Item, I praye yow recomande me to my moodr, and lat us alle prey God sende my Lady off Norffolk a soone, for uppon that restythe moche mater; ffor if the Kyngys soone[250.1] mary my lords dowghtr, the Kynge wolde that hys soone sholde have a ffayr place in Norffolk, thowhe he sholde gyffe me ij. tymes the valywe in other londe, as I am doon to weete. I praye yow sende me worde off my ladyes spede as soone as ye kan.
Item, as ffor Bowen I shall ffele hym, and sholde have doon, thowghe ye hadde nott sente.
Item, ther is offryd me a goode marriage for my suster Anne Skypwithys sone and heyr off Lynkolneshyre, a man v. or vj. mrke by year. No mor.
Wretyn at London, the xxvij. daye off Janyver, anno E. iiijti xvo.
Item, my Lady off Excester[250.2] is ded, and it was seyde that bothe the olde Dywchesse off Norffolk,[251.1] and the Cowntesse off Oxenfforde[251.2] weer ded, but it is nott soo yitt.
Item, I shall remembr Caleyse bothe for horse and alle, &c.
[248.1] [From Fenn, ii. 190.]
[248.2] John Hastyngs was Sheriff of Norfolk the preceding year.—F.
[248.3] Nihils, or Nichils, are issues which the sheriff that is apposed in the Exchequer says are nothing worth and illeviable, through the insufficiency of the parties from whom due.—F.
[249.1] Afterwards Duke of Norfolk.—F.