People and Events
through the Centuries
REFERENCES TO
COSTESSEY, NORFOLK, ENGLAND
in the
Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part
I
John Paston I
TO MARGARET PASTON, JOHN DAUBENEY, AND RICHARD CALLE 1465, 06, 27
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he next rent day after his entré, that is Michelmes. And seye þat
ye will be paijd euerj pené, and aske hem it, and make mech of men
of Cossey becawse þey wer owr welwilleris
when we wer neyboris ther; and lete hem wete þat þe begynneris
of shec
TO MARGARET PASTON 1465, 07, 13
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. And as for þe mater, so þey ouercome yow not with fors ne
bosting I shall have þe maner sewrlyer to me and myn þan þe
Dewk shall haue Cossey, dowt ye not. And jn
cas I come not hom within thre wekis, I pray yow come to me; and Wyke
Margaret Paston
TO JOHN PASTON I 1453, 04, 20
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come to hym if ye had be at hom. And he told me þat he wost wele
þat he shuld send for yow when he come to London, boþe for
Cossey and othere thyngys. I pray yow þat
ye woll do yowr cost on me ayens Witsontyd, þat I may haue somme
th
TO JOHN PASTON II 1465, 07, 06
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ydyngys, in goyng forth to hys fadyr or in-to sum other place quere we
may hafe remedy. For yt ys told me þat þere ar come to Cossey
omward more than ij hundred, and þer ys comyng, as yt ys seyd,
more than a thowsand. I wold þat e sen
TO JOHN PASTON I 1465, 07, 12
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re materys. The Duk of Suffolk and bothe þe duchessys schal com to
Claxton thys day, as I am informyd, and thys next weke he schal be at Cossey
; whethere he wol come ferthere hyddyrward ore not I wot not yit. It is
seyd þat he schold com hyddyre
TO JOHN PASTON I 1465, 08, 07
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that he had hem be-cause he was the more pesibill man, wham afterward thei
bode avoyde, and sithen led forth Thomas Bonde to Cossey,
and bownde his armes be-hynde hym wyth whippe-cord like a theffe, and shuld
haue led hym forth to þe
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e morwyn or þei yede to the shire hous, and enformed hem of such
ryottes and assaugthis as thei had mad vp-on me and my men, the baly of
Cossey and all þe Duke of Suffolk councell
beyng there present and all þe lerned men of Norffolk and William
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resent and all þe lerned men of Norffolk and William Jeney and myche
pepill of þe contré; the juge callyng þe baly of Cossey
be-for them all and yaffe hym a gret rebuke, comaundyng the shereffe to
se what pepill thei had gadred
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ges of ther vntrouthe and of ther gidyng, and of oure gidyng in like wice,
and after the juges vndrestod the trouthe he gaue the baly of Cossey
be-for me and many other a passyng gret rebuke, seyng wythoute he
amended hes condicion and gouernaunc
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and to send men of hes owne to serue it. And so he sent ij of hes men wyth
Richard Lynsted and wyth ij of your scheperdes to Cossey
for the schepe, and ther they were answerd þat Yeluerton cleymeth
the properté, and so wer t
TO JOHN PASTON I 1465, 10, 17
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re, and Davy Arnald your cook, and William Malthows of Aylsham taken at
Heylesdon be the balyf of Ey, callid Bottisforth, and led for to Cossey,
and there thei kepe hem yet wyth-ought any warant or autoryté of
justice of peas; and thei sey thei wu
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vowyd for he is sore thret. It is told me þe old lady and þe
Duke is set fervently a-geyn vs be the enformacion of Harlesdon, þe
baly of Cossey, and Andrewys, and Doget þe
balys sone, and suych othere fals shrewys the which wuld haue thes matere
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logge and the remenaunte of your place was betyn down on Tuesday and Wednesday,
and þe Duke rode on Wednysday to Drayton and so for to Cossey
whill þe logge at Heylesdon was in þe betyng down. And þis
nyght at mydnyght Thomas Sleyforth, Grene,
INVENTORY OF GOODS STOLEN Soon after 1465, 10, 17
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x wolfellys, a spere staff. Shepe /Item, taken a-way vppon Drayton grounde
at on tyme by the baylly of Cossey and othere,
cc shepe callyd hoggys. Item, at a-nothere tyme vppon the same grownd,
iiijxx hoggys and x
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Item, at a-nothere tyme vppon the same grownd, iiijxx hoggys and xl theyves.
/Item, at a-nothere tyme at Haylesdon, by the baylly of Cossey
and Bottesford and othere, viijc modere shype and cccc lambes. Memorandum,
a gowne of Richard Calle pri
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Item, v ston of woulle. Item xxx woulle fellys. /Item, taken at Heylesdon
and at Drayton xjc scheppe and iiijc lambes be þe balyff of Cossey
Master Philipp Lippieate and othre of þe Duke of Suffolk men.
Memorandum that Pers Waron saythe that t