William Woodruffe to Mrs Isabel Plumpton

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William Woodruffe to Mrs Isabel Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 11, p. 190
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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To other members of the Plumpton family', item 29; Kirby, item 249
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

249 William Woodruffe to Mrs Isabel Plumpton, [1549 × 1550] (No. 11,
         p. 190)

 

Right worshipfull Mistress,a in my harty wise I commend me to you,
with thanks giuen to you for all your genntlenes. Certyfying you that
as yet my wife hath not laid her belly, but remaineth at hir wits end.
And since me being with you I haue not had iij dayes of health: I
thank God albeit. I am better now, which aple, that I was thinking, by
Gods helpe, to se you after the holadayes. In the mean time I haue
sent this knowen bearrer to you for to se you, because I am not all
well. Praying your aduertis me of your health and wellfarre, which I
will be glad to hear of as I wold be any frind I haue, as God knowes,
who haue you in his keping. And so, fare you well. From Howell
Grang, this Palme Sunday.

Yours to my litle power withowt gile     Wiliam Wodrifeb

     I am sory [. . .]c of the heuines of the death of Mr Dinis wife.1

Endorsed: To the right worshipfull Mrs Plomton at Plompton Hall widow

 

     a Marginal note: I letter by Will. Wodrife.

     b for your deleted.

     c Marginal note: Copied the 7 of June, Wednesday.

 

     1 Ursula, daughter of Richard Aldburgh of Aldburgh, great-great granddaughter of Sir
William Plumpton (d.1480), and niece of Ralph Aldburgh, writer of 250. She and Denis
(d.1596) were married 4 July 1547, and she left a son, Richard, WYASL, Acc. 1731/9-
M3.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

 

                                                    LETTER XXIX.

 

To the right worshipfull Mrs. Plomton at Plompton hall, widow.

 

    Right worshipfull Mistres, in my harty wise I commend me to
you, with thanks given to you for all your gentlenes ; certyfying you
that as yet my wife hath not laid her belly, but remaineth at her
wits end. And sinc my being with you I have not had iij dayes
of health ; I thank God albeit. I am better now, which aple, that
I was thinking, by God's helpe, to se you after the holadayes. In
the mean time I have sent this knowen bearrer to you for to se
you, because I am not all well, praying you to advertis me of
your healthand wellfare, which I will be glad to hear of, as I wold
be any frind I have, as God knoweth, who have you in his keping,
and so fare ye well. From Howell grang, this Palme sunday.
                                 Yours to my litle power

                                              withowt gile,        WILLIAM WODRIF.

    I am sory of the hevines of the death of Mr. Dinis wife.a
    (Anno 1549-50.)

 

    a Ursula, daughter of Richard Aldburgh, and niece of "Ralph Audbrough," the
writer of a letter which follows, was married 4th July, 1 Edw. VI. 1547, to Denis or
Dyonisius Plumpton, born 9 Oct. 1519, the feast of St. Denis. She left one son, Richard
Plumpton, having, it seems, survived her marriage little more than a year.