[276.2] [From Fenn, iii. 168.] This letter was written during the life of Philip Berney, most probably in 1452, while he lay sick of the wounds, of which he afterwards died. See [No. 227] further on.
[276.3] A preserve made of quinces.—See Index to Furnivall’s Manners and Meals in Olden Times* In the ordinances of the household of George, Duke of Clarence, ‘charequynses’ occur under the head of spices, their price being five shillings ‘the boke,’ or £2, 10s. for 10 lbs.—See The Society of Antiquaries’ Collection of Ordinances for the Royal Household, p. 103. The word also occurs pp. 455, 471 of same volume.
* Early English Meals and Manners, Project Gutenberg e-book [24790].
[277.1] Philip Berney.
[277.2] Margery, widow of Sir Edward Hastings of Elsing, Norfolk, who styled himself Lord Hastings and Stutvill.—See Blomefield, viii. 112, and ix. 513, 514.
[277.3] An ancestor of Anne Boleyn and Queen Elizabeth. He was Mayor of London in 1457.
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AGNES PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[278.1]
This lettre be delyvered to John Paston, beynge at London, in the Innere In of the Temple.
1452(?)
NOV. 16
I grete you well, and sende you Goddes blissyng and myn. And as touchyng the mater wheche ye desyryd my cosyn Clere shulde write fore, she hath doo, and I sende you the copy closed in this lettre. As for the enquerre I have sent by Pynchemore to enquere and sent myn owen men to William Bakton, and don hem enquered in dyverse placs, and I can here no woord of noon suych enquerans; I wot not what it menyth. Roberd Hill was at Paston thys wyke, and the man that dwelled in Bowres place is oute ther of, and seid to Roberd he durst no lenger abyde ther in, for Waryn Herman seyth to him it is his place. As for Cokets mater, my doughter your wyf told me yester even the man that suyth him will not stonde to your awarde.