Chapter XII: Appendix: Wills (3)

18 Jan.
Errands to Marlingford, 940.
2 Feb.
Dr. Pykenham informs Margaret Paston that her son Walter is not yet
qualified to hold a benefice, 941.
4 Mar.
Walter Paston ready to take his B.A. and proceed in law, 944.
22 May.
He would be inceptor before Midsummer, 945.
30 June.
He takes his degree, 946.
7 July.
Plate of William Paston, 947, 951.
18 Aug.
Will of Walter Paston, 950.
21 Aug.
Deaths of Agnes Paston and Walter, 952.
26 Aug.
William Paston claims the manor of Marlingford, 953.
Sir J. Paston inquires about his grandmother’s will, 954.
29 Oct.
Sir J. Paston’s dispute with Suffolk, etc., 956.
He is very ill, 956.
Bishop Morton offers to mediate between him and his uncle William,
956, 957.
6 Nov.
The tenants of Crowmer know not who shall be their lord, 957.
25 Nov.
Money received and spent at the manor court at Cressingham, 961.
Nov.
Death and burial of Sir John Paston, 962.
John Paston wishes his brother Edmund to enter Marlingford, etc. in
his name, 962.
Proceedings of Edmund Paston at Marlingford and Oxnead, 963.
Dec.
The great mortality abated, 965.
Bishop Morton promises to favour John Paston against his uncle,
965.
Injuries done to John Paston by his uncle William, 966.

1479-80

Touching a tombstone for Sir John Paston, 967.
Inventory of plate, 968.

1480

24 Feb.
William Paston to John King, farmer of Harwelbury, 970.
John, Prior of Bromholm, to John Paston, desiring him to procure of
the Queen timber for his ‘dortour,’ 972.

About 1481?

Edmund Paston will see a widow in Worsted for his brother William,
974.
Edmund Paston desires his mother’s forgiveness that he and his wife
have not waited on her, 975.

1482

4 Feb.
Margaret Paston’s will, 978.
John Paston to his mother about her will, 979.
1 Nov.
Tenants of Marlingford molested by William Paston’s officers, 982,
983.
Declaration of William Barker and Margaret, widow of William
Worcester, in behalf of William Paston, 985.
Inventory of John Paston’s books, 987.
Verses by a lady to an absent lord, 988.

EDWARD V

1483

11 June.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to Lord Nevill, desiring him to come up
to London with a body of men, 992.
Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk, to John Paston, requesting him to
leave his lodging for a few days, 993.

RICHARD III

1483

10 Oct.
The Duke of Norfolk to John Paston on an insurrection in the Weald
of Kent, 994.
Oct.
_The Duke of Buckingham’s rebellion._

1484

1 May.
An order by the Duke of Suffolk to a farmer to pay money, 997.
Complaints of John Paston against his uncle William, 998.
4 Nov.
Death of Margaret Paston, 999.
Manors of Stansted and Harwelbury, 1000.

1485

23 June.
_Proclamation of Richard III. against Henry Tudor_, 1001.
1 Aug.
_The Earl of Richmond lands at Milford Haven_, 1002.
22 Aug.
_The Battle of Bosworth._

HENRY VII

1485

23 Sept.
Dame Elizabeth Browne to John Paston about the circumstances of her
father’s death, 1003.
3 Oct.
The Countess of Surrey complains to J. Paston that her husband’s
servants have been discharged by Lord Fitzwalter, 1004.
20 Oct.
Proclamations ordered against rebels confederated with the Scots,
1006.

1486

24 Feb.
Alice, Lady Fitzhugh, to John Paston about her ‘daughter Lovel’s’
suit for her husband, 1008.
19 May.
_Viscount Lovel escaped into the Isle of Ely_, 1009.

[[19 May.
_period missing or invisible_]]

1487

24 Jan.
Lord Lovel’s adherents, 1012.
The Prior of Norwich touching a bequest of Judge Paston to his
monastery, 1013.
May.
_Rebellion of Lambert Simnel_, 1014, 1015.
16 June.
_Battle of Stoke_, 1016.
Dame Elizabeth Brews to Sir J. Paston for twelve men in harness to
recover a distress, 1017.

1488?
The Bishop of Chester asks of widows more than they can pay,
1018.

1486-95

Sir J. Paston to Dame Margery, his wife, for a plaster for the
King’s attorney, James Hobart, 1019.

