Sir John Fastolf to...Nicholass Molyneux

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Title
Sir John Fastolf to...Nicholass Molyneux
Reference
Add. 39848, f. 32
Date
30 October 1455
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol III, item 304
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume III'

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ABSTRACT2

 

SIR JOHN FASTOLF ‘TO MY RIGHT TRUSTY BROTHER, NICHOLAS MOLYNEUX.’

 

     As I come not to London this winter, I beg you to see to my Lord’s
matters, and labour to my Lord of Canterbury and Master John Stokys for the
recovering of my Lord’s3 [good]s. No man can say more in the matter than
you where his goods are, ‘and where they be disposed,’ especially those that
Sir Rob. Whytynham4 had. Also the Lord Cromwell had ‘a certain number
of plate.’ Your costs shall be paid out of the first money received. Hears
from John de Leawe, one of Lord Willoughby’s executors, that they will
labour to my Lord Beaumont to advance the process for recovery of his part of
the reward for the taking of the Duke of Alençon. Fendykes, a learned man
of the Temple, will help with his advice. Commend me to my sister your
wife.

     Castre, 30 Oct.

     In Worcester’s hand, and endorsed by him.—’A John Paston et John
Bokkyng.’

     [During the winter of 1455-56 we find several allusions to this claim put forward
by Fastolf to the goods of the late Duke of Bedford. Unless we are to infer from
the manner in which Lord Cromwell is mentioned that he was dead when this letter
was written, it is probably of the year 1455.]

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     2 [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 228.]

     3 The Duke of Bedford.

     4 Sir Robert Whityngham died on the 4th November 1452.—Inq. post mortem,
31 Hen. VI., No. 47.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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