Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to the EARL OF ESSEX, Master of the Horse.

--"Since my arrivall at Huesden by contrary whether [weather] in a bad hoy, I passed by land to Meddenblick, to Staveren, to Lewarden, to Groningen and the Ems, to Emden, having had no convenient meanes in all my passage to send unto your Lordship till I came hether ; and sutch accidents as either from the Earles Chauncelour or the townes relation I could busily collect, I send your Lordship."

Postscript.--"Har Majesty askinge me of my retorn, I told har if I could I would be at hoame at Michelmas, but having pasd this spring alredy, if I shall find good of the next fall, I hope har Majesty will by your Lordships good meanes excuse me for the benefit of the spring to come also, especyally my licence being so large." Holograph. This and the subsequent letters from Lord Willoughby to the Earl of Essex were given (as appears by a note found with them) to the Earl of Lindsey by Dr. John Castle, clerk of the Privy Seal.