BL Lansdowne 50/22, ff. 49-50 (bifolium?, 305mm x 190mm, 150mm x 190mm), Oxford to Burghley; before June 25, 1586. (W251;F342). [Click here for modernized spelling.]
My very good lord as I have bene
behowldinge vnto yow diuers tymes & of late, by my brother R. Cecill,
wherby I have bene the better able to follow my sute, wherin I have sume
comfort at this tyme from Mr Secretarie Wallsingham, so am I now bowld, to
crave yowre lordships help at this present. for beinge now almost at a point to
tast that good whiche her Magestie shall determine yet am[?] I on[e] that hathe
longe besieged a fort and not able to compas the end or reap the frut of his
travel, beinge forst to leuie his sige for want of munition. Beinge therfore
thus disfurnished and vnprouided to follow her Magestie as I perceyve she will
loke for, I most ernestly desyre yowre lordship yat yow will lend me 200 pounds
tyll her Magestie performethe her promes. out of which I shall make my payment
yf it pleas yow with the rest yat yowre lordship hathe at sundrie tymes to my
great furtherance and help in my causes sent me by yowre seruant and stuard
Billet. I wowld be lothe to have trobled yowre lordship with so muche yf I were
not kept here bake with this tedious sut, from London, where I wowld have found
means to have taken vp so muche to have serued my turne tyll her magestie had
dispached me, but for that I dare not, hauinge bene here so longe, and the
matter growinge to sume conclusion, be absent. I pray yowre lordship beare with
me, yat at this time wherin I am to set my self in order I doo become so
troblesume from the Court this morninge
Yowre Lordships ever bounden
(signed) Edward Oxenford
Addressed by Oxford: To the ryght
honorable and my very good Lord my Lord Thresorer of England giue thes [seal]
Endorsed by Burghley: 25 Iunij
1586 Erl of oxford to borrow ijCli wherof I
loa hym jCli
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