Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to MARSHAL DE BIRON.

--Your letters, which found me ill of a fever, have brought me back, as it were, from death to life, as showing me that I am held in remembrance by one whom I have so much honoured for his warlike virtues, honourable qualities, and especially for his many favours to myself. I praise God for all the perils you have passed, and pray him to preserve you in the future, as a chief column of your master's cause and kingdom, and, next to himself, the greatest patron of the warriors of this day. I know none whom I would more readily follow. Touching the reports which you mention of quarrels ["noises"] between yourself and the Seigneurs De la Noue and Guitry, I know them to be as false as God is true, and would defend you against them not only by my words but with my life and blood, desiring nothing more than an opportunity of doing so. But the inventors of such tales take good care not to speak before those who would reply, and love to sow their follies in secret. I have heard no word of them save by your letters.