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Draytone and Yong
By ROBT. COLE. (Upper Norton Street)
The following note was found by me among the Exchequer Records, on their sale and dispersion, a few years ago:— "I praye you fellowe Draytone do so invehe for me as to Resave all svche moneye as is dewe to me from the handes of Ser Vincente Skyner Knyghte or else wheare from thos offysers of the excheqer And this shalbe yovr discharge. Written the laste daye of Janvarye 1607. Henry Yong." Can your subscribers inform me who the writer was? Mr. Payne Collier states that there was an interlude-maker of the name of Henry Yong in the reign of Henry VIII. Is it likely that the note was addressed to…
Topics: Exchequer Records, Interlude-making, Historical Documents