Also I send to you a comyssion of licence to shepp corne, which I pray you to do to be proclaymed in alle haste. Oxynford.
[127.2] [Douce MS. 393, f. 83.] The Earl of Northumberland was slain in the North on the 28th April 1489, while endeavouring to put down a revolt against payment of the subsidy.
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THE EARL OF OXFORD TO SIR JOHN PASTON[128.1]
To the right worshipfull and my right welbeloved counceilour, Sir John Paston, Knyght.
1489
MAY 6
Right worshipfull and right welbeloved counceilour, I comaunde me to you. And where as I understand by your wrytyng that a grete shippe is perisshed with you in thoo parties, and that ye have ben gretely occupied aboute the savyng of the goodes of the same; and that the merchauntes therof ben disposed to put their wynes to sale, of the whiche ye maye by a ton for Cs. and litel more; I may by in this cuntrey for iiijli., wherfore if ye may by there eny better chepe, I pray you to purveye for me, such as ye seme necessary.
And forsomoche as ye may nat be here with me at this tyme, I desire and pray you to prepare and ordeyne your self with as many men in harneys as ye godely may, to do the Kyng service in my company, at the Kynges charge and costes, so as ye and they may be with me at Cambrige, upon Tewesday[129.1] next comyng; and that ye faile nat herof, as my right especial trust is in you.
Writen at my castell of Hedyngham, the vj. daye of May. Oxynford.
[128.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] For the date of this letter, see preliminary note to the next.
[129.1] 12th May.