Paston letters : original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III by various persons of rank or consequence ; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that period of our history ; with notes historical and explanatory ; and authenticated by engravings of autographs and seals . odness, for Gods sake, andall the saints of Heaven, and at my simplerequest, to have compassion upon us, yehaving due surety both in obligations andpledges. In the reverence of Almighty God do youralms and charity; it shall cause you to be Canterbury, 28th of January,1463 or 1464.
Paston letters : original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III by various persons of rank or consequence ; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that period of our history ; with notes historical and explanatory ; and authenticated by engravings of autographs and seals . odness, for Gods sake, andall the saints of Heaven, and at my simplerequest, to have compassion upon us, yehaving due surety both in obligations andpledges. In the reverence of Almighty God do youralms and charity; it shall cause you to be Canterbury, 28th of January,1463 or or 4 RIV. prayed for, and all your kin as long as thechurch standeth ; and by this means, I trastto Almighty God,to see my cousin William,or Clement, to be steward of our lands, andso to have an interest in Kent, to the worshipof God and you all, which ever have you inhis keeping. Amen. Written at Canterbury in haste the 28thday of January. Also I beseech you show the bringer of thisletter some humanity and worship, that whenhe Cometh home he may report as he findeth, * This is the cause every while they putmy kin in my beard, saying, I am come oflords, knights, and ladies. I would they werein your danger 1000 marks (666/. 13s. Ad.)that they might know you, &c. , By your cousin and headman, Henry LETTER CCXXIV.—(XLV. vol. iv. p. 159.)This letter was ^vritten at a time when Edward, having confiscated many of the estates of the gianted them to those of his own party, was by mildness and affability endeavouring to become-[ popular. To my right ivorshipful master, John Paston, the elder, Esq. Please your mastership to weet that theassize^ hold this day at Thetford; and as forany new assize that ye spoke of there is none,nor none there saving one for a man aboutBrunham. I spake with Herward, and I asked him ifthere was any great day at Bury, and he saidthere was but a small day, and as for anyassizes there were none but old; and he toldme that Debenham a
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