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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|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 [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. 

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.

=== [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/927m69 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, w''hi''ch mortalitie is not able to resist, and therefore your 

greife may be the lesse. I thanke God ) I like my liueing he<s>a</s><sup>r</sup>e very well, but I  

feare I shall be very chargeable to you, especially for my diet, w''hi''ch I know  

not how to remedie, for our commons ordinariely amounte to seauen shillings 

a weeke, and at grande weekes, <s>and</s> Readeings, and other expensiue times, to 

much more. My three halfe peeces w''hi''ch Edwarde wright left w''i''th 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 mon<s>i</s>ie 

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  

g<s>a</s><sup>e</sup>ther, 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, w''i''th daylie 

prayers to God for your health, I rest. 

Inner Temple this 27th 

of ffebruarie 1622. 

Your dutiefull and obedient  

sonne William Bagott 

'''[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/f9aq9j superscription]'''

To the Wor''shipfu''ll his verie loueinge 

ffather, Walter Bagot 

Esquier, at Blithfeilde 

in Staff''ord''shire 

these d''elivere''d

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