| Description | Letter in French, one page.
Written in the third person by a scribe (au nom de M. Balduin soussigné). Refers to Richard Wroth (inserted: or Thomas Wroth) who has been charged with recovering a large number of books taken to England from the Low Countries and returning them to Balduin.
Dated: Faict a Paris ce viij de Auril 1570
Signed: Balduin [plus abbreviation. for propria manu]
Endorsed: Baldwin
Thomas Wroth may be Sir Thomas Wroth (1518 – 1573), who like Beale was an exile on the Continent during the reign of Queen Mary. He had a brother [?] called Richard Wroth. |