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L.a.274: Letter from Richard Broughton to Richard Bagot, 1593 June 3: 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 Richard Broughton to Richard Bagot, 1593 June 3: autograph manuscript signed, Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire. Transcription by Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO). MS L.a.274, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
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Sir my partner & I are to give you thankes for your carefull
sendinge vp horses, but nowe god be thanked the sicknes
is greatlie slaked, there died the last weke in all of the
plague but xlix. & the weke before 63./ my Lord Mayre taketh
better order in keping the houses infected with relief from
coming abrode, My busines was such that vntill
saterday next I could not dispatche, and one saterday
next I must be at Nonsuch the court with my lord of Essex
where I was with his lordship yestirday. and the day
before I was to see my lord of huntingdon at Stoke
I thinke I shall be readie to go hence aboutes this
Day Senight, or as soone as I can/ terme causes ther
be none of importance by thadiornement/ my partner will
euery day be desirous to go./ and so wold Nant Letice
& Malle. we thus in hast this wednesday morning
13 Iuni. with all duties remembred I comitt you
& yours to the tuicion of thalmightie Yours Richard Broughton

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the worshipfull my very
[L]ovinge father in lawe Mr
[R]ichard Bagot Esquier

Richard Broughton
to his father in law
Richard Bagot