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Description: | "I durst not let pas this messenger with out sending to you, fering lest you wold haue condemned mee of forgetfulnes which fate I confes I have, thouth neuer of you .... I immagin by this time your Lordship hath bin at the Court wheare you haue courted the Ladis and danst with the Queene which bisnes being past I presume you haue laisor to make us happi in the contry as to hear from you".
In postscripts are added a request that Mr Smith will pay Morton's wife for the "cheare" she sends her and asks her to send a round french ruff of the newest fashion - and adds "your saruant Perimus misses you euing and morning and wee mis Mr Smith diner and soper". This letter must be after c.1605, estimated date of the marriage and before 1626 when Robert became earl of Lindsey. It somehow gives the impression of being early in the marriage - no ref. to children. If it were, could Mr Smith be Captain John Smith, founder of Virginia? He was the son of a tenant at Willoughby in the Marsh, was in attendance on Robert and his brother abroad c.1599 (H.M.C. Anc. p. 348) and is supposed to have been back in England after his own further travels before sailing for Virginia in December 1606 (Captain John Smith, Bradford Smith, 1953, p. 76-90). | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | undated [1605-1626] | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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