John Gyne to John Paston

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Title
John Gyne to John Paston
Reference
Add. 34888, f. 4
Date
1435-1436
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol II, item 29; Gairdner, 'Paston Letters', item 5
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume II'

29

 

JOHN GYNE TO JOHN PASTON3

 

To the worthy and worshipful sir and my good maister,
John Paston of Trynyte hall in Cambrigge

 

     RIGHT worthy and worshipfull sir, and my good maister,
        I comaund me to yow. Like it yow to witte that on
        the Soneday next after the Ascencion of oure Lord,
in the high weye betwex Cambrigge and the Bekyntre toward
Newmarket, I fonde a purs with money ther inne. Th’entent
of this my symple lettre is this, that it please to your good
Maistership by weye of charite, and of your gentilnesse, to
witte if ony of youre knowleche or ony other, swich as yow
semeth best in your discrecion, have lost swich a purs, and,
the toknes ther of told, he shal have it ageyn, what that ever
he be, by the grace of oure Lord, Who ever have yow in his
blissed kepyng. Wretyn at Sneylewell the Moneday next
after the seid Soneday. By youre pover servaunt,

                                                                                    JOHN GYN.

 

         
     3 [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 4.] Fenn has written on the MS. of this letter the date
‘circa 1435-6,’ which, I agree with him, must have been about the time that it was
written.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1435-6

 

 

 

 

 

1435-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, 1422-1509'

V

 

A.D. 1435-6, circa

 

JOHN GYNE TO JOHN PASTON

 

[Add. MS. 34,888, f. 4]

 

     This letter is noticed as No. 1038 in the Inventory at the end of Vol. III.
Fenn has written on the MS. the date ‘circa 1435-6,’ which, I agree with
him, must have been about the time that it was written.

To the worthy and worshipful sir and my good maister,
John Paston of Trynyte hall in Cambrigge.

RIGHT worthy and worshipfull sir, and my good
      maister, I comaund me to yow. Like it
      yow to witte that on the Soneday next after
      the Ascencion of oure Lord, in the high
weye betwex Cambrigge and the Bekyntre toward
Newmarket, I fonde a purs with money ther inne.
Th’entent of this my symple lettre is this, that it
please to your good Maistership by weye of charite,
and of your gentilnesse, to witte if ony of youre
knowleche or ony other, swich as yow semeth best
in your discrecion, have lost swich a purs, and, the
toknes ther of told, he shal have it ageyn, what that
ever he be, by the grace of oure Lord, Who ever have
yow in his blissed kepyng. Wretyn at Sneylewell the
Moneday next after the seid Soneday. By youre
pover servaunt,                                          JOHN GYN.