William Paston to John Staynford

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WILLIAM PASTON TO JOHN STAYNFORD¹

To my weel beloved John Staynford of Furnyvales Inne.

     THE instruccion to comune of to John Robynson of
        Carleton bysyde Snayth.

        To enquerre and wyte whether the stoon may be
sawed or nought. Whether it wille chippe or chynne or affraye
with frost or weder or water.

     Also that every pece of the stoon be iij. foote longe, and
that xv. tunne tyght of the stoon be every stoon weel bedded
into the walle and a foote thikke that it ryse in heighte a foote
in the walle; and x. stones of the stoan must be ii. foote broad,
and at the lest a foote and an half thikke. A stoon wil drawe
the wighte of a pipe, as I suppose; the gret stones and nought
the smallere stones shuld be sawed, so that every pece sawed
shud holde the seid lengthe of iij. foote, and the seid brede of
ij. foote, and to be, after it is sawed, half a fote or lesse on
thikkenesse, and thenne the brode sawed stones shulde evere
stond in the werk betwen the seid weel bedded stonys that
shuld ryse but a fote in the walle and ben ankered iche of hem
with other; and this werk shal be strong j nowe, as werkmen
seyn, and drawe but litill cariage. I wold have swiche stoan a
xx^ti tunne tight caried to Moneslee² in Norffolk between
Crowmere and Bromholm, and but a myle from Bromholm.

     To reporte plein answere of this bylle writen and how sone
I myght have the seid stone caried to Monesle aforn seid, and
for what price.

     This werk is for a . . .                                          W. PASTON.

de mon tres honneure seigneur le Count de Warrwick, capitayn illeoqes, iusques
al iiij.^e jour de febr. lan de Roy Henri Sysme tierce, ccccxiiili. xvjs. xd. q^a,’

     Below this is written in Fenn’s hand: ‘14 Feb^y 3 H. 7. 1487’—a great
misreading of the date.

     On the back is written, also in the Judge’s hand:—

     ‘Sount due a mon sieur Will. Bardolf de ses gages en les lyueres a . . .

     ¹ [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 213.] This letter appears from the postscript to be of the
year 1425, as Bardolf’s wages, due on the 4th February in that year, had not yet been
paid.                                                                                                     ² Mundesley.

1425

1425