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L.e.641: Letter from John Ferrers to Lady Anne Ferrers (née Bradbourne), Walton, circa 1580s - 1590s, December: autograph manuscript signed

Catalog record:http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=244731
Collection:Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle
Preferred Citation:Letter from John Ferrers to Lady Anne Ferrers (née Bradbourne), Walton, circa 1580s - 1590s, December: autograph manuscript signed, Papers of the Ferrers Family of Tamworth Castle. Transcription by Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO). MS L.e.641, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
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Good mother. I haue sente you herin inclosed my
Lady digbyes her letter, & shee proffesseth
great kyndnes to my ffather & you, shee
was a good meanes as I am perswaded
to keape my ffather ffrom beinge Sherriffe,
ffor sheer promised me to doe what shee
colde, to occuse him, & not trobelinge you
any. ffurther with my humble dewtye & my
wyffes I take my leave, this ffirst of
december

Your louinge &
obedient sonne
Iohn fferrers

post Scriptum: my cosen
Egerton taketh you sendinge
ffor him, very kyndley, &
sayeth in any thinge
you shall command him


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To his very louinge
mother the Lady fferrers
att walton geve
thsee:


Ferrers