Letter from Walter Bagot, London, to Richard Bagot L.a.97
After my most humble commendacions good father trustinge in god
that you with my mother and my sisters with the rest of
my frends are in health which I praye to god longe to
continue these are first and especially to desier you
and my mother of your dayly blessinge And secondly
to let you vnderstand that all your frendes in London
are in health. We dayly looke to knowe who shall
bee sherifes. Som report that the Queen was somwhat
displeased because most of them which were put in
election were belonginge vnto my Lord of Lecister and
my Lord of Warwicke they saye she will haue them of
her owne appoyntment. Semirus is att the court still
every man looketh but no man knoweth when he will
departe Ther was a very strange weddinge in
London of lately of a gentilman and a cytisends daughter
the gintilman was bound vpon forfiture of all his
lands to mary a her by a certen daye & before the
prefixed time suspectinge her with an other would haue
geuen a great soom of mony to haue bin released
of his band but the cytisen would in any case
constraine him to mary her wherfore the gentilman
against the daye prepared a great number of his
acquintaince with euery one an horne about his necke
and so meeting with his wife at the church they
were maried with a ringe of horne and after the
mariage euery one blowinge a rechate solemnely his
bride and he parted. I know non other newes that
is worth the wrytinge wherfore in hast I take
my leave the xixth of Nouember
your obedient soonn
Walter Bagott