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Copy of a letter signed : the Tower [London], to Queen Elizabeth, [1586].

BIB_ID
81699
Accession number
MA 664
Creator
Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586.
Display Date
[1586].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm
Notes
"Mr Babbington's l[ette]r to the Qu[een] after his condemnation [for treason] sent from the Tower and delivered by his wife."
This item is bound into the Cecil-Stamford-Towneley manuscript on p. 177-178; 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
Appealing for mercy.