1479
NOV. 22
Yet wold I tary, all be yt I have taryd your comyg this halff yer, for I deme her suche men as schall well undyrstond myn titill good; yff any man have good tytyll I am suyr that myn is gode. I dar well juperde to take a dystres, wedyr they come or nat, and so I wyll ze know. Wer for, in so much as I left myn distress for iowr dysyr, so that I be answerid off myn mony acordyng to myn ryth, ar else send me answer, one ar oder [one or other], and lett me take the avantage that the Kynge lawys will zeff me be dystress qweche I have delayed, me thynk to long, for any thank that I have.
Wretyn at Norwich, the xxij. Novembre.
[26.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter or fragment of a letter is a corrected draft in William Paston’s hand, and is endorsed by him:—‘A letter to Roberd Walsche of Colby, the —— day off Novembre, anno xix.’
[959]
JULLYE TO HIS FATHER[26.2]
1479
NOV.
Well beloved fader, my master prayed you that ye will sende knowlach be my broder as sone as these men be come to Knapton, and that ye may laye a weche to knowe ho sone they be come, and sende me be your sone ar else be some other trusty man; and I have take your son a grote for his laubour. And do this in hast; for wheder they com or nat I wille take a distresse ther, and thatt will abide[26.3] till I knowe the dealing of them this ij. ar iij. dayes for to know wheder they wille come or nat, and ther after shall I be demeaned.
Endorsed in William Paston’s hand—A letter fro ——[26.4] Jullye, clark of Sent Edmundes, to his fadyr, to North Walsham, the ——[26.4] day Novembr’, anno xix.
[26.2] [From Paston MSS., B.M.]
[26.3] ‘Wer I lothe’ has been crossed through, and ‘thatt will abide’ written over.