Item, I dede your erand to my maister your son.
Item, as for John Say,[78.1] he recomendyth hym to you, bothe for your billes and for your labour, and prayeth you if ony land that lyth for the priour ease mygth be aspyed, that ye wold help to gete it hym and send hym word; and as for the morteysyng . . . . . . and at his cost and labour.
Item, as for tydyngs, the Kyng and the counsell is at Northampton,[78.2] and the Convocacion schall be . . . . . . . . . after Relyk Sunday. And ther be ij. marchaunts come fro Caleys, and they mygth no leve have to com[e] . . . . . . . . . schuld bere the Kyng certeyn lettres and juste tytyngs that sege is comyng to Caleys. And trew . . . . . . . . [ou]re Lady Day, as I herd sey.
Item, it is talked that Duchemen and Englysshemen ben at contraversie with in . . . . . . .
[76.2] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter seems to be in James Gresham’s handwriting. It is evident that it was written shortly after Midsummer. Rather more than a year and a day had elapsed since a murder committed on the morrow of St. Peter’s Day (i.e. on the 30th June), and it is mentioned that Convocation was to sit some little time after Relic Sunday, which always falls in the middle of July. Further, the King is said to be at Northampton, which he was in July 1463, and no other year appears to suit.
[77.1] Yelverton.
[78.1] Probably the Speaker of the Parliament of 1463, whom Margaret Paston named Fynes in [Letter 544]. See [p. 75, Note 2].
[78.2] According to the dates of the Privy Seals the King was at Northampton from the 8th to the 28th July 1463; also on the 2nd May 1464.
To mygth rigth good and speciall maister
text has “gooa” (italic “a” for “d”)