My very good Brother,
If my health had been to my mind I would have been before this at the Court, as well to have given you thanks for your presence, at the hearing of my cause debated as to have moved her Majesty for her resolution. As for the matter, how much I am beholding to you I need not repeat, but in all thankfulness acknowledge, for you have been the mover & only follower thereof for me, & by your only means, I have hitherto passed the pikes of so many adversaries. Now my desire is, since themselves who have opposed to her Majesty’s right seem satisfied, that you will make the end answerable, to the rest of your most
friendly proceeding, for I am advised,
that I may pass my Book from her Majesty, if a warrant may be procured to my cousin
Bacon and Sergeant Harris to perfect it. Which being done, I know to whom
formally to thank, but really they shall be, and are from me, and mine, to be
sealed up in an eternal remembrance to yourself. And thus wishing all happiness
to you, and some fortunate means to me, whereby I might recognize so deep merits,
I take my leave this 7th of October from my House at Hackney. 1601.
Your most assured and loving Brother.
(signed) Edward Oxenford
Addressed (in Oxford’s hand): To
the right honorable & my very good Brother Sir Robert Cecil one of her Majesty’s
privy Council and principal Secretary give this at the Court. [seal]
Endorsed: 1601 7 October: Earl of
Oxenford to my Master.
Also at Virtual Grub Street:
- On the Question “Who knew Edward de Vere was Shakespeare?” December 14, 2020. “But was the word going around that his wife, the Countess of Oxford, conceived two children in his absence?”
- King’s Place: home of the Earl and Countess of Oxford, 1596-1604. November 10, 2020. “In 1596, Elizabeth Trentham received King’s Place, in Hackney, from the estate of one Sir Rowland Hayward. She and her husband, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, moved in shortly afterward.”
- A 1572 Oxford Letter and the Player’s Speech in Hamlet. August 11, 2020. “The player’s speech has been a source of consternation among Shakespeare scholars for above 200 years. Why was Aeneas’ tale chosen as the subject?”
- Shakespeare’s Funeral Meats. May 13, 2020. “Famous as this has been since its discovery, it has been willfully misread more often than not. No mainstream scholar had any use for a reference to Hamlet years before it was supposed to have been written.”
- Check out the English Renaissance Article Index for many more articles and reviews about this fascinating time and about the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
- Check out the Letters Index: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford for many letters from this fascinating time, some related to the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
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