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ELIZABETH I, Queen of England (1558-1603). Letter signed ('Elizabeth R') to Nathaniel Bacon, Collector for the Loan in Norfolk, Westminster, 23 March 1597[98], large signature (measuring approximately 130 mm across) at the head, 15 lines written in brown ink in a secretary hand, one line including 8 words cancelled and amended, one page, oblong folio, 210 x 320 mm, integral address leaf, contemporary endorsement, traces of seal, dispatch slits (traces of guard).
A letter concerning the sums loaned for the defence of the realm against the Spanish Armada the previous year, which it is not now possible to repay as soon as originally intended, 'by reason of the p[rese]nte p[re]parations w[hic]h by the Ennemies mightie attempts against our Re[a]lm we are forced p[re]sently to make both by Sea and land and also for that the first paym[en]t of such subsidies as by this last Parliam[en]t hath bene graunted unto us, is not to be payd to us before the twelveth day of February the next yeare'.
A letter concerning the sums loaned for the defence of the realm against the Spanish Armada the previous year, which it is not now possible to repay as soon as originally intended, 'by reason of the p[rese]nte p[re]parations w[hic]h by the Ennemies mightie attempts against our Re[a]lm we are forced p[re]sently to make both by Sea and land and also for that the first paym[en]t of such subsidies as by this last Parliam[en]t hath bene graunted unto us, is not to be payd to us before the twelveth day of February the next yeare'.
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