Item, and it pleased your gode maystershep to gete of my mayster Yelverton a supersedias for John Osborn and an othre for me. We suppose that Gonnor and Bettes wull do us arest, and we wuld the supersedias that we haue ought of the Chauncery were kept till more nede were. My mastres[222.1] recomand her to you, and prayth you to hold her excused that she write yow no letter, for myche of the mater that she shuld have wrete to you I had wrete in my letter or she knew ther of; and also she knew not of so redy a massanger as I had. And it plesyd your gode maystershep to send us a pardon for to assoylyn Gonnor this holy tyme of Lentyn, the rather be cause of this gret bulle,[223.1] we shuld leve in the more reste and peas, and kepe the more our pacyence than we do. The Holy Trynyte have you in His kepyng. Wretyn on the Monday next after Seynt Mathie[223.2] the Appostell, in hast. Your pore servaunte, James Gloys.
[219.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was written in the spring of 1451, when John Paston had re-entered Gresham.
[219.2] Lord Molyns.
[220.1] Fastingong, or Shrove Tuesday, fell upon the 9th March in 1451.
[220.2] 25th February.
[220.3] St. Matthias, whose day was the 24th February.
[220.4] The Duchy of Lancaster.
[222.1] Margaret Paston.
[223.1] Probably a bull of indulgence issued at the close of the year of jubilee 1450, for the benefit of those who had not been able to visit Rome that year.
[223.2] St. Matthias. His day was the 24th February.