[709]
ARCHBISHOP NEVILL TO SIR JOHN PASTON[20.2]
To my right trusty and welbeloved Sir John Paston.
Ih’s.
1469(?)
MAY 7
Right trusty and welbeloved, I grete you hertely well, and sende you by Thomas your childe xx.li., prayng you to spare me as for eny more at this tyme, and to hold you content with thessame, as my singlr truste is in you; and I shalle within bref tyme ordeigne and purveye for you such as shalbe unto your pleasir, with the grace of Almightty God, who have you in His proteccion and keping.
Writen in the manoir of the Mor[20.3] the vijth daye of Maye. G. Eborac.
[20.2] [From Fenn, ii. 34.] This letter was almost certainly written between the years 1467 and 1469, and is not unlikely to be of the latter year, before the Nevills and the Archbishop had come to be regarded as open enemies of Edward IV.
[20.3] The Moor in Hertfordshire, a seat of Archbishop Nevill.
[710]
JOHN PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON[21.1]
1469
[MAY]