Writen at Suthwerk the viij. day of Maij.
I have paied to Dory Cs., and with moche peyne made hym to ghete day of the other Cs. til the nexterme. Your owen J. B.
Endorsed in a seventeenth-century hand.—L’ra Joh’is Bokking, Attorn. in Communi Banco.
[84.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter is quite certain, not only from the circumstance of the 5th May being a Wednesday in 1456, as mentioned in the beginning, but also from Ascension Day falling between that and the 8th, the day on which this letter was written.
[84.2] Ascension Day was the 6th May in 1456.
[84.3] See [Nos. 267], [268], etc.
[84.4] Richard Choke, Serjeant-at-law, afterwards Judge of the Common Pleas.
[84.5] Thomas Lyttelton, the great lawyer, at this time King’s Serjeant, afterwards Judge of the Common Pleas, famous for his treatise on Tenures.
[84.6] William Jenney.
[84.7] Richard Illingworth, afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer.