241. . . RDE HALL TO SIR WILLIAM STONOR [1 JUNE, 1479?]
This letter—A.C., xlvi, 166—is much mutilated; it may perhaps relate to the same matter as No. 242. It begins:—
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.
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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACA1723.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2025.
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Page 80, vol. 2
"[I recommend m]e to you. Leke yowe Remembur the laste terme at Lundon y made labur to yowe ffor the delyveraunce. . . . . Standelf: at whiche time ye made a byll to your servaunde ffor the delyveraunce of the same. . . . . How be hytt, as hytt ys seyd, vij of the beste of the seyd catell reste yette with yowe. . . . . Prayng yow they may be de|lyvered accordyng to suche direction as wasse taken."
Halle then goes on to ask that:—
"þe day may be had as ye apoynted before Mydsomer: my ffather Rede wolbe redy with a resonable . . ., for he thyngketh he is nott kyndely deled with, rememberyng he wasse nevyr speke with in þat mater . . . [w]asse taken uppon the Assencion Eve, and uppon the Friday nexte aftur cam Lentall to hym . . . fro yowe, which he thynketh onkynde delyng. Accordyng to my promyse to yow at Lundon I wrote [la]tely to John Felowe for þe lande þat ye well know and incontinent upon the syght of my letter. . . . .
The remainder is too broken to extract any of the meaning.
. . . . . "the Tewysday in the Whytson. . . . ."
. . . rde Halle."
To his ryght worshipfull Sir William Stonor, knyght, this letter be delyvered.