[150]
THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TO JOHN PASTON[185.2]
To oure right trusty and welbeloved servaunt, John Paston, Squier.
The Duc of Norfolk.
1450
OCT. 22
Right trusti and right welbelovid, we grete yo hertily well, prayng you specially that ye will make you redy to awayte upon us at Yippiswich toward the Parlement the viij. day of Novembre in youre best aray, with as many clenly people as ye may gete for oure worship at this tyme; for we will be there like oure estate in oure best wise without any delay. Yeven under oure signet in oure Castell of Framlyngham, the xxij. day of Octobre.
[185.2] [Douce MS. 393, f. 93.] This letter must have been written either in 1449 or in 1450, in both of which years Parliament met on the 6th of November; and as we have other letters, both of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Oxford, relating to the Parliament of 1450, we are inclined to think this also belongs to the later year. Framlingham, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk, is not more than thirty-two miles from Bury, from which he wrote on the 16th.
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JOHN DAMME AND JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON[186.1]
To my worshipfull and good maister, John Paston, Escuyer.
1450
NOV. 11