Giving her an account of the numbers of her sheep and lambs at Sparham from Drayton and Taverham, and those with the shepherd at Heylesdon.
Heylisdon, Thursday before Lady Day the Nativity.[69.3]
[Under this letter is written in a modern hand—‘37 Hen. 6,’ but this date is certainly too early. Thomas Hert was Vicar of Stalham in 1482.]
[69.3] The Nativity of St. Mary the Virgin, 8th September.
[991.]
John Downyng to Edmund Paston
Is a simple servant of his mother and miller of Wood Mill. Complains of Will. Sybbeson, whom Edmund Paston well knows to have been ‘defawtyf in many other thyngs,’ and who embezzles wheat and rye, and prevents him getting any good of a close he holds of Paston’s mother.
North Walsham, Thursday before St. Brice.[70.1]
[Some memoranda of receipts are written across the back.]
[70.1] St. Brice’s Day is 13th November.