[175.2] i.e. to enable him to retain food in his stomach.
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SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[175.3]
To John Paston, Esquyer, or to Mestresse Margret Paston, hys Modre be thys letter delyveryd.
1473
FEB. 3
Weell belovyd Brother.[175.4] . . . . . . . . .
As ffor tydyngs heer, ther bee but fewe, saff that the Duke of Borgoyen[175.5] and my Lady, hys wyffe farethe well. I was with them on thorysdaye last past at Gawnt.[176.1] Peter Metteney ffarethe weell, and Mestresse Gretkyn bothe and Rabekyn recomend hyr to yow; she hathe ben verry seke, but it hathe doon hyr goode, ffor she is ffayrer and slenderer than she was, and she cowde make me no cheer but alwey my sawse was ‘How ffaret Master John, yowr brother?’ wher with I was wrothe, and spake a jalous worde or too, dysdeynyng that she sholde care so moche ffor yow, when that I was present.
Sende me worde to Hoxons in wrygtyng, what goode the Bysshop ded ffor me at Framynham, and howe my Lorde, my Ladye, and all the cort or [are] dysposyd to me wards.
I here also seye that my Ladye and yowrs, Dame Margret Veer[176.2] is ded, God have hyr sowle; iff I weer not sorye ffor herr, I trowe ye have been.
No moor to yow at thys tyme, but All myghty Good have yow in kepyng.
Wretyn at Caleys the iij. daye of Februarye Anno R. R. E. iiij. xijo. J. P., K.