Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I [a machine- readable transcription]

Paston family. Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I [a machine- readable transcription]
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TO JOHN PASTON I 1451, 11, 08

To John Paston, dwyllyng in þe Tempyll at London, be þis letter delyuerid + in haste.

I gret 3ou well, and lete 3ou wete þat Warne Harman, on þe Sonday after Hallumes Day after ensong, seyd oponly in þe cherch-3erde þat he wyst wyll þat and þe wall were puddoun, þou he were an hondryd myle fro Paston, he wyste well þat I wolde sey he ded yt and he xuld bere þe blame, seying, 'Telle yte here ho so wyll, þou it xuld coste me xx nobyllys it xall be puddoun a3en.' And þe seyd Warnys wyfe wyth a

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lovde vosse seyd, 'All þe deuyllys of hell drawe here sowle to hell for þe weye þat she hat mad!' And at euyn a sertyn man suppyd wyth me and tolde me þat þe patent grantyt to closse but a perch on bred, and þat I had clossyd more þan þe grant of þe patent is, as men seyd. And John Marchall tolde me þat þere was a thryfty woman come forby þe watteryng and fond þe wey stoppyde, and askyd hym ho had stoppyd þe weye; and he seyd þey þat had pore to 3eue it, and askyd here wat was freere þan 3yfte. And she seyd she sey þe day þat Paston men wold not a sofferyd þat. And God be wyth 3ou. Wretyn at Paston on Monday after Hallumys Day. Be 3oure modyr Annes Paston