Nevertheless, and it like you, I sende you, bi my sonne Stafford,[76.1] an obligacion wherof, of late tyme, I have rescevid part of the dubete therinne comprisid; the residue of whiche I prai you to resceve bi the seid obligacion, and that I may have an acquitance therof, and to yeve credence unto my seid sonne in such thing as he shall say unto your gode brotherhode on my behalve.
Right worshipfull, and with all myn herte right entirely belovid brother, I beseche the blissed Trinite, preserve you in honor and prosperite.
Writen at my Castell of Makestok,[76.2] the xvij. day of Marche. Yowre trew and fethfull broder, H. Bukingham.
[75.2] [From Fenn, i. 16.] There appear to be no means of ascertaining the exact year when this letter was written; but as the writer was created Duke of Buckingham on the 14th September 1441, and his son, the Earl of Stafford, was killed at the battle of St. Albans on the 22nd May 1455, the date must lie between these two limits.
[76.1] Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, the Duke’s eldest son, who was slain at St. Albans in 1455.
[76.2] In Warwickshire.
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WILLIAM YELVERTON TO JOHN PASTON[76.3]
To my ryght wurchepfull cosyn, John Paston, Esquier.
Between 1444 and 1460
Right worchepful cosyn, I recomaunde me to yow, thankyng yow as hertyly as I kan for my selff, &c., and specially for that ye do so moche for Oure Ladyes hous at Walsyngham, which I trust veryly ye do the rather for the grete love that ye deme I have therto; for trewly if I be drawe to any worchep or wellfare, and discharge of myn enmyes daunger, I ascryve it unto Our Lady.