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	Paston Letters - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Paston Letters collection of personal and business correspondence, mostly among members of the Paston family of Norfolk, England.
		A portion of the letters was published by James Fenn in 1787 and 1789, but the original manuscripts disappeared and doubt of their authenticity grew.
		A case study of women's literacy in the early seventeenth century: the Oxinden family letters.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pastonl1e.html (390 words)

	Margaret Paston, et al.
		The Pastons were a prominent but not aristocratic Norfolk family, who seem to have spent much time defending their property against the incursions of aristocrats who had greater influence at the royal court and in the law courts.
		The family letters don't speak of her until she is almost 20; then for the next seven years, there was much talk of arranging a marriage for her, but nothing worked out.
		Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century (2 vol); edited by Norman Davis.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/pastons.html (4073 words)

	PASTON LETTERS - Online Information article about PASTON LETTERS
		The papers which had been in the hands of Sir John Fenn did not, however, comprise the whole of the Paston letters which were extant.
		John Paston left at least five sons, the two eldest of whom were, curiously enough, both named John, and the eldest of whom had been knighted during his father's lifetime.
		Winchester, the representative of the excluded executors, by which some of the estates were surrendered to the bishop for charitable purposes, while Paston was secured in the possession of others.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PASTON_LETTERS.html (2515 words)

	Paleography Exercises
		The above is one of the famous Paston letters, a uniquely comprehensive selection of personal family letters from the late medieval period.
		The Pastons were an upwardly mobile Norfolk family living in times of great social change and unrest.
		The collection of their letters of the 15th century has proved a rich lode for historians to mine, showing, as they do, aspects of life outside the officially recorded doings of kings and courts.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /exercises/paston1/flpaston1.htm (475 words)

	Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I [a machine- readable transcription]
		Letter 6 TO THE VICAR OF THE ABBOT OF CLUNY: DRAFT
		Letter 112 MEMORANDUM TO THE DUCHESS OF NORFOLK
		Letter 253 INDENTURE OF RELEASE AND QUITCLAIM OF FASTOLF MANORS
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /toc/modeng/public/PasLett.html (1001 words)

	- Roberta Mullini, Tradition and innovation in the Paston women's 'ego-documents'
		Margery, the wife of one of Margaret's sons, is the most 'romantic' of the three: her love letters to her prospective fiancé let one glimpse a deep change in the definition of the female self at the end of the century.
		This is the case of a letter by Elizabeth Paston sent to her mother Agnes, some years after a rebellious attempt at resisting a presumably forced marriage and when at last the young lady had accepted what her mother wanted from her.
		As wives, the Paston women are always in charge of taking care of their domestic life, but since their husbands and sons are often far away, they must also look after other aspects of the family properties, superintend their servants and retainers, be the official representatives of the family during social encounters and meetings.
	www.women.it /cyberarchive/files/mullini.htm (3898 words)

	Cursive Book Hand
		This is a private letter from an individual, not the work of a professional scribe.
		Ascenders of letters such as b, d, h, k, and l tend to be looped, while descenders of g and y are open and curvy.
		Some letters are variable in form, the letter r particularly so, while s appears in both the tall and the short and curly form.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/examples/letter1.htm (414 words)

	The Pastons - 15th Century Family
		The following events are taken from those described in the letters of the Paston family covering the exposure of the secret romance between Margery Paston and the family's bailiff Richard Calle as well as the Siege of Caister castle.
		The Paston Letters are significant as they provide both a uniquely candid and detailed insight into the life of this family, who while being a member of the landed gentry (and far from common) were not aristocrats.
		While in a letter Richard vowed that he would not steal any money as a result of his actions, neither would he collect it, and so used his possession of these documents as an insurance policy of sorts against potential action that could be taken against him by the family.
	www.tabula-rasa.info /JamesAdams/treasure_trove/pastons/pastons.htm (1858 words)

	Readings in Early English - Middle English Texts
		This letter dates from 1448, and is one of the Paston Letters, the largest surviving archive of private correspondence in English from the ME period.
		Whereas the body of the letter is written in a fairly colourless variety of late-fifteenth-century English, the postscript is written in markedly Norfolk dialect (cf.
		The letter is no 129 in N.Davis ed., Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), which is the standard edition.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/ugrad/readings/Middle/paston.htm (1303 words)

