[232.1] The word is ‘ft’ in the MS. And to make sense of the passage, I must suppose another word to be omitted. ‘Non fecit vos amicum magistri sui,’ i.e. he did not make you out to be any friend of his master.
[232.2] William Yelverton.
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CHRISTOPHER HANSSON TO JOHN PASTON[233.1]
To the right worshipfull Sir and Maister, John Paston, Escuier, at Norwiche, be this delyvered in hast.
1460
OCT. 12
Right worschipfull Sir and Maister, I recomaund me un to you. Please you to wete, the Monday after oure Lady Day[233.2] there come hider to my maister ys place,[233.3] my Maister Bowser, Sir Harry Ratford, John Clay, and the Harbyger of my Lord of Marche, desyryng that my Lady of York[233.4] myght lye here untylle the comyng of my Lord of York and hir tw sonnys, my Lorde George[233.5] and my Lorde Richard,[233.6] and my Lady Margarete[233.7] hir dawztyr, whiche y graunt hem in youre name to ly here untylle Mychelmas. And she had not ley here ij. dayes but sche had tythyng of the londyng of my Lord at Chestre. The Tewesday next after, my Lord sent for hir that sche shuld come to hym to Harford [Hereford], and theder sche is gone. And sythe[233.8] y left here bothe the sunys and the dowztyr, and the Lord of Marche comyth every day to se them.
Item, my Lord of York hath dyvers straunge commissions fro the Kyng for to sitte in dyvers townys comyng homward; that is for to sey, in Ludlow, Schrrofysbury, Herford, Leycetre, Coventre, and in other dyvers townys, to punych them by the fawtes to the Kyngs lawys.
As for tythyngs here, the Kyng is way at Eltham and at Grenewych to hunt and to sport hym there, bydyng the Parlement, and the Quene and the Prynce byth in Walys alway. And is with hir the Duc of Excestre and other, with a fewe mayne, as men seythe here.
And the Duc of Somerset he is in Depe [Dieppe]; withe hym Maister John Ormound, Wyttyngham, Andrew Trollyp, and other dyvers of the garyson of Gyanys, under the Kyng of Fraunce safcondyte, and they seythe here, he porpose hym to go to Walys to the Quene. And the Erle of Wyltschyre[234.1] is stylle in pece at Otryght at the Frerys [Friars], whiche is seyntwary.
Item, Colbyne ys come home to my maister is place, and seyth that, at your departyng[234.2] ouzt of London, ze send hym word that he schuld come hedder to the place, and be here un tylle your comyng a zene; and so he is here it, and seith he wolle take no maister but be your avyce, nether the leese [nevertheless] awaytythe uppon Maister Oldhall the most parte at Redre[234.3] at his place.