Sir William Gascoigne to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Reference

WYL655/2 No. 70, p. 40

Date

3 March [after 1521]

Library / Archive

Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 176; Kirby, item 219

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

219 Sir William Gascoigne to Sir Robert Plumpton, 3 March [after
1521] (No. 70, p. 40)

Uncle Plompton, I recommend me vnto you, desiring you to call to
your remembrance the byrth of my nephew William Farfax,¹ which
was borne with you at Plompton, and let me haue the dayt of his
byrth. Also I pray you let me haue the dayt <of> the marriage of my
cosin Hair² & your daughter, which ye haue in wrytting, as I am
enformed; & ye thus doyng, bynds me to doe you as great a pleasure,
which I shalbe glad to dow, with the grace of God, who preserue you
to his pleasure. I thus fare <ye> well. From Gawkthorp, ?e third day
of March.

Your William Gascoygne kt^a

Endorsed: To my uncle Plompton be these deliuered

^a Appended: Copied the 13th of March 1612.

¹ Nicholas (d.1571) and William Fairfax were twin sons of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of
Walton (d.1521); their mother, Anne Gascoigne, was a daughter of Sir William (d.1487)
and sister of the writer, Wedgwood, 364; App. III.

² Sir Arthur Eyre, of Padley (b.1481), son and heir of Robert Eyre, married Sir Robert?s
daughter Margaret c.1500, Wright, 57, 61?62; 139, 143, App. III.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER CLXXVI.

To my Uncle Plompton be these delivered.

Uncle Plompton, I recomend me unto you, desiring you to call
to your remembrance the byrth of my nephew William Farfax,^a
which was borne with you at Plompton,and let me have the dayt
of his birth. Also I pray you let me have the dayt of the mar-
raige of my cosing Hair and your daughter,^b which ye have in wryt-
ting, as I am enformed; and ye thus doyng bynds me to doe you
as great a pleasure, which I shalbe glad to doe, with the grace of
God, who preserve you to his pleasure, and this fare ye well.
From Gawkthrop, the third day of March.

Your
(3 March 15?.) WILLIAM GASCOYNE.

^a William Fairfax, twin-brother with Sir Nicholas Fairfax, of Gilling, com. Ebor. kt.
sons of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, com. Ebor. kt. by Anne, daughter of Sir
William Gascoigne, of Gawkthorpe, com. Ebor. kt. and the Lady Margaret Percy,
and sister to the writer of this letter.

^b Arthur Eyre, son and heir of Robert Eyre of Padley, com. Derb. esq. was con-
tracted to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. before 4 Aug. 15.
Hen. VII. 1500.