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| This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Letter from Lewis Bagot to Walter Bagot, L.a.63, (November 1604), featured in the ''[[Age of Lawyers]]'' Exhibition, September 12, 2015-January 3, 2016.
| | #REDIRECT[[Letter from Lewis Bagot to Walter Bagot, November 10, 1604 L.a.63]] |
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| More manuscripts in this collection can be found in [http://titania.folger.edu/findingaids/dfobagot.xml#anchorref165 Guide to the Bacon-Townshend collection, 1550-1640].
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| == Transcription ==
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| Below is a semi-diplomatic transcription of folio 1 recto of Folger manuscript L.a.63. 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.
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| === [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/9c1724 L.a.63, folio 1r] ===
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| Emannuell
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| Sir my humble duty remembred etc, I did receaue very lately a letter, <s>and </s>
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| and <s>two</s> 2 priuie seales from yow, diliuered by S''ir'' walter Aston, the one accordi''n''ge
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| to your letter I did diliuer to <s>mr</s> Mr Broune, which was my vnckle Kynersles,
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| the other I haue in my owne keepinge: Accordinge to your letter, I haue bene
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| With S''ir'' Walter Aston, whome I intreated, to helpe ^ <sup>me</sup> to a chamber, whoes answer
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| W<s>..</s><sup>a</sup>s hee knew of none, that weare voide, but if I coulde here of any, hee
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| woulde doe<s>t</s>his beste to helpe mee to one. Then I ackesed him what hee
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| woulde doe with his chamber, when hee went in to the cuntrye sum''m''ewhat
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| vnwillinge sayed I shoulde haue it if pleased mee, vnto the tyme that I were
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| other wayes prouided, and <s>no</s> before Munday sennight which is the <s>seuen</s> <sup>xviith </sup>
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| of this Moneth hee doth not goe <s>a waye</s> <sup>doune</sup> and till then I am att Tomsones
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| neuer the lesse I am in com''m''ones and haue bene this weeke. As for <s>new</s>
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>newes here is none wurthie writinge but ''tha''t my Lorde Ammorall goeth <s>imba </s>
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| Imbassoder in to Spayne and S''ir'' Richard Luceon goeth with him. Knightes
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| are made very faste still: My vncle Kynerslyes matter betwixt my vnckle
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| Trew and him, I thincke will either bee taken vppe, or else be referred
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| to summe gentilemen in the cuntry, for S''ir'' Walter Chetwind, and Mr
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| wouslye, followethe matter verie closse. other newes I haue none but ''tha''t
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| my monye goeth away to faste: and soe crauinge your dayly blessinge
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| and pardon for my errores, or bouldenes here in com''m''itted I moste humbly
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| take my leaue this x th of Nouember./ 1604
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| Your obedient sonne till death
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| Lewis Bagott
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| '''[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/cmojc4 superscription:]'''
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| To the right Wor''shipfu''ll Mr
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| Walter Bagot his loui''n''ge
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| father at Blithefielde
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| this be de''livered'' with
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| Sp[e]de
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