Copyright Information All material is made available free of charge for individual, non-commercial use only. The copyright and other intellectual property rights in the transcribed letter text, metadata about the letters and the design of the letter display are owned by the University of Glasgow. You are permitted to access, print and download letters from this site on the following conditions: - use of all material on this site is for information and for non-commercial or your own personal use only; any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for non-commercial or your own personal use. - the content must not be modified in any way. - any use of the material for a permitted purpose must be accompanied by a full source citation. No part of this site may be reproduced or stored in any other web site or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the University of Glasgow's prior written permission. Commercial exploitation of the transcribed letters, including use by radio or television programme makers and examination boards, is prohibited without licence from the University of Glasgow. Further information on copyright and citation can be found at:- (URL: http://www.bessofhardwick.org/background.jsp?id=171) To syr Thomas Cornewal Iuly 15 1582 X X 172 After my very hartie Comendacions I wold right gladly haue seen yo^u at my howse as we had appoynted where yo^u shuld haue byn as welcome as to any you^r best frend, but am hartely sory for the occasion of you^r so soden alteracion aswell in respect of you^r greate grief as of the greate losse my sonne Charles Cavendishe hath of so good & lovinge a wife, a rare & p^recious Iewell, and as there was betwixt them a most faithfull knott of mutuall love wherby wi^th his good & dutyfull behavior you^r good likinge & hartie affection (as I hard) was so grounded towardes hym as I doubte not but yo^u will contynue the same in as benificiall soerte every waye & asmoche to his comoditie, as yat by her life might haue come to hym. And consideringe the greate care & chardes of his parentes for that matche, and that Si^r Thomas Kytson hathe nowe but one doughter, and none els neare vnto hym, I assure my selfe by you^r good meanes he will make accompte of hym as his owne child and even so vse hym deale wi^th hym./ I haue alwayes had so good likinge of hym as I hold hym no lesse deare then any one of my owne and even so haue care of hym, and therfore moste hartely crave you^r goodnes hym and what frendship I maye any wise do yo^u or any of you^rs yo^u shall fynde yt assuredly as yo^u wold wishe/ And so I comyt yo^u to god. July .xv./ 1582 To Si^r Thomas Cornwallis. good Iuyll I pray you take payns to wryt out thes towe with your owne hand Initial version