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    <bess_letter id="110">
        
        
        <address_leaf>
            <superscription hand="Bess of Hardwick">
                To the Ryght<lb/>
                honorabell my vary<lb/>
                good lord and cossen<lb/>
                the therle of Lecester
            </superscription>
        </address_leaf>
        
        <letter_text hand="Bess of Hardwick">
            <note hand="archivist" type="Later editorial note">
                Shrewsbury
            </note>
            
            <note hand="archivist" type="Old foliation">
                313
            </note>
            
            My honorabell L<expan>ord</expan>/ albeyt one of my greatest comforte<illeg type="torn" content="s"/><lb/>
            ys to here frome your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan>/ and nothynge cane be<lb/>
            more acseptabelle vnto me then to here of your wel<illeg type="torn" content="l"/><lb/>
            lykenge the bache, and helthe recouered therby<lb/>
            I haue <del>bene</del> <add>yet not w<expan>i</expan><sup>t</sup><expan>h</expan>standynge</add> forborne wrytynge for that I wolde<lb/>
            geue your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan> no ocasyon hereynge yt was wysshede<lb/>
            by lerned aduysse you shulde not youse yt/ other<lb/>
            wysse I shulde altogeder for gett my selfe/ whych<lb/>
            shall neuer apeare towardes so nobell a frende/<lb/>
            as I fynde by good proffe your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan> ys bothe to<lb/>
            me and myne but wyll reste euer moust<lb/>
            faythefoull as many your moust honorabell<lb/>
            fauores may Iustely chalenge. yn the meane<lb/>
            tyme/ my Lo<dip>.</dip><expan>rd</expan> and I aconte all we cane do or<lb/>
            procure nothynge ansorabell to owre good wylles,<lb/>
            y<del>r</del>f yn dede theys barainne partes gaue any<lb/>
            thynge worthey your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan> my lorde thynke<illeg type="torn" content="s"/><lb/>
            my sone gelborte for <del>lac</del> want of experyence<lb/>
            hathe/ ofered hys conterey cokes <add>to be</add> ouermache<illeg type="torn" content="d"/><lb/>
            and no defalte nether yn the conterey nor<lb/>
            cokes. I beseche your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan> desyre my vary fren<illeg type="torn" content="d"/><lb/>
            mayster Iulyo to presente vnto har magystye in<lb/>
            moust humbell dewty for whose prosperyte I<lb/>
            wyll euer pray as one moust bonde. that<lb/>
            we may longe leue vnder har gracyous and<lb/>
            happy gouerment/ and so my good lorde preyn<illeg type="torn" content="ge"/>
            <add>to god</add> to sende you helthe and your hartes desyre<lb/>
            I ende Shefelde the xxvij of Iune<lb/>
            
            <subscription hand="Bess of Hardwick" place="right">
                Your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship's</expan> louynge cossen<lb/>
                and moust faythefoull<lb/>
                frende<lb/>
            
                <signature hand="Bess of Hardwick" place="right">
                    EShrouesbur<illeg type="damaged" content="y"/>
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            <postscript hand="Bess of Hardwick">
                hary cauendysshe hathe<lb/>
                desyred me by hys latters<lb/>
                to moue your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan> for your<lb/>
                erneste laters to the prence<lb/>
                of orynge yn hys fauore. and that<lb/>
                yt wyll plese you to show you<lb/>
                aconte of hym. thys am I euar bolde to trobell your <dip>.</dip>L<dip>.</dip><expan>ordship</expan>
            </postscript>
        </letter_text>                 
        
        <next_page>
            <note hand="archivist" type="Old foliation">
                314
            </note>
        </next_page>
    </bess_letter>
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<version v="1.0">Initial release version, September 2013</version>
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