View source for Letter from William Bagot (Walter's son), Oxford, to Walter Bagot, 1619 November 7, L.a.176

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Below is a basic semi-diplomatic transcription of a letter from William Bagot of the Bagot Family of Blithfield, Staffordshire, to his father, Walter. The  Bagot Family Papers is a large manuscript collection here at the Folger. For more information on the collection, see [[Papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire, 1428-1671 (bulk 1557-1671) L.a.1-1076|its Folgerpedia page]], consult [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=230544 its Hamnet record], or for basic item-level description, [http://findingaids.folger.edu/dfobagot.xml its Finding Aid]. This transcription was originally completed as part of the first [[Practical Paleography]] Series, sponsored by [[Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)|EMMO]].<br />Click [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/s1298o here] to view the original document transcribed below in LUNA, Folger's digital image collection. 

==Transcription of L.a.176==
Deare father, my humble duti remembred vnto you, the cause of my writeing<br />
vnto you at this time is to certifie you that my bedfelow and I are in good<br />
health I thanke god. I wrote a letter vnto you by Mr Challenor <strike>but</strike><br />
w''hi''ch went vp to london w''i''th my cosin Crumpton but I cannot tell<br />
whether you haue receaued it or no. I haue sent you by this barer<br />
a pen knife the best that I coulde get being a smale rememberance of<br />
my duti. My Tutor goeth to his fathers to kepe Christmas wherfore<br /> 
I pray you let me cume in to the cuntrie w''i''th my cosin Crumpton<br />
I haue neede of <strike>shute</strike> <sup>a shute</sup> if it please you to let me haue it against<br />
Christmas for my best shute is quite out of fasion, if youer pleasure<br />
be that I shalle haue one my tutor may by it and lay out the<br />
mony till the quarters ende. Thus w''i''th my dayly prares to god<br />
for youer health and longe <strike>f</strike> life I rest<br />
Oxforde 7<br />
Nouember 1619<br />
Youer dutiful and obediant sonne<br />
<br>
William Bagott<br />
Mr Doctor keble my tutor and<br />
my <strike>so</strike> cosin Crumpton remember<br />
there loues vnto you and my mother<br />
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