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Bess (Lady Cavendish) writes to Sir John Thynne after completing a long and troublesome journey home, with an account of her travel difficulties and the disordered state in which she found her 'poor house' (i.e. Chatsworth) upon arrival.
Bess (Lady Cavendish) writes to Sir John Thynne with news of 'disordered things' recently put 'into some good order', including relations with her tenants. She hopes Thynne can visit Chatsworth on his next trip to London or when visiting his estates in Yorkshire.
Bess (Lady Cavendish) writes to her servant Francis Whitfield concerning the management of Chatsworth, and asks him to look after everything until her aunt (Marcella Linacre) arrives. Among her instructions to Whitfield are that he is to take only wooden 'cleats or boards' not needed for the ongoing building works at Chatsworth; to brew beer, especifically for her and her husband William Cavendish; to repair her bedroom; and to pay her midwife. She also reprimands him for not supplying her sister Jane (née Hardwick) with 'things needful for her'.
Bess (widow of Sir William Cavendish) writes to Sir John Thynne regarding a bill against her and others currently in parliament, asking him to come to London speedily to help prevent its passing. Letter ID 211 is a copy of this.
Bess (widow of William Cavendish) writes to Sir John Thynne regarding a bill unfavourable to her in parliament, thanking him and hoping for his continued support in preventing its passing. Letter ID 212 is a copy of this.
Bess (Lady St. Loe) instructs her servant James Crompe on the management of several builders; and perceives how 'Sir James is much misliked for his religion but I think his wisdom is such that he will make small account of that matter'. She also relates a message for her aunt Marcella Linacre about a garden for the new house, enclosing '3 bundles of garden seeds'.
Bess (Lady St. Loe) writes to Sir John Thynne, builder of Longleat, and his first wife Christian (née Gresham), asking them to spare her 'your plasterer' the one who 'flowered your hall' (that is, decorated with ornate plaster-mould cornicing, decked flowers). Bess requests that either he be sent directly to her in London, or that he report to James Crompe at Chatsworth.
Bess (Lady St. Loe) writes to her servant Francis Whitfield with instructions for the battlement at Chatsworth. A postscript asks him to 'tell Bess Knolles and Frank that I say if they play their virginals that they are good girls'.
Bess (Lady St. Loe) writes to Henry Babington of Dethick (Derbyshire) concerning lands, postponing a meeting on Babington's holdings until she receives further information regarding the lands' values. Babington forwards the letter (adding a postscript and second superscription) to one Alexander White and gives further instructions to fulfil Bess's requests.
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to Sir John Thynne, informing him that she has been unsuccessful in convincing her husband, George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury, to grant Thynne's suit.
Bess, countess of Shrewsbury, writes to Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, in support of 'preferring one Martin Nelson to the vicarage of Catterick in Richmondshire'. She is informed he has 'good zeal to religion and towardness in learning'.
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to one Henry Foljambe, concerning a recently widowed woman, Elizabeth Flint, who has asked that her brother Roland, currently in Bess's employment, be sent to her for 'urgent cause to employ him otherwise'. Bess asks Foljambe to favour the woman's cause.
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, complaining about the delayed delivery of his latest letters concerning the imminent arrival of Mary Queen of Scots at Tutbury Castle.
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to her husband George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury, letting him know that the wine he sent is no good, suggesting they get someone else to buy it before it is undrinkable. She also discusses details regarding several servants of their household.
Henry Cavendish writes to his mother, Bess (countess of Shrewsbury), regrettably reporting a squabble between some of his servants which has resulted in a sword duel and the death of one of them. Bess forwards the letter to her husband, George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury, expressing her own sentiments in a postscript to him (and asking that he 'return this').
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to her husband, George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury, accusing him of forgetting 'your none [a pet name for herself]', as he has not sent the plumber she requested and the provision for beer and ale have been so poor of late. She mentions 'a letter of all the news I received', which she asks him to return once he has read it. Also enclosed are 'some lettuce and butter'.
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to Lord Thomas Paget, reprimanding him about persuading her son Henry to negotiate an agreement with unspecified contemptible parties, which has been to Henry's disadvantage. She asks Paget to 'stand the more [Henry's] friend' for the conclusion of the matter.
Bess (countess of Shrewsbury) writes to an unidentified addressee with advice on how to write a persuasive letter to one of her sons, suggesting that 'the more earnest and plain it is the more good it will do you'.
Bess, countess of Shrewsbury, writes a somewhat cryptic letter to Mary Queen of Scots, to do with 'your little poor creature' and other letters, which Bess has also sent. For the accompanying letter to Mary's servant, Gilbert Curle, see ID 243.
Bess, countess of Shrewsbury, writes a short message to Gilbert Curle, servant to Mary Queen of Scots, asking him to pass on her letter to the Scots Queen (ID 244) 'with that speed you may'.