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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]."

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From her physician, advising her on a kidney-related illness. Recommends going to Knaresborough spa, in Yorkshire, and taking Lucatella's balsam.

Seal almost intact. Note in pencil is in Sir Thomas Phillipps's hand.

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...

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Asks her to lend her horse litter and furniture to his wife, who, failing to recover her health at Buxton, has decided to come home.

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Informs his wife of the different suggestions of the Countess of Sussex and Lady Cobham as to a suitable gift for the Queen. A safeguard and a cloak described in detail.

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Recounts further opinions of the Countess of Sussex on the New Year's gift. Recommends certain colours and embroidery designs. The Queen likes the pansy flower best.

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Mr. Wingfield delivered the venison to the Queen and she talked one long hour of the Earl and Countess, saying of the Countess, "I haue bene glade to se my lady Sayntloa but now more dyssirous to se my lady Shrewsbury ... there ys no lady ys thys land that I beter loue and lyke." On overleaf, a list of women and men in the Countess of Shrewsbury's hand, headed by the Queen, ending with "countery wemen," and including various noblemen and women.

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The Queen told the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chamberlain "that she neuer had any [garments] so well lyked her" as the Countess's New Year's gift, and especially liked "the color and strange triminge." All are well at Hackney (the Lennox's), and Lady Arbella is a good child. Asks after Lord George (her grandson, the son of Gilbert and Mary, who died in 1577, age 2.)

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Lady Cobham does not advise a gift in money. Lady Arbella is "so good a childe as can be." The tailor only has five and a quarter yards of green velvet for a gown for Lady Arbella, but they need seven yards. The Queen "gaue many good wordes what she woulde do for yow h[onour]," concerning "my lords harde dealinge."