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- [1620s]. (Creation)
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i, 11 ff. (ff. 10 verso-11 verso blank) ; 250 x 150 mm.
Paper covers, [19 cent.]; 'No 35' in ink on front cover.
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A transcript, [1620s], in an unidentified hand, of the letter, [early 1620s], from Thomas Alured, Remembrancer of the Court of the Marches and later MP for Hedon, to George Villiers, fifth duke of Buckingham, opposing the proposed marriage of the Prince of Wales, later Charles I, to Donna Maria, Infanta of Spain (cf. Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1619-23, p. 150): 'To my Lord Marquess of Buckingham' (First line, 'Though to aduise may seem presumptuous, yet what is well intended ...'; last line, '... By him, that is not ambitious, because not worthy, nor affraied, because not ashamed to be known vnto your Lordshipp in this busines Thomas Alured') (ff. 1-10).
On Thomas Alured see William Wheatley, Edward Latymer and his Foundations (Beccles, 1953), pp. 97-104. Several other contemporary manuscript copies are preserved in the British Library and Bodleian Library; for the printed text see Thomas Alured, Coppie of a Letter Written to the Duke of Buckingham Concerning the Match with Spaine (London, 1642, Wing 2940) and The Humble Advice of Thomas Aldred [recte Alured] to the Marquesse of Buckingham Concerning the Marriage of our Sovereigne Lord King Charles (London, 1643, Wing 2940A), the present text being closer to the 1643 edition, but with some variants; see also John Rushworth, Historical Collections, 7 vols (London, 1659-1701), i, 91.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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English.
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Folios 9-11 damaged with some loss of text.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Porkington MS 35.
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Watermark: bishop's crozier within crowned armorial shield, similar to Briquet 1346 (France and Switzerland, 1586).
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Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.19 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].