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this./.. at Hardwick --.//=. X.d.428 (15) 92 Most honorable Madam/ These are to desyre you^r honors pardon for the last letters I sent you, because, I made that speede with them (that they myght giue you^r hono^r the fyrst intelligens of the Arraignmentes) that I Could not in so short tyme make them fytt for your honors readeing or heareing. As I have allwaye deservedly esteemed you^r honor my best Patron - so I must now in all humiletye beseech you^r hono^rs ever gratiousnes to shew yt selfe yow espetially to me in protecting me - In vutsafing to laye your honors Command on my vunkell George Chaworth to stand my frend, & speake for me to my vunkell Henerye Chaworth, for that now he ys determined to settell his estate, he would please to favor me as Si^r George Chaworth sayd, and not take awaye the goodnes of his will to me: but rather to mend then Cross yt (as I heare he goeth about/ I have written to maste^r Timothey to informe your honor what my vunkell Henerye meaneth to doe against me, and whearein my vunkell George maye pleasure me, for I assure you^r hono my vunkell Henerye was accustomed and I beleeve will yet be wholly guided by him - therefore I must buld vppon you^r honors effecting his love for me/ -- I beseech your hono^r pardon this exceeding rudenes and bouldnes in me - I doubt yt wilbe much offen=sive, for that I knowe your hono^r hath many wayghtye and worthye affayres of your owne that be over troblesome vnto you^r honor: but I beseech your honor impute this to the best, which ys that I flye vnto your honor as to my protectress and defender - And so I beseech God to send you^r hono^r freedome from all trobles, & to heape vppon you manye yearss of Ioye and blesednes - from the Court this 13^th of ffebruarye

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Your honors most bounden George Chaworth 209 Initial release version, September 2013