[46.1] [From Fenn, iii. 430.]
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ABSTRACT[46.2]
Richard Calle to John Paston
1462(?)
[JULY 5]
Cannot inform him how much malt he has at Castre, ‘for the malters have not moten all up yet,’—probably 400 quarters new and 160 comb old malt of Castre and Mauteby, of which 40 quarters will be spent in the household by Hallowmas. At Yarmouth it is now 2s. 2d. a bushel—it was 2s. 6d. But London is a better market. Thinks the price will fall here, as the fields are reasonably fair in Flegge, and so up to Norwich. The carriage from Yarmouth to London will be 6d. per quarter, ‘and I understand j. quartre of Yermothe mette makethe at London but vij. busschell.’
Norwich, Monday after St. Peter’s Day.
[As John Paston does not seem to have been in undisturbed possession of Caister before 1462, and we have evidence of Richard Calle having been there in that year about the time of year when this letter was written, we may with great probability refer it to that year.]
[46.2] [From Paston MSS., B.M.]
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JOHN RUSSE TO JOHN PASTON[47.1]
To the right worshypful my right honourabyl mayster, John Paston.