Paston family. Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I [a machine- readable transcription]
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DRAFT MESSAGE FROM THE KING TO SIR WILLIAM YELVERTON 1465

   This is the instruccion for the messenger That ye grete well Ser William Yeluerton, letyng hym wete in our behalf we be informed that certeyn persones in the name of the right worshipfull


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oure cosyn the Duc of Suffolk, haue enterid in the manoir of Drayton that was Fastolffes, and haue dreven from the seid manoir and other xiijc shep and other bestes pastured vpon the seid manoir, notwithstandyng we merveyle gretly that the seid Ser William, his sones and seruauntes, as it is seid, assiste and counfort the seid persones soo entryng and withdrawyng the seid catell, seying that he is named bothe feffé and executour; and all be it so that there is variaunce bithwene hym and oure welbelovid John Paston in oure coort, consernyng aswell the seid manoirs as other goodes that were Ser John Fastolffes, whom God assoyle, yit it may not acorde with worship and consiens for the seid Ser William to assiste the distruccion of the seid manoirs and goodes in the meane tyme. Wherfore we desire hym that he woll do his devour effectually to help to save the seid manoirs from all such pretense or titell, and to cause the seid catels to be restored to the manoirs aforeseid and not to be withdrawen and distroyed as they be; and þat he do his feithfull part in this behalf acordyng to the trust þat he was put in, as we may do for hym in tyme to come.




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Edmond Paston