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Description: | Barbican.
Touching Mr. Henry Parvis, to whom Sir Drue and I delivered 250l. for you in November, your lordship writes that you have lost 5l. because he made you pay usance for your own money; but it appears from your letters that you have received a far greater loss, for you say that he paid you in Hamburg money, "which is worse by a sixth than ours," so that unless he gave you so much more as would countervail this, you have lost nearly 40l. sterling.
My lady your wife and your children do all very well. My wife recommends her humble duty to you, and "we both pray you, next after your honour, to have care of your person and purse ... and we pray for you in a good resolution and conscience, sith the quarrel is holy and just, and we doubt not but your affection to that service is not of vain-glory, but of zeal to God's glory and relief of his oppressed children."
Postscript: My lady looks, she saith, continually for her hour of travail and therefore prays you excuse her for not writing. She is afraid "lest in some spleen," the commissioners will not pay her the money according to your lordship's note, as they say they must wait further orders from you. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 21 Apr 1586 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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