The Cely Papers: Selections from the Correspondence and Memoranda of the Cely Family, Merchants of the Staple, A.D. 1475-1488Henry Elliot Malden |
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Addressed Alveley aull Bregys Bretten broder brother George Cely Bruges byll Calais Caleys Callez Cely the younger comyng delyver delyverd Essex felles Flanders Flemish frome Furder more plese George Cely merchaunte grete grett hath hawe hawhe heyr howr father iiij iiija ij letters Item Syr John Dalton John Weston Kyng London Lord marte merchants mony Northleach nott owte payabull payd paye plese hytt yowre pray yow Rainham receyved recomend me unto Robard Rychard Cely Ryght sarpler sarten sayd sche schuld schypp servaunte Wylliam Cely Staple stappell ster Summa syche Syr plese ther ys thynges thys letter thys tyme tyll understond unto yowre masterschyppys viij viija weche whell whych wold woll wool worshyppffull wryt wryte wrytyng wull wyll Wylliam Maryon xiiij xiij yowre servaunte Wylliam
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Page 78 - Ramston a gentyllmane of hys iij s. iiij d. I pray yow make hym good scheyr for he has beyn good cellyssytor for ws...
Page 27 - I have lokyd and fwnde aulthyngs acordyng to yowr wrytyng howr father has payd for the knstnm v s. and Lokyngton haskys for frayte vj s. viij da ye not zeyt payd Syr I have bowte no fellz zeyt I departe to Addyrbery * te fyrste day of May and qwen I cwme agene I wyll wryte to yow mor playnely I pray yow se my godfathers letter and lete hyme se yowrs howr father marwwellys that he have no wrytyng frome you I pray yow wryt byt for hoype in ws to a whor dyscwmfortes for hever...
Page xxxviii - ... earth or rubbish with it. The collectors appointed by the company for the different wool-growing districts, and sworn in before the Exchequer, rode round and sealed each package, so that it could not be opened without breaking the seal. Then the great bales were carried on the backs of pack-horses " by the ancient trackways over the Wiltshire and Hampshire Downs, which had been used before the Roman conquest, and thence through Surrey and Kent to the Medway ports by the Pilgrims
Page 11 - Item the xxiiij day of November I have bogwyt of Wyllyam Medewynter of Norlache " xl sacke of good cottyswolde woll good woll and medell woll of the same xl sacke pryse the sacke of bothe good woll and medell woll xij...
Page 103 - Wynchecwme a and to mattens the same day come the zewnge gentyll whoman and her mother i law and I and Wylliam Bretten wher seyng mattens when thay com in to chyrche and when mattens whos done thay whente to a kynnys whoman of the zewnge gentty woman and I sent to them a pottell of whyte romnay and thay toke hyt thankefully for thay had cwm a myle a fote that monyng and when mes whos done I come and whelkwmyd them and kyssyd them and they thankyd me for the whyne and prayd me to cwm to dyner...
Page 29 - IV's French Expedition (Barnard) 4 r. All baner berrers and standarez berers to haue doble wages. | 1475-88 Cely Papers (Maiden) no. 29, father and mother wold that ze payd for hys bord at Callez and delyver hym V6 or mor in hys porse and ze to take a byll of hys hande of as mwche mony as ze lay houte for hyme. | 01475 Gregory's Chron. (ed. Gairdner, Camd. Soc.) p.
Page 108 - ... Bestiary 117, Al Se uenim Sat in his brest is bred. | 13. . Curs. M. 232, bis ilk bok it es translate In to Inglis tong to rede. | 31387 Trevisa, tr. Higden 2, 159, By comyxtioun . . . firste wib Danes and afterward wip Normans ... be contray longage is apayred. \ 1475-88 Cely Papers (Maiden) no. 93, hytt ys so that the town of Ary ys geven up to the Frensche men. | 11534 St. Th. More. Wks. (1557) 281 Aio, many mo thinges wer taught, than are written. | 1590 Shakesp., Com. Err. IV, i, 107, Tell...
Page 102 - ... 29, this .viij. yere I was not so slepy as I am now. | Idem 652, 22, Nay madame truly I ete no mete nyghe this thre dayes. | 1475-88 Cely Papers (Maiden) no. 74, here came non Holanders syn yow went. | Idem no. 77, I hawhe lettyrs fromy lorde wryte in Napwlles byt I red them not zeyt. | Idem no. 89, I spake not wyth the byschopys ofesars syn that I ressayvyd yowr letter. | 1476 Stonor Lett. (Camd.) no. 172, p. 15, I herde no worde ffrome hyme sith you departyd.
Page 138 - Callez and soo he hath spoken to me to wytt yff I hadd any wrytyng from yow of the matter that Peter Bale spoke to yowre masterschyppys of and I tellyd hym naye lykewyse as hytt ys that I hawe noo wrytyng from yow nott lattly wheroff he sayd he marvellyd never the less he desyryth to hawe the rest of yowre Cottessold woll...
Page 121 - I thank yow of the grette cher that ye dydde me at my laste beyng wytthe yow. | Idem no. 26, I thanke yow for aulle kyndnes schewyd be yow to me at yowr laste beynge heyr. Modern English 1500 Three Kings' Sons (EETS) 90, i, it sore annoied tham, their being there so longe.