Chapter XIX: Appendix: To Preface and Introduction

I. WILL OF PETER LE NEVE.--See p. 3.

The following extracts from the will of Peter Le Neve, as contained in the principal register at Doctors’ Commons, are curious in other respects besides their bearing on the history of the Paston MSS.

Item, I give and bequeath unto the Reverend Doctor Tanner,
Chancellor of Norwich, and Mr. Thomas Martin of Palgrave, all my
abstracts out of records, old deeds, books, petigrees, seals,
papers, and other collections which shall only relate to the
antiquityes and history of Norfolk and Suffolk, or one of them, upon
condicion that they, or the survivor of them, or the executors or
administrators of such survivor, do and shall, within twelve months
next after my decease, procure a good and safe repository in the
Cathedral Church of Norwich, or in some other good and publick
building in the said city, for the preservation of the same
collections, for the use and benefitt of such curious persons as
shall be desirous to inspect, transcribe, or consult the same. And I
doe hereby give full power to the said Doctor Tanner and Thomas
Martin, and to the survivor of them, and to the executors or
administrators of such survivor, to fix and prescribe such rules and
orders for the custody and preservation of the said collecions as
they shall think proper. . . .

Item, my will and mind is, that if my said wife Frances shall at any
time hereafter intermarry with Thomas Allen, my late clerk, then I
will that she shall have and enjoy but the annuity or summe of forty
pounds per annum from the time of such her intermarryage, and noe
more shall be paid unto her by my aforesaid trustees; and I strickly
charge and forbid her, the said Frances, to permitt the said Thomas
Allen to come into any of my studys, or to lend or give him any of
my books or papers, or to suffer him in any respect to intermeddle
with my affairs. Item, I give unto my said wife Frances such goods
and things att Bow and Wychingham as I shall mencion and sett down
in a certain paper to be signed and left by me for that purpose.
Item, I give unto my said wife Frances my crown, silver gilt, my
collar, silver party, my jewell, my herald’s coat and chain. Item,
I give unto Henrietta Beeston the summe of twelve pence per week, to
be paid to her from the first day of August last for so long time as
she shall continue with me at Wychingham. Item, I will that all my
shelves, presses, drawers, and boxes now in my study att Wychingham
shall goe along with my Norfolk and Suffolk collections to Norwich.
. . .

Item, the residue of my printed or manuscript books, arms, and
things relating to antiquity, I give them unto such person and
persons, and bodyes, politic or corporate, as I shall direct and
appoint, in a paper to be signed and left by me for that purpose.

_The above will was proved 7th November 1729._

[[I. WILL OF PETER LE NEVE.--See p. 3.
_final . missing_]]

[[p. 3 = under sidenote “the MSS.”]]

II. JULIAN HERBERD.--See pp. 33, 34.

The following documents in the case of Julian Herberd _v._ William Paston are preserved in the Record Office among ‘Chancery, Parliamentary and Council Proceedings.’ The date, it will be seen, must be after 1432:--

MEMBRANE 1

William Paston.

S{r} Rauf, parson of Bronham, steward with my maister Cromwell.
Austinne Bange of Norwiche.
John Roppys with hem priour of the Abbey of Norwiche.
Rob’t Chapelleyn of Norwiche.
Rob’t Grygge of litel Plomstede in the cuntie of Norwiche.
S{r} William, the vicaire of Seint Stephenes Chirche in Norwiche.

