Letters: Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil; June 16, 1603. [Spelling modernized]

Cecil Papers 100/99; 16 June 1603. [Click here for original spelling.]

My very good L[ord]

His Majesty has heard his Attorney General’s report as touching my interest to the keeping of the forest and the park of Havering, and I receiving from your L[ord]ship and my Lord Admiral his resolution according to my L[ord] Admiral’s direction I have sent to Mr. Attorney to set his hand to my particular. But as I am answered, by his letter, that he cannot do the same, unless he be warranted by six of the Council’s hands, according to a late decree of his Majesty which he does require, I most earnestly therefore desire your L[ord]ship as to the like purpose I have written to my Lord Admiral that you will procure me such a warrant since it is agreeable to his Majesty’s mind, as from yourselves I have bene acertained. And this in effect is my request which not to be troublesome to your L[ord]ship I end with my hearty commendations. This 16 of June.

Your L[ord]ship’s assured friend and Brother-in-Law.

(signed) Edward Oxenforde.

Addressed (in Oxford’s hand): To the right honorable my very good L[ord] the Lord Cecil of Essendon. [seal beneath paper]

Endorsed: 16 June 1603. Earl of Oxford to my Lord

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