[288.2] The words bracketed are indistinct, but we follow Fenn’s reading.
[288.3] William Yelverton, grandson of Judge Yelverton, now married to Anne Paston, one of Margaret’s daughters.
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SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[289.1]
To John Paston, Esquyer.
1477
JUNE 23
I recomand me to yow, letyng yow weete that I have spoken to Herry Colett,[289.2] and entretyd hym in my best wyse ffor yow, soo that at the last he is agreyd to a resonable respyght ffor the xvli. that ye sholde have payd hym at Mydsomer, as he seyth, and is gladde to do yow ease or plesyr in all that he maye; and I tolde hym that ye wolde, as I supposyd, be heer at London, herr nott long to, and than he lokyth afftr that ye sholde come see hym, ffor he is sheryff, and hathe a goodely hows.
Item, my Lady off Oxenfforth[289.3] lokyth afftr yow and Arblaster bothe.
My Lord off Oxenfford[289.4] is nott comen in to Inglonde that I can perceyve, and so the goode lady hathe nede off helpe and cowncell howe that she shall doo.
No moor at thys tyme, butt God have yow in kepyng.
Wretyn att London on Seynt Awdryes Daye, anno E. iiijti xvijo.