And as for entryng in Bradwell, thei doo opyn wronge, for after myn patent opteyned, there was a writte to sease it into the Kynges hande, and soo it was and is. And as to your patent, it is counsailled me to have a writte to th’eschetor de custodia liberanda, whiche may not be denyed. And if we myght have una cum exitibus a tempore mortis, it were a sovereigne writte. It shalbe assaied, and doo thertoo what can lete; the fermours be promised to be saved harmeles and chargid not to paie ony thing to them.
And as for the iiijxxli. [fourscore pounds] to be sette on Olivere is taile, I can not see it wole be, for there is noo suche worlde to bringe it abowte. It is faire, and we can ghete it on Fulthorp is dette by grete labor for agrement, for I drede it wole be moste agayn us that it is of recorde soo longe unpaied. And Hue at Fenn sueth now to Nailer to ghete owte moo liberates, suche as the last were to the last eschetor. And this God graunte thei take good spede.
And as to your isseus, I shal accordyng to your lettre speke with Gresham whanne he cometh, and the Juges and Barons bothe shalbe enformed of the title of Wentworthe, as ye write, and how it is up on a feyned dede upon surrender, and a patent cancelled, &c., which Fenn hath promisid to doo.
And as to Sir Thomas matier, I write un to yow and hym joinctly what hathe be doon therinne at this tyme. And Jesu have yow in kepyng.
Writen at Suthwerk, the viij. day of Octobre.
As to tidinges, the Kyng and the Quene ar at Coventre.[103.1] The Counsail be ganne there yesterday, and my Lord Shrewyshbury,[103.2] Tresorier of England, and John Wode shalb [shall be] Under-Tresorer. Thus thei say in the Chequer. Your owen, J. B.
[102.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The body of this letter relates entirely to proceedings in the dispute between Sir John Fastolf and Sir Philip Wentworth about the wardship of Thomas Fastolf. The postscript alone relates to public matters. The date will appear by the footnotes.
[102.2] Against Sir Philip Wentworth.
[102.3] This sum was to be paid by John Bocking and William Worcester for a patent of the wardship of Thomas Fastolf.—See [Letter 347] following.
[102.4] See [p. 77, Note 5].