Sir, my mayster bad me wryte un to yow that ze shuld store the Mayer and alle the Alderman to crye on my Lord that they mown have justyce of these men that be indyted, and that my Lorde wyll speke un to the Kynge therof. And, Sir, in divers partes in the town there [where] my Lord comyth, there wolde be ordeyned many porcions of Comeners to crye on my Lord for justice of these men that arne indyted, and telle her nammes, in speciall Todenham, Heydon, Wyndham, Prentys. Sir, I cende yow a copy of the bylle[177.1] that my Lord of Yorke putte un to the Kynge; and, Sir, late copyes go abowte the cetye i now, for the love of God, wy[c]he have yow in hese kepyng.
Wretyn on Seynt Feyth daye, in hast. Be your Servaunt, W. Wayte.
[174.1] [From Fenn, iii. 154.] This letter must have been written just after the Duke of York came over from Ireland in 1450, when he demanded that justice should be fairly administered against persons accused. A Parliament was summoned, which met on the 6th November, and Sir William Oldhall was chosen as Speaker.
[174.2] Richard, Duke of York, afterwards Protector, the father of King Edward IV.
[174.3] The writer was clerk to Judge Yelverton.
[176.1] Sir Miles Stapleton.
[176.2] John Dam actually was returned to Parliament for the city of Norwich in November 1450.
[177.1] See next No.
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RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, TO KING HENRY VI[177.2]
Richard, Duke of York, his Peticion to Kyng Henry for the punyshement of Treytors, &c.