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cover 1663 (3 Aug.) entire letter from Simon Snowe at Exeter to his nephew "Mr Thomas Pengelly at the pestell and morter in Ffan Church Streete these in London", the address panel with manuscript rated "3d" and the reverse with fine "AV/7" Bishop Mark across the join, the letter refers to the writer's dead brother and asks that he be sent "the best and longest of my brothers morninge cloaks, and his best beeven hatt ......... to keepe me in constant memory of him, and to mind mee of my mortality, and that others must weare my clothese, when I am gonn"; fine, clean and most appealing

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cover 1663 (3 Aug.) entire letter from Simon Snowe at Exeter to his nephew "Mr Thomas Pengelly at the pestell and morter in Ffan Church Streete these in London", the address panel with manuscript rated "3d" and the reverse with fine "AV/7" Bishop Mark across the join, the letter refers to the writer's dead brother and asks that he be sent "the best and longest of my brothers morninge cloaks, and his best beeven hatt ......... to keepe me in constant memory of him, and to mind mee of my mortality, and that others must weare my clothese, when I am gonn"; fine, clean and most appealing