[287.1] [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 196.] The date of this letter is difficult to fix, but from the two brothers being together (which was rather a rare occurrence), and both in good health, the summer of 1467 seems not improbable. (See [No. 671].) The date must at least be earlier than Nov. 1469, when Sir John Paston, as we shall hereafter find, actually executed an indenture for the sale of East Beckham. It seems quite impossible, moreover, that this letter can be of the year 1469.
[674]
SIR JOHN PASTON TO LORD BEAUCHAMP[288.1]
To the Lord Bechampe[288.2]
And forasmuch as I am credibly enformed that my lord of Winchestre hath sent to you desiring that ye shold ensele dyvers writinges of graunt and relesse of your estat in alle such maners, londes and tenementes as late wer of J. Fastolf knyght, and wheryn ye togider with other be jointly enfeffed to th’ use of the seid J. Fastolf, I, considering the honorable disposition and great sadnesse of my seid lord of Winchestre which[288.3] hath now taken upon [him][288.4] th’ administracion of testament of the seid J. F., trusting veryly that my seid lord wol as conscience requireth consider my title and interest in that behalf, praie you right hertely that not withstonding any labour or mocion on my part or for me in tyme passed made to you to ensele any writyng of graunt or relesse of your seid estat to me or to myn use, that ye wol now ensele and perfourme the entent and desir of my seid lord of Winchestre now made unto you. Sir John Paston, k.
Indorsed: Dominus de Bewchamp.
[288.1] [Add. MS. 35,251, f. 25, B.M.] This letter apparently was written in 1467, probably in August, just before [No. 675]. The original is a corrected draft.
[288.2] This address is written in the margin, with a note a little way below: ‘To myn oncle Wylliam in lyke forme.’
[288.3] Here occurs an interlineation of an incomplete clause: ‘is feffe of the seid—— (word crossed out) and also therein and——.’
[288.4] Omitted in MS.