Letter 3995

Chr Hatton to John Downes –


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Author: Chr Hatton
Recipient: John Downes

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 371-372



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I received yours & with itt a bill for 50[?] remitted in Mr Kipper his name the money will be paid on Munday next. I shall not faile to order the payment att London & att the precise tyme. And I pray [between?] that I resent very [a..itionatly?] the respects you have shown me & [Clement?] which I take as my own Interrest & I hope the tyme is very near I may express to you as readily as sincerly that in what you shall command my interrest I shall approve my selfe Sr Your very affectinate obliged frend Chr Hatton

Christopher Hatton received a bill from Mr. Downes, which was remitted in Mr. Kipper’s name. Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton, was a politician. He was elected MP for Northampton in 1663, but moved to the House of Lords upon the death of his father (Jan Broadway, Hatton, Christopher, first Viscount Hatton (bap. 1632, d. 1706), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12607, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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