Catalogue description LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--"My Lord, I have this 17 receaved a letter from your Lordship dated the 13 of this month, uppon readyng wherof I was both well and evill contented, well to perceave your Lordships good manner of dealyng in advertesyng me of such thyngs as concerned your self, in any matter that might empayre our mutuall frendship, assuryng your Lordship I have no meaning to gyve your Lordship cause directly or indirectly to conceave otherwise of me, than to kepe frendship wher I may fynd the lyk reciprocquely.

And evill content I am to understand by the rest of your letter that of late a disorder was committed ageynst on of your Lordships servantes, but not named, first, by sholdryng of hym in a company, and secondly strykyng of hym in the sight of my lady your wiff, and this shuld be doone by on, though not named, late servyng and recommended by my nephew Wyngfeld, and nothyng sayd to hym for my countenance, but your man committed, although also the same party had befor braved on of those that war by the Counsell bound to the good behaviour. And wher your Lordship wryteth that if you wold gyve liberty to nater, you wold and might revenge this wrong, butt that religion and duty to hir Majestyes laws referrs you to justyce, which I so well lyk in your Lordship as I do profess the lyk for myself, if I had any lyke cause, knowyng who sayd "mihi vindictam," whose place soverenn prynces do hold, to preserve the same by laws. And for the comittyng of the party smytten, and leavyng the wrong doer at liberty, I do mislyk, and therof in four or five lynes herincluded I do signefy so much to the alderman or any other officer so misusyng themselves, which I pray your Lordship cause to be delyvered at your plesur." Holograph. Seal of arms in garter.