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L.a.457: Letter from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, The Court, to Richard Bagot, 1588 April 25: 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 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, The Court, to Richard Bagot, 1588 April 25: autograph manuscript signed, Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire. Transcription by Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO). MS L.a.457, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
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Mr Bagot, whereas I have occasion to use those garters
of my father's, which I understand be in your keeping, I pray
you deliver them to this bearer Thomas Ayre my servant
to whom I have given order to bring them unto me. And thus
with my hearty commendations unto you. I commit you to God.
from Court the 25th of April 1588.
Your very loving friend
Robert Essex


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To my very loving friend
Richard Bagot Esquire

My Lord of Essex
letters for his garters
of the order