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L.a.226: Letter from Anne Broughton (née Bagot), Warwick Inn, to Richard Bagot, Blithfield 1593 May 31: 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 Anne Broughton (née Bagot), Warwick Inn, to Richard Bagot, Blithfield 1593 May 31: autograph manuscript signed, Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire. Transcription by Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO). MS L.a.226, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
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leaf 1 recto

Good father you shall receave by this bearer
such thinges as you writte for I could not get anie
black & greene kersie but a frinde hathe holpe
me to som french greene which I thinke will like
you aswell yf it do not send it vp and it shall
be changed it is so good of breadth that my man
William tould tme it might lacke a quarter & be
ynough for you for a Ierkyn hose and stockinges
I haue ^sent you therewith buttons five dozen which coste
xis and an ell dim of canvas xiis because I wold
have it well packed vp. I bought an ell of course
it cost xiid to make my mother a buck cloth on
I thanke you I here you have bestowed a coate
on my sonne wher yf you wold have me to buye
anie thinge els let me here from you by this bearer
the next tyme, for I hope after he hathe ben
here once I shall be ready to com downe thus
craving my mothers daily blessing & youres Ito
me my sister & my daughter I committ you to god
who keepe you in healthe Warwick Inne the last of
Maye

Your obedient Daughter.
Anne Broughton

my brother Anthonie is well he is folowing the court to wymbleton
Sir Thomas Cecills house because you shall see how the sicknes
goeth I haue sent you the bill./

leaf 1 verso || leaf 2 recto

Anne Broughton to
her Father Richard Bagot

leaf 2 verso

To the worshipfull my very
good father Richard
Bagot esquir at blythe
field give these