The messenger was on horsbak whanne I wrote yow this bill, and therfore it was doon in haste; and our Lord Jesus kepe yow.
Writen at London the Wednesday after Midlenton.
And my Lord of Caunterbury tolde me that the Frenche men have ben before yow, and that ye shotte many gonnes; and so he tolde all the Lords. I have desirid hym to move the Counsell for refreshing of the toun of Yermowth with stuff of ordnance and gonnes and gonne powdre, and he seid he wolde. Your humble servaunt, J. Bokking.
[127.1] [From Fenn, i. 154.] This letter relates to the temporary reconciliation effected between the Lords of the opposite parties in the spring of 1458.
[127.2] Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham.
[127.3] Henry Stafford, Earl of Stafford, grandson of Buckingham, who succeeded him in the Dukedom in 1460.
[127.4] Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter.
[127.5] The Hanaper of Chancery.
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WILLIAM CALTHORPE TO JOHN PASTON[128.1]
To my worshipfull Cosyn John Paston.