<P_214>

<heading:edcomment:LETTER_CLXXV>

<font> To my uncle Plumpton this letter be delivered in hast . </font>
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,214.3)

Uncle Plompton , I commend me unto you . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,214.4)

It is so I am like to have busines for the lordship of Harwood .
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,214.5)

The Kinge is my good and gracias Lord , (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,214.6)

and hath granted it to me , with all the revenos and profitts thereof ,
duryng the nowne age of the heire of Heire Ridman .
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,214.7)

And as I am enformed , such folkes as be not my lovers , wold bysie
them in the cause ; (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,214.8)

how be it , they have no matter of law , nor right therin . Wherfore I
desire you , if there be any cause or matter of danger against me in
that behalfe , that ye will be with me , with such company as you can
make , at such tyme as I send to you ; at which your comyng ye shall se
a reasonable <P_215> suerty to beare me in the cause .
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.9)

And what ye will doe herin , I pray you send me word in writting be
this bearer . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.10)

And thus our Lord keepe you . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.11)

At Gaukthorpe , (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.12)

the xviii day of December . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.13)

Your nephew , William Gascoygne (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.14)

<heading:edcomment:18_Dec._anno_circiter_1515>

<heading:edcomment:LETTER_CLXXVI>

<font> To my Uncle Plompton be these delivered . </font>
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.17)

Uncle Plompton , I recomend me unto you , desiring you to call to your
remembrance the byrth of my nephew William Farfax , which was borne
with you at Plompton , and let me have the dayt of his birth .
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.18)

Also I pray you let me have the dayt of the marraige of my cosin Hair
and your daughter , which ye have in wrytting , as I am enformed ;
(GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.19)

and ye thus doyng bynds me to doe you as great a pleasure , which I
$shall $be {TEXT:shalbe} glad to doe , with the grace of God , who
preserve you to his pleasure , (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.20)

and thus fare ye well . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.21)

From Gawkthrop , (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.22)

the third day of March . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.23)

Your William Gascoyne . (GASCOIGNE-1510-E1-P1,215.24)

<heading:edcomment:3_March_15->