Also he seyd mor, with out that he myght have the seyd barge, he wolle note goo to see but hym self and hys xxiiij. men. And thus, yf please your maisterchep, he departyd from the taveran; and at hys departyng, he told the seyd Thomas Edmonds, ‘Thys ys Paston labor.’ Than the seyd Edmonds answerd hym ageyn, and seyd playnly he was to blame for to reporte so of your masterchep, for he knoythe veryly he seyd on trewly of you and of my master your son bothe, and ther on he wold take a hothe. And so, yf it please your good masterchep, late the cety of Norwic and Yermothe have knowlage of hys gret crakyng and bost, and let hym of hys purpose by the autorite that they have.
Item, my master your son wolle have to hys jakets murry[44.1] and tany [tawny], and that it please yow sum of my felachep may spek to on of the drapers for to ordeyn yt ageyns hys comyng hom, for I trowe it shall be thys day sevenyght ar he comithe home.
Item, sir, if please you, Skrowpe hathe sent to you to London be Byngham for the mony that ye knowe of, zit I spake not with hym; but I shall telle hym that I suppose ye shall be here in the last end of the terme, and I shall send your masterchep word what answer I have of hym.
Item, sir, if pleese suche tydyngs as I her of, I send you word. My Lord of Warwek hathe be in Skotlond, an take a castell of the Skoots; and upon thys ther came the Quene of Skoots[44.2] with other Lords of her contre, as ye shall her the namys, in basetry [embassy] to my seyd Lord of Werwek, and a trews is take betwyx thys and Seynt Bertylmew Day in Auguste. Thes is the last tydyngs that I knowe. No mor to your god masterchep at this tyme, but Jesu have [you] in kepyng. Wretyn on the Saturday next after Seynt Peter. By your por servaunt, J. Daubeney.
[42.3] [From Fenn, iv. 138.] The date of this letter is shown by an entry on the Patent Roll, 2 Edw. IV., p. 1, m. 7, in dorso. On the 27th June 1462 a commission was given to Gilbert Debenham, Jun., Esquire, Walter Alderiche, master of the George of Yarmouth, and John Childe, to arrest for the King’s service a ship called The Barge of Yarmouth, alias The George, with victuals, masters, and mariners for the same.
[43.1] John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. He was beheaded in October 1470.—F.
[43.2] See Preliminary Note to No. 518, [p. 41, Note 1].
[44.1] Dark red or purple and yellowish colour.—F.
[44.2] Mary, daughter of Arnold, Duke of Gelders, and mother to James III., King of Scotland.