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            <superscription hand="Bess of Hardwick">
                Too the Ryghte<lb/>
                worchouppfull my<lb/>
                uary frende syr<lb/>
                Iohen <del/> thynne<lb/>
                knyghte
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            <contemporary_addition hand="unknown scribe" type="endorsement">
                The Lady Cavendyshe<lb/>
                25 Feb<dip_expan>rua</dip_expan>ry 1557
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            <note hand="archivist" type="Old foliation">
                11
            </note>
            
            Syr I render unto you my mouste harty<lb/>
            thankes for your manyfolde gentelnes<lb/>
            shewed towardes me at all tymes only<lb/>
            of your owne good dysposyon w<expan>i</expan><sup>t</sup><expan>h</expan>out any<lb/>
            cawse mynysteryd on thes behalfe <symbol/><lb/>
            theys be to let you onderstande that<lb/>
            hetherto I haue taken no hurte by the<lb/>
            parlamante yet do I stylle stande yn<lb/>
            great fear and shall do untyll such<lb/>
            tyme as the parlamente ende whych<lb/>
            I wysshe dayly for. the byll hath<lb/>
            as yet been but once redde and y<illeg type="faded" content="s"/><lb/>
            so euyll lyked of the howse tha<illeg type="faded" content="t I"/><lb/>
            trust through the helpe <illeg type="faded" content="of"/> such <illeg type="faded" content="as"/><lb/>
            you and other <illeg type="faded" content="trewe made my frendes"/><lb/>
            yt shall take small effec<illeg type="faded" content="te to do"/> me any<lb/>
            hurt the mater of yt selfe makyth<lb/>
            me mo frendes then I loked for. <illeg type="faded" content="For"/><lb/>
            ther be fewe yn the howse but they<lb/>
            or theyr frendes shulde smart yf<lb/>
            the acte sholde passe mayster marston<lb/> 
            hathe shewed hym selfe so frendly<lb/>
            unto me for your sake that more<lb/>
            he could not do yf yt were hys owne<lb/>
            case. I am glade that my lady hath<lb/>
            so well spede I beseche our lorde to<lb/>
            sende you meche commforde of your<lb/>
            younge sone thus beynge allwayes<lb/>
            bolde for to troble<del>ll</del> you I bede you mouste<lb/>
            hartely fare well frome london the<lb/>
            xxv of <illeg type="faded" content="Febr"/>ewary<lb/>
            
            <subscription hand="Bess of Hardwick" place="right">
                your poore bound fren<illeg type="right edge" content="d"/><lb/>
                
                <signature hand="Bess of Hardwick" place="right">
                    Elyzabeth Cauendyssh
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            <note hand="archivist" type="Old foliation">
                12
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