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To Besse Cavendyssh
Sir William Cavendish of Chatsworth
(ancestor to ye Dukes of Devonshire)
to his Wife Eliz.abeth D.aughter to I.ohn Hardwick
of Hardwick Esquire & Widow of Robert
Barley of Barley in Comitatus Derb.y
Esquire afterwards Countess of
Shrewsbury. Privy Councellor
Treasurer of ye Chamber
to Hen.ry 8. Edward 6 & Queen Mary
X.d.428
(13)
UU
Good Besse haueinge forgotten to wryght in my letters
for that yow shuld pay otewell alayne. eight poundes for certayne
otys that we haue bought of hym. our and aboue that I haue
paid to hym in hand hertely pray yow for that he is desyrus
to receyve the rest at london// to pay hym vppon the sight hereof
yow knowe my Store and therefore I haue appoyntyd hym to
haue it at your handes. And thus, faer yow well ffrom
Chattesworth the xiijth of Aprell
All yours. as most worthy/
W C
William Cavendish of Chatsworth Esq.uir (afterwards Knighted) the Founder of ye Devonshire
Family, he mar.ried Eliz.abeth Daughter of Iohn Hardwick of Hardwick in Comitatus Derby Esqui.r &
Widow of Rob.ert Barley in Comitatus predicto Esq.uir
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Initial release version, September 2013