, for CCCC. xxxlvij_li._; and also an obligacion wherby
oure seid fader was bound to the seid Sir John Fastolff in an C. marc;
for which we graunt and promitt in the word of a kyng to pay to the seid
John Paston and Thomas Hows, clerk, or to her assignez, D.CC. mark of
lawfull money of Englond at days underwritte, that is to sey; att the
Fest of All Seyntes than next folowyng after the date of thys bille CC.
mark, and other CC. mark at the Fest of All Seyntis than next folowyng,
and other CC. mark at the Fest of All Seyntes than next folowyng, and an
C. mark at the Fest of All Seyntys thanne next folowyng. And also we
graunte that the seid John Paston and Thomas Hows shall have a signement
sufficient to hem aggreabill for the seid payment. And if it fortune
that the same John and Thomas be unpayd by the seid assignement of any
of the seid paymentis at any of the seid Festis, thanne we graunt upon
notice made to us therof by the same John or Thomas to pay hem or her
assignez that payment so behynd onpaid oute of oure cofirs withoute
delay. In witnesse werof we have signed this bill with oure hand the
xij. day of Jule the first yere of [our] reign.
Nos solutionem summæ illius præfatis Johanni et Thomæ fieri et haberi
volentes, ut tenemur, concessimus et per præsentes concedimus eisdem
Johanni Paston et Thomæ Hows septingentas marcas monetæ prædictæ
percipiendas modo et forma subsequentibus, videlicet, centum marcas inde
annuatim percipiendas de primis denariis provenientibus et crescentibus
de feodi firma civitatis nostræ Norwici et de omnibus aliis firmis,
exitibus, proficuis et reventionibus de eadem civitate provenientibus
per manus majoris, custodis, vicecomitum, civium seu ballivorum ejusdem
civitatis pro tempore existentium aut aliorum receptorum, firmariorum
seu appruatorum eorundem feodi firmarum, exituum, proficuorum et
reventionum dictæ civitatis pro tempore existentium, et centum marcas
inde annuatim percipiendas de firmis, redditibus, exitibus, proficuis et
aliis commoditatibus quibuscumque de comitatibus nostris Norff’ et Suff’
provenientibus per manus vicecomitum eorumdem comitatuum pro tempore
existentium quousque septingentæ marcæ eisdem Johanni Paston et Thomæ
Hows plenarie persolutæ fuerint. In cujus &c. Teste Rege apud
Westmonasterium, xxvij. die Julii.
_Per ipsum Regem oretenus._
[Footnote 294.1: [From _Patent Roll_, 1 Edw. IV., Part 3, No.
13.]]
474