Catalogue description SIR WILLIAM PELHAM to [ROBERT, LORD WILLOUGHBY ?].

--My honourable good Lord, I hadd a hope too have scene you heare att Lincoln and a purpose too have attended you, which being now frustrated of, I make bold too recommend my service in thease lines. I receaved not long since a letter from my Lord William* heare, whearby he requested me to examine my servant Luddington concerning some speeches saide too bee uttered in his hearing by his lordship's hunsmann. I asked him on a suddaine, commanding him too relate the truth; whoo well remembered the woords used by his lordship's huntsman too a hare finder on the heath, and will depose that they weare only thease. My Lord spareth the hares hereabouts and my Lord Robert's* menn kill them upp. I make this tedious relation for that by my Lord Willoughbye's letter heare enclosed and his speeches since I finde his care greate too give your lordship a full satisfaction. Thus with my duty too your honnor, my lady and all your sweete children, I humbly rest &c."

*Apparently William, Lord Willoughby of Parham, and Robert, Lord Willoughby of Eresby are meant. William, Lord Willoughby, died in 1617.