1464
APRIL 11
Copy of an indenture bearing date 11th April, 4 Edward IV., witnessing the delivery to Richard Calle, servant of John Paston, Esquire, by John, prior of the monastery of Holy Trinity, Norwich, by virtue of the King’s writ, of a red box containing seventeen bundles of evidences, with £40 of silver in groats, and 80 nobles of gold, in a bag, and other valuables.
An inventory of the articles referred to in the foregoing indenture is contained in a separate paper mutilated in the right-hand margin, which we give verbatim as follows:—
This is the parcell be endenture received by Richard Calle of . . . . . . . . . . . day of Aprile the forthe yere . . . . . . as it apperit by the copye that the seyde Richard sendeth me by John Threcher.
Unam cistam rubeam cum xvij. bundellis evidenciarum in eadem cista contentis.
Quadraginta libras argenti in grossis et iiijxx. nobil.
Duo turribula[97.2] argenti et deaurata.
Unam pixidem argenti et deauratam.
I left no cruet in the cofer.[97.3]
Unum osculatorium cum imagine Sancti Jacobi et . . . .