A copie off a generalle releffe de terris Fastolffes.
[116.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The following inventory is in the handwriting of Sir John Paston. The date at which it was drawn up must, from internal evidence, be later than the tenth year of Edward IV.; so perhaps it may be a list of the contents of the coffer mentioned by John Paston in [Letter 784].
Item, th’endenture ...
Apunctuamentum Regis ...
Item, a byll ...
each section printed as shown, with two items in a paragraph
[786]
ABSTRACT[117.1]
William Pekoc to Sir John Paston
1471(?)
NOV. 4
Has received Wheteley’s letter, but though he has spoken to Sir John’s tenants at Paston, Bakton, etc., has obtained no money to send him. They are better pleased to pay Sir John than Master ‘Will. P.,’ so they be saved harmless. Has put them in good comfort, and Sir John must take care that they be not sued this term. The fishing was never worse. No herring to be got under 13s. 4d. a barrel, and 8s. 4d. a cade. The swans were sent the week after your departure. John Osborn and Munde are merry. None dead at Caster and Mawteby since Michaelmas, but much mortality still at Fylby, Ormysby, and Scrowby.
Mawteby, 4 Nov.
[This letter most probably belongs to the year 1471, which it will be seen by the letter immediately following was a year of great mortality.]