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L.a.428: Letter from John Draycott, Painsley to Walter Bagot, Blithfield, circa 1600 March 26: autograph manuscript signed

Catalog record:http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=230544
Collection:Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire
Preferred Citation:Letter from John Draycott, Painsley to Walter Bagot, Blithfield, circa 1600 March 26: autograph manuscript signed, Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire. Transcription by Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO). MS L.a.428, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
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Good cosen, my vncle Edwarde Bassett, and my selfe, beinge Att
Blythfeilde wth you, did move you, in the behalfe of this Lame sovldier,
William Lee; who hath lived in verrie poore estate, this six yeares,
in Englande, wthout Anye Releeffe of the cuntrye, soe I desyer you, thatt
you would please, to helpe him to such yearely stypentt, As other
meamed souldiers haue, wthin the shyer, thatt Are in like case, soe
not dowtinge, of yor best furtherance herein, wth my kinde comend{es}
to you and my cosen Rest./
Yor ever Lovinge cosen
Iohn Draycott
Paynsley
March.26.


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To the Wor:ll his very Lovinge
cosen Walter Bagott esqr:
giue these./././././
Att
Blythfeild/

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