Catalogue description CAPTAIN ROBERT YAXLEY to LORD WILLOUGHBY, governor of Berwick, in London.*

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Details of 8ANC7/63
Reference: 8ANC7/63
Title: CAPTAIN ROBERT YAXLEY to LORD WILLOUGHBY, governor of Berwick, in London.*
Description:

--Prays his Lordship not to believe the report that he has discharged one of his Lordship's men out of his company, he having no thought of such a thing, only he found the man's watch ill-kept, and so appointed a man of his own to keep it. Seal of arms.

 

Addressed:--"To the Right honorable my very good lord the Lord Wegheloby, Lord Governor of Barwicke and Lord Wardor of the Est [March] at London."

 

* Lord Willoughby was appointed Governor of Berwick in Feb., 1597-8, but did not reach his charge till the end of April. At the beginning of 1598-9, Yaxley seems to have left Berwick in order to go with the Earl of Essex to Ireland. See Report on Cecil Papers, ix., p. 37.
Date: [1598 ?] April 10, Berwicke
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: ½ page.

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