MRP: Letter from Henry Oxinden of Deane to Henry Oxinden of Barham (his cousin): Letter 12
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Letter from Henry Oxinden of Deane to Henry Oxinden of Barham (his cousin): Letter 12
Editorial history
10/09/11, CSG: Created page
(MS: 28,000, f. 45)
Letter printed in D.K. Gardiner (1933:210)
GOOD COZEN,
To acquitte myselfe of my promise, I heere send you my boy and this paper to acquaint you with our intention to wait on the Queene Mother, and our probable hopes of effecting our desires; our time prefixt of being at the chequers[1] in Canterbury is att twelfe of the clocke tomorrow being thursday, att which place and time pray fayle nott to meete, as you tender the service: Farewell
Your freind and servant
HENRY OXINDEN
Notes
- ↑ The Chequers inn was located on the High Street and was mentioned by Chaucer. Members of the Kent Archaeological Society visited the inn in 1858 during the Society's first annual general meeting. They found it to be "built in the form of a quadrangle, with an open courtyard; the suites of rooms projected in front over each other, and were supported by pillars forming a colonnade." ('Archaeologica Cantiana, vol. 1 (London, 1858), p. lxxiv)
