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Miscellaneous/Box 5/CE0
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GB 275 Miscellaneous/Box 5/CE0
Title
Letter from Robert Cecil
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- 1603 (Creation)
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Folio bifolium: 1 page of text, 1 page with address, 2 blanks, paper
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(1563-1612)
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Secretary of State (1596-1612) and Lord High Treasurer (1608-1612).
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Purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd, September 2020.
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Autograph letter signed Ro: Cecyll to the Lord High Treasurer Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), requesting Sackville to give 200 pounds to Cecil's steward Roger Houghton for immediate payment to the Scottish noblewoman Lady Barbara Ruthven (d. 1625), whose two brothers had been killed in an alleged plot against King James three years earlier. Postscript in darker ink written by Roger Houghton.
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- Ruthven, Lady Barbara (d. 1625) (Subject)
- Sackville, Thomas (1536-1608) first Baron Buckhurst (Subject)
- Houghton, Roger (d. 1617) (Subject)