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Letter from George Barnby, Gunthwaite, Yorkshire to Sir Thomas Wentworth, bart., at "his Lodgings at mistress wentworths a widdow in Swan alley in Colemantreete", 1663/4 March 24

 Item — Box: X.d.428 (101-150)
Identifier: X.d.428 (149)

Scope and Contents

Requests that he intercede with Sir George Savile, later Marquis of Halifax, to stop the building of a town mill at Oxspring, Yorkshire by Sir Francis Wortley, bart.

On the address leaf there is a forwarding address in another hand: "ffor Mistress Mary Wentworth at the Cat & fidell in the strand beyond St Clemon's Church," a postal stamp with the date "Mr 25," and the note, "latin for gloues is grotetarum [sic]."

Dates

  • 1663/4 March 24

Availability

Collection is open for research.

Repository Details

Part of the Folger Shakespeare Library Repository

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