Item, take the viker the bille that I send yow herwyth.
Item, that ye, if ye can fynd the meane, to aspie what goodis Edmond Clere eschetith of any mannes.[126.1]
Item, remember well to tak heed at your gatis on nyghtis and dayes, for theves, for thei ride in divers contres with gret felaship like lordis, and ride out of on [one] shire in to a nother. Wretyn at London, the Tuisday next aftir Sent Hillary.
Item, that Richard Calle bryng me up mony, so that my prestis [i.e. borrowings] be paiid, and that he come up suerly with other men and attornis.
Endorsed in a later hand:— ‘Some speciall lettres towching John Paston’s trowbells and sute for Fastolfs landis by the Duke of Suffolk.’
[121.1] [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 15.] The contents of this letter show it to be of the year 1465, when Daubeney and Calle, as we know, were with Margaret Paston (see [No. 576]). Reference is made to the displeasure Sir John Paston had given to both his parents in 1463 (see [No. 552]), and what his mother writes about his return home in May of this year ([No. 579]) goes to confirm the date. Further proof will be found in the footnote at [p. 126].
[121.2] If this be the vicar of Paston, it was William Warner, who succeeded Robert Williamson in 1464.
[121.3] James Gloys, the priest.
[122.1] Sir John Paston.
[123.1] South Town, Yarmouth, where there was a house of Austin Friars.