1426
DEC. 1
i. Draft writ to the Sheriff of Norwich to attach and bring before the Council John Paston alias Wortes and others for violation of the statutes of Provisors 25 Edw. III. and 16 Ric. II., on the complaint of John Brundale, prior of Bromholm that although he, Brundale, was canonically elected prior, the said Paston or Wortes had crossed the sea without royal license, obtained a provision of the said priory in the Court of Rome, and got himself installed as prior, and the other expelled. Also the said John Paston or Wortes, and John Gees, a Carmelite friar of Norwich, Edmund Alderford, late of Norwich, clerk, Barth. Waryn, parson of Trunche, William Cuttyng of Worsted, clerk, John Gees of Crowemer, merchant, and Ralph Gunton of Norwich, scrivener, received the said instruments at Bakton, and put them into execution.—Dated 1 Dec.
ii. On the back of the preceding is another draft writ of the same date against the same parties for endeavouring to draw the prior out of the kingdom by a suit in the Court of Rome.
The paper is endorsed—’S. (?) Billæ vis. Veneris prox. post diem antedictum (?) Anno H. vj. vto, et non necessario festinant’. Iterum supervidendum.’
Endorsed in a later hand— ‘Towchynge Sir John Fastolffes landes in Norffolk and Surrye.’
[29.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.]
[29.2] He is believed to have been son of Geoffrey Chaucer, the famous poet, and his daughter Alice married William De la Pole, at this time Earl, afterwards Duke, of Suffolk.
[29.3] [From a Bodl. MS.]
Barth. Waryn, parson of Trunche
text has Barth, for Barth.