Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to the EARL OF ESSEX.

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Details of 8ANC7/54
Reference: 8ANC7/54
Title: LORD WYLLUGHBY to the EARL OF ESSEX.
Description:

--"I thinke myselfe mutch beholdinge to your Lordship for your late favours shewed me at my late goinge downe into this country, ... assuringe you I will neither spare my hand or harts uttermost indevours whan I may honnour you with better tydings than a justices of peace, a high counstable of a hundred or a parish priests advises. And therefore, setting asyde all idle hopes, if your Lordship shall thinke my pore selfe fitt for your sarvice, commaund me whan and how is best agreable to you, the whilst, sarvinge God and har Majesty, I will amoinde my Coridon's life with bene vixit qui bene latuit.* Holograph.

 

Date given in endorsement.

 

* "Bene qui latuit, bene vixit." Ovid, Tristea iii., elegy iv., v. 25.

Date: 1597, April 12
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.

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