The Pastons

This is a selection of the fifteenth-century letters of a Norfolk gentry family, spanning roughly three generations from William Paston the judge through the troubles of John Paston and his sons during the Wars of the Roses. The correspondence, often written by wives and agents as well as by the men, concerns lawsuits over manors, the defence of Caister, marriages, money, and household supply. Linking narrative places the letters in their local and national setting. There is no invented plot. The book is a primary collection of family letters, not a modern historical novel about the period.

Quarter bound in orange cloth, dark blue-green cloth boards with a Tudor rose design in red and white. Map endleaves. White slipcase.