The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

You may need to log in to continue. Access the full document and its details.

Reference

WYL655/2 No. 56, p. 34

Date

19 November [1486-1487]

Library / Archive

Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 19; Kirby, item 57

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

57 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton, 19 November [1486 ×
1487] (No. 56, p. 34)

Right trusty & welbeloued cousin, I gret you hartely well. And wheras
I conceiue that ye prepared yourselfe to have ridden with me to this
day of trewe,¹ I wele remembring that it wer not oonly to your great
labor but also to your cost & great charg, therefore I take me oonly to
your good wyll and thankfull disposicion, for the which I hartely thank
you, and am right well content and pleased that ye remaine still at
home. Written at Derham, the xix day of Nouember.

Your cousin Hen: Northumberland^a

Endorsed: To my right hartely beloued cousin Sir Robart Plompton
knight

^aAppended: this letter hath a seale. Copied the 4 day of March 1612.

¹ Northumberland was restored to the wardenship of the Marches 3 Jan. 1485/6 on
an annual basis; his contract was renewed 26 Feb. 1487/8. On the 30 Jan. 1485/6 he
was appointed a commissioner to treat for peace with Scotland, a peace which was
ratified 26 July 1486, Rotuli Scotiae in Turri Londoninense et in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriense
Asservati (2 vols, 1814, 1819), ii, 463–4, 470–1, 484–5.

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 XIX.

To my right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton knight.

    Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin, I gret you hartyly well.
And wheras I conceive that ye prepared yourselfe to have
ridden with me to this day of trewe, a and now remembring, that
it were not only to your great labor, but also to your cost and
great charg, therfore I take me oonly to your good wyll and
thankfull disposition, for the which I hartely thanke you, and am
right well content and pleased that ye remaine still at home.
Written at Derham, the xix day of November.
                                                                                      Your Cousin,
        (19 Nov. 1486-7.)                                   HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.

a The days of truce for the meetings of the great commissioners of the East and
Middle Marches were fixed, by the treaty of 1483, to be held on the first of December
at Reading-burn; and as warden of the West and Middle Marches, Henry, Earl of
Northumberland, was the first of the Conservators of the truce agreed to at London, to
commence from 3 July 1486, and to continue for three years.