John Paston [18195] ²⁴

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one of ten executors of Sir John Fastolf's vast Norfolk holdings, which comprised 94 manors. Two days before Fastolf's death in 1459 his will was changed in favor of John Paston, who received all the manors, lands, and personal property in Norfolk and Suffolk. Suspecting foul play, the other executors were outraged, and seventeen years of claims and counter-claims, law suits, forcible evictions, arrests, and even imprisonment ensued for both John Paston I and his estate manager Richard Call. In a letter dated Oct 1461, Call, writing from the Norwich gaol, informs John Paston II that William Yelverton and William Jenney, two of Fastolf's executors, had him arrested and jailed for the theft of the rents from the disputed manor at Cotton: they "hathe certified vup in-to the Kynges Benche jnsurrec[i]ons [and] congregacions a-yenste me." And unless Call posted security that he would appear in court in London, the sheriff threatened to "send me vp with strengthe of men as a presoner." Clearly the sheriff backed the claims of Paston's enemies. Call concludes hopefully, "God sende us a good scheryf thys yere".

In a letter dated May 3, 1465, Margaret Paston informed her husband ABT the Duke of Suffolk's attack on their manor at Hellesdon: "I have put youre evydens that com owte of the abbay in a seck, and enseylyd hem vnder Richard Call ys seall".

John married Margaret Mautby [18180] [MRIN: 8667], daughter of John Mautby [18181] and Margery Berney [18182], in 1440. (Margaret Mautby [18180] was born about 1422 and died in 1484.)