Catalogue description LORD WILLOUGHBY to the EARL OF ESSEX.

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Details of 8ANC7/46
Reference: 8ANC7/46
Title: LORD WILLOUGHBY to the EARL OF ESSEX.
Description:

--"By chaunce I perused theis, though I beinge not of the elect commannded to shoote my bolte, my lovinge dutie to you and my country makes mee thus bolde, though some woulde extenuate my sences, and have not spared it, as I heere saye. They shall not except agaynste my syncerite, wherout only I confesse I have comitted this folly, to myngle my dropps with suche excellent ryvers. And that I seeke neither prayse nor place shall appeare, for after I have kyssed Her Majestys handes and your Lordships, I will leave my fortification of castells in the ayer, and fall to the plough and carte for my children, least I dye unfortunate in a spitle, and they begg miserable for my mistakinge humors that liked the world better than an hermitage." Signed.
Date: [1596, October ?]
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: ½ page.

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