Paston Letters, the largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. It is invaluable to historians and philologists and is preserved mainly in the British Museum.

The Paston Letters are a collection of correspondence between members of the Paston family of Norfolk gentry and others connected with them in England between the years 1422 and 1509. …

Here you will find an introduction and online texts of The Paston Letters. The site also has essays and articles, links to study resources and a list of books helpful for further study. All of these …

The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English.

The Pastons were one of Norfolk's most prominent families from about 1380 to 1750, rising up from a rural manor to become nationally important members of the aristocracy and key figures …

William Paston, the first prominent member of the family, leveraged his skills as a lawyer and judge in the early 15th century to amass a significant estate, passing it to his son, John. Like his...

"The Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509" is a significant collection of personal correspondence and legal documents from the Paston family, a wealthy lineage in Norfolk, England, who lived …

"Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, Part I." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/Paston.

From the statement already quoted as to the history of the Paston family, it appears that William Paston purchased a good deal of land in Paston besides what had originally belonged to them.

Apr 6, 2025 · The founder of their fortunes in the early fifteenth century was William Paston, the son of a prosperous peasant farmer in the north Norfolk village from which the family took its …