Catalogue description CHARLES I. to [MONTAGU] EARL OF LINDSEY.

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Details of 8ANC8/46
Reference: 8ANC8/46
Title: CHARLES I. to [MONTAGU] EARL OF LINDSEY.
Description:

--"Lindsey, you cannot be more sencible (as I belive) of your Father's losse then my selfe, his death confirming the estimation I ever had of him. As for your selfe, the duble sufferings ye have had for my sake, bothe in your father's person and your owen, puts upon me the stricter obligation, not only to restore you to your Liberty (now unjustly detayned from you) but also to show the World by my actions how really I am Your most asseured constant frend, Charles R. Holograph.

 

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"King Charles the 1st letter to my Father from Ayno after the battle of Edgehill, where my Grandfather was killed and my Father carryd prisoner to Warwick Castle." [Printed in Collins' Peerage, tit. Duke of Ancaster.]
Date: 1642, October 27. Ayno
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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