TO JOHN PASTON I 1464,  03, 
01  
To my ry&yogh;te reuerent and worchepfull fadyr John Paston, 
dwellyng in Castyr, be thys delyueryd. 
Ryth reuerent and worchepfull fadyr, i recomand me on-to yow, 
besechyng yow lowly of youyr blyssyng, desyiryng to her of youyr 
wellfar and prosperyté, the whyche i pray God preserue on-to 
hys plesans and to yowyr hertys desyir; besechyng yow to haue me 
excusyd þat ye had no wrytyng fro me syth þat i departyd 
frome [[y]]ow, for so God me helpe, i send yow a lettyr to London 
a-non aftyr Kandylmas by a man [[of]] my lordys and he for-gat to 
delyuer yt to yow, and so he browt to me the lettyr a-yen, and sythe 
þat tyme i kowd get no messenger tyll now. As for tydyngys, 
syche as we haue her i send yow. My lord and my lady ar in good hele, 
blyssyd be God, and my lord hathe gret labor and cost her in Walys for 
to tak dyuers gentyll-men her whyche wer consentyng and helpyng on-to 
þe Dwke of Somersettys goyng; and they wer apelyd of othyr 
se[r]teyn poyntys of treson. And thys mater, and by-cause the Kyng sent 
my lord woord to keep thys contré, is cause that my lord terythe 
her thus longe. And now the Kyng hathe geue my lord power whedyr he 
wole do execussyon vpon thes gentyllmen or pardon hem, whedyr that 
hym lyst; and as fertheforthe as i kan vndyrstand yet they schall haue 
grase. And as sone as thes men be com in, my lord is porposyd to come 
to London, whyche i supose schall be wyth-in thys fortnyth. The menys 
namys þat be apechyd ar thes.John Hanmer and William hys sone, 
Roger Pulyston and Edward of Madok. These be men of worchepe 
þat schall come in. The comonys in Lancasher and Chescher wer 
vp to the nombyr of a x ml or mor, but now they be downe a-yen, and 
on or ij of hem was hedyd in Chestyr as on Saterday last past. Thomas 
Danyell is her in Chesscher, but i wot not in what plase. He hathe sent 
 
iij or iiij letyrys to Syr John Howard syn my lord come hedyr. And 
othyr tydyngys her we none her but þat i supose ye haue herd 
be-for. i supose veryly þat it schall be so nye Estern er euer my 
lord come to London þat i schal not moue come home to yow 
be-for Estern, wher-for i beseche yow þat ye wole wychesaue that 
on of youyr men may send a byll to myn oncyll Clement or to some 
othyr man, who þat ye wole, in youyr name, þat they may 
delyuer me the mony tha[t] i am be-hynd of þis quarter syne 
Crystmas, and for the next qwarter in parte of þat some þat 
it plesyd yow to grant me by yer, for by my trowthe the felawchep haue 
not so myche mony as we wend to haue had be ryth myche, for my 
lo[r]d hathe had gret cost syn he cam hedyr; wherfor i beseche yow that 
i may haue þis mony at Estern, for i haue borowyd mony 
þat i must paye a-yen at Estern. And i pray to All-myty God haue 
yow in kepyng. Wretyn in þe castyll of the Holte in Walys the 
fyrst daye of Marche. Youyr sone and lowly seruant John Paston 
þe yongest