MEMBRANE 2

Please it to youre moste hie and habundant grace to graunte un to
youre pouere and continuel bedwoman Julian Herberd, that William
Paston one of youre Juges of the cõe benche may come with alle his
affinite and appere bifore youre hie and gracious presence with alle
youre worthy and right wyse counsail, and that of youre hie
goodnesse comaunde the seide William Paston to bringe bifore yow and
to schewe alle the evidences and munimentes, whiche that the modere
of youre seide pore bisechere schulde have yeve un to the seide
William Paston state or to any man that had it bifore hym or eny man
for here seide moder or eny of the seide blode, fro the tyme youre
seide pore bisechere modere was borne un to this oure. For the seide
William Paston knowleched bifore my lorde of Warewyk and youre
Chaunceller of Inglonde, youre Tresorer, youre chef Juge of the
Kynges benche, and afore other of yo{r} sergeantz of lawe, beynge to
gidere, how he radde diversez evidences of xix acres londe that
schulde longe un to youre seide pore bisechere every yere vj_s._
viij_d._, so that sche wolde holde here plesed and content. Up on
the whiche sche wolde nat holde here so agreed with oute youre
gracious advis in this matere. Besechinge to youre hie and habundant
grace, for oure right worthy and gracious Kynge youre fadere soule,
and for oure right worthy and gracious quene youre moder soule, whos
soules God of his grace assoille, that youre seide pore bisecher may
have here evidences, so that here trewe right might be opinly
knowen. For there ys twies so good behinde as the saide William
Paston knowleched of the seide xix acres, and youre seide pore
bisecher wol nat assent that he schulde take his otthe, laste he wol
suere that he have nat here evidences. For it may nat be but he
moste nedes have hem or summe of his, and that ys opinly knowen.
That it like un to youre good Grace to considere this matere above
wretyn, and thereuppon to graunte, that the seide William Paston
with alle his affinite and youre seide bisecher may alle be bounden
to yow in a simple obligacion in what somme that liketh youre hie
wysdome, demene so that they may abide youre awarde, with the assent
& consent of youre fulle wys and discrete councell and youre worthy
and gracious jugement in this mater for the love of God and yn wey
of charitee.

MEMBRANE 3

TO OURE RIGHT GRACIOUS LORDE THE KYNGE

Please it to youre right high and gracious lordeshipe to considere
the grete wronges that William Paston hath done to Julian Herberd,
youre pore wydowe and continuell bedewoman, for with holdynge of
diverses evidences and wrongefulle prisonmentes that he hath done to
the seide Julian ayenst youre lawes, whiche been here under wretyn
yn article wise, whiche the seide Julian bisechith un to youre moste
hie and gracious lordeshipe oversee, and that remedie may be putte
therynne by youre gracious hondes atte Reverence of God and in wey
of charitee.

These been the wronges and extorcions done to Julian Herberd
doughter and heir of Herry Herberd of lytel Plumstede yn the Counte
of Norff. and Margarete his wyf, doughter and heir to William
Palmere, sometyme of the seide Plumstede, by William Paston, and of
othere by his assent.

Firste, there as the seide Margarete died sesid yn here demene as yn
fee taille of a mesuage of xix. acres of londe with thappourtenance
yn Plumstede, the whiche to the same Juliane schulde discende be
right of heritage, as doughter and nexte heir of the seide
Margarete. The whiche William Paston the seide Juliane of the seide
mees and londes now be xl. wynter hath witholden, the whiche been
yerly worth xxx_s̃._ and better, the sõme ys now owynge lx_l̃i._

Memorandum, quod Juliana Herberd de Norwico, que fuit filia
Margarete Palmere de Plumstede produxit Robertum Bresyngham et
Johannem Colton, Cives Norwici, coram Willelmo Paston apud Norwicum
in Camera sua ad recordandum coram eo et aliis circumstantibus quod
Johannes Thornham optulit prefate Juliane pro tribus acris terre in
campis de Plumstede predictis xl_s̃._ pro jure suo hereditario, que
tres acre jacent in placito inter dominum Johannem Thornham,
petentem, et Robertum Grigge tenentem. Et prefatus Robertus
Bresyngham et Johannes inquirebant per viciñ vill’ adjac̃, qui
dixerunt quod Margareta Palmere, mater dicte Juliane fuit recta
heres illius terre; Et quod post decessum ejusdem Margarete
discendere debuisset prefate Juliane ut de feodo talliato. Et postea
dictus Willelmus in presencia Radulphi Rectoris de Brunham, Johannis
Roppys, Henrici Pye de Brixston, Thome Marchall et aliorum ibidem
existencium publice legebat cartas et evidencias pertinentes dicte
Juliane, et optulit eidem Juliane pro suo jure habendo etc.,
xij_d._, et postea xx_d._ Et eciam pro majore evidencia dicta
Juliana produxit duodecim legales homines ville de Plumstede Magna
et Parva coram Thoma Erpyngham milite, qui dixerunt quod prefata
Margareta, mater dicte Juliane, fuit recta heres predictarum
terrarum etc., et quod per totam patriam bene est cognitum quod
prefata Juliana est recta heres ejusdem Margarete. Ac eciam alia
vice predictus Willelmus optulit dicte Juliane pro jure suo xx_s̃._
in presencia Ricardi Gegge, Gentilman, sibi solvendos quandocunque
vellet, prout idem clericus omni tempore recordare voluerit.

