By Colin Richmond
The Pastons of Paston, Norfolk, are recognized for the gathering of letters and papers which undergo their identify. specifically 'the Paston Letters' were popular because the time of Horace Walpole, even if before they've got by no means been used systematically through historians of fifteenth-century England: they're either immensely beautiful to learn and fiendishly tricky to take advantage of as resource fabric from which to jot down heritage. This quantity describes, in vigorous and unique sort, the beginnings of the family's gentility and units out a few of the significant topics in their heritage among 1400 and 1500. a few of the subject matters are universal to all gentry households of the later center a while, a interval serious within the formation of the English polity. it could actually even be acknowledged that the Pastons epitomize a category which because the later heart a long time has ruled the English kingdom, English society and English tradition.
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Lording it over one's neighbours was a troublesome business. ' How they were going to 'dwelle at Paston' was the point. If as its manorial lord, then John Paston was certainly going to discover by experience his father's prediction. For the next twenty years he would have to fight to take the position there that his father was probably on the brink of winning in 1444. John's petition to parliament of 1460 for an outright grant from the Duchy of Lancaster of twenty-three copyhold messuages in Paston, Edingthorpe, and Bacton, of the right to hold a court leet with view of frankpledge for them, and of the services of the tenants, if successful would have brought fifteen years of uncertainty to a favourable close.
C. ), The Records of the City of Norwich, I (London, 1906), p. 28 7, footnote, state that the Pastons' house was on the north side of Princess Street. The Pastons acquired the advowson of St Peter Hungate only in 1458. 1 would like to picture, therefore, the vividly described scenes of Davis, no. 129 (in James Gresham's hand) as occurring on the short stretch of Princess Street between St George Tombland and St Peter Hungate, even though 'hadde ben in the toune' might suggest that James Gloys had crossed the Wensum on his way home.
94 CPR 1374-7, p. 211; CFR 1368-77, p. 336. CPR 1381-5, pp. 76, 79, 250, 351. See note 91, above. CPR 1399-1401, p. 173; cf. CCR 1399-1402, pp. Ill, 307, 308. 97 The last reference to him is in November 1406. 99 Geoffrey died, according to his obit in the 'Paston Book of Arms', in 1416. 100 As the 'Remembraunce' makes clear in its nostalgia for an earlier, more expansive age (which modern historians paradoxically think of as one of economic crisis and social dislocation),101 Geoffrey Somerton's collection of 'pens and halfpens' was crucial for 'the origins of the Pastons'.
