Catalogue description LORD WILLUGHBY.

--Paper endorsed "Points touching his Lordships letter yesterday to Sir Thomas Hendged [Heneage]."

"Materiall pointes wheron his Lordship's letter was grounded."

"The greatt wronges don unto his Lordship by the States yet unsatisfied, having never since their coming hether either come or sent to salute him. And newe occasions of unkindness dailie are offered, as maie be proved.

"Injuries which weare proffered by some of our nation serving there (greatlie in contempt of his place) yet not amended.

"It is urged upon hym (contrarie all orders of warre) to accept of a lieutenant which he can not like of, as one opositt agaynst hym, upon which officers trust dependeth a greatt parte of his honour and the safetie of his life.

"Ther is no powre of men (out of the necessarie garrisons) to make warre with all, neither meanes of moneye for intelligence or other nedfull charges, in which he hath alredie from his owne purse disbursed much monye.

"His first commission beinge taken from hym, his authoritie was since never fullie restored, which hath bread greatt disorders.

"His Lordship hath often delivered th'effect of these pointes to some of the lords of the Councell. And beinge nowe sodenlie sommoned, whereby he maie be ingadgeo to make as sodaine hast over as when he was sent for Coronell Generall of th'enfanterie (which he then experienced to his greatt cost and charges), presumed to refuse it in tyme when no such perrill or imynent danger was presented to her Majesties service, then passinge it over till [on] a sodaine extremetie he should with the hazard of the service refuse it; which, notwithstanding, he could not but refusse, because such a jornye undertaken with the pointes abovesaid could not be but verie unserviceable to her Majestie, ruinous to his posterytie and shamefull to his reputation; for which consyderations havinge hearetofore ventured his life, he offereth humblie the same life and his fortunes to the rightful mercye of her Majestie and the lords, rather then to enter into any matter of disordered governement, wherin he might prejudice those aforesaid consitherations, havinge hetherto still hoped that he should have bine called to a resolution of those pointes, and that he might either have had them allowed or denyed, before they would so sodenlie have sommaned hym to retorne, restrayninge hym to sett order first to his estatt, consumed by such services.

"Neverthelesse, he will not refuse, as a privatt man, to go thether, or whether els he may be commanded, to prove that neither disobedience nor the love of his life hath urged his refusall."