Letters: Earl of Oxford to Baron Burghley, November 27, 1575 [Spelling modernized].

Cecil Papers 8/76 (bifolium, 300mm x 205mm, repaired), Oxford to Burghley; 27 November [1575] (W109;F196). [Click here for original spelling.]

My Lord,
Having the opportunity to write by this bearer who departs from us here in Padua,  this night, although I cannot make so large a write as I would gladly desire yet I thought it not fit to let so short a time slip.  Wherefore remembering my commendations to your good Lordship, this shall be to desire you to pardon the shortness of my letters, and to impute it at this present to the haste of this messenger’s departure. And as concerning my own matters, I shall desire your Lordship to make no stay of sales of my land,  but that all things according to my determinations before I came away.  With those that I appointed last by my servant William Bothe might go forward, according to my order taken, without any other alteration. Thus recommending myself unto your Lordship  again, and to my Lady your wife, with mine, I leave further to trouble your Lordship from
Padua
The 27^th of November.

Your Lordship’s to command.
(signed) Edward Oxenford

(Addressed by Oxford) To the right honorable and his very good lord my Lord Burley lord Treasurer of England give this

Endorsed: 27 November 1575 The Earl of Oxford to my lord from Padua the sale of his lands not to be stayed.


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