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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 Baggott, whereas I haue occasion to vse those garters
of my fathers, which I vnderstand be in your keeping, I praye
you deliuer them to this bearer Thomas Ayre my seruannt
to whom I haue giuen order to bringe them vnto me. And thus
with my hartie commendacions vnto you. I committ you to God.
ffrom Court the xxvth of Aprill 1588.
Your very louing ffreind
Robert Essex


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To my very louing ffreind
Richard Bagot Esquier

My Lord of Essex
lettres for his garters
of the order