South London . ulled down and replaced by other build-ings. According to these indications, then, Fastolfs housewas the last of the great houses on the east side of LondonBridge. There is another proof that it was a large kept a fleet of coasting vessels which continuallysailed from Caister or Yarmouth to London bringing pro-visions and supplies of all kinds for his house at fact not only proves that his household was very large,but it illustrates one way in which the great houses, theecclesiastical houses and the nobles houses were those whose manors
South London . ulled down and replaced by other build-ings. According to these indications, then, Fastolfs housewas the last of the great houses on the east side of LondonBridge. There is another proof that it was a large kept a fleet of coasting vessels which continuallysailed from Caister or Yarmouth to London bringing pro-visions and supplies of all kinds for his house at fact not only proves that his household was very large,but it illustrates one way in which the great houses, theecclesiastical houses and the nobles houses were those whose manors lay within easy reach of a port keptships for the conveyance of provisions from the country to A FORGOTTEN WORTHY 143 London it is certain that those who Hved inland sent upcaravans of pack-horses laden with the produce of theirestates and sent up to town flocks of cattle and sheep anddroves of pigs. I have spoken of Sir Johns intention to make a stand atSouthwark against the rebels under Cade. Fortunately for. himself and for everybody with him, he was persuaded toretire across the river to the Tower before the rebels reachedthe gates. The story is one of the most interesting in thewhole of the Paston Letters, which, to tell the truth, unlessone looks into them for persons wc already know, arc some-what dull in the readinu. 144 SOUTH LONDON When the Commons of Kent were reported to beapproaching London in the year 1450, Sir John Fastolf filledhis house in Southwark with old soldiers from Normandyand abyllyments of war. This rumour reached the rebelsand naturally caused them considerable anxiety. So whenthey caught a spy among them in the shape of one John Payn,a servant of Sir John, they were disposed to make an exampleof him. And now you shall hear what happened to John Paynin his own words, the spelling being only partly modernised. Pleasyth it your gode and gracios maistershipp tendyrlyto consedir the grate losses and hurts that your por peticionerhaeth, and haeth had evyr
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