Before 1503
Right worshipfull sir, I recommaunde me unto you. I wryte this onely unto you, to advise you that I was mynded that my cousin Clippesby,[164.2] berer herof, shuld wele have maryed here in thies partes, wherin your nyce[164.3] toke hevy conceyte, thinking in hir mynde, that I was not willing that my said cousin shulde marye with hir.
At that tyme I knewe not what love was bitwix them, but now I undrestand that bothe there myndes is to mary to geders; wherunto on my parte, I am agreble and wel content, desiring and praying you to be the same, and to be the better frende unto them at this my prayer and instaunce. And what pleasir as I may doo unto you in thies partes shal be redye, in that I may, at your desires. And I pray you to recommaunde me to my cousin your nyce. And Jesu preserve you.
Writen at London, the first day of Juyn. Your own, the Priour of Saint Johns, Sir John Kendal.
[164.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] Sir John Kendal was Prior of St. John’s from 1491 to 1501, and probably later, so that there is nothing clearly to fix the date of this letter, except that it was written before the death of Sir John Paston in 1503.
[164.2] John Clippesby, Esq. of Oby.
[164.3] Constance, daughter of William Paston, Sir John’s brother.
[1070]
MARGARET, COUNTESS OF OXFORD, TO SIR JOHN PASTON[165.1]
To my right trusty and hertely wilbilovede sone, Sir John Paston, Knyght.
Year uncertain