The Paston Letters: 1422-1509 A.D.

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James Gairdner
E. Arber, 1875
 

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Sivu xvii - God's sake let my mother take heed to my young brethren, that they be in none place where that sickness is reigning, nor that they disport not with none other young people which resorteth where any sickness is ; and if there be any of that sickness dead or infect in Norwich, for God's sake let her send them to some friends of hers into the country, and do ye the same by mine advice. Let my mother rather remove her household into the country.
Sivu lx - Duke," continues the historian, " and prayed the messenger to bear it to his nephew the Lord Richard with the same message for his comfort, who he thought had more need of comfort as one to whom such adversity was strange ; but himself had been all his days in ure therewith, and therefore could bear it the better.
Sivu xii - I beseech you,' writes Sir John Paston to his mother, ' on my behalf to advise him to be well aware of his dealing or language as yet ; for the world, I ensure you, is right queasy, as ye shall know within this month. The people here feareth it sore. God hath showed Himself marvellously like Him that made all, and can undo again when Him list, and I can think that by all likelihood He shall show Himself as marvellous again, and that in short time.
Sivu 50 - Many qwarellys ar pyekyd to get my brodyr E. and me ought of hyr howse ; we go not to bed unchedyn lyghtly, all that we do is ille doon, and all that Sir Jamys and Pekok dothe is well doon; Sir Jamys and I be tweyn. We fyll owght be for my modyr, with " Thow prowd prest " and
Sivu xxiii - If the matter were their own, they gave John Paston to understand, they could easily come to an understanding with him, but my lord was intractable. The duchess herself declined to interfere in the matter until my lord and the council were agreed, and the latter said that when they had mooted it to the duke ' he gave them such an answer that none of them all would tell it.
Sivu xxxviii - This report, however, was rather too highly coloured. The Duchess of Norfolk denied its accuracy to John Paston. The king, she said, had only asked the duke at his departure from Calais how he would deal with Caister, and my lord made him no answer. The king then asked Sir William Brandon, one of the duke's principal councillors, what my lord meant to do about it. Brandon had already received the king's commands to speak to the duke on the subject, and he said that he had done so ; but that my lord's...
Sivu xxxii - Friars doth, and that ye will see and speak with the thing yourself, and with her father and her mother, ere ye depart ; and « that it like you to desire John Lee's wife to send me a bill in all haste possible, how far forth the matter is, and whether it shall be necessary for me to come up to London hastily or not, or else to cast all at the Cock...
Sivu 166 - ... Derby. Item, ye make yow sywerer than I deme yow bee, for I deme that her frendes wyll nott be content with Bedyngfeldes sywerte, nor yowres. I deme thys mater will ocopy lenger leyser than ye deme for. Item, I remembre thatt thys mony that she sholde have is nott redy, but in the handes of marchauntes of the Estaple, whyche at a prove ye shall fynde per case so slakke payeres, that ye myght be deseyvyd ther by. I knowe dyverse have lost mony er they cowde gete ther dywtes owte off the Staple....
Sivu 170 - ... whech God knowyth I am full sory. But yf that ye loffe me, as I tryste verely that ye do, ye will not leffe me...
Sivu xx - The king entreateth my Lord of Clarence for my Lord of Gloucester; and as it is said he answereth that he may well have my lady his sister-in-law, but they shall part no livelihood as he saith, so what will fall can I not say.

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