Also there as the seide Julian poursued ayenst the seide William
atte a parlement holden atte Westminstre, and there the seide
William did here arrest yn to the Countour of London, and there
kepte here yn prisone to the seide parlement was ended thretnynge
here to holde here there terme of here lyf, but yf sche wol relesse
to hym here right and make acquitaunce generall.

Also the seide Paston, be nightes tyme bituene ix. or x. of the
belle, did do bringe the seide Julian prisoner under warde to his
ynne in Fletestrete, and there constreined here to seale a blanke
chartre, yn whiche he dide write a relesse atte his owne devys, and
sent here ayene to prisone, and there kepte here iij. daies, and
sent ayene for here to hire the relesse radde, and profred for here
right vj. marke.

Also the seide Paston, the Saturday nexte bifore the feste of Saint
George, the vj. yere, etc., profred the seide Juliane in presence of
the Chaunceller vj. marke yn playne court and iij. acres of the
seide londe, and so moche ys the seide Juliane refused that profre,
did arreste here newe in the seide Countoure and helde here there
from the vij. day of Feverere, etc., and there wolde make here swere
on a book or be bounde by obligacion never more to poursue here
right.

Also the seide Paston atte Counsell holden atte Redynge the seide
Juliane poursued to the lorde of Bedford, and he comaunded to write
his lettres to the seide Paston chargynge hym to aggre with here,
the seide Paston havynge knowleche that sche sewed for the lettres,
made a false sugestion to the Chaunceller, wherby sche was by a
sergeaunt of armes committed to Flete, and there beten, fetered and
stokked, and so there holden by an hole yere, to that entent that no
man schulde wete where sche was by come tille sche hadde be dede in
prison. Of whiche false prisonment S{r} Thomas Erpyngham poursued
here deliveraunce, comaunded here to be atte the nexte Cessions to
be justefied there, consideringe to here grete damage as well in
here body as losse of goodes by so longe tyme continued, whiche
prisonment the seide Julian wolde nat have hadde for xl_li._ beside
alle other losse of goodes.

Also the seide Paston with holdeth alle the evidences to here seide
right longinge, and wastynge the seide mesuage and londes in that he
may.

Also the seide Paston kepte here iij. yere in the pitte withynne the
Castell of Norwiche in grete meschef, in so moche that scho hadde
nat but a pynte of mylke yn x. daies and x. nightes, and a ferthinge
loffe, standinge under the jugement and ordenance of the Duke of
Norffe now late passed to God.[333-1]

Also, the seide Paston scith hadde youre seide suppliant in prisone
in the Kynges benche, and there sche lay xij. monthes and more in
harde payne and distresse nye dede for colde hunger and thurste.

Item, the seide Paston dede to bringe here oute of the Roundehows yn
to youre paleys and brought here afore youre chef Justice, and than
the saide Paston comaunded certeines persones to bringe here to
prisone to youre Benche, and badde atte his perille certeines
persones to smyte the brayne oute of here hede for suynge of here
right, and there beynge in grevouse prison durynge half yere and
more fetered and cheined, suffringe colde, hunger, thurste, in
pointe of deth, God and ye, gracious Kynge, helpe here to here
right.

(_Membranes 1 and 2 are sewn on to the face of membrane 3, one at
the top, the other at the bottom._)

[Footnote 333-1: John Mowbray, second Duke of Norfolk, who died
in 1432.]

[[II. JULIAN HERBERD.--See pp. 33, 34.
_final . missing_]]

[[pp. 33, 34 = under sidenote “John Wortes”]]

III. PARMINTER’S INSURRECTION.--See p. 75.

In the bundle of Privy Seals for the year 29 Henry VI. is a pardon to James God, dated on the 4th March, and delivered to the Chancellor for execution on the 5th. Attached to it is the following record of his indictment:--

