Written atte Newe Market the vijth day of Aprill. Oxynford.
[124.1] [Douce MS. 393, f. 81.] A portion of the lands of Thomas, Lord Scales, whose widow, Elizabeth, married Anthony Woodville, Earl of Rivers,—and among others the manor called Scales’s Manor in Hockwold,—descended after the death of this Elizabeth to William Tyndale, who was knighted at the coronation of Arthur, Prince of Wales, on the 30th November 1489. (See Blomefield, ii. 180, and Leland’s Collectanea, iv. 250-2.) As this letter must have been written after the accession of Henry VII., when the Earl of Oxford returned from banishment, and before William Tyndale was made a knight, the date is between 1486 and 1489.
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THE SCALES LANDS[125.1]
Edmund Paston, receyvor of the Scalys landes, askyth to be allowed of xijli. xijs. viijd. whiche hangith over his hede in his accompte made bifore Robert Sharp at the Feste of the Pureficacion of our Lady laste paste, for his costes and expenses for two yeres, as hyt apperith in the sayde accomptes.
Item, the sayde Edmund askyth to be allowed for his costes and expenses of this yere, Cxviijli. iiijd., beside his costes commynge and goynge to this accompte.
Item, for his rewarde of the saide iij. yeres ad placitum dominorum. Whereof ys allowed for his costes by the comaundement of my lorde, xli.
Item, allowed by the[125.2]
Endorsed in same hand as the MS., Billa Edmundi Paston.
[125.1] [Douce MS. 393, f. 80.] It is evident that this document is at least three years later than the preceding, but it is placed here for convenience.
[125.2] Here the MS. breaks off abruptly.