SUSSEX, Sir Thomas Radcliffe, third Earl of (1526?-1583). Statesman.
Letter Signed (T Sussex') to Sir Henry Newell, ½-page folio with address-leaf (some trimming not affecting the text), from the Co[u]rt, 21 July 1578. Asking permission for two of his friends, merchants of London, to hunt and kill 'a brase of bucks' in one of the parks at Windsor.

'After my very hartie comendacons where Mr William Bocher and willm Mallorie my very frends and marchants of london, who have shewed me great frendshipp in divers my causes beyond the Seas, have occasion to repaire wth other of there frends to windes[re] and therabout: I do hartely pray you to lett them kill a brase of bucks in suche of the p[ar]ks ther, where you shall think fittest and to take order that they and their companie may at the killing of them have as good sport as conveniently you maye wherin you shall do me a very great pleasure, w[hi]ch I will gladly requite with the lyke to any frende of yours in any grownde of my owne. So I bid you right hartely well to fare From the Co[u]rt the xxith of Julie 1578.'

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