‘_Kent sc._--Jur’ dicunt quod Jacobus God nuper de Feversham in com’
prædicto, plummer, et alii, ac quamplures alii proditores, rebelles
et inimici illustrissimis Principis Henrici Regis Angliæ Sexti post
Conquestum ignoti et nuper complices et de societate falsi
proditoris Will’i Parmynter, smyth, qui se ipsum nominavit Secundum
Capitaneum Kanciæ, eidemque adhærentes et de ejus covina et assensu
in omnibus proditionibus suis mortem dicti Regis et destructionem
regni sui Angliæ confœderantes, machinantes, compassentes et
proponentes, ultimo die Augusti anno regni dicti Regis vicesimo
nono[334-1] apud Feversham et alibi in com. Kanciæ se adinvicem
congregaverunt ad numerum quadringentorum hominum et amplius,
dicentes et confidentes quod ipsi essent de eorum covina et assensu
ad eorum libitum et voluntatem xl. milia hominum armatorum et modo
guerrino arraiatorum ad præbendum et percussiendum bellum contra
dictum Regem seu quoscumque alios in proditionibus suis prædictis
eis contravenientes, et falso et proditorie insurrexerunt et mortem
dicti Regis imaginaverunt et compassi fuerunt, ac guerram adtunc et
ibidem et alibi per vices infra dictum com. Kanc. falso et
proditorie contra dictum Regem, supremum dominum suum, levaverunt,
in destructionem ipsius Regis et Regni prædicti.

BENET.’

There is a note of the trial of Parmynter in Hilary term, 29 Hen.
VI., on the Controlment Roll of that year, rot. 9.

[Footnote 334-1: So in the record, but evidently an error. It
should have been _vicesimo octavo_.]

[[inimici illustrissimis Principis
_text unchanged: expected form “illustrissimi”_]]

[[p. 75 = under sidenote “Further disturbances”]]

IV. PARDON TO JOHN PAYN.--See p. 78.

On the Patent Roll 30 Henry VI., p. 1, m. 23, occurs the following entry:--

_De Pardonacione._--Rex omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis ad quos,
&c., salutem. Sciatis quod cum nonnulli rebelles nostri in comitatu
nostro Kanciæ, paucis ante diebus contra pacem nostram
insurrectionem gravem concitantes, quasdam factiones proditorias
contra nostram personam detestabiliter machinati fuerint,
nonnullaque proditiones, murdra, felonias et facinora, aliasque
transgressiones perpetraverint; quia tamen, cum nuper per civitates,
oppida atque villas in eodem comitatu nostro ad eorum hujusmodi
insolencias et rebelliones coercendos iter faceremus, plurimi ex
eisdem, spiritu sanioris consilii ducti, plurimum humiliati, etiam
usque femoralia nudi, suorum immanitates criminum coram nobis
confitentes, veniam a nobis effusis lachrymis anxie postularunt;
Nos, ad singulorum hujusmodi ligeorum nostrorum submissiones
humillimas nostros misericordes oculos dirigentes, ac firmiter
tenentes quod de cætero in nostra obedientia stabiles permanebunt,
fidem ligeanciæ suæ erga nos inantea inviolabiliter servaturi, ad
laudem, gloriam et honorem Omnipotentis et misericordis Dei ac
gloriosissimæ Virginis matris Christi, de gratia nostra speciali
pardonavimus, remisimus et relaxavimus Johanni Payn de Pecham in
comitatu prædicto, yoman, alias dicto Johanni Payn, nuper de
Estpekham in comitatu prædicto, smyth, qui inter cæteros se submisit
nostræ gratiæ, quocumque nomine censeatur, sectam pacis nostræ quæ
ad nos versus eum pertinent, seu poterit pertinere, pro quibuscumque
proditionibus, feloniis, murdris et transgressionibus per ipsum a
septimo die Julii anno regni nostri vicesimo octavo usque decimum
diem Junii ultimo præteritum factis sive perpetratis; acetiam
utlagarias, si quæ in ipsum Johannem occasionibus prædictis seu
earum aliqua fuerint promulgatæ; necnon omnimodas forisfacturas
terrarum, tenementorum, reddituum, possessionum, bonorum et
catallorum, quæ idem Johannes nobis occasionibus prædictis seu earum
aliqua forisfecit aut forisfacere debuit, et firmam pacem nostram ei
inde concedimus: Ita tamen quod stet recto in curia nostra si quis
versus eum loqui voluerit de præmissis seu aliquo præmissorum.
Proviso semper quod ista nostra pardonacio, remissio sive relaxacio
se non extendat ad aliqua malefacta supra mare et aquas aliquo modo
facta sive perpetrata. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium
secundo die Novembris.

Two similar patents were granted on the same date to Richard
Doke, yeoman, and William Souter, labourer, both of Peckham.

