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    <bess_letter id="079">
        
        
        <address_leaf>
            <superscription hand="unknown scribe">
                To my wyef the<lb/>
                Countesse of<lb/>
                Shrowesbury<sb/>
            </superscription>
            
            <contemporary_addition hand="unknown scribe">
                I pray you send me Acres <lb/>
                so sone as you can for I<lb/>
                maye spare him no longer
            </contemporary_addition>
        </address_leaf>
        
        <letter_text hand="unknown scribe">
            <note hand="archivist" type="Item number">
                X.d.428<lb/>
                (104)
            </note>
            
            <note hand="archivist" type="Old foliation/item number">
                69
            </note>
            
            wyef I haue receaved yo<expan>u</expan><sup>r</sup> severall l<dip_expan>ett</dip_expan>res and am at this<lb/>
            present so trobled w<expan>i</expan><sup>th</sup> paine and stifnes in my hand that<lb/>
            I cannot write my self and therefore deferre the<lb/>
            answeringe of the same w<expan>hi</expan><sup>ch</sup> I will fully do so sone<lb/>
            as it shall please god to restore the streinth of my<lb/>
            hand that I may write w<expan>hi</expan><sup>ch</sup> I hope will be very<lb/>
            shortly I haue retorned vnto you my L<expan>ord</expan> of Leycesters<lb/> 
            l<dip_expan>ett</dip_expan>re and praye you when you write againe let his<lb/>
            L<dip>.</dip><expan>ord</expan> vnderstand that because I p<dip_expan>er</dip_expan>ceaved by his last<lb/>
            l<dip_expan>ett</dip_expan>re vnto me it was doutfull how sone I shulld<lb/>
            obteyne graunte of paiment I haue staied furder<lb/>
            writinge vnto him therin havinge no dout of his L<expan>ordship’s</expan><lb/>
            good remembrance &amp; furderance therof when occasion<lb/>
            might serve And so comitt you to god<dip_expan>e</dip_expan>s tuission<lb/>
            this x<sup>th</sup> of october 1580<lb/>
            <flourish/><lb/>
            
            <subscription hand="unknown scribe" place="right">
                Yo<expan>u</expan><sup>r</sup> faithfull husband<lb/>
            
                <signature hand="George Talbot, sixth earl of Shrewsbury" place="right">
                    G Shrewsbury<lb/>
                    <flourish/><lb/>
                </signature>
            </subscription>
            
            <note hand="archivist" type="Old foliation/item number">
                129
            </note>
        </letter_text>
    </bess_letter>
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<version v="1.0">Initial release version, September 2013</version>
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