[87.4] John Ratcliff, Lord Fitzwalter, who was summoned to Parliament in September 1485.
[88.1] A mess was
a party of four at
dinner.
[88.2] Omitted in MS.
[88.3] These last words were written by the Countess, the letter by her secretary.—F.
[1005]
ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF SURREY, TO WILLIAM HARWARD[89.1]
1485, or later
Wylliam Harward, I woll that ze delyver to Robert Thorppe of Norwych v. marc off the next money that ze gadyr; for he hath lent it me, and I have sygned hym to be payed of yow as sone he comyth hom. E. Surrey.
[89.1] [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 228.] This brief note, like [No. 1004], was probably written during the imprisonment of the writer’s husband. The text is entirely crossed through, doubtless to show that the transaction was closed.