loveletter

Yours as long as life endures, Katheryn

from The National Archives UK

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• The National Archives UK said:

  Transcript
  
  Master Coulpeper, I hertely recomend me unto youe praying you to
  sende me worde how that you doo. Yt was showed me that you was
  sike, the wyche thynge trobled me very muche tell suche tyme that I
  here from you praying you to send me worde how that you do.
  For I never longed so muche for [a] thynge as I do to se you and
  to speke wyth you, the wyche I trust shal be shortely now, the
  wyche dothe comforthe me verie much whan I thynk of ett and
  wan I thynke agan that you shall departe from me agayne
  ytt makes my harte to dye to thynke what fortune I have
  that I cannot be always yn your company. Y[e]t my trust ys
  allway in you that you wolbe as you have promysed me
  and in that hope I truste upon styll, prayng you than that
  you wyll com whan my lade Rochforthe ys here, for then
  I shalbe beste at leaysoure to be at your commarendmant.
  Thaynkyng you for that you have promysed me to be so
  good unto that pore felowe my man, whyche is on of the
  grefes that I do felle to departe from hym for than I do
  know noone that I dare truste to sende to you and therfor
  I pray you take hym to be wyth you that I may sumtym
  here from you one thynge. I pray you to gyve me a horse
  for my man for I hyd muche a do to gat one and
  thefer I pray sende me one by hym and yn so doying I
  am as I sade afor, and thus I take my leve of you
  trusting to se you s[h]orttele agane and I wode you was
  wythe me now that yoo maitte se what pane I take
  yn wryte[n]g to you.
  
  Yours as long as
  lyffe endures
  Katheryn
  
  One thyng I had forgotten and
  that hys to
  instruct my man to tare here wyt[h] me still, for he
  sas wat so mever you bed hym he wel do et and [...]

• caoseducado said:

  Priceless!

• BigBean said:

  Oh my, she dothe prattle on a bit.
  
  What an amazing document to read.

• ifconfig said:

  Astonishing!

• Elated Yak said:

  You can tell she was a teenager!