The Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483; ed. for the Royal historical society, from the origial documents in the Public record office, by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

156. EDMUND STONOR TO [WILLIAM STONOR] [? 1475]

See the note prefixed to the last letter. This letter must be earlier than No. 181, since John Blakall is alive. It is not therefore likely to be much later than No. 155. The right-hand margin of the letter is defaced, and some words have been supplied conjecturally in brackets. Pishill is the next village to Stonor on the north-west. From A.C., xlvi, 8.

My rygth wurschypfull Brothyr, I recommaund me unto yow, desyryng to her off your wellfare, the qwyhych almyghty [Jhesu] contynw: doyng yow to wytt that John Blakall browtt to Stonor a dyker for to make yowr dykes in . . . . . feld betwen the hy way and the ew tre: and John Mathew and I wolde a mad a bargeyn with hym but we [cowd] nott styll there on, nedyr we wyst nott how ye wold have hytt, whedyr ye wold have hytt sengyll dydge or [dobyll] dydge, and therffor we mad no bargeyn with hym: but I askyd hym how he wold do a perdge of sempyll dydge, and for . . d. he wold a don hytt a dobyll, sett hym with whit thorn, and a mad the dydge a yerd deppe: and yff hytt wold plesse yow to [send] word to John or to me whedyr ye wold have hytt dobyll dydge or senkyll, and what ye wull geve for a perdge we [wull] send for hym, and yff we can acord off the prys he schall still awayt and begyne. And also brothyr, wher ye speke to B . . es carpenter so to make yowr myll hows, he sayeth he can nott mak hytt but he mak hytt new: but Wyllyam Ale . . swyk [sayeth] that [he] with thyn lytyll space wyll mak ye þat hows to stand ther xx yere, and okapy but lytyll new tymbyre: and we thy[nk] hyt wer þe lestt schardge to yow so, thane to mak a new hows. But I beseche yow brothyr latt not yowr carpenter know þat I send yow thys now. No more to yow brothyr at thys tyme, but the trinyte have yow in hys kepynge. And ye schuld have a Monday next comyng a xl plowys in Pyssyll felde.

Your brothyr Edmund Stonor.

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