	'Innumerable letters of good consequence in history'
		Had the Paston Letters ever fallen into their hands it is likely that they would have suffered the same fate as several other early manuscript collections.
		Robert Paston was later rewarded for the loyalty of his father by elevation to the peerage in 1673, as the first Earl of Yarmouth from 1679, but the family fortunes never recovered from the set-back.
		It may be that neither man wanted to advertise his possession, or the potential value, of the letters too widely lest there should be some further claim upon him from some of the institutional creditors who were eventually forced to settle for a fraction of what they were due.
	users.aber.ac.uk /das/texts/pastart.htm (4943 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Paston Letters : A Selection in Modern Spelling: Books: Norman Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them, in the earliest great collection of family letters written in English, an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England.
		England on the eve of the modern period was a troubled place, but the Pastons made the most of it, rising from Norfolk farming to national celebrity.
		Their letters (covering a period from about 1420 to 1503) give a remarkably modern idea of their characters and much fascinating information about daily life, society, commerce and the law.
	www.amazon.ca /Paston-Letters-Selection-Modern-Spelling/dp/0192836404 (415 words)

	Paston
		The Paston Book of Arms is a mid-fifteenth century manuscript containing a French grammar, obits and pedigees of some Norfolk families and a collection of seventy-three painted shields of arms representing the relations and alliances of the Paston, Barry and Mautby families.
		The Paston book of arms is at the same time a visual representation of the alliances concluded by members of the Paston family and in many cases these arms portrayed do not belong to the direct ancestors of the Paston family.
		The marriage of Beatrix Somerton to Clement Paston accounts for five of the painted arms in MS Rye 38, while a further five coats in the book of arms may tenuously and hopefully be attributed to individuals who may or may not have been Somerton relatives.
	heraldry.freeservers.com /pastons.htm (5206 words)

	The Paston Letters
		A collection of letters and documents of the wealthy Paston family of Norfolk written between the years 1422-1509 that are of enormous value as a straightforward personal account of three generations.
		Another two volumes of Paston letters were published in 1789; a fifth followed in 1825.
		Dam and I knelyd at the beddys fete.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /bmarriott/Pastons.htm (5419 words)

	Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century
		Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Parts I and II.
		He was also the first to point out which letters were autograph and which were written by a clerk.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1671_286/ai_n13798898 (293 words)

	LRB \| Helen Cooper : Family Fortunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pastons managed to avoid most of the bloodshed directly associated with the civil war, but there was plenty of violence at a local level, and although no members of the family were killed it was more luck than circumstance that preserved them; a well-padded doublet proved useful even on the streets of Norwich.
		One of the Pastons’ less attractive acquaintances, Thomas Daniel, got his foothold in Norfolk by promising his sister in marriage to the head of a local family and persuading him to sign over his land in trust in preparation for the marriage settlement, only to reveal that the girl was already married.
		The Pastons spent much of the century involved in either litigation or overt conflict over the various estates to which they laid claim, and of those, the most substantial, and therefore the most desirable, was Caister.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n15/coop01_.html (2396 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Margaret Paston, whose letters provide a window into 15th-century England, was one of several female correspondents in the famous Paston letters.
		Taken together, the letters of Margaret, her mother-in-law, Agnes, and her daughter-in-law, Margery, span nearly an entire century and reflect many changes in personal relationships and ways of life.
		Restricted by their status as females, these women may not have been entirely literate; it is known that the great majority of the letters were dictated to scribes.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/paston_m.html (142 words)

	Garments in the Paston Letters
		Following is an attempt to catalog the different names for garments referred to in the Paston Letters, the 15th and 16th century correspondence of an English family of the gentry class.
		(Letter from Margaret Paston to John Paston I, July 8, 1444; at this point, "the children" would be a toddler John II and an infant John III)
		I receyued a letter from yow, in the wyche letter was viij d., wyth þe whyche I schuld bye a peyer of slyppers (Letter from William Paston III to John Paston III, February 23, 1479)
	www.larsdatter.com /paston.htm (6670 words)