[[p. 78 = under sidenote “John Payn and the rebels”]]

V. THE DUKE OF YORK AT DARTFORD.--See p. 99.

The most minute account of the encampment of the Duke of York at Dartford is contained in the following extract from the Cottonian Roll, ii. 23.

At Crayfford, myle from Dertfford.

Primo die mensis Marcii anno regni Regis Henrici Sexti xxx{o} ther
was my Lord of Yorkes ordynaunce iij{mill.} gownner, and hym selff
in the middell ward with viij{mil.}, my Lord of Devynsher by the
southe side with vj{mill.}, and my Lord Cobham with vj{mil.} at
the water side, and vij. shippus with ther stuff. And sith that
tyme, and sith was poyntment made and taken at Dertfford by
embassetours, my Lord the B. of Winchester, my Lord B. of Ely, my
Lord the Erle of Salusbury, my Lorde of Warrewik, my Lord Bewcham,
and my Lord of Sydeley, &c., whiche poyntment was, &c. And soon
after was Chatterley, yeman of the Crown, maymed, notwithstondyng he
was takyn at Derby with money making and ladde to London. Then after
the Kynges yeman of his chambur, namyd Fazakerley, with letteris was
sent to Luddelowe to my Lord of Yorke chargyng to do forth a certeyn
of his mayny, Arthern, squier, Sharpe, sqier, &c.; the whiche
Fazakerley hyld in avowtry Sharpes wiff, the which Sharpe slewe
Fitzacurley, and a baker of Ludlow roos and the Commyns, &c., the
whych baker is at Kyllyngworth Castell, &c. After this my Lord of
Shrousbury, &c., rode in to Kent, and set up v. peyre of galowes and
dede execucion upon John Wylkyns, taken and brought to the towne as
for capteyn, and with other mony mo, of the whiche xxviij. were
honged and be heded, the whiche hedes were sent to London; and
London said ther shuld no mo hedes be set upon there; and that tyme
Eton was robbyd, and the Kyng beyng at Wynsor on Lowe Sonday, &c.

[[viij{mil.},
_comma misprinted as superscript_
at Wynsor on Lowe Sonday, &c.
_final . missing_]]

[[p. 99 = shortly before sidenote “York is entrapped”]]

VI. THE DUKE OF YORK AND THE COUNCIL.--See p. 132.

The following document is enrolled on the Patent Roll, 32 Henry VI., membrane 20:--

_Pro Ricardo Duce Ebor._--Rex omnibus ad quos, &c., salutem.
Inspeximus tenorem cujusdam actus in consilio nostro apud
Westmonasterium tento facti, venerabili patri Johanni Cardinali et
Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, totius Angliæ primati, Cancellario
nostro, per Thomam Kent, clericum ejusdem consilii nostri, ad
exemplificationem tenoris prædicti sub Magno Sigillo nostro in forma
debita fiendam nuper deliberatum et in filaciis Cancellariæ nostræ
residentum, in hæc verba:--

The xxj. day of Novembre, the yere of the regne of oure Souverain
Lorde King Henry the VI{th} xxxij{ti.} at Westmynstre, in the
Sterred Chambre, being there present the Lordes, the Cardinal
Archebisshop of Canterbury and Chaunceller of England, th’
Archebisshop of Yorke, the Bisshops of London, Winchestre, Ely,
Norwich, Saint Davides, Chestre, Lincoln, and Carlisle, the Duc of
Buckingham, th’Erles of Salisbury, Pembroke, Warrewik, Wiltshire,
Shrovesbury, and Worcestre, Tresourer of England, the Viscount
Bourchier, the Priour of Seint Johns, the Lordes Cromwell, Suddeley,
Duddeley, Stourton, and Berners. The Duc of York reherced unto the
seid Lordes that he, as the Kinges true liegman and subgit, was by
commaundement directed unto him undre the Kinges Prive Seal, come
hidre to the Kinges greet Counsail, and wolde with all diligence to
his power entende to the same, and to all that that sholde or might
be to the welfare of the King and of his subgettes; but for asmoche
as it soo was that divers persones, suche as of longe tyme have been
of his Counsail, have be commaunded afore this tyme, by what meanes
he watte never, not to entende upon him, but to withdrawe thaim of
any counsail to be yeven unto him: the which is to his greet hurte
and causeth that he can not procede with suche matiers as he hath to
doo in the Kinges courtes and ellus where, desired the Lordes of the
counsail abovesaid that they wolde soo assente and agree that suche
as have been of his counsail afore this tyme might frely, without
any impediment, resorte unto him and withoute any charge to be leide
unto theim, yeve him counsail from tyme to tyme in suche matiers as
he hath or shal have to doo. To the which desire alle the Lordes
abovesaide condescended and agreed, as to that thing that was
thought unto them juste and resounable, and fully licenced all suche
persones as he wolde calle to his counsail frely withoute any
impediment to entende unto him; and commaunded this to be enacted
amonge th’actes of the Counsaill. Actum anno, mense, die et loco ut
supra, præsentibus dominis supradictis.

