Cannot be at the Court at Paston on Monday next. Bids him warn the tenants to keep the Court on Friday instead, and to bring their rents, for he will be there himself. He is also to warn the tenants of Bakton to-morrow openly in the church of the said Court to be kept on Friday next; also the tenants of Swaffeld, Mundesley,[4.1] Edyngthorpe, and Wytton.
Norwich, Saturday after St. Edward,[4.2] the —— October.
[The MS. is a draft with corrections in the handwriting of William Paston, endorsed—‘The copy of a lettre to William Pope of Bacton, the xvij. day of Octobre, anno xviijo E. iiijti, by William Dam of Rughton.’]
[3.3] Ibid.
[4.1] This name is very ill written, and looks more like ‘Maxsley’; but Mundesley is the only place in the neighbourhood that seems at all probable.
[4.2] Translation of St. Edward the Confessor, 13th October. The Saturday after it in 1478, was the 17th, but the writer has left only a blank for the day.
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WILLIAM PASTON, JUNIOR, TO JOHN PASTON[4.3]
To hys worchepful brodyr, John Paston, be thys delyvered in hast.
1478
NOV. 7
Ryght reverent and worchepful brodyr, I recomaunde me on to yow, desyrynge to here of yowre welfare and prosperite; letynge yow wete that I have resevyd of Alwedyr a lettyr and a nobyll in gowlde therin. Ferthermor my creansyr [creditor], Mayster Thomas,[4.4] hertely recomandyd hym to yow, and he praythe yow to sende hym sum mony for my comons; for he seythe ye be xxtis. in hys dette, for a monthe was to pay for when he had mony laste.