Catalogue description GILBERT, EARL OF SHREWSBURY, to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--My very good Lord, hearyng that your Lordship hath bene helde longer from this place thorrow wante of health then otherwise you wolde, and takynge the opportunety of this fytt messenger, I colde not forbeare by a few wordes to imparte thus muche to your Lordship, that eyther by your health or sycknes I will be partaker with you of your contentment or greefe, which is all the argument of this letter; and yet not all by thousandes of degrees, that in very good and honest affection of a frend (though in playnest manner I express it) I owe unto you. And so earnestly praying your Lordship to houlde me in your frendlyest conceyte, I rest, &c."

Postscript.-"The last newes oute of Ireland is, that Walter Rew [Reagh] a notable desperate traytor, being sore hurte in a skyrmish, was the next day founde by Sir H. Harryngton in a cave, and brought to Doblyn to the Deputy; that our souldiors of Bryttany were landed and mustered aboute the 5th of this moneth and are founde to be but twelve hundred; that the Earle of Tyron is retyred into his best strengethes uppon notice of theyr landing; that he himselfe doth yet protest his loyalty to her Majestie, although he be lately proclamed a traytor, and pardone offered to all thos his followers who will renounce him, and submytt themselves to her Majesties grace and protection: It is verely thought he will not be hable to houlde oute any longe tyme. Other newes for the present are not so ryfe as thes." Holograph. Seal with Talbot dog in Garter.