| Description | Three pages in French, dated 4 July. No year, but possibly around 1570 (cf MS 1009/2/35)
Begins by referring to Beale's lost books (?); mentions Thomas and Richard Wroth, and some financial business with th the wife of a M. Paindavoine involving a value of 1400 florins.
At end, passage in Latin beginning 'Vides quibus fatis' and ending 'Tu ne cede malis'. Balduin will leave it to Herbert to [tell?] Beale certain matters.
Dated [illegible], ce iiij de Juillet.
Addressed to Monsieur Beel
Endorsed Baldwin
Two documents copied out on back of letter:
1. Receipt by Monsieur Balduin in favour of Madame [?] George Paindavaine for payment of 230 talers, a portion of a larger sum. Dated Heidelberg 23 October 1558
2. Undated document with marginal note describing it as the deathbed confession of George Paindavaine, referring to a case or envelope and to Mademoiselle Baldvin
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
George Paindavoine is mentioned in connection with the Reformation in the Rhineland by Philippe Denis, Les églises d'étrangers en pays rhénans, 1538-1564 Paris 1984, p. 347 |