Feilding- Hamilton Correspondence: GD 406/1/9493 Page 04
Letter of Lord Basil Feilding to his brother-in-law, James, 3rd Marquis [later 1st Duke] of Hamilton, 5 February 1637/8
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condition, that Your Lordship would be
pleased to further him in his just demand
of satisfaction and consideration for the slow payment
of the moneys he lent me at my
first coming to Venice, wherein there
is not only justice but reason and
fitness that His Majesty should en-
courage such merchants as assist
his ministers in their necessitites
to continue in the same affection and
readiness to serve them. The pictures
I shall remove to my house this
next week, at the beginning whereof
the money will be ready. The names
of the masters being those: I am using all
diligence and care in packing up your
pictures for their most advantage
Transcription by Rosalind K. Marshall 2006
