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Contemporary copy of a letter : to William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, undated [after May 1641].

BIB_ID
130442
Accession number
MA 1475.12
Creator
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
Display Date
undated [after May 1641].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31 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.
The conjugate leaf bears the note, "Copy of the King's letter to my Lord Say. 1639?"
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
Instructing him to permit the transfer of the wardship of Philip, 2nd Viscount Strangfond, from Sir Thomas Hatherley to Barbara, Viscountess Strangford, mother of the boy, as already agreed upon between the principals.