Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2023
To the Right wor
shipfull my Loving
Sonne Sir
thomas thin Long
Let gve this
wth speed
Good sonn your Leter was expeicited Longe be fore
I hard from you. which made me doutfull.
what couse your sister ??? showld take for
her mony ???? seinge you cam not acording
to your promys ^whch^ gaue both her and my selfe
much discontenment: where apon she hath
made her atornes to reseaue her the mony
to her youse: yett neuer the less. if you
will haue the hole som. all to gether for
thre weakes or ^a month^ Longer if you please. geu=
inge her what she and you shall agree a=
pon ? at your and her nexst meteinge ????
geuinge her atornes good secureite for
the hole thosen pondes. to be pade vnto her
at London or other wise ? ^where^ she shall apount
[this entire line crossed out in the manuscript]
[most of this line crossed out] but to breake
the some shee is very vnwilinge and there=
fore good sonn haue abrotherly care for her
good for that she is very wilinge you shold
haue it afore astranger for the Lone of your
house I hartely thanke you and doe take it
very kindely from you wishinge I had
??? knone your minde afore for then I wold
not atrobeled my sister kneueit as I did but
now god wilinge if it please god to sende me
any reasenabell helth I will see both you
and yours to my greate comfort for your
sonne heare he is in good health and is much
altred for the beter I prase god: I thanke
you for your sister cristen praing ^you^ that she
may haue the continunance of your Loue vnto
her and this prayeng you to beare with my scri=
blinge Leter beinge not well at this tyme beinge
very well satesfied by your Leter which I pray
god euer to kepe and bless both you and youres
remembringe my beste Loue vnto you? I rest
Taken alone, this, the last surviving letter sent from Joan Thynne to her son Thomas in 1611, affords little out of the ordinary from what we know about letter-writing practice in the early seventeenth century.
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