168 SOME OLD DOCUMENTS. 



comenycacions wythe my lorde, for the which I have cause to 

 thonke you and so I shall if I live, also I undurstonde by your 

 wrytynge that ye have spoken withe master chanseler, for the 

 which I am ryght glade, for yt was on of the best partes 

 that ye colde a don, and the wittest ; also I undurstonde by 

 your wr ytyng that maister chanseler does pray you to come into 

 englonde agayne when ye hade ones ben at Garnesay, and if ye 

 so do, I am therefore beholden to you and put no dowtes but I 

 schall se to youre costis ryght largely, also the gret point is 

 this, if ye colde be your wysdom get the bale a > and the jurats 

 to wryte to my lorde what my gydynd was when I was in the 

 isle and whedur that I gyet me accordyng to the lae< 2 ) there, and 

 I kno well that cholle be a gret plesure to my lorde, multam 

 sapienciam et nihil ei dicas, recommande me to Thomas 

 Blondell and to John Blondell and to Nicholas Fouachin with 

 all others such as ye suppose that owes me good will ; as for 

 Perton hyt is but fole to sende hym to me till I have ben ones 

 in Garnesay ; and also I ryde on monday next coming into 

 Lancashyre, and hit wyll be ner ester or I come agayne, but for 

 all that my materes shall not be onlaburt, also ye remember 

 that I solde to Edward Cortenay leffetenant to his brother 

 William Cortenay bothe wyne, sidre, besket, salt, gunpowder, to 

 the some of Xlll£, I understonde that the capten hathe taken 

 this mone of thaym, yat they asenct to pay me by obligacion, 

 wherefor I wyll avise the tenants that sholde a payde me to 

 take arest of the gret farmes at ester, tyll he have paide thayme 

 agayne that mone for be god I wyll be paide ones and the lawyll. 

 When ye come into englonde nexte I shall make you myn atornay 

 in that matter also I have wreten a letter to the bale I pray you 

 delyver hit to hym secretly, also such mone as ye gave to the 

 berer herof shal be aloude withe all other things as largely as 

 one man con thenke be reson for ye have wonen at this tyme 

 the stumast of my hert. I con wryt no more but I comet all 

 matters to youre wysdom, at Burton upon Trent in the last day 

 of fevrier . . . yere your treue lover James Norres. — De la quelle 

 lettre missive einsi examineie le dit Nicholas Henry requist 

 nostre lettre de recort qui luy fut ottrie selon droit. En 

 tesmoing des quelles choses le seel de la baillie de la dicte isle 

 de Guernesey a ces presentes est appendu les dictes parties 

 presentes Ian et le jour dessus dits. 



(En la possession de Charles Lefebvre, Ecuyer, Greffier de 

 la Cour Royale de Guernesey. Anno Domini 1478.) 

 (1) Note.— The Bailiff. (2) Law. 



