Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to JAMES DIGGES, Muster-Master General of her Majesty's forces in the Low Countries.

--Whereas you make difficulties in preparing warrants to be signed up to Oct. 12, 1588, in respect of the manifold differences betwixt her Majesty and the States, as also the want of an Auditor and the absence of your brother, continued muster-master up to March 25 :--These are to require you, notwithstanding, to prepare the said warrants without further delay. "And for that the present occasion of my repair into England will not permit me to stay the perusing and resolution of so many particular doubts as you have offered, nor my authority sufficient to determine most of them myself ... I think it convenient ye cess only such checks as are out of question," respiting all doubtful matters to be further considered of. As your brother was discharged when you were appointed by me--upon letters from the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council--and the new establishment, now in force, commenced from that day, you are to divide the warrants accordingly, viz. :--first, from Oct. 12, 1587, to March 25, 1588, according to the old establishment and former rates; and secondly, from March 26 to Oct. 11, 1588, after the new establishment. And that the want of an Auditor be no impediment, "I pray you take some extraordinary pains in so much as appertaineth unto that office for the present, and if any error shall be committed, it shall be corrected afterwards before the signing thereof, when I mean to have the vice-treasurer and others present, practiced in accounts, to peruse the same." Unsigned.