Catalogue description PEREGRINE BERTIE to his brother [ROBERT] EARL OF LINDSEY, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, at Grimsthorpe.

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Reference: 8ANC9/5
Title: PEREGRINE BERTIE to his brother [ROBERT] EARL OF LINDSEY, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, at Grimsthorpe.
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--"I am very sorry to send you the ill nuse of my Lady Abingdon death, who dyed on Munday night last about one clocke, hardly having time to say Lord of Mercy upon me. . . . On Sunday she walked to church and received the sacrament and came home verry well and was verry pleasant at dinner; went chearfully to bed but in the night was not well, and when bloodied could not bleed. She was a woman of the greatest temper in the world, and one who has left the best caracter behind her that ever was. My brother* is allmost distracted and will not be perswaded she is dead. Indeed its a sad losse to him and the family, she having left him so many fine children.

 

"The Gassett gives you the best account of the action in Flanders; its some disgrace to us to have Halle plundered before the confederate forces, but that could not be helped, all the forces being not come up. The King sent to the Duke of Luxembourg to let him know he could give him battle if he would, but the Duke returned answer, he would take time to consider of it. They are afraide that Boufleir is gone to bombard Liege, which must drawe of a detachement from King William armye to defend. Its said that King James has made a surrender of Ireland to the French King and that his Genneralles have clapped up a good many of the Irish Lordes and amoungt the rest my Lord Abercrome who refuseth to swere to the French King, but the Genneralles have declared at the next muster when the army is paid that they must all sweare alleigance to the French King, which gives Sarsfeild and others soe great discontent that they will quit the service. My Lord Clarendon petitioned to-day for liberty, but what his answer was I know not. My wife presentes her service to your lady."

 

* (James 'Bertie, son of Montagu, Earl of Lindsey, by his second wife, was created Earl of Abingdon' in 1682.)

Date: 1691, May 2
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.

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