T. Kent.

Nos autem tenorem actus prædicti ad requisicionem carissimi
consanguinei nostri prædicti, Ricardi Ducis Ebaracensis, duximus
exemplificandum per præsentes. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud
Westmonasterium, vj. die Decembris.

[[p. 132 = before sidenote “Norfolk accuses Somerset”]]

VII. DEFENCE AGAINST THE EARL OF WARWICK.--See p. 185.

The following commissions are found on the Patent Roll 38 Henry VI., p. 2, m. 21. They afford remarkable evidence of the terror inspired in the Queen’s Government by the capture of Lord Rivers at Sandwich.

_De advocando et debellando._--Rex carissimo consanguineo suo
Johanni Duci Norff’ ac dilecto et fideli suo Philippe Wentworth
militi, necnon dilectis, sibi Roberto Willoughby, Johanni Hopton,
Willelmo Tyrell, Thomæ Brewes, Gilberto Debenham, Johanni Clopton,
Willelmo Jenney, et Reginaldo Rous, salutem. Quia satis manifestum
est quod quidam rebelles nostri Ricardo nuper Comiti Warr’ proditori
et inimico nostro adhærentes, villam nostram Sandewici jam tarde
intrarunt et ibidem mala quamplurima nobis et fidelibus ligeis
nostris fecerunt et perpetrarunt, et alia mala prioribus pejora in
diversis partibus comitatus nostri Suff’, si eas ingredi poterint,
facere et perpetrare proponunt, ut veraciter informamur, nisi eorum
maliciæ citius et celerius resistatur: Nos, tam maliciæ ipsius
inimici nostri ac complicum suorum prædictorum (_sic_), quam pro
defensione partium ibidem providere volentes, ut tenemur,
assignavimus vos, conjunctim et divisim, ac vobis et vestrum
cuilibet plenam potestatem et auctoritatem damus et committimus ad
advocandum coram vobis [omnes] et singulos ligeos nostros comitatus
prædicti, cujuscunque status, gradus seu condicionis fuerint, de
quibus vobis melius videbitur expedire, ad proficiscendum vobiscum
contra præfatum inimicum nostrum ac complices suos prædictos, ac ad
assistenciam et auxilium suum vobis seu vestrum cuilibet in eorum
resistenciam dandum et impendendum in casu quo idem inimicus noster
ac complices sui prædicti dictum comitatum vel partes adjacentes
ingredi præsumant, ac ad eos et secum comitantes ut hostes et
rebelles nostros debellandum, expugnandum, et destruendum, ac ad
omnia alia et singula quæ juxta sanas discretiones vestras in hac
parte in repressionem prædictorum inimicorum nostrorum ac complicum
suorum et eorum maledicti propositi fore videritis necessaria et
oportuna, faciendum, exercendum et exequendum. Et insuper
assignavimus vos conjunctim et divisim ad omnes personas partem
prædicti nuper Comitis Warr’ seu aliorum rebellium nostrorum et
complicum suorum verbis vel operibus defendentes et tenentes, vel
aliqua verba contra majestatem nostram regiam habentes et dicentes,
similiter capiendum et arestandum, et in prisonis nostris in forma
prædicta custodiendum, et custodiri faciendum. Et ideo vobis et
vestrum cuilibet mandamus quod circa præmissa diligenter intendatis
et ea faciatis et exequamini in forma prædicta. Damus autem
universis et singulis vicecomitibus, majoribus, ballivis,
constabulariis, ac aliis officiariis, ministris, fidelibus legiis et
subditis nostris quibuscunque, tam infra libertates quam extra,
tenore præsentium, firmiter, in mandatis, quod vobis et vestrum
cuilibet in executione præmissorum intendentes sint, assistentes et
auxiliantes in omnibus diligenter. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud
Westmonasterium, x. die Februarii.

