[94.1] [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 176.] This letter is probably of the year 1486, when John Paston was sheriff. Its contents, as will be seen, are somewhat similar in character to those of [No. 1024], written a year or two later, after John Paston had been knighted.
[94.2] Binham in Norfolk.
I fynde the seid Richard Caus
text reads “Cans”
[1012]
THE EARL OF OXFORD TO JOHN PASTON[95.1]
To my right trusty and right welbelovyd Councellor, John Paston, Esquier.
1487
JAN. 24
John Paston, I comaund me to you. And as for such tithynge as ye have sent hider, the Kyng had knowlech therof more than a sevyn-nyght passed. And as for such names as ye have sent, supposyng theym to be gone with the Lord Lovell, they be yitt in England, for he is departyng with xiiij. personys and no moe. At the Kynges comyng to London I wold advise you to see his Highnes. And Almyghty God kepe you.
Writen at Wyndesore, the xxiiijth day of January. Oxynford.
Endorsed: The Countis of Oxfordes lettre.
[95.1] [From Douce MS. 393, f. 78.] Francis, Viscount Lovel, after trying to raise a rebellion in England in 1486, escaped abroad to Flanders, and joined the Earl of Lincoln in the following spring in an invasion of England in behalf of Lambert Simnel. This letter appears therefore to have been written in the beginning of the year 1487.