Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY.

--Your Lordships of the 17th met me at the Earl of Lincoln's, for which, and your forwardness to do me justice, I return my humble thanks. But the enclosed letter to the Alderman of Stamford I have detained, as your Lordship might seem thereby to have been misinformed in some points. For whereas it pleaseth you to write to me that my man was struck in sight of my wife, my meaning was that the tumultuous concourse to carry my servant to prison, who, she heard, had been assaulted, frightened her, but not that she saw the blow given. Also Sir Francis Allein's man was attempted upon in his own lodging in the town, not at my house, although afterwards (which afore I wrote not), "they made a great show, with great fear to my wife, as though they would have done that also, but I thank God they were better advised." The rest of my meaning was as your Lordship understood it, and every word of it I will avow and justify, yet since your Lordship hath taken so honourable care thereof, "I refer all most willingly to your Lordship's mitigation rather than correction . . . as determined to sacrifice my soul in as good manner as my corrupt nature will permit unto my God and Saviour, to reap more certain fruits of his sacred sacrament, I would remove to my utmost power in my own heart all lets to a Christian and peaceable mind."