Among the _Paston Letters_ is a letter from William Ebesham to his “moost worshupfull maister, Sir John Paston,” 1469 (?), asking for payment for his labours in writing, the charge for which was a penny per leaf for verse, and twopence a leaf for prose. Appended to this letter is the following interesting account:-- Folowyng apperith, parcelly, dyvers and soondry maner of writynge, which I, William Ebesham, have wreetyn for my gode and woorshupfull maistir, Sir John Paston, and what money I have resceyvid and what is unpaide. First, I did write to his maistership a little booke of Pheesyk, for which I had paide by Sir Thomas Leevys in Westminster xxd Item, I had for the wrytyng of half the Prevy seale of Pampyng viijd Item, for the wrytynge of the seid hole prevy seale of Sir Thomas ijs Item, I wrote viij of the Witnessis in parchement, but aftir xiiijd a peece, for which I was paide of Sir Thomas xs Item, while my seide maister over the see in Midsomertime. Calle sett me a warke to wryte two tymes the prevy seale in papir, and then after cleerely in parchement iiijs viijd And also wrote the same tyme oon mo of the largest witnessis, and other dyvers and necessary wrytyngs, for which he promisid me xs, whereof I had of Calle but iiijs viijd. car. vs iiij vs iiijd I resceyvid of Sir Thomas at Westminster penultimo die Oct. anno viiij iijs iiijd Item, I did write to quairs of papir of witnessis, every quair conteyning xiiij leves after ijd a leff iiijs viijd Item, as to the Grete Booke--First, for wrytyng of the Coronacion, and other tretys of Knyghthode, in that quaire which conteyneth a xiij levis and more ijd a lef ijs ijd Item, for the tretys of Werre in iiij books, which conteyneth lx levis aftir ijd a leaff xs Item, for _Othea_ pistill, which conteyneth xliij leves vijs iid Item, for the Chalengs and the acts of Armes which is xxviij^ti less iiijs viijd Item, for _De Regimine Principum_, which conteyneth xlv^ti leves, aftir a peny a leef, which is right wele worth iijs ixd Item, for Rubrissheyng of all the booke iijs iiijd[21] The “Grete Booke,” described above, is now among the Lansdowne Manuscripts (No. 285) in the British Museum, and is fully described in the Catalogue of that Collection, 1812 (Part II., pp. 99-102).