And thes too verse afore seyde be of myn own makyng.
No more to yow at thys tyme, but God have yow in Hys kepyng.
Wretyn at Eton the Even of Seynt Matthy the Apostyll in haste, with the hande of your broder. Wyll’m Paston, Junr.
[7.2] [From Fenn, i. 296.] This letter was written on the 23rd of February, and the Monday following the date was the first Monday of Lent. These particulars prove the letter to have been written in 1479, when William Paston was between nineteen and twenty years of age.
[8.1] I am favoured by Lady Beatrice Pretyman with a facsimile of this Latin theme and distich from the original MS. My reading of the contracted words differs from that printed originally by Fenn.
but hyr moder and sche come to a place of hyrs
text has “sch come”: corrected from Fenn
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PARSONAGE OF OXNEAD[9.1]
1479
Memorandum.—The day that the lapse went out, which is such day vj. monethes as the seid parson died, was on Tewesday, Our Lady Day, the Nativite, the viijte day of Septembre last past, anno xviijo.
The day of vj. monethes affter Our seide Lady Day, the Nativite was on Seint Mathes Day[9.2] the Apostell, last past, whiche was the xxiiij. day of Februare, and so I deme eyther the Bisshoppe of Norwiche hath presented or els it is in the gifft of my Lord Cardinall[9.3] nowe. Inquere this mater, for the Bisshoppe of Norwich lythe in London, and shall doo till Our Ladys Day this Lenton, as it is said here.