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Letter ID: 045 (URL: http://www.bessofhardwick.org/letter.jsp?letter=045)

From: Sir John Manners (Haddon )

To: Bess of Hardwick (Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire )

Date: 18 June 1604

Summary: Sir John Manners writes to Bess (dowager countess of Shrewsbury) to thank her for her good wishes in relation to the birth of his grandchild (John, later eighth earl of Rutland), mentioning that his son (George Manners) is awaiting 'to know your pleasure about the christening'.

Letter Details

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To the right hono^rable my
singuler good Ladie the,
Countesse of Shrewsburie
dowager at Hardwick./

[Letter Text: Notes]

Good Madam I receiued a very kynd lettre from yo^r La. by my
Sonne Georges seruant w^ch was much to my comforth to vnderstand theirby
yo^r honorable and naturall affection for the birth of this child/ whom I
I pray god almighty to blesse and prosper w^th all good giftes yf it be
his wyll/ and because my sonne now doth waite vpon yo^r La.
him self to know yo^r pleasour about the christenyng I rekon it a part
of my duty to geue yo^r La. most humblle thankes for the honourablle
fauours shewed both to me and myne w^ch I haue many ^waies^ receiued from
yo^r good La. I wold in deed haue bene parsonally at the christenyng
my self but that I fynd my body not ablle well to trauaill
and so ready to be commaunded by yo^r La. for my small porcion of
power I pray god almighty euermore to preserue yo^u in all honour
and felicytie/ from haddon this xviij^th day of Iune
15604./

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Yo^r La. humbly allwais
to commaund

John Manners
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