Catalogue description MARGUERITE DE PALLANT, Baroness de Merode, to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--In my former letter, as also in my applications to the States General and the Council of State, I demanded no satisfaction for the intolerable wrong done to myself, my husband and our friends by the carrying off ("ravissement") of my two daughters, Anna and Odelia, excepting from Col. Thomas Morgan; Capt. Salisberi having assured me with many oaths that Sir Thomas Knolles was not present. But I have since heard quite the contrary, and that he was on the ship which carried my daughters away towards Bergen-op-Zoom. I pray your Lordship therefore, in accordance with your offer to me yesterday by the Sieur d'Aleyn, to do the like in regard to the said Sieur Knolles and any other officers under your authority who had knowledge of or aided in this affair, as I am sure you will do as regards Col. Morgan ; that my two daughters may be restored to me safe and sound, and all further wrongs duly satisfied. Signed.