ABSTRACT
The letter printed sent, probably from Norwich, by Margaret Paston to her husband John, who was on business in London. The date is about 19 May 1448. It is a particularly lively example from a series of family and business letters which commences in 1425 and spans four generations. John Paston belonged to a family in the ascendant. They originated in the village of Paston, eight miles south of Cromer in Norfolk, and by the seventeenth century had risen to one of the most important families in East Anglia. John's father, William, had sent to school and founded the family fortunes by a career in the law. John himself educated at Cambridge and the Inner Temple before entering his father's profession. He added to his inheritance by his marriage in about 1440 to Margaret Mautby and he forced by lengthy absences in London to leave its administration in her extremely capable hands.
