[125.3] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was evidently written in the same year as [No. 1030], in which it is mentioned that Sir Richard Edgecombe and others had gone over to Brittany.
[126.1] 12th April.
[126.2] Guingamp.
[126.3] Fauxbourgs, which Fenn supposes here to mean portcullises, but I know not if the word was ever used in such a sense. Perhaps what is meant is, that they destroyed the suburbs to fortify their position.
[126.4] The word ‘which’ appears to be omitted.
[127.1] Sir Richard Edgecombe.
[1037]
THE EARL OF OXFORD TO SIR JOHN PASTON[127.2]
To the right worshipfull and my right welbeloved Sir John Paston, Knyght.
1489
APRIL 30
Right worshipfull and right welbeloved, I comaunde me to you. And for as moche as it is certeinly unto the Kynges Grace shewed that my Lord of Northumberland havyng the auctorite to se the Kynges money levied in the North parties, had knowleche that certeyne persones of combnes wer assembled at Topclif, and at a nother lordship of his nygh to the same, saying that they wolde pay no money; my seid Lord of Northumberland heryng therof, and that they wer but naked men, addressed hym self towardes theym withoute eny harneys in pesible maner, trustyng to have appeased theym. Howe be it, as hit is seid, that he is distressed and that they have taken hym or slayne hym; whiche the Kyng entendeth to punysshe. I therfore desire and hertely pray you in all godely haste to be with me at Hedyngham, there for to knowe more clierly the Kynges plesir in this behalve. Writen at Hertford the last day of Aprile.