Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Ferrers, Warwick [manuscript], 10 December 1620.
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Autograph letter signed, to Sir John Ferrers, Warwick [manuscript], 10 December 1620.
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1 item ; 32 x 20 cm
Associated name
Puckering, sir Thomas, author.
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From dealer's description: A letter from Sir Thomas Puckering (1591-1637) to Sir John Ferrers. Puckering writes that he understands from 'my brother Grantham' (i.e. Sir Thomas Grantham, widower of his sister Frances), and also from Mr Wightwick, that Ferrers intends to let him have his 'place of Burgess for Tamworth, rather then that I shall faile of a place in the Parliament'. He also refers to 'these two enclosed letters from the Earle of Northampton', about the possibility of his being MP instead for Warwick. In the end Puckering was elected for Tamworth, where he served until 1628 when he was elected for Warwick (an election subsequently declared void), with whose corporation he was in almost constant dispute during the 1620s. Puckering's education was in some ways the most interesting thing about him: he was tutored by the epigrammatist John Owen, at that time master of the grammar school at Warwick, and when his sister Catherine married Sir "\dam Newton, tutor to Prince Henry, he suddenly found himself a fellow-pupil with the heir to the throne. In 1610, however, when he would have been considered almost an adult, he was allowed to travel abroad (one imagines that the Prince himself would have liked the opportunity to go with him) and he spent nine months in Paris at the academy of .\ntoine de Pluvinel. In 1612 he travelled much more freely in the Spanish Netherlands, in the somewhat dangerous company of English Catholics; and then in the next year or two in Italy and Spain, returning by 1615. He seems not to have converted to Rome, despite rumours caused by the company he kept on his extensive travels. Sir John Ferrers, although about 25 years older than Puckering, had been married to his sister Dorothy (d. 1616), and until1604 had been MP for Tamworth, and was presumably still influential in the borough.
From dealer's description: A letter from Sir Thomas Puckering (1591-1637) to Sir John Ferrers. Puckering writes that he understands from 'my brother Grantham' (i.e. Sir Thomas Grantham, widower of his sister Frances), and also from Mr Wightwick, that Ferrers intends to let him have his 'place of Burgess for Tamworth, rather then that I shall faile of a place in the Parliament'. He also refers to 'these two enclosed letters from the Earle of Northampton', about the possibility of his being MP instead for Warwick. In the end Puckering was elected for Tamworth, where he served until 1628 when he was elected for Warwick (an election subsequently declared void), with whose corporation he was in almost constant dispute during the 1620s. Puckering's education was in some ways the most interesting thing about him: he was tutored by the epigrammatist John Owen, at that time master of the grammar school at Warwick, and when his sister Catherine married Sir "\dam Newton, tutor to Prince Henry, he suddenly found himself a fellow-pupil with the heir to the throne. In 1610, however, when he would have been considered almost an adult, he was allowed to travel abroad (one imagines that the Prince himself would have liked the opportunity to go with him) and he spent nine months in Paris at the academy of .\ntoine de Pluvinel. In 1612 he travelled much more freely in the Spanish Netherlands, in the somewhat dangerous company of English Catholics; and then in the next year or two in Italy and Spain, returning by 1615. He seems not to have converted to Rome, despite rumours caused by the company he kept on his extensive travels. Sir John Ferrers, although about 25 years older than Puckering, had been married to his sister Dorothy (d. 1616), and until1604 had been MP for Tamworth, and was presumably still influential in the borough.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain.
Item Details
Call number
X.c.208
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Elizabeth L. Cabot Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
270029