1488

_Sir Edward Woodville goes over unauthorised to aid the Duke of
Brittany_, 1026.
_Rebellion against James III. in Scotland_, 1026.

1489

2 Feb.
A whale taken off Thornham, 1029, 1030.
7 Mar.
The Earl of Northumberland agrees with the King about keeping out
the Scots, 1031.
Intended progress of the King to Norfolk, 1031, 1033.

1486-9

Edmund Paston appointed receiver of lands of Lord Scales, 1034,
1035.

1489

22 April.
Henry VII. to the Earl of Oxford--_favourable news of the war in
Brittany_, 1036.
28 April.
_Insurrection in Yorkshire--the Earl of Northumberland killed_,
1037, 1039.
6 May.
Sir J. Paston ordered to meet the King at Cambridge with a body of
men, 1038, 1039.

1490

27 Jan.
Sherwood, Bishop of Durham, to Sir John Paston, 1040.
Humorous petition of Sir J. Paston to Lord Fitzwalter, 1042.
The Earl of Surrey certifies that Thomas Hartford is not a
Scotchman, 1043.

1491

6 April.
Complaints of the King of Denmark against English ships resorting
to Iceland, 1046.
[Sept.]
The old and new Bailiffs of Yarmouth ask Sir J. Paston’s mediation
with the Earl of Oxford, 1048.
Oct.
The Earl of Oxford to Sir J. Paston about Richard Barkeley and his
ship, 1049-51.

1492

18 Feb.
Preparations for the invasion of France, 1053, 1054.
30 April.
William Barnard to William Paston complaining that he has been
obliged to keep a prisoner at his own cost, 1055.

1492-3

Letters of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, in behalf of Thomas
Martin, 1061, 1064.

1493

Proposal of Sir R. Clere for the marriage of Sir J. Paston’s son,
1064.

1494

Nov.
_Creation of the King’s second son as Duke of York_--Knights of the
Bath made on the occasion, 1058.

1495

3 July.
_Attempt of Perkin Warbeck to land at Deal_, 1059, 1060.
Young William Paston, at Sir J. Fortescue’s place on account of the
plague at Cambridge, 1062.

1497-1503

Margaret, Countess of Richmond, to [Sir J. Paston?] touching the
inheritance of the daughters of William Paston, 1063.

1499

20 Aug.
Sir J. Paston to inquire who were privy to the Earl of Suffolk’s
flight beyond sea, 1065.

1500

20 Mar.
Sir J. Paston to be ready to attend on the Princess Catherine of
Spain on her arrival in England, 1066.

Before 1503

Proposed marriage of Clippesby with a niece of Sir J. Paston,
1069

After 1503

William Paston, Sir John’s brother, ‘crased in mind,’ 1072.
The Earl of Oxford’s steward to the ‘Black Knight,’ in Latin verse,
1073.

1503

6 Feb.
Award touching East Beckham between Sir John Paston and Roger
Townsend, 1074.
6 Sept.
Archbishop Warham to William Paston on the death of his father, Sir
John, 1075.
John Kendal to [William Paston?] touching lands bought of the
executors of Nich. Pickering of Filby, 1076.

1506

31 Jan.
_Account of the Visit of Philip, King of Castile, to Henry VII. at
Windsor_, 1078.

ERRATA

[Transcriber’s Note:

This final page--printed at the end of Volume VI, after the Index--is included for completeness. All listed corrections have been made in their respective volumes.]

VOL. I.

Page 122, line 15, _for_ ‘Bourges’ _read_ ‘Bourg.’

VOL. II.

Page 30, line 7 from bottom of No. 15, _for_ ‘No. 8,’ _read_ ‘No. 13.’

„ 154, _add_ to footnote 3, ‘He was slain at the second battle of St. Albans on the 17th Feb. 1461.’

VOL. III.

Page 135, footnote 1, strike out the words after ‘Elizabeth Paston,’ on third line from the bottom, and _add_, ‘was no longer the wife of Robert Poynings, but his widow, for he was killed at the second battle of St. Albans on the 17th Feb. 1461.’

VOL. V.

Page 310, note 1, _for_ ‘Henry IV.’ _read_ ‘Edward IV.’

„ 314, note 1. This suggestion is quite a mistake. See ‘my Robert’ in the PS., p. 315.

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