Letter from Richard Topcliffe, Rycote, Oxfordshire, to Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1577 July 9
Item — Box: X.d.428 (101-150)
Identifier: X.d.428 (125)
Scope and Contents
The Earl of Leicester has departed toward the court to Sir Thomas Gresham's after being at Buxton, Derbyshire, to treat his boil. Has never heard Leicester commend Buxton half so much. The Countess of Bedford, the Earl and Countess of Cumberland, and Lord Wharton and his wife have arrived at Rycote, and "the fatte Erle cummethe this day." Leicester is very careful over his two young cousins, Edward and Henry, to have them placed at Oxford and will bring his "owld deade sewt vnto a newe lyffe" on behalf of her son Charles.
Dates
- 1577 July 9
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