Challenges Lord Edward Bruce Sir Edward Sackville Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Tim Wales Research Assistant Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom London British Library Additional MS 22587

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1613 Tregoes, Holland France English challenges duel honour

A challeng receaved by mr Sackvill nowe earle of Dorsett from the Lord Bruce a Scottish Baron who fougy ht in Zeland 1614 where Bruce was slayne

A mounsier Monsier Sackvile

I that am in Fraunce heare howe much yow attribute to yor self in this tyme that I have given the world to ring yor praises and for me the truest Almanacke to tell yow howe much I suffer And if yow call to memory when I gave yow my hand last I tould yow I reserved the harte for a truer reconci= liacion Nowe be that Noble gentleman my love once spoke of and comme and doe him right that would recite the trialls yow owe yor birth & Countrey were I not confident yor honor gives yow the same Courage to doe mee right that it did to doe mee wronge Bee mr of yor owne weapons & tyme the place wheresoever I will waite on yow by doeing this yow shall shorten revenge & cleere the idle opinion the world hath of both oure worthes E: Bruce

A mounsier Mounsier le Baaron de Kinlosse

As it shall be allwayes farr from mee to seeke a quarrell soe will I allwayes be ready to meete with any that desire to make tryall of my valor by soe fayre a Course as yow require A wittnes whereof your selfe shall be whoe within a month shall receave a strickt accompt of tyme place and weapon where yow shall finde ready disposed to give yow honourable satisfaccion by him that shall conducte yow thither In the meane tyme be as secrett of the appointent as it seemes yow are desirous of it. Ed: Sackvile

I am ready at Tregose a towne in Zeland to give yow what satisfaccion yowr sword can render yow, accompanied with a worthy gentleman for my second in degree a knight And for ye comminge I will not lymitt yow a peremptory daye but desire yow to make it definite and speedy for yor owne honor and feare of prvencion untill which tyme yow shall fynd me there E: Bruce I have receaved your letter by your man and acknowledge yow have dealt noblye with mee And nowe I come with all speede to meete yow Ed: Sackvile