BIB_ID
116255
Accession number
MA 1475.5
Creator
Throckmorton, John, 16th cent.
Display Date
1598 Apr. 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 17 documents relating to the Sidney family. Items are individually cataloged in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
With address panel. Docketed.
Written as Sergeant-Major at Flushing to the English governor of the city.
With address panel. Docketed.
Written as Sergeant-Major at Flushing to the English governor of the city.
Provenance
Percy Clinton Sidney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford and Baron Penhurst (bound with doublures bearing his arms in 1837 or later); by descent to his granddaughter Mrs. P.M. Russell (Philippa Augusta Maria Baillie Russell), and sold by her (London, Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 533) to Quaritch; purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Summary
Reporting on the state of the defenses and expressing confidence that they would succeed in holding the city against threats of the enemy.
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