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Copy of a letter signed : [London?], to James Stewart, [1609 Nov. 8].

BIB_ID
120316
Accession number
MA 664
Creator
Wharton, George, 1583-1609.
Display Date
[1609 Nov. 8].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm
Notes
Sir George Wharton and Sir James Stewart, Master of Blantyre, were both killed in a duel in Islington on Nov. 8, 1609.
This item is bound into the Cecil-Stamford-Towneley manuscript on p. 212-213; see main record for MA 664 for information on the volume and its contents.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
Challenging Sir James Stewart to a duel.