Per Consilium.

Consimiles literæ Regis patentes diriguntur carissimo consanguineo
suo Johanni Duci Norff’ ac dilectis et fidelibus suis Thomæ Tudenham
militi, Willelmo Chamberleyn militi, Miloni Stapulton militi, et
Philippo Wentworth militi; necnon dilectis sibi Willelmo Calthorp,
Johanni Heydon, Henrico Inglose, Johanni Wymondham, et Thomæ
Claymond in comitatu Norff’. Teste ut supra.

Consimiles literæ Regis patentes diriguntur dilectis et fidelibus
suis majori et aldermannis ac vicecomitibus villæ suæ de Kyngeston
super Hull, et eorum cuilibet in villa prædicta. Teste Rege apud
Westmonasterium, xvj. die Februarii.

[[necnon dilectis, sibi Roberto Willoughby
_superfluous comma in original_]]

[[p. 185 = midway between sidenotes “Lord Rivers at Sandwich”
and “The Legate Coppini”]]

VIII. WILLIAM WORCESTER.--See p. 199.[338-1]

[Sidenote: 1460 AUG. 28]

_De scripto irrotulato, Worcestre._--Universis et singulis Christi
fidelibus ad quos præsens scriptum pervenerit, Willelmus Worcestre,
alius dictus Botoner, de Castre juxta Yermouth in com’ Norff.,
gentilman, salutem in Domino. Noveritis me, præfatum Willelmum,
dedisse, concessisse et hoc præsenti scripto meo confirmasse Henrico
Everyngham armigero, Hugoni Fenne gentilman, Henrico Wyndesore
gentilman, Roberto Toppes juniori, gentilman, et Johanni Bokkyng,
gentilman, omnia et singula bona mea et catalla, mobilia et
immobilia, viva et mortua, ubicumque et in quorumcumque manibus, tam
infra comitatu prædicto quam alibi infra regnum Angliæ existentia
seu[338-2] inveniri poterint; acetiam omnia debita quæ mihi
quacumque de causa a quibuscumque personis ubilibet debentur;
habenda et tenenda omnia prædicta bona, catalla et debita præfatis
Henrico, Hugoni, Henrico, Roberto et Johanni, executoribus et
assignatis suis, ad inde faciendum, ordinandum et disponendum
liberam suam voluntatem, ut de bonis, catallis et debitis suis
propriis, sine contradictione, perturbatione, seu reclamatione
aliquali imperpetuum; Ita, videlicet, quod nec ego, prædictus
Willelmus, nec executores mei, nec aliquis alius per nos, pro nobis,
seu nomine nostro, aliquid juris, proprietatis, seu clamei in
prædictis bonis, catallis et debitis, nec in aliqua parcello
eorundem, de cætero exigere, clamare seu vendicare poterimus nec
debemus in futuro; sed ab omni actione juris, proprietatis et clamei
inde petendi totaliter simus exclusi imperpetuum per præsentes. In
cujus rei testimonium huic præsenti, scripto meo sigilium meum
apposui. Datum vicesimo octavo die Augusti, anno regni Regis Henrici
Sexti post Conquestum Angliæ tricesimo octavo.

_Et memorandum quod prædictus Willelmus venit in Cancellariam Regis
apud Westmonasterium primo die Septembris anno præsenti et
recognovit scriptum prædictum et omnia contenta in eodem in forma
prædicta._

[Footnote 338-1: [From _Close Roll_ 39 Henry VI., m. 13 _d._]

[Footnote 338-2: _Sic._]

[[scripto meo sigilium meum
_text unchanged: error for “sigillum”?_]]

[[p. 199 = shortly before sidenote “Claimants of Fastolf’s
property”]]

IX. JOHN PASTON CLAIMED AS THE KING’S ‘NATIVUS.’--See p. 225.[339-1]

FROM THE FIRST ASSEMBLY BOOK OF THE CITY OF NORWICH (fol. 65).

[Assembly on Friday after the Epiphany, 5 Edw. IV.]

