Cme mathlete12/29/2023 ![]() And how be it that the seyd John Paston after the seid entré sued to the seid Lord Molyns and his councell, in the most louly maner that he cowde, dayly fro tyme of the seid entré on-to the fest of Mihelmes than next folwyng, duryng which tyme diuers communicasyons were had be-twix the councell of the seid lord and the councell of your seid besechere and for asmych as in the seid communicasions no titill of right at any tyme was shewed for the seid lord but that was fully and clerly answeryd, so that the seid lordes councell remitted your seid besechere to sewe to the seid lord for his finall and rightfull answere, and after sute mad to the seid lord be your seid besechere, aswell at Salysbery as in oder places, to his gret coust, and non answere had but delays, which causyd your seid besechere the vj day of Octobre last past to inhabite hym in a mansion with-in the seid town, kepyng stille there his poscession on-tille the xxviij day of Januarij last past the seid lord sent to the seid mansion a riotous peple to the nombre of a thowsand persones, with blanket bendes of a sute as riseres a-geyn your pees, arrayd in maner of werre with curesse, brigaunderes, jakkes, salettes, gleyfes, bowes, arows, pavyse, gonnes, pannys with fier and teynes brennyng there-in, long cromes to draw doun howsis, ladderes, pikoys with which thei myned down the walles, and long trees with which thei broke vp yates and dores and so came in-to the seid mansion, the wiff of your seid besechere at that tyme beyng ther-in, and xij persones with here, the which persones thei dreve oute of the seid mansion and myned down the walle of the chambre where-in the wiff of your seid besechere was, and bare here oute at the yates and cutte a-sondre the postes of the howses and lete them falle, and broke vp all the chambres and coferes with-in the seid mansion, and rifelyd and in maner of robery bare a-wey all the stuffe, aray, and mony that your seyd besechere and his seruauntes had there, on-to the valew of cc li., and part there-of sold and part there-of yaffe, and the remenaunt thei departed among them to the grete and outrageous hurt of your seid besechere sayng opynly that if thei myght haue found there your seid besechere, and on John Damme which is of councelle with hym, and diuers oder of the seruauntes of your seid besechere, thei shuld haue died. To the Kyng oure Souerayn Lord, and to the right wyse and discrete lordis assemblyd in this present Parlement Besechith mekly your homble liege man John Paston that, where he and oder enfeffed to his vse haue be pecybily poscessyd of the maner of Gresham within the counté of Norffolk xx yere and more til the xvij day of Februarij the yere of your nobill regne xxvj, that Robert Hungerford, knyght, the Lord Molyns, entred in-to the seyd maner. Be John Paston Herry Gunell N Basyngham N Matelask Multa habeo vobis dicere que non sunt in libro hoc. My lady Morley, Hastingys, and my moder and I, &c., dyned this day at Lyncolne Kokys and suppyd this nyȝt to-gedyr also, and dyuers persons were disposed to haue seid no good word of you and after, or we departed, they that haue seid worst of yow seid better of yow than I herd hem sey thys twelmoneth day, and in substance contrary to all olde tales. makyth the bargeyne certen attwyx John and my fader, and thow it be not, wyth oder mater þat I haue it shal be certeyn j-now. Ser, Jamys Gressham told me that ȝe thynk the bergeyn were not certen but yf it wer put in certeyn what the dettes be that shuld be content. I wold we hade vj sealles yf it myght easly be. ![]() I prey help they may enseale but begyn at thise fyrst and theene send tor the toder. I suppose they shall holde hem payed wyth this bill yf ther be ony more that hard it. And I was at that tyme at Crowmer, and wote well þat it was neythyr Maryottes mevyng ne my faders that he shuld be chargeable of more þan he oweth, hys paymentes, expences, and hys bargeyn alowed. þat John shuld haue is twyes as meche as is owyng as I conseyve the whyche shuld hurte me more þan avayle. To John Damme Ser, I recummaund me to you and thank yow of youre grete laboure wyth all myn hert but as be youre bille my fader shul be bounde to pay all Wyllyam Maryottes dettes, or half at the leest, þat is c li., whych wyth the seid xl li.
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