Item, I purposed to have sent heer with the testament off my fadre and the scytacions to my moodre to yow and Arblaster; but they be nott redy. Within ij. dayes aftre the comyng of thys, I suppose they shall be with yow, and than I shall wryght mor to yow.
As for other tydynges, I trust to God thatt the ij. Dukes of Clarans and Glowcester shall be sette att one by the adward off the Kyng.
Item, I hope by the means of the Duke of Glowcester that my Lord Archebyshop[199.2] shall come home.
Item, as towchyng my sustre Anne,[199.3] I undrestand she hathe bene passyng seek; but I wende that she had ben weddyd. As for Yelverton, he seyde but late that he wold have hyr, iff she had hyr mony, and ellis nott; wherffor me thynkyth that they be nott verry sewre. But, amonge alle other thynges, I praye yow be ware that the olde love of Pampyng renewe natt. He is nowe fro me; I wott nat what he woll doo.
No more. Wretyn at London, the xxij. daye of Novembre Anno R. R. E. iiijti xiijo. John Paston, Kt.
[196.2] [From Paston MSS., B.M.]
[196.3] i.e. circa octabas Michaelis—about the Octaves of Michaelmas, or 6th October.
[199.1] A kind of basket.
[199.2] George Neville, Archbishop of York, though formerly pardoned, had been accused of holding correspondence with the Earl of Oxford, for which he was imprisoned at Guines.
[199.3] Anne Paston married William Yelverton, grandson of Sir William Yelverton, the Judge.