Sir John Fastolf ‘to the worshipful Lady and my right wellbeloved Sister, Whytyngham.’
1456
JAN. 20
As all the executors of my Lord Regent, except himself, are dead, and as he would not have her troubled in her age ‘for execution of my said Lord’s goods,’ nor for the evidences of his purchased lands, etc., which were left in keeping ‘with my brother your husband,’ sends John Paston and other his attorneys to common with her, and settle the matter, which will be a great discharge for her husband’s soul.
Castre, 20 Jan.
[This letter must have been written after the death of Lord Cromwell, who was one of Bedford’s executors, and who died on the 4th January 1456.—See his Epitaph in Dugdale’s Baronage, ii. 46.]
[69.1] [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 266.]
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ABSTRACT[69.2]
Sir John Fastolf to John Bokking or William Barker, to deliver to John Paston at London.
1456
JAN. 25
Copy of a letter of Fastolf’s to the wife of Sir Robert Whytyngham (the copy examined by Botoner) to the same effect as the preceding No., but with some slight differences in the wording, and dated 25th January instead of 20th.