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To ye right honorable
the Countes of Shrewsbury.
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My noble la.dy I must supplye a great burden
with a light recompence, being so depelye
Indebted for your so many bountyes,
only bare thankes have I to requyte them with,
Albeyt a very redye & most wylling mynde
shall ye alwey finde to make better requytalle
with any servyce or pleasure yat may lye in my
smale pouer. And so wyll with my best
& hartyest prayers to god for your well doing
comytt my good la.dy to his safe protectyon.
from Kenelworth this xvj of July.
Your ladyship's most
assuredly bounde
R. Leycester
Dudly Earl of Leucester 1564 extinct 1588 Robert Dudley
younger son of John Dudle of Northumberland being much favoured by Queen Elizabeth was maked Baron of
denbigh and Earl of Leicester in the 6th of his reign = he
died Sep. 4 1588 – see Bead Collins’s Peerage Page 452 .
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