A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 / Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Papyras Classics

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Chapter 14

Extract of A Letter from John Bokking to Sir John Fastolf: Dated on the Wednesday After Mid Lent Sunday, i.e. 15 March, 1457

[Paston Letters, vol. i. p. 154.]

“Lyke it your maistership to wyte, that as for tidings, the Counsell is, the fornone, at the blake Frires, for the ease of resortyng of the Lordes that ar withinne the toun; and at afternon at the white Frirers in Fletstrete, for the Lordis with owte the town; and all things shall come to a good conclusion with God is grace; for the Kyng shall come hidre this weke, and the Quene also, as some men sayn, and my Lord Buk and Stafford with hire, and muche puple. My Lord of Caunterbury takith grete peyne up on hym daily, and will write unto yow the certeynte of suche tidings as falle; and shuld have doon or this tyme, saf for that he wolde knowe an ende of the mattre.”