Letter signed from William Cecil to Robert Petre [manuscript], 1578 October 7.

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Letter signed from William Cecil to Robert Petre [manuscript], 1578 October 7.

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Signed W. Burghley, with integral address leaf addressed to "To my louing frend Mr. Robert Peter Auditor of the Receipte." Requests that Petre attend a meeting with himself and Thomas Jenison to discuss Irish debts due to England. With autograph postscript specifying the nature of these debts: those arising out of the lord deputyship of Sir Henry Sidney.

2 leaves ; 20 x 21 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Sidney, Henry, Sir, 1529-1586

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Jenison, Thomas, approximately 1525-1587

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Petre, Robert, -1593

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Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598

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Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, as the Queen's personal envoy, was sent to France in February 1571 to negotiate a marriage between Elizabeth I and Henry, Duke of Anjou (later Henry III, King of France). In August of that year Buckhurst accompanied the French envoy Paul de Foix to England to further the marriage negotiations. From the description of Autograph letter signed from William Cecil, Baron Burghley, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester [manuscript], 1571 August 11. (Folger ...