File BL/F 3/1 - Raphe Rabbard to Sir Thomas Knyvett at Ashwellthorpe: has delivered the coins and money to Mr 'beare Blocke' of Lombard Street who will try to get specie for Knyvett if he provides a list of what he wants; lists books of the late Dr Folkes of Cambridge which he could obtain for Knyvett but he urgently needs money; there has been a great ado with mutinous soldiers - some have been hanged, and many sent to the Low Countries and others are for France; the Queen is said to have sent £1,000 to the King of France and Lord Willoughby is going to help him; news of campaign in France. [Dr Folkes of Cambridge may have been an ancestor of Martin Folkes who married Dorothy Hovell, c 1682.]

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  • Raphe Rabbard to Sir Thomas Knyvett at Ashwellthorpe: has delivered the coins and money to Mr 'beare Blocke' of Lombard Street who will try to get specie for Knyvett if he provides a list of what he wants; lists books of the late Dr Folkes of Cambridge which he could obtain for Knyvett but he urgently needs money; there has been a great ado with mutinous soldiers - some have been hanged, and many sent to the Low Countries and others are for France; the Queen is said to have sent £1,000 to the King of France and Lord Willoughby is going to help him; news of campaign in France. [Dr Folkes of Cambridge may have been an ancestor of Martin Folkes who married Dorothy Hovell, c 1682.]

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Raphe Rabbard to Sir Thomas Knyvett at Ashwellthorpe: has delivered the coins and money to Mr 'beare Blocke' of Lombard Street who will try to get specie for Knyvett if he provides a list of what he wants; lists books of the late Dr Folkes of Cambridge which he could obtain for Knyvett but he urgently needs money; there has been a great ado with mutinous soldiers - some have been hanged, and many sent to the Low Countries and others are for France; the Queen is said to have sent £1,000 to the King of France and Lord Willoughby is going to help him; news of campaign in France. [Dr Folkes of Cambridge may have been an ancestor of Martin Folkes who married Dorothy Hovell, c 1682.]

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  • 12 Sep 1589 (Creation)

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Raphe Rabbard; fl 1589
(fl 1589)

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Sir Thomas Knyvett; 1545-1622; courtier, politician; London
(1545-1622)

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Thomas Knyvett [d 27 Jul 1622] was a Member of Parliament who arrested Guy Fawkes during the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.

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Knyvett family; 13th century-20th century; Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk
(13th century-20th century)

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