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          <note hand="archivist" type="Later editorial note">
              Elizabethe Sh<illeg type="torn" content="rus"/>bury/<lb/>
              <flourish/>
              Sallopp
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          <note hand="archivist" type="Later editorial note">
              D<dip>.</dip><expan>owager</expan> Shrewsbury
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               246
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           My good Brother./ I have received yo<dip>.</dip><expan>u</expan><sup>r</sup> letter, and am glad to<lb/>
           heare that you and my good Brother Roger Manners have<lb/>
           your healthe./ for my owne health I thank god It is such<lb/>
           as it was at yo<dip>.</dip><expan>u</expan><sup>r</sup> being here./ And so w<expan>i</expan><sup>th</sup> my hartie<lb/>
           Commendations to yo<sup>u</sup> and to my good brother Roger Man<dip_expan>n</dip_expan>ers<lb/>
           w<expan>i</expan><sup>th</sup> thank<dip_expan>e</dip_expan>s to him for his remembraunce of me. I cease<lb/>
           ffrom Hardwick this xvj<sup>th</sup> of December 1605/
           
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               Yo<dip>.</dip><expan>u</expan><sup>r</sup> verie loving Sister<lb/>
               and assured ffrend./
               <signature hand="Bess of Hardwick" place="right">
                   EShrousbury
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