A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

10 (b). To all pepyll [that] thys present letter behold or see, William of Hopton sent gretyng in owre lord. Know ȝe me to be hold and be thys presont letter feyth|fully to be bownd to Thomas W. of Cryssyngham in a cli. of good and lawfull mony, for qweke [folio 75b] goodes to me sold and delyueryd in the Town of Norampton, on þe day of thys present letter makynge, wer-of I am wyll content; of the wyche cli. of the forseyd

starlynges I am bownd, and be my good feyth permettyd to pay and delyuer to þe same Thomas or to hys sorteyn attornyys, thys letter schoynge, at Lyncoll with-in þe nexth viij day after the wych presont letter mad byn syn and schowyd, with-owt ony ferder delay; and on to thys payment so feythfully to be don I bynd me, my eyres and my executores. And on to the more suerte of thys thyng to be don I haue fownd thys suertys vnder wryttyn, that ys to sey, John of Snorynges, Thomas of Rockelond; the wych hyr selys to-geder hau put with my sell, alternatly, to thys present letter hau put to; be thys wetnessys, A., &c. ȝowyn at Norampton on Hallownesse day, the ȝere of the reyn of kynge E. þe iij after conquest, iij ȝere.