Pynchamour shall telle yow by mowthe more thanne I have leyser to write now to yow. I wrot to myn em’[162.5] that there were ix. or x. ml. [nine or ten thousand] men up in Wiltshire, and I hadde it of the report of Whittocks mede; but I trowe it is not so, for here is now littel speche therof; ner the lesse, if I here more, I shall sende yow worde her after by sum loders that come to Seynt Bertilmews [fayre].[162.1]
Wretyn in hast at London, the Wednesseday next after our Lady day, &c. Your own symple servaunt, James Gr.
[160.4] [From Fenn, iii. 86.] The date of this letter is ascertained by the news contained in the last paragraph of the fall of Cherbourg, besides other internal evidence.
[160.5] ‘After John Paston had received this letter,’ says Fenn, ‘it seems as if he had sent it to my Lord Oxford, for on the back of it, in John Paston’s handwriting, is the following direction: “To the rith worspfull and my rith speciall lord, my Lord of Oxenford.”’
[160.6] These passages, in which the text is broken by brackets or dots, are indicated by Fenn as illegible in the original.
[160.7] John Kemp, Cardinal Archbishop of York, afterwards of Canterbury.
[161.1] These passages, in which the text is broken by brackets or dots, are indicated by Fenn as illegible in the original.
[161.2] A writ directed to the sheriff for recovery of possession of things immoveable, whereof yourself or ancestors have been disseised. —F.
[161.3] Is a commission especially granted to certain persons for the hearing and determining of causes, and was formerly only in use upon some sudden outrage or insurrection in any place. —F.
[161.4] These disturbances among the people were the remains of Cade’s rebellion, which had been lately suppressed. —F.