Catalogue description CAPT. JOHN BUCK to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--"I hear by Good he hath writ your Lordship the proceedings of Sesell. I had no great friendship for urging his imprisonment. He I hope least of, did best (sic) my Lord of Buckhurst to further the matter. Now he is in the Marshalsey, where he exclaims as much as before that your Lordship shows not a right will, and that you must prove it. One of the Arches came to Good with process to that purpose... I have undertaken at the Council board he hath and shall have his goods, paying his rent. I beseech your Lordship let his servants have it with some favour, that the villain may have no just causes of complaint. For your Lordship's suit for the 400l. it is not like to do forward. I have moved it divers times. His Lordship's answer is, he will do his best, but the Q[ueen] must be moved for it. I have made Myners [? Roger Manners] to make petition to his Lordship to deal for it to the Q[ueen]; what answer he hath I know not as yet.

'I am fallen into the Brittany journey, I know not how. The Lords turned me off. The General he assures me if my company be fair, I shall stand. He confessed to the Council it was one of the best in all the troops. I mean to put it in hazard. My journey shall not be lost. I hope to get my brother and officers stand if the first fall; but I am assured of the other. I humbly pray your good Lordship, if old Harry cozen himself with 'coing' and his neck broken in this journey, that your Lordship will be as honourable a friend to my wife and children and friends as I have been a firm, honest servant and true follower of your Lordship. As the great God determines, all must be. ... I will write your Lordship if any good news be in our wars.

"Sir Martin likes not your gardener. It may be his love to Chaplayn... I have told him this new work in the garden will cost your Lordship a hundred pounds. He will do it for ten pounds so as he may have the keeping of it by patent all his life. Your Lordship may do in this matter what you please.

"I am sorry Thomas Willoughby is gone for Holland. He had 30s. to buy a piece, which I gave my brother. I have [? gave] his pieces to my Lord of Essex. He likes them both well. He shall keep his armoury and be his man if your Lordship please, which I assure him of."

I pray your Lordship's pardon that I followed not your counsel to stay at home from this journey. I hope to make you merry with the news of victory.

Postscript.-My brother has sent a flask for your pistol.