[106.2] Word omitted.
[106.3] So in MS.
[107.1] This is written ‘sanyth’ but there is a stroke through the a, which was perhaps intended to have been carried through the s also.
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SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN PASTON[107.2]
To the Worshypful Sir, and my ryght well beloved cosen, John Paston.
1449(?)
JULY 10
Worshypfull and ryghte welbelovyd cosyn, I comaund me to you. Please you to here that the Pryore and Convent of Norwyche have wythhalden certeyn rent for landes that they halden of me wythinne my maner of Haylysdon, and the ij. tapers of wax of ij. lbs. wyght, by the space of xviij. yere, that mountyth xxjs.[107.3] valued in money. And the lordes of the seyd maner beyng before me, and y yn my tyme, have been seised and possessed of the seyd rent. Prayng you to speke wyth the Pryore, or comaundyng me unto hym. And that ye lyke to move hym to make me payment as his dewtee ys, so as y have no cause to gowe further, and to do as justice requyreth. He hahyth xxx. acres lande or more by the seyd rent, and whyht ought to pay me othyr rent more by myn evidense. More over y pray you, cosen, that I may speke with you or [before] y ryde, and that on Thursday by the ferthest; and then y shall tell you tydyngs off the Parlement, and that ye fayle not, as my trust ys yn you. I pray God have you in Hys guidance.
Wreten at Castor, the x. day off Julie 1449.[108.1] —Your Cosen, John Fastolfe.
[107.2] [From Palmer’s Foundacion and Antiquitye of Great Yermouthe, p. 61.]
[107.3] ‘xxj.o,’ as printed by Palmer, but the ‘o’ no doubt should be ‘s.’