County: Lincolnshire
Code: L0287
Reference: London, BL Add. 34888
Function: Complaint




Right~ honorabulle and my right~ wurshipfulle Lord J recomaund me Vnto your gode lordship withe alle my seruice euermore desereng
to here of your prosperite and welfare the whiche J pray god encres / and contynue to his plesur and after your ovne hertes desire .
thankyng you of the gode lordship þt ye haue shewid me at alle tymes beseching you . alway of gode contynuance ples id
your gode lordship to be remembred . how afore this tyme hughe Wythom~ hathe said he wold be in~ rest & peese wt me
& not to maligne agayn~ me . oþer-wise þan~ lawe and right wold / / that notwithstandyng vpon~ Munday last past he
and iij men . wt him come into a seruuant hous of myn~ in~ boston~ cald Willia~ Shirref and þer as he sete at his werke .
stroke him . vpon the hede & in~ the body withe a dagger & wondet him . sore . & Pulled him out of his hous & set him
in~ preson~ wtout any cause resonabulle or wtout writ or any oþer processe shewid vnto him & þt me semes longes not for him
to do bot as he sais he is endited . & as your gode lordship knawes wele J and alle my seruantes are in~ like wise bot & any
man shuld haue done hit it longes other to the shirreff or to your baliff as J conceyve . and oþer cause he had non .
to him as fer as J kan knawe . bot alonly for the malissiousnes / þt he hathe Vnto me . ne J kan think non oþer bot
it is so and now . yistre nyght . my lord Welles come to boston~ wt iiijxx horses & in~ þe mornyng foloyng toke hym out
of preson~ sayng afore alle peple . fals thefe þu shalle be hanget & as mony of thy maistre men as may be goten
as your seruant John Abbot kan report vnto your gode lordship & hathe taken him away withe him to Tatessalle
what to do wt him J kan not say bot as J suppose to haue him to lincoln~ Castelle Wherfore J beseche your gode
lordship in~ þis mater to be my gode lord and at it please your gode lordship to write a letter to the Kepere of the Castelle
of lincoln~ þt it liked him to deliuer him out of preson~ Vndre a sufficient Seurety~ had for . him for and thai~ may~
kepe him . stille be þis meyne þai~ may take alle the seruantes þt J haue . & so J may do agayn~ in~ like wise . And also .
as J am enfourmed wtout he be had out of preson in~ hast it wille be right grevewis to him to heile of his hurt
he is so sore streken~ and if þer be any seruice þt þour gode lordship wille comaund me to do . in~ any cuntre . plesid you
to send me word and it shal be done to my power wt the grace of god whiche haue you my right~ honorabulle and
wurshipfulle lord alway in~ his blessid Kopyng Writen~ at Kyme . Vpon~ wednesday next after our~ ladi~ day the
Assumpcion~ /   Also plesie your gode lordship to wit after þis letter was made þer come a man fro Tatessalle into .
my fenne whiche oghe me gode wille . and be-cause he wold not be holden enspeit he speke wt wemen whiche
were mylkand Kye . and bad þeme goo to a preest of myn~ to Dokdike . and bid him fast goo gif me warnyng
how þt my lord Wilughby my lord Cromwelle and my lord welles Purposid þeme to set a sessions and hang
þe said Willia~ shirreff . & þai~ myght~ bryng þer entent abowte . & so . as J & your seruant John Abbot stode to-geder
þe prest come & gaf me warnyng herof Whiche J trist for my worship your gode lordship wold not shuld
happen for it were to me the grettest shame . þt myght falle . bot & it plese your gode lordship to write to
alle your seruantes in~ þis sh cuntr~ . þat þai~ wille be redy Vpon a day warnyng to come when J send þeme .
word J trist to god þai~ shal not hang him agayn~ the lawe . bot J wt help of your gode lorship shalle
be abulle to let hit
[signed: By your seruant
Willia~ Tailboys]