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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.

More manuscripts from this collection can be found in the [http://findingaids.folger.edu/dfobagot.xml#anchorref456 Guide to the Papers of the Bagot Family]. More transcriptions from this collection can be found on the [[Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire, 1428-1671 (bulk 1557-1671) L.a.1-1076|Papers of the Bagot Family]] Folgerpedia page. 

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.

Obtaining a legal education required finding a place to stay at an inn of chancery. In this letter to his father, 17-year-old Lewis Bagot describes his difficulties in locating a chamber and notes that Sir Walter Aston, a lawyer, has not come to his aid. The Bagots were lawyers, so their connections should have helped Lewis find a place. For an image of the document transcribed below, click [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/9c1724 here].

== Transcription of L.a.63, fol. 1r ==
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Sir my humble duty remembred etc, I did receaue very lately a letter, <s>and </s>

and <s>two</s> 2 priuie seales from yow, diliuered by S''ir'' walter Aston, the one accordi''n''ge 

to your letter I did diliuer to <s>mr</s> Mr Broune, which was my vnckle Kynersles,  

the other I haue in my owne keepinge: Accordinge to your letter, I haue bene 

With S''ir'' Walter Aston, whome I intreated, to helpe ^ <sup>me</sup> to a chamber, whoes answer 

W<s>..</s><sup>a</sup>s hee knew of none, that weare voide, but if I coulde here of any, hee 

woulde doe<s>t</s>his beste to helpe mee to one. Then I ackesed him what hee 

woulde doe with his chamber, when hee went in to the cuntrye sum''m''ewhat 

vnwillinge sayed I shoulde haue it if pleased mee, vnto the tyme that I were 

other wayes prouided, and <s>no</s> before Munday sennight which is the <s>seuen</s> <sup>xviith </sup>

of this Moneth hee doth not goe <s>a waye</s> <sup>doune</sup> and till then I am att Tomsones 

neuer the lesse I am in com''m''ones and haue bene this weeke. As for <s>new</s>

<nowiki> </nowiki>newes here is none wurthie writinge but ''tha''t my Lorde Ammorall goeth <s>imba </s>

Imbassoder in to Spayne and S''ir'' Richard Luceon goeth with him. Knightes 

are made very faste still: My vncle Kynerslyes matter betwixt my vnckle 

Trew and him, I thincke will either bee taken vppe, or else be referred 

to summe gentilemen in the cuntry, for S''ir'' Walter Chetwind, and Mr

wouslye, followethe matter verie closse. other newes I haue none but ''tha''t 

my monye goeth away to faste: and soe crauinge your dayly blessinge 

and pardon for my errores, or bouldenes here in com''m''itted I moste humbly 

take my leaue this x th of Nouember./ 1604                                                                                                                   

Your obedient sonne till death 

Lewis Bagott  

'''[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/cmojc4 superscription:]''' 

To the right Wor''shipfu''ll Mr 

Walter Bagot his loui''n''ge 

father at Blithefielde 

this be de''livered'' with 

Sp[e]de

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