BIB_ID
107078
Accession number
MA 3097
Creator
Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644.
Display Date
Shrewsbury, England, 1642 December 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1973.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 29.3 x 18 cm
Notes
Dering calls his correspondent "Mr Bruges." Earlier catalog records identify this as George Brydges.
Docketed.
Address panel: "To his honnored friende / Mr Bruges Captayne of / Warwick Castell These."
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Docketed.
Address panel: "To his honnored friende / Mr Bruges Captayne of / Warwick Castell These."
See Collection File for additional information.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby Sale, 20 November 1973, lot 110.
Summary
Saying that while traveling in disguise and under an alias, he was stopped and arrested by two gentlemen of unclear authority; declaring that he is innocent: "I was onely knowen by ye name of Edmond Bell, and travailed vpon private affayres of no relation to ye publicke. Nor haue I been an Actor in any military part of ye present distractions;" saying that he then escaped from custody; explaining that many of his possessions were seized and petitioning Brydges for their return or, at least, the chance to buy them back; including an inventory of the items taken, including two horses, several books, money, clothes, a sword, a pistol, a silver watch, and "a false beard to disguise my selfe withall, but not vsed."
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