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MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[69.2]
1463
FEB. or MARCH
Please you to wet that Will. Jeney and Debham cam to Calcote on Wednysday before none, and ther they spake with Rysyng and John Smythe, and haskyd hem rent and ferme, and they seydyn they had payed you, and so they myght not paye hem. Also, ferthermore, they told hem that ye had hold a corte ther syn that they enteryd there. Than Jenney answerd ageyn ‘Be cause he held a corte here we mad hym hold corte at London, and so shall we make the to hold a corte at Ipysweche withowt thow wolt pay us the rent and ferme.’ ‘Sir,’ quod Rysyng, ‘I toke the ferme of my master and of Sir Thomas Howys.’ Jenney seyd, ‘And as for Sir Thomas, he and we schall acord well i nowe.’ And so they hahte seled up the berne dore and woll dryve a wey the catell bothe of the fermores and of the tenauntes, withowt the fermor and John Smythe woll fynd hem suerte to pay hem at Esterne, and Jenney and Debham woll [be] bownd ageyn to hem in a obligacion of xlli. to save hem harmelese ageyns you. And so as yet Rysyng standythe under award at Leystofte. So Rysyng hathe sent word to me that I shall knowe thys nyght or ellis to morowe what end they hathe mad.
Item, as towchyng the burges of Yermothe they wer chosyn on Wednysday. The Baly Wydwell ys on; and as for the todyr the Bischoppe sent to the towne for to have a man of hys owne, and so they be not acordyd yit of hym; en cas they may not acord, John Rus shall be the todyr.
Item, as towchyng Grene, a came not to Caster on Thursday, for he went to Norwich the same day, and so he is yet ther. Daubeney hathe spokyn with Watkyn Shypdam for to be at Beyton on Monday to kepe a corte ther; and so he woll be at Caster on Sonday and spek with you, for he seythe that Fastolfe[70.1] hathe mad a cleyme ther to; that is the cause he wolle comon and speke with you ther of hym selff.
Item, I can not, ner Daubeney nowther, fynd your wyght boke; it is not in the trussyng cofyr, ner in the sprucheste nothyr. Jon Walsham toke me a quayer, I suppose it lo[n]gythe to the same boke, that same I send you, and the byllis of Walcote with ale sealyd. Wretyn this day. By your, M. P.
On the back are the following accounts, written, in a very careless hand, by Richard Calle:—
| Forene’ Recept’. | |||
De Johanne Prentice de Castelaere ad festum Sanctæ Fidis permanus vicarii de Sporle, | lxs. | ||
De Roberto Wylley clerico post Nativitatem Domini, | cs. | ||
De Willelmo Whyte, vigil’ Conversionis Sancti Pauli, | vjli. | xiijs. | iiijd. |
De Edmundo Wynter, mason, de Bermynghem circa Conversionem SanctiPauli, | vjs. | viijd. | |
De Willelmo Elys de Wynterton ad Pascha, | vjs. | viijd. | |
De Warino Herman ad Pascha, | xiijs. | iiijd. | |
De Johanna Bakeney uxore Gerard, | xiijs. | iiijd. | |
| Item, de Johanne Russe. | |||
Rec. de Willelmo Norwich et M. Johanne Smythe venditio jocaliumJohannis Berney de Redham pro tant’ denar’ pro me pro debito ipsiusBerney apud Redham solut’, | xxli. | xvjs. | |
| Recept’ de Tesauro. | |||
Inprimis, pro viagio Johannis Paston, Jun. cum Rege et aliiscausis (?) versus Annewyke de denariis receptis de debito priorisNorwicensis, | lli. | ||
Item, de auro remanente de Coppes in eadem baga, | lxs. | ||
Item, de baga pecuniæ prestandæ eodem tempore, | viij. marc’. | ||
Item, de remanent’ in forcerio tesaur’ li’berat’[71.1] frater meusWill’ Yelv’n, | xs. | iiijd. | |
| Termino Michaelis.[71.2] | |||
Item, de pecunia remanente cum Thoma Gresham apud London; terminoMichaelis xxli., termino Hillarij, xxxiijs.iiijd., | xxjli. | xiijs. | iiijd. |
Item, de tesauro London termino Michaelis, l. marc’, terminoHillarij l. marc’, termino Paschæ l. marc’, | cli. | ||
Item, de tesauro Norffolk cariat’ versus London termino Paschæ,ultra xlli. remanens (sic) apud terminumTrinitatis, | xl. marc’. | ||
[69.2] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter, though not addressed, seems to have been written by Margaret Paston to her husband. The election referred to must have been that for the Parliament of 1463. From one expression used it is clear that it was written some time before Easter, and the dispute with Jenney and Debenham about Calcote proves the date to a certainty. Compare [Nos. 538] and 540.
[70.1] Thomas Fastolf of Cowhawe.