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Letter from Edward Dyer, place not identified, to the Governors of St Saviour's Grammar School, 1597 August 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
157532
Accession number
MA 2415
Creator
Dyer, Edward, Sir, 1543-1607.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1597 August 24.
Credit line
Purchased, 1965.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 26.3 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Dyer gives the place and date of writing as "At my lodging / the xxiiiith of Aug: 97."
Address panel: "To the verie woorshipfull / Mr Brooker, Mr House, Mr / Bromfeld, Mr Palison & the / rest of the Governors of the / Free School of St Marie Ovrie / my verie good & beloved frends."
St Saviour's Grammar School was a free grammar school for boys. It was associated with The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie (also known as Southwark Cathedral) in the borough of Southwark, London.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Winifred A. Myers, 3 August 1965.
Summary
Recommending the bearer, Mr. Fausett, as a schoolmaster; writing that Fausett is "a verie honest & sober man, verie sufficiently Learned for that callinge, & much affected to doo good that way."