[82.2] This Lady Chamberlayne was Anne, daughter and sole heir of Sir Robert Herling, Knight, by Jane, daughter and heir of John Gonvile, Esq. Her first husband was Sir William Chamberlayne, Knight of the Garter, a renowned and valiant soldier, who died in 1462. She was at this time his widow, and inherited from her father a very considerable fortune.
She afterwards married Sir Robert Wingfield, and after his decease she became the wife of John, Lord Scroop of Bolton.
By the name of Lady Scroop she founded and endowed a Fellowship in the College of Gonville and Caius at Cambridge, originally founded by an ancestor of her Ladyship’s.
She was born in 1426, and was alive in 1502.
At the time this letter was written she must have been nearly forty years old, when Sir John Paston could not have been much above twenty.—F.
she founded and endowed a Fellowship in the College of Gonville and Caius at Cambridge
editor’s error for “Gonville” alone (John Caius was born in 1510)
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MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[83.1]
To my ryght worchipfull hosbond, John Paston, be thys letter delyveryd in hast.
1463
NOV. 13
Riht worchepfull husbond, I recommand me to you. Please you to wete that I was at Norwic this wek to purvey suche thyngs as nedythe me ageyns thys wynter; and I was at my modder, and wille I was ther, ther cam in on Wrothe, a kynnysman of Elysabet Clers, and he sey your dowter, and preysyd hyr to my moder, and seyd that she was a goodly yong woman; and my moder prayd hym for to gett for hyr on good mariage yf he knewe any; and he seyd he knewe on shuld be of a CCC. mark be yer, the wyche is Sir John Cley son, that is Chamberleyn with my Lady of York,[83.2] and he ys of age of xviij. yer old. Zyf ye thynk it be for to be spok of, my moder thynkyth that it shuld be get for lesse mony nowe in thys world than it shuld be her after, owthyr that j. [one], or sum other good mariage.