Catalogue description SIR EDWARD STAFFORD to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

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Details of 8ANC6/89
Reference: 8ANC6/89
Title: SIR EDWARD STAFFORD to LORD WILLOUGHBY.
Description:

--Stating that, having orders, "as soon as the enemy should dislodge from keeping the K[ing] in here in this town," to send off a despatch for the stay of his Lordship and the troops, he now certifies that the enemy is this morning retired. The bearer was present at the retreat. Holograph. ½ p.

 

Outside, below the address. Order, that wheresoever this arrives it is to be sent by the officers of the ports to Lord Willoughby, "wheresoever he be with all speed for life," and that the signed copy, sent by the same bearer, be sent to any place where these troops do embark.

 

[The signed copy is amongst S. P., France, and gives the day of the month, here left blank.]

Date: 1589, September [26], "Dipe."
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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