Catalogue description The SUPERVISORS* OF LORD WILLOUGHBY'S ESTATE to ROBERT, LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--Informing him that having, "upon the certainty of the trust" committed to them by his late father, found it necessary to appoint a solicitor to prosecute his causes, they have fixed upon Mr. Sanderson, who, "for sufficiency and other very necessary respects," they think the fittest to be employed. Signed Edward Zouche, Ro. Riche, D. Drury, John Peyton. Seal with crest.

*See Lord Willoughby's will, Five Generations of a Loyal House, p. 440. In a memorandum amongst the State Papers, they are called "surveyors" (Cal. S. P. Dom. 1601-3, p. 65), and in a letter from a friend of Lord Willoughby's, "factors." (Five Generations, p. 433).