Item, we have gethe men of the speretuall law with haldyn with us, qwat casse some ever hap. We have Master Robert Kenthe, but in any wyse have all the good ther to gedyr, and tary for no lettyng, thow ze schuld do it be day a lythe [daylight] opynly, for it is myn Lord Chanceler ffull in thenthe that ze schuld do so.
As for Wyllyam Worceter, he trustythe veryly ze wold do for hym and for his avaylle, in reson; and I dowthe nott and he may veryly and feythefully understand zow so disposyd to hym ward, ze schall fynd hym feythefull to zow in leke wysse. I understand by hym he will never have oder master butt his old master; and to myn consaythe it were pete butt iff he schull stand in suche casse be myn master that he schuld never nede servyce, conserying [considering] how myn master trustyd hym, and the long zers that he hathe be with hym in, and many schrew jornay for his sake, &c.
I wrythe zow no mor, be cawse ze schall [have] a noder letter wretyn to morow. Wretyn at Lundon the xij. day of Novembr, in hast, be Willyam Paston.
[191.2] [From Fenn, iii. 352.] This letter gives an account of the steps taken by William Paston in behalf of his brother, who was Sir John Fastolf’s principal executor, to secure the goods of the deceased knight immediately after his death.
[191.3] William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.
[191.4] See vol. ii. p. 16, Note 1.
[191.5] The left-hand copy in Fenn reads ‘brod,’ which seems to be a misprint.
[191.6] James Butler, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond. Beheaded in 1461.—F.
[191.7] Richard Southwell.
[192.1] Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter.