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- Record Id:
- 040-002030883
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- 032-002030882
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- Title:
- Paston Letters and Papers
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Contents: Volume 1 of four volumes (Additional manuscripts 27443-27446) in this series of correspondence and papers of the Paston family of Norfolk from c. 1425 to c.1520: The documents in this volume date from c.1425 to c.1466
f. 74: List of conquests of Charles VI or France and Henry V of England, 1417-1419;
ff. 75-77: Memorandum of William Paston to Arbitrators concerning Walter Aslak, 1426-1427 (Davis, no 5);
f. 78r: Draft of a pleading concerning the Abbey of Bermondsey, annotated by William Paston I (see Davis no. 2);
f. 78v: Letter from William Paston I to a lawyer in Rome about Bromholm Abbey, 5 November, 1425 (Davis, no. 2);
f. 79: Letter from John Paston, alias Wortes, Prior of Bromholm and Bishop of Cork, to the Lawyers of the Temple, 23 January, 1426 (Davis, no 868);
f. 80: Letter from William Paston I to William Worstede, John Longham and Piers Shelton (Davis, no 4);
f. 81: Capias warrant against William Stayard of Great Yarmouth, lieutenant of Thomas Chaucer, believed to have been the son of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1426;
f. 82: Release by William Steyard of Great Yarmouth to Dame Elizabeth Rothenhale, widow of Sir John Rothendale, 1426 (see Davis, no. 423);
f. 83 Letter from Elizabeth Rothendale to William Paston I, 26 January, 1426 (Davis, no 423);
f. 84: Notice of Gresham Manor; Norfolk, in Latin, 1426;
f. 85: Letter from Rauf, or Ralph Wolman, parson of Cressingham, to William Paston I, 20 September, ?1443 (Davis, no 427);
f. 86: Letter of John Vaux, Rector of Edingthorp, in French;
f. 87: Letter from William Paston I to the Vicar of the Abbot of Cluny (Davis, no 6); recipe for ale in the hand of William Paston I (Davis, no 7);
f. 88: Letter from William Paston I to John Berney (Davis, no 9);
f. 89: Recovery of lands of Sir Simon Felbrigge from Richard, Abbat of St. Benets Hulme, and others, 1429-1430;
f. 90: Report by William Burgeys of advice by William Paston I on his suit against R. Rowse, before 1445 (Davis, no. 872);
f. 91: Letter from Alianor Chambre to William Paston I, November, 1442 (Davis, no. 426);
f. 93: Deposition by James Gresham and others against John Hauteyn, after 7 September, 1443 (Davis, no. 871);
f. 94: Letter from John Maryot to William Paston I, 9 September, 1443 (Davis, no. 431);
f. 95: Letter from William Wotton to William Paston I, before 1444 (Davis, no. 433);
f. 96: Letter from an unidentified person to John Paston I, late 1444 (Davis, no. 441);
f. 97: Letter from Robert Lord Willoughby to John Paston I, 16 December, before 1452 (Davis, no. 482)
f. 98 Letter between Ralph Boteler, Baron Sudeley and John, Viscount Beaumont and the bailiffs and Jurats of Jersey,
f. 99: Letter from Edmond Paston I to John Paston I, 5 July, 1447 (Davis, no 79);
f. 100: Letter from Thomas, 7th Baron Scales to Thomas Gnateshale, 14 August, ?1448-1451 (Davis, no. 879);
f. 101: Draft will of Edmond Paston I, 21 March, 1449 (Davis, no. 80);
f. 102: Letter from Margaret Paston to John Paston I, 2 April 1449 (Davis, no 133);
f. 103: Letter from William Paston II to John Paston I, 16 June, 1452 (Davis, no. 81);
f. 104: Crown grant to John Bray, in French,
f. 105: Letter from Margaret Paston to John Paston I, 15 February, 1449 (Davis, no. 131);
f. 106: Letter from Elisabeth Clere to John Paston I, Easter, before 1460 (Davis, no. 600);
f. 107: Letter from Lord Scales to John Paston I, 16 October, 1459 (Davis, no. 596);
f. 108: Memoranda in Latin by William Worcester, alias Botener, relating to the Paston family, 1450-1452; (see Davis, nos. 137, 449, 483);
f. 109: Letter from James Gresham to John Paston I, 8 July, 1450 (Davis no. 454);
f. 110: Letter from James Gresham to to John Paston I, before 1467 (Davis, no. 703);
f. 111: Letter from the Earl of Oxford to Sir Miles Stapleton and Thomas Brews, copy enclosed in a letter to John Paston I, Bodley MS Douce 393, f. 88, 21 August, 1450 (Davis no. 456a);
f. 112: Letter from the Earl of Oxford to the Duke of Norfolk, 21 August, ?1450 (Davis, no. 984);
f. 113: Letter from William Paston I to James Gresham (Davis, no 39);
f. 114: Letter from the Vicar of Sporle to John Paston I, 29 September, ?1450 (Davis, no. 470);
f. 115: Letter from ?William Yelverton to John Paston I, October, 1450 (Davis, no. 463);
f. 116: Letter from James Gresham to John Paston I, October-November, 1450 (Davis, no. 462);
f. 117: Letter from William Yelverton to John Bokkyng, November, 1450 (Davis, no. 878);
f. 118: Letter from Sir John Fastolf to Thomas Howes, 20 December, 1450 (Davis, no. 996); the lower half of this letter was acquired with Add MS 39848 (Phillips 9735) in 1919 and incorporated into this manuscript: a note on f. [iv];
f. 119: Letter from Margaret Paston to John Paston I, 29 December, 1461 (Davis, no 167);
f. 120: Letter from Richard Calle to John Paston I, 5 November, 1461 (Davis, no. 649);
f. 121: Fragment of a letter from Sir John Fastolf to ?Thomas Howes, ?December 1450 (Davis, no. 998);
f. 122: Letter from the Earl of Oxford to Sir John Fastolf, 2 January, 1451 (Davis, no. 1000).
The versos of some of the letters have the address and a wax seal visible.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Add MS 27443-27446 : Paston Letters and Papers
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- A collection of letters and papers bound together
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- 1425-1466
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Paper, with a few documents on parchment;
Dimensions: 455 x 355mm; the dimensions of the letters vary.
Foliation: ff. 122 (+3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Green leather with gold tooling and marbled end-papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance: William Paston (b. 1653/4, d. 1732) 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, by descent through the Paston family.
Peter le Neve (d. 1729), collector and antiquary, purchased by him from William Paston (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900), I, p. 4).
Thomas Martin (d. 1771), antiquary of Palgrave, acquired by him as executor of Peter le Neve (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 4).
John Worth, chemist of Diss, sold by him in 1774 to John Fenn (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 6).
John Fenn (b. 1739, d. 1794), antiquary, the 5th of five volumes of Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III...., prepared by him but published in 1823 by his nephew, Sarjeant Frere, after his death (now Additional MSS 27443-27446). Volume I and II of Fenn's original series were published in 1787, are now bound as four volumes, Additional MSS 43488-43491and volume III and IV were published in May 1789, now Additional MSS 34888 and 34889.
?John Frere (b. 1740, d. 1807), landowner and antiquary of Roydon Hall, brother-in-law of John Fenn and inheritor of his library, though his son, William Frere, was unable to find Fenn's manuscripts in the library in 1823 (see Davis, Paston Letters (2004), I, pp. xxviii-xxx).
Philip Frere (b. 1821), F.R.S., by descent and found by him at Dungate in Cambridgeshire in 1865; sold by him to the British Museum on 13 October, 1866.
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Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III..., ed. by John Fenn, 5 vols (London, Robinsons, 1787-1823), V (1823).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1882), II, p. 321.
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., ed. by James Gairdner, 4 vols (Westminster, 1900-1901); 6 vols (London and Exeter, 1904).
H.S. Bennett: The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937).
Norman Davis, 'A Scribal Problem in the Paston Letters', English and Germanic Studies, 4 (1952), 31-64.
David Stoker, ''Innumerable letters of good consequence in history': the discovery and first publication of the Paston letters', The Library, 6th series, 17 (1995), 107–55.
Colin Richmond, The Paston family in the fifteenth century, 3 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996-2001).
The Paston women: Selected letters: trans. by Diane Watt (Cambridge; D.S. Brewer, 2004).
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Norman Davis, 3 vols, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 20-22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [an edition of the texts in this and other manuscripts, with notes and additional bibliography].
Alexander Bergs, Social networks and historical sociolinguistics: Studies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters, 1421-1503 (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005).
Joel T. Rosenthal, Margaret Paston: ?1422-1484 (Dereham, Norfolk: Larks Press, 2009).
Jukka Tyrkkö, 'The positioning of adverbial clauses in the Paston letters' in Meaning in the history of English: Words and Texts in Context, ed. by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2013), pp. 211-28.
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