Letter from William Bagot to Walter Bagot, 1622/3 February 27, L.a.182
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This article features a transcription of a Folger Shakespeare Library manuscript, Letter from William Bagot to Walter Bagot, L.a.182, ( February 27, 1622/3), featured in the Age of Lawyers Exhibition, September 13, 2015-January 3, 2016.
More manuscripts from this collection can be found in the Guide to the Papers of the Bagot Family. More transcriptions from this collection can be found on the Papers of the Bagot Family Folgerpedia page.
Sir Walter Bagot's youngest son, William, who was about six when his brother Lewis died, handled his living arrangements with confidence. After a few years at Oxford, he enrolled at the Inner Temple in 1622. This letter from 1623 asks his father for money to pay for his meals in advance.
Transcription
Below is a semi-diplomatic transcription of folio 1 recto of Folger manuscript L.a.182. The transcription below was created by the Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) project. To access an image of the original leaf, click on each transcription's heading.
L.a.182, Folio 1 recto
Deare
ffather ) I heare (to my greate greife) the sorrowfull newes of my Sister in lawes
death, of whonce you haue a greate losse, any Brother a greater, and his children
the greatest of all: yet I doubte not, but you, see, and they, will so conceaue of it as
done by the will of God, which mortalitie is not able to resist, and therefore your
greife may be the lesse. I thanke God ) I like my liueing heare very well, but I
feare I shall be very chargeable to you, especially for my diet, which I know
not how to remedie, for our commons ordinariely amounte to seauen shillings
a weeke, and at grande weekes, and Readeings, and other expensiue times, to
much more. My three halfe peeces which Edwarde wright left with me, are
almoste all disbursed for commons, as will appeare vnto you, by this note
here inclosed; wherefore I woulde intreate you to sende me vp some moniie
by the next conuenient messenger, to discharge the house for my commons
now to come, for though I coulde be trusted for a quarter of a yeare to
gaether, yet if monie be to be had, it is nether so good husbandrie, nor so
much for a mans credit, to be trusted, as to paye at the weeke, or the
fortnights ende. And so rememberinge my humble dutie to you, with daylie
prayers to God for your health, I rest.
Inner Temple this 27th
of ffebruarie 1622.
Your dutiefull and obedient
sonne William Bagott
To the Worshipfull his verie loueinge
ffather, Walter Bagot
Esquier, at Blithfeilde
in Staffordshire
these delivered