Writen at Castre, the last day of Julle. Your cousyn, J. F.
[99.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is doubtless of the same year as [No. 336], in the end of which Fastolf wishes his attorney, Rawlyns, urged to greater activity in the matter of Hickling.
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LORD SCALES TO JOHN PASTON[100.1]
To my right trusty and intierly welbeloved frend, John Paston, Squier.
1456
AUG. 10
Right trusty and entierly welbeloved frend, I grete you well, and wull ze wite that Danyell[100.2] hath required me to write un to you, praying you that ze wyll kepe the day upon Thursday[100.3] vij. dayes nexst comyng, which shal be for the best, as I trust; not with standyng I suppose lerned men wyll not be easy for to gete be cause of this besy tyme of hervest. Almyghty God have you in Hise governaunce.
Writen at Mydelton,[100.4] the x. day of August. Your frend, Scales.
[100.1] [From Fenn, i. 138.] This letter is dated by a memorandum at the bottom of the original, in the handwriting, as Fenn believes, of John Paston: ‘Lettera inter Mich. xxxiiij. et xxxv.’
[100.2] Thomas Daniel of Rising.—See vol. ii. pp. 79, 80, 103, etc.
[100.3] 19th August.