Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of genealogical tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Chronological table
- 1 The origins of the Pastons
- 2 Land: acquisition and defence
- 3 East Beckham
- 4 Three marriages
- 5 Relations: the Garneys and the Berneys
- 6 The deathbed of William Paston and its consequences
- 7 Sir John Fastolf and John Paston
- Conclusion
- Index
5 - Relations: the Garneys and the Berneys
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of genealogical tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Chronological table
- 1 The origins of the Pastons
- 2 Land: acquisition and defence
- 3 East Beckham
- 4 Three marriages
- 5 Relations: the Garneys and the Berneys
- 6 The deathbed of William Paston and its consequences
- 7 Sir John Fastolf and John Paston
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Margery Berney married Ralph Garneys within eighteen months of the death of her first husband: John Mautby died in February 1433; she and Ralph were married by October 1434. Ralph was an intemperate man. Between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning of 6 February 1438 in Westminster Hall in the presence of the judges of the King's Bench and the Common Pleas and all those attending the courts there he struck in the face with his right fist Edmund Fitzwilliam, deputy of the Duke of Norfolk, Marshal of the Marshalsea of King's Bench. Gilbert Debenham was not a peaceable man either. In 1444 that ‘able and unscrupulous villain’, with a number of folk from the duke's town of Bungay, smashed Ralph's
close, mills and sluices at Elyngham by Stokton [Stockton], dragged up the sluices from their base, broke them into small pieces, dug in his soil and diverted the course of the waters running to the mills, whereby his stanks remained dry, entered his free warren at Stokton, hunted therein, fished in his several fishery at Elyngham and Gelston [Geldeston] and carried away fish and land from his soil to the value of £40 and hares, rabbits, pheasants and partridges from the said warren, and lay in wait to kill him at Elyngham and assaulted and wounded his men and servants.
There were two commissions of enquiry into this outrage, one of June 1444, when William Paston was among the commissioners, the other of September 1444.
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- The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century , pp. 135 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990