Selections from the Paston Letters, 1 tomas

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John Fenn, Alice Drayton Greenwood
G. Bell, 1920 - 492 psl.

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95 psl. - ... hath since Easter the most part been beaten once in the week or twice, and sometimes twice on a day, and her head broken in two or three places.
428 psl. - I purpose to lie at Bury as upon Tuesday night ; and that ye bring with you such company of tall men as ye may goodly make at my cost and charge, besides that which ye have promised the king ; and I pray you, ordain them jackets of my livery, and I shall content you at your meeting with me. Your lover, J. NORFOLK.
62 psl. - Also he asked the name of the Ship, and when he knew it, he remembered Stacy * that said, if he might escape the danger of the Tower he should be safe, and then his heart failed him, for he thought he was deceived.
16 psl. - RIGHT worshipful husband, I recommend me to you, desiring heartily to hear of your welfare, thanking God of your amending of the great disease that ye have had; and I thank you for the letter that...
61 psl. - Calais ward, to know how he should be received ; and with him met a Ship called Nicholas of the Tower with other Ships waiting on him, and by them that were in the Spinner, the Master of the Nicholas had knowledge of the Duke's coming. When he espied the Duke's Ships, he sent forth his Boat to weet what they were, and the Duke himself spoke to them, and said, he was by the King's Commandment sent to Calais ward, etc.
5 psl. - If I might have had my will, I should have seen you ere this time ; I would ye were at home, if it were your ease, and your sore might be as well looked to here as it is there (where) ye be now, lever (rather) than a new gown though it were of scarlet.
78 psl. - And my lord of Winchester (bishop), and my lord of St. John of Jerusalem, were with him the morrow after Twelfth day, and he did speak to them as well as ever he did, and when they came out they wept for joy. And he saith he is in charity with all the world, and so he would all the lords were.
59 psl. - And there as (whenever) any frailty maketh you to fall, beseech his mercy soon to call you to him again with repentance, satisfaction, and contrition of your heart, never more in will to offend him.
84 psl. - an evil precedent for the shire that a strange man should be chosen, and no worship to my lord of York nor to my lord of Norfolk to write for him ; for if the gentlemen of the shire will suffer such inconvenience, in good faith the shire shall not be called of such worship as it hath been.
95 psl. - ... of her, if she rule her to him as she ought to do. Cousin, it is told me there is a goodly man in your inn, of the which the father died lately, and if ye think that he were better for her than...

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