[Sidenote: 1466 JAN. 10]

Eodem die publicata fuit per Maiorem et Recordatorem Civitatis causa
adventus domini de Scales ad civitatem secunda vice infra
xviij{cim} dies; est et fuit pro bonis et catallis Johannis Paston
quem dominus Rex pro suo nativo seisivit, ad dicta bona et catalla
in quorumcunque manibus comperta fuerint nomine domini Regis
seisiend’, et mesuagium[339-2] ipsius Johannis Paston infra
Civitatem intrand’ et seisiend’ cum omnibus bonis et catallis in
eodem inventis. Unde super et de materiis predictis per Recordatorem
et Consilium legis peritorum Civitatis responsum fuit dicto domino
de Scales omnibus viis modis et forma secundum eorum erudicionem
prout poterunt (? potuerunt) pro libertate Civitatis salvand’ et
custodiend’ illesa. Et quia materia predicta tangit libertatem
Civitatis et privilegia, et dictus dominus de Scales per aliquod
responsum ei factum non vult satisfieri, pro eo quod dictus dominus
de Scales intendit omnino dictum mesuagium intrare et clausuras
eiusdem frangere; Id circo presens communis congregacio summonita
fuit, consilium et avisamentum communis Consilii et
Constabulariorum[339-3] Civitatis audire et inde habere. Post vero
diversas communicaciones communicare petierunt deliberacionem;
matura deliberatione habita sic est deffinitum, quod introitus
factus erit per assensum totius communis congregacionis per
feoffatores ipsius Johannis Paston, quia bene suppositum est quod
tam certi Aldermanni quam Cives Communarii[340-1] Civitatis sint
cofeoffati cum ipso Johanne Paston; et sic per feoffatores dictum
mesuagium erit apertum sine fractura vel ad minus nomine ipsorum
feoffatorum vel feoffati unius.

[Footnote 339-2: The house is supposed to have been in the parish
of St. Peter Hungate, but it is not certainly known.]

[Footnote 339-3: About this period the 24 Ward Constables were
associated in an Assembly with the 60 Common Councillors. This is
why they are mentioned here, not with any reference to ‘police’
action.]

[Footnote 340-1: Members of the Common Council.]

[Footnote 339-1: For this extract from the Assembly books of the
City of Norwich I am indebted to the Rev. William Hudson of
Eastbourne, who further adds the following particulars:--

The Mayor this year was Thomas Elys who is mentioned in the
Paston Letters (iv. 139) as a great supporter of the Duke of
Suffolk and opponent of Paston.

The Recorder apparently was John Damme, I suppose the same who
occurs so often as a friend of the Pastons.

What with this divergence of feeling and the difficulty of
satisfying Lord Scales as well as their own duty towards the
City the case was a delicate one and was rather ingeniously
dealt with.

There is no other reference to the matter in the Norwich
documents so far as I am aware.]

[[p. 225 = shortly after sidenote “John Paston imprisoned
a third time”_]]

X. A CHRONOLOGICAL NOTE.

It is desirable here to correct an error in the text, which
unfortunately was discovered too late. Letters 1020-1022 are out of
their proper place. No. 1020 is certainly a letter of Elizabeth
Woodville, Edward IV.’s queen, not of her daughter Elizabeth, who
was Henry VII.’s. No. 1021 was placed after it as being about the
same time, which no doubt it was; and the fact that the Earl of
Oxford was out of favour for a considerable part of Edward IV.’s
reign made it appear as if both letters belonged to that of Henry
VII., to which they were accordingly relegated in previous editions.
But this Earl of Oxford was in favour under Edward IV. till the
restoration of Henry VI.; and No. 1022, a letter which only appeared
in the Supplement of the last edition of this work, was written by
John Daubeney, who was killed at the siege of Caister in 1469. The
reference to the Queen’s confinement, moreover, which was so
perplexing in the case of Elizabeth of York, fits exactly with the
August of 1467, in which month Elizabeth Woodville gave birth to a
daughter named Mary. This letter, therefore, was written on the 8th
August, which would be the ‘Saturday before St. Laurence’ day’ in
that year: and it must be noted that the footnotes on p. 107 are
entirely wrong. The Archbishop of York referred to in the letter was
George Nevill, and the Treasurer was Richard, Earl Rivers.

No. 1021 is perhaps before A.D. 1467, as Howard and Sir Gilbert
Debenham are believed to be intending ‘to set upon Coton,’ of which
apparently Sir Gilbert was in possession in April 1467 (see vol. iv.
No. 664, p. 274).

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