	Paston Letters — Infoplease.com
		Paston Letters - Paston Letters The first two volumes appeared in 1787, entitled Original Letters written during the...
		letters - letters, in literature, written messages, ranging from those addressed to the public and those sent...
		Business writing in history: what caused the dictamen's demise?(set of rules for writing medieval and administrative letters in English......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0837815.html (367 words)

	DragonBear History: Medieval Missives & Letter Writing
		When we learn anything certain or remarkable of the Tartars, or others, we will send you word either by letter or by Roger de Montefagi, who is to return to France in the spring, to the lands of our lord the viscount, to collect money us.
		Includes the Letter I of the Letters to Olympias and the Letter I to Innocent, Bishop of Rome used above.
		Includes the letter from Stephen, Count of Blois and Chartres, and the letter from Frederic II used above, along with other letters from the Crusades.
	www.dragonbear.com /letters.html (2822 words)

	Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Right worshipfull and my ryght gode lord, I recommand me to yowre godelordship; and where as it pleasyd yowre lordship to dyrecte yowr lettere to me for a maryage fore my pore suster to a jantylman of yowre knowlech of ccc marc.
		Ther is, and hath be dyvers tymys and late comunycacion of seche maryagys wyth dyuers jantylmen not determynyd as yett; and wheddere the jantylman þat yowre lordchip menith of be on of hem or nay I dowth.
		And where as your seyd lettere specyfyith that I shuld send yow word wheddere I thowght ye shuld labour ferthere in the matere or nay, in that, my lord, I dare not preswme to wryte so to yow wythowte I knew the gentylmans name.
	www.medievalhistory.net /grey.htm (247 words)

	Untitled Document
		The bailiff of the Pastons, Richard Calle, fell in love with Margery Paston, who returned his affection; but the Paston family deemed the connexion to be most undesirable, as Margery would be marrying a social inferior, and when she persisted in this course she was disowned by her mother and brothers.
		This letter was written with as great pain as ever I wrote anything in my life, for in good faith I have been right ill, and am still not truly well again.
		My mother and I informed him that we could never understand by her saying nor by any language she ever had to him, that either of them was bound to the other, but that both of them were free to choose.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/hgarrett/documents/love15c.html (832 words)

	Table of contents for Social networks and historical sociolinguistics
		The network(s) of the Paston family 60 60 3.1.
		Relative clauses in the Paston letters 144 144 4.1.
		The light verb construction in the Paston letters 220 217 4.1.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029509.html (455 words)

	ORB: Paston Letters, Valentine
		Two Letters from Margery Brews to John Paston in February 1477.
		And thys letter was indyte at Topcroft, with full hevy herte, andc.
		The contents of ORB are copyright © 1995-1999 Laura V. Blanchard and Carolyn Schriber except as otherwise indicated herein.
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/late/england/valentine.html (471 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Paston Letters. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Paston Letters.
		The first two volumes appeared in 1787, entitled Original Letters written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III.
		They are called Paston because chiefly written by or to members of the Paston family in Norfolk.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/12854.html (154 words)

	AllRefer.com - Paston Letters (Historians, British) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PastonLe.html (265 words)

	Edinburgh University Divinity School: Scottish Letters
		The Breadalbane letters (edited by Dr Jane Dawson)
		The full texts of all the letters are available for download on this site.
		There is also some information on the Breadalbane Collection where the original letters originate.
	www.div.ed.ac.uk /scottishlett_1.html (129 words)

	Paston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the Paston family of Norfolk who wrote the famous Paston Letters
		Paston College, Norfolk - founded by a member of the Paston family
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paston (86 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: The Paston letters, A. D. 1422-1509 Volume 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Internet Archive: Details: The Paston letters, A. 1422-1509 Volume 1
		The Paston letters, A. 1422-1509 Volume 1 (1904)
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	www.archive.org /details/pastonletters01gairuoft (42 words)

	The University of Tulsa McFarlin Library
		The letters are arranged chronologically and date from 1955-1970.
		The Crosland letters were acquired from William Reese Company in December of 1991.
		From a letter to Howard Moorepark of 4 July 1955 in re The Paston Letters.
	www.lib.utulsa.edu /Speccoll/collections/crossland/index.htm (11715 words)

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