j. paxe parcell gilte, Staunton,
period after “j.” missing
j. candilstykke ... and j. preket, P.
text has “P,”
[969]
ABSTRACT[39.2]
William Paston to his Brother Edmund Paston
After 1479
Encloses the will of his father, ‘such as my brother hath’; who says he had it out of the register. My business is no further advanced since I left you, except that my brother has got a pardon of the alienation made by the Bishop of Winchester. Can get no estate in it except according to his father’s will, viz. to himself and his heirs-male. My brother’s will is that I should have Runham, which is £8 a year at least, in recompense of the 10 marks out of Sporle, if he would release all his right in that manor. There is nothing touching you in my brother’s[40.1] will, for I read it over and will write it also; ‘so that I woll have the same for my copy that he wrote with his own hand.’
Recommend me heartily to my sister your wife.
London, 22 Feb.
[The writer of this was William, the son of the eldest John Paston, not that uncle William with whom the two younger John Pastons had so many disputes. I see nothing to fix the date beyond the fact that the letter was written after Sir John Paston’s death.]
[39.2] [From Paston MSS., B.M.]