[100.4] In Norfolk.
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LORD SCALES TO JOHN PASTON[100.5]
To my right trusty and welbeloved frend, John Paston, Squier.
About 1456(?)
Right trusty and welbeloved frend, I grete you hertly well. And for as mych as I u[ndyrstond] a bill was made at Yermuth ageyns my cousyn Bryan Stapylton and hise wy. . . . have set up the said bill in the Kynges Bench, which bill is in your kepyng, pray[ing] you that ye wyll sende me the same bill be the bringer herof, to the entent I m[ay] se it. And as I am informed be my said cousyn, ye shewed hym grete gentilnesse and benyvolence, wherof I thanke you right hertely. I pray God have you in governance.
Writen at Midelton, the xx. day of Septembre. Zowr frend, Scales.
[100.5] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is placed immediately after another letter of Lord Scales, dated like this from his seat at Middleton in Norfolk, as probably belonging to the same period, though the exact year is uncertain.
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ARCHBISHOP BOURCHIER TO JOHN PASTON[101.1]
To our right truste and right welbeloved John Paston, Esquier, and William Norwiche[101.2] and to either of theym.
1456
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