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Catalogue description Letter from Sir Arthur Mainwaring, Ightfield [Salop], to his 'brother-in-law' Sir William More, Loseley. More's letter has caused Mainwaring to 'receive better hope of your liking of this match of marriage'. He knows More would have allowed his daughter to refuse his son [George] and is pleased that the latter stayed longer at More's own request. He urges that their children should understand 'that you and I be entered into this firm league that who shall please the one of us has to please both and contrarywise'. He thanks More for his invitation to Loseley and hopes to 'entice you to this rude and barbarous soil'. He asks More to send him his 'coat of arms with the crest in colours'. Dated 5 Apr. [HMC p.662b where it is dated Sep; see also LM/COR/3/612; Anne More married Sir George Mainwaring; their eldest son Arthur was born in 1582]
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| Title: | Letter from Sir Arthur Mainwaring, Ightfield [Salop], to his 'brother-in-law' Sir William More, Loseley. More's letter has caused Mainwaring to 'receive better hope of your liking of this match of marriage'. He knows More would have allowed his daughter to refuse his son [George] and is pleased that the latter stayed longer at More's own request. He urges that their children should understand 'that you and I be entered into this firm league that who shall please the one of us has to please both and contrarywise'. He thanks More for his invitation to Loseley and hopes to 'entice you to this rude and barbarous soil'. He asks More to send him his 'coat of arms with the crest in colours'. Dated 5 Apr. [HMC p.662b where it is dated Sep; see also LM/COR/3/612; Anne More married Sir George Mainwaring; their eldest son Arthur was born in 1582] |
| Date: | nd [1576 x 1582] |
| Held by: | Surrey History Centre, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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