Show lpyd AGO SOME interesting information IS THE PASTON LETTERS llon vt lih miry gave to quaint appearance antl dan e braaton a B in the of 1440 dime agnes paiton wrote to her right worship ful and deir 1 urband in haste tl e wednesday next after deus qui erlind bus the collect for tl 0 thirl sun lay lifter laster having commended la gracious mien of 0 0 yoni g aci an her on proposes to duarry el e says tl e parson of stockton told me tl at if ye would buy her a gow n I 1 cr cr would give a goodly fur tie go 0 o bo had and of color it would le a goodly bine or else a t sanguine tho mistress M whom this gown was purveyed bo canio tho wife of john paston ni d 1 ct letters covering i birly 60 year lire noteworthy in that famous collection tho 1 ashou utter which resell so many secrets of bygone statecraft but what is of more worth to us bov div ing glimpses cf household economy and by clear connotation the inner life of the women of tl 0 period margaret pas ton appears aa an active prudent house wife looking into every detail of her large and from 1 cr bus band s prolonged forced to as bume ciany masculine bareg sl e man aged the several farms of their estaba in he hundred of she planned new buildings armed and defended 1 cr besieged 1 all conducted el lawsuits aud tl 0 of her el il and put withal eho was a very bomin aid it is interesting to noto tho aliche running like a thread of gold tl rough i long genes of letters tl e sent to 1 cr husband and eon who were usually in london for various articles of apparel are curious to examine that in 1 cr youth she was fond of nil gauds may bo guessed from a letter written cot long after her mar ringe w lieu inquiring minutely of her husband 8 1 haltli luring come slight in disposition acl c ad lever tl an a new though it were of scarlette that I 1 e her commissions are cry moderate and limited to the plain of everyday wear as for example I 1 pray you tint ye would vouchsafe vouch to buy v 0 boino anczo to make of bour s govang e sl 1 avo best cheap aul best cl oice of hay s wife as it is old gnp and tl at ye would buy a yard of aroid cloth of black for one lioom for me of ai 1 or 4 shillings a yard for heio is i eill argood cloth bior good anezo in tl is town yet ahn town was norwich tl 0 scat of woolen factories from tl 0 time of henry I 1 1 air crude work later im by tho skill of philippa a rica 11 eis it was evidently the nearest biar ket and tl 0 source of ordinary supplies for D imo I 1 ston had but just written may it please you to wit I 1 was at horvich thia week to purvey such things as i uio cg dinst tl is win ter V orsted oaid its beigl lanng h arsey leir names to ho fabrics hero acro in tl 0 east of hor foil in to the products of tho former sir john writes from loii eon to mine ow n dear sovereign la ly I 1 arayo you wi upend to ells of worsted for doublets to happa me tl Is cold winter and haayo in eluiro luiro 1 ero william 1 tsutou boullit lia tippet of which is al most like billi and if tint bo much inu thit ye et I 1 buy mo after 7 or 8 shillie g tl en buy mo a quarter and tl 0 i ill for collars tl aurli it bo dearer than 1 e oil er for I 1 donld niilo all worsted tor tie of cs a bit of vanity is roan as when tit ly 1 ashou antis 1 er I 1 ausband I 1 ir ayou 1 aitio boull do your cost on mo ag that I 1 my 1 ave gomoll ing for my neck the auten WM I 1 my coulm I 1 cicro s device for I 1 dared not for h RO with kiy boa la emoi K BO many crisli gentlewomen as acro 1 ere nt that amo au I 1 air john s memory for commissions vas lilo er men B u tho i ext letter 1 is difo arrays anni that 1 0 vouchsafe vouch safo to r to pur v cy a chii g for my i ack aud to oo 00 ninilo u y girdle and in mill another I 1 think vou that ye to iny girdle it shows a confidence aud tl e assurance of her absent husband s interest in every side of her lifo that acl 0 writes him minutely of 1 cr plans in making 1 tint ye would vouchsafe to buy a peco of black buckram for to line with a n for me I 1 el 1 buy n c a rey gawn 0 o in this summer and 1 ly in the ollar the satin tl at 30 gave ne for n hoed aud I 1 can foft noi 0 gool buckram in this town to in 0 it with the letter of 1 cr hon william writ ten in gives as an i att of tho out fit for a boy at eton 1 you hand mo a 1 oae one for tho holy lays of ono color and one tor tl e boiking woi king days 1 evv courso oever it bo n no u alter and i stoia acl ri oud two shirts and a of 11 is 0 slams from want locution thereof in early to have been a sort of perhaps not moio thin 1 I c chest arr teeter of today thero is no more vivid of existing conditions of than bilut which gs from tl air compan eoa with life cl the de in u other age mil ut As a on of fruitful study is this of alio ii g tit mar garot later lady lateri of caistor miuor cw york 1 crt |