[548]
THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TO JOHN PASTON, SENIOR[80.2]
To oure right trusty and entierly welbelovid servaunt, John Paston, th’elder.
The Duc of Norff.
1463
AUG. 31
Right trusty and entierly welbelovid servaunt, we grete you hertily well, and specially praying you that ye will be with us at Framlyngham on Sonday next comyng, that we may comon with you there, and have youre sadde advise in suche matiers as concernyth gretly to oure weel, whiche shall be mynestred unto you at youre comyng. Prayng you that ye fayle not herof, as our speciall trust is in you. And our Lord preserve you in His keping.
Written at Framlyngham the xxxj. day of August. Norff.
[80.2] [From Fenn, iv. 250.] John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, the writer of this letter, succeeded his father in the dukedom in November 1461, being at the time only seventeen years of age. A year afterwards, in November 1462, we find him living at his castle of Holt in Denbighshire, where he proposed to spend Christmas (see [No. 532]), but before that season came he was sent for by the King to serve against the Scots ([No. 533]). I am inclined to think this letter was written in the August of 1463; for although the Duke was again living at Holt in March following, it seems probable that he would have visited his chief family seat at Framlingham in the meanwhile. John Paston, the youngest, who was attached to his household, was certainly at home with his family in the latter part of this year (see [No. 560]).
[549]
THE ABBOT OF LANGLEY TO SIR JOHN PASTON[81.1]
To the ryght worcheppful Sere John Paston, Knyght, be this delyvered.
1463
SEPT. 4