Order for payment of surplusage of £2000 to Marshal Duc de Biron, signed by Lord Buckhurst
- Miscellaneous/Box 15/SA1/2
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- 23 March 1601
Part of Miscellaneous Papers
Order for payment of surplusage of £2000 to Marshal Duc de Biron, signed by Lord Buckhurst
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Photograph of A.L.s., from William Cecil to his father, Robert Cecil.
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Discusses his planned trip to Cambridge.
Cecil, William (1591-1668) 2nd Earl of Salisbury
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Sackville, Thomas (c 1536-1608) 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet
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Autograph letter signed Ro: Cecyll to the Lord High Treasurer Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), requesting Sackville to give 200 pounds to Cecil's steward Roger Houghton for immediate payment to the Scottish noblewoman Lady Barbara Ruthven (d. 1625), whose two brothers had been killed in an alleged plot against King James three years earlier. Postscript in darker ink written by Roger Houghton.
Cecil, Robert (1563-1612) 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman
A.L.s. from Lord William Howard of Naworth to Thomas Dudley
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Asks for a case of his tenant to be tried at Dudley's sessions to be looked at kindly.
Howard, Lord William (1563-1640) antiquary and landowner
The first British newspaper: the Weekly Newes
Photocopy of front page, 30 May 1622.
A.L.s., from Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, to Sir Thomas Fairfax
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Hopes that TF will recover from his illness, is unsure about her future, gives a description of a fire and of the finery of the Spanish ambassador.
Talbot, Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury (1556–1632)
A.L.s. from Thomas Fairfax to his grandfather, 1st Baron.
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Has recovered from an illness and discusses a visit. Notes the imprisonment of John Williams, the Bishop of Lincoln, and an emotional speech given to his servants.
Fairfax, Thomas (1612-1671) 3rd Baron Fairfax, general
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Gives thanks to SJC and offers his services.
Wentworth, Thomas (1593-1641) 1st Earl of Strafford, statesman
A.L.s., in French, to Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France
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Appeals on behalf of a Mr Haesdone in Paris who has been arrested at the suit of certain French merchants.