Catalogue description The SAME to the SAME. AS IN 8ANC7/44

--Sending him a paper which has passed his hand in a stolen hour, gained with much ado from "visitations and physic," a thing so unworthy that only his own faith and his Lordship's favour emboldens him to offer it. Holograph. Endorsed Nov. 1596, but probably October.

+ This and the following letter evidently relate to Willoughby's Memorandum on the fear of a Spanish invasion (printed in Birch's Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, ii., 164), which he sent to Anthony Bacon on Oct. 12, 1596. He tells Bacon that he has written it during a fit of the gout, speaks of "a little rundle" adding weight to the sea, and, in the paper, writes concerning the need of fortifications.