261. [ON BEHALF OF AGNES WYDESLADE] [1480]
This is the draft of a letter, which the mention of Wydeslade proves to have been written on behalf of Agnes Wydeslade, Sir William Stonor's second wife.
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.
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- 1919.
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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 April 29, 2025.
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Page 100, vol. 2
It was originally written in the first person, reading "my promise," "my hert," and "with me and desyred me". From A.C., xlvi, 269.
Whare at the departyr of your lordship, my maystresse promise was to conclude with no man in mariage in to the tyme she hadde putte your lordship in knowlychyche, and to have the ffavour and counseile of your good lordship: whareuppon your lordship promised her that your good lordship shold encline to soche a person as she myght ffynde in her hert to love and have in mariage: hit is so that a worshipfull knyght, syr Will. Stonard, hathe be with my seide mastresse and desyred her in mariage, to whom her hert is sette: besechyng your good lordship and favour in that behalve, acordyng to your promys by your good lord|ship to her made at your beyng last at Wydeslade.