James Gloys to John Paston

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JAMES GLOYS TO JOHN PASTON³

To my right reverent and wurchepfull mayster, John Paston,
Esquyer, be this delivered in hast.

RIGHT reverent and wurchepfull Sir, I recomaund me to
     you, prayng you to wete that I have labored divers
     men that ben enpaneld atwix my mastres, your moder,
and Wyndham.⁴ Ther be many of them woll do her parte,
and ther ben summe that wull not passe ther upon, for thei
ben aferd that the werd [world] shuld turne. It is noysed in
Norwhich that my Lord of Oxenford, my mayster Yelverton,
and ye, and John Damme shuld be endited in Kent for mayn-
tenaunce of the oyer determyner in Norffolk; and this, with
othre feryth sore men of Norwhich. I trow my mastres
writyth to you here of more clerly. Item, Wyndham hath be
divers tymes at my mastres Cler, and mad hym erands to her,
and told her that he was sued in my mastres, your moders
name but he supposyd that she knew not there of. He
thought that ye and James Gresham had do it un malyce,
my mastres your moders unknowyng. But whan he knew
that I labored the enqueste, than he sent my mastres Clere
word how that he knew wele that it was my mastres your
moders labore. Item, he told my Lady of Morle¹ of this
sute, and he seid that he wend that my seid lady had mad an
hend a twix them for the seid sute. Item, Heydons men
brought his awyn hors and his sadyll thourgh Aylsham on
Monday, and thei comyn in at the Busshoppes gates at Nor-
which and comyn over Tomelond and in to the Abbey. Thei
a bedyn there all that nyght, and ij. days after, wenyng to
men of the town that Heydon had go over the fery, and so in
to the Abbey; and sythyn thei seid thei shuld go to London
for Heydon. Item, sum seyn that Heydon shuld be mad a
knyght, and myche othre langage ther is which causyth men to
ben aferd, wenyng that he shuld have a rewle ageyn. Item,
there were ij. men at John Betes of Holt; thei had langage of
the Lord Moleyns. If it please yow to enquere of Symond,
brynger of this letter, he shall enforme you of her langage.
Item, Gonnor was wetched at Felbrygge Halle with xl. per-
sones of the Lady Felbryggs² tenaunts and mor that night
that I lay on wayte up on hym, and he durst not go home on
the next day till they brought hym home. Thei mad a com-
pleynt to my Lady Felbrygge, and my mastres had excused it.
Item, the manase Burflet, and wull sease his lond. Symond
shall telle yow how thei wer answered. Item, as for the
subsidy that Sir Herry I[nglos] and the Lady Felbrygge shuld
payn, the meyr knowe not yet veryly what thei schuld pay, for
thei have not cast the valew of her londs. The bill closyd in
this letter maketh mensyon of the valew of divers gentelmens
londs that [ben] examyned in Norwhich. We can not know
what Calthorp payth, for we can not speke with the shereffe,
ner the undre [shereffe], ner no man that gadered that hundred
ther as Calthorp dwellytht. The Holy Trynyte have you in
his kepyng. Wr[etyn] the Tuesday next after Seynt Mathie,¹
in hast.                    Your pore servaunt,

                                                                        JAMES GLO[YS].

     ³ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] From what it mentions about Gonnor, this letter
will be seen to be of the same year as the last. The fears entertained of Heydon
recovering his influence are also indicative of the spring of 1451. The letter is
slightly mutilated in the margin at the bottom.

     ⁴ John Wyndham, Esq. of Felbrigg.

     ¹ See p. 84, Note 2.

     ² Catherine, widow of Sir Simon Felbrigg, was lady of the manor of Felbrigg, of
which Wyndham only had the lease at this time, though he afterwards became the
proprietor.—See Blomefield, viii. 112.

     ¹ St. Matthias.—See p. 223, Note 2.

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