BIB_ID
81839
Accession number
MA 1475.4
Creator
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.
Display Date
1583 June 26.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.4 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.
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
Concerning repairs needed at the Queen's house at Oxford, and authorizing the expenditure of £25 on the work. Signed "Your assured loving frend W. Burghley."
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