Dealer's description: "Autograph letter signed ('Edw: Coke') to his confidential secretary and man of business John Pepys putting his affairs in order ('I am in a faire waye (both for my comfort and reputation) to leave no troubled state behynd me...'), particularly in regard of settling 4000 marks uponm his son Sir Robert from the sale of Portbury Manor in Somerset."
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Bifolium
Letter written from "Stoke," Coke's house at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
Also available as a digital reproduction
Acquired from Bonhams London, 18 March 2015, lot 99
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. Age of Lawyers. Opening: recto of first leaf at an angle
Also known as
Extended title: Autograph letter signed from "Edw: Coke" at "Stoke" to his confidential secretary and man of business John Pepys 11 June 1626
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