Item, I receyvyd a lettyr frome yow on Sonday,[245.5] of the wyche I sent yow an answher of ma lettyr on Seynt Symondes Evyn and Jwde by Edmunde Clere of Stokysby; and as sone as I hade the seyd lettyr on Sonday, I sent to Syr Thomas Howes for the mater that ye desyryd that he scholde inqwer of to Bokyng, and I sent a yene sethe to the seyd Syr Thomas for to have knowlage of the same mater yestyrdaye, and I have non answher of hym yet. He sent me worde he scholde do hys part there in, but othyr answer have I none yet of hym. I sende yow in a canvase bage, inselyd by Nycolas Colman, as many of Crystofyr Hansonys acomptys as Jon Paston can fynde ther as [where] ye sent worde that they were. Rychard Harbard recomawndyth hym to yow, and prayth yowe that ye wole wychesave to remembre the lettyr that scholde be sent fro my Lorde of Warwyk to a man of hys beyng at Lowystofete; and if it be not sent to hym, that it plese yow to do purvey that it may be sent to hym in haste, if it maye be, as to morow ther schall be keppyd a day at Bowunggey for Mastyr Fastolfys londys be for the exchetore, and there schall be Wylliam Barker and Rychard Call. Ye schall have knowlage in haste what schall be do ther. And the blyssyd Trinite have yow in Hys kepyng.
Wretyn in haste at Norwyche on the Wednysday next aftyr Seynt Symond and Jwde, Be yowyr M. P.
[245.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter is ascertained by the statement at the end that, on the morrow, a ‘day’ was to be kept at Bungay for Fastolf’s lands. The inquisition on Fastolf’s lands in the county of Suffolk was held at Bungay on Thursday before All Saints, 39 Henry VI., i.e. 30th October 1460.—(Inquisitions post mortem, 38 and 39 Hen. VI., No. 48.)
[245.2] The elder son of that name.
[245.4] October 25th.
[245.5] October 26th.
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SIR GEOFFREY BOLEYN TO JOHN PASTON, ESQ.[246.1]
To my ryght wurschypfull Ser, John Paston, Esquyer.
1460(?)
DEC. 5