Letter from Mary Seymour to "Mr Peeter at ye Excheckar" [manuscript], 1579 Good Friday.

[London], 1579 Good Friday.

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D9484, 2021-05-28, purchased at Forum Auctions: "Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper" Thursday 27th May 2021", Lot #69. From dealer's description: "Court of Elizabeth I.- Extraordinary Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber.- Seymour (Mary, daughter of Nicholas Odell (or Woodhull), widow of David Seymour, who died c. 1558, attended Queen Katherine Parr during her pregnancy, Extraordinary Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber in the reign of Elizabeth I, b. c. 1528) Autograph Letter signed to "Mr Peeter at ye Excheckar",1p. with conjugate blank and address panel and remains of seal, Temple Barre, Good Friday 1579, asking him "to delyver to my sonn in lawe mr frauncis Nicolls a debenture to receyve my half years pensyon due at Lady day [25 March]... bycause I am come upp to London and am to go downe agayne very shortly, and do lacke mony to dyspatch my buysynes", torn where opened on blank, folds, browned. Mary Woodhull, or Odell, was the daughter of Nicholas Woodhull and Elizabeth (or Alice) Parr, and her grandfather was Lord Parr of Horton, Northants, making her a cousin of Queen Katherine Parr. She came to court as a chamberer in 1543 when she was about fifteen and had been promoted to gentlewoman of the queen's chamber at a salary of five shillings by 1547. Mary remained with Katherine Parr after Henry VIII's death. It was noted that sometimes she shared a bed with Parr for warmth. In the household of Katherine Parr she would have been in daily contact with the future Queen Elizabeth. In June 1550, Mary married David Seymour, a distant relation of Lord Protector Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, who had also been in Queen Katherine's household. They had three children, William, Edward, and Anne, the last marrying Francis Nicolls."

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