Worshypfull and ryght welbelovyd cosyn, y pray God spede you yn thys matier, and sende you your gode desyrs.
Wreten at Castr, the xj. day of November anno xxxiijº R. H. VI. Your cosyn, John Fastolfe.
Item, cosyn, I pray yow when ye see tyme that my Lord of Caunterbury[9.1] and my Lord Cromewell[9.2] may be spoke wyth for the godes of my Lord Bedford, beyng yn dyvers men handz, be compelled to be brought ynne, as ye shall see more along of thys mater, wyth the wrytyngs that I have made mencion, and left wyth John Bokkyng and William Barker.
[7.1] [From Fenn, iii. 224.]
[8.1] Thomas Fastolf of Cowhawe.—See vol. ii. p. 323, Note 1.
[9.1] Thomas Bourchier.
[9.2] Ralph, Lord Cromwell.
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THOMAS HOWES TO JOHN PASTON[9.3]
To the wurshepfull Sir, and my good Maystyr John Paston, at London, in haste.
1454
NOV. 13