Item ffor pt. (payment) off the same:
℞. off the forseid Danyell a byll payable at the sygȝth:
Summa lxij. li. vj. s. vij. g.
Item. ℞. off the same a byll payable the xxij day in Janyver next:
Summa lix. li. xiij. g.
Item. ℞. off the same a byll payable the xxij day in Jully next after þat: Summa lix. li. xiij. g.
Syr, and please you, as ffor the ffor seyd merchaunttes þat have bought your wolle be as good as eny þat came out off Flaundyrs, and ffor þat I have shewed theme the more ffavor and gevyn theme the more respyte off þat. And as ffor the land, I truste God, shaldo ryght welle nowe þat the trewse ys taken: and doctyr Coke ys come ffrome the Dewke off Borgon to Calez, and seyethe by promese of the dewke to hyme made that the ffl. goldys shalbe set down and have course lyke as they had in the Sympson int' a yere: the whiche, doctyr Coke seyethe, shold have benne donne a Thorseday þat last was at Bruges, but yet we here nothyng þer off: but þat same donne þat the merchauntes myght come to Calez with þe mone to be pd. without losse, yt is thought þer wold be gret ffett; and the same knowythe our lord, whome I bysyche ever to preserve your Ryght worshipffull Maysterchip. Wrettyn at Calez the xxiiij day in Jully.
Be your lowly servaunt daylly to my symple power, Thos. Howlok.
To my right honorable and worchipfull mayster, Syr Wylliam Stonor, knyght and merchaunt of þe Stapull at Calez.
224. THOMAS BETSON TO DAME ELIZABETH STONOR 31 JULY, 1478
"My lady Stokker" is Elizabeth Stonor's sister Margaret, wife of Sir William Stocker. "My cousin Anne" is Lady Stonor's daughter Anne Ryche, whose illness is referred to in No. 222. From A.C., xlvi, 238.
The enclosure has been separated from the letter and is now Ch. Misc., 37, iv, 28. It would seem that Betson arrived at the total of £12 6s. 8d. which he gives in the Letter by charging £2 6s. 8d. for the pipe of red wine and omitting his own costs of 1s. 4d.
