Catalogue description ROBERT FOLKINGHAM to his Master, the EARL OF LINDSEY.

--I pray your Lordship not to think ill of me that I have not measured Mr. Powell's timber, for the doctors of St. John's [College, Oxford] sent to me to measure theirs, so that I have had no time to do it. We yesterday found some of your wood in Stowwod cut down and carried away, but whither we cannot tell; but we find that one Burt of Elsefield is the man that deals with Heaster for the wood he steals. We went to Burt's house, and into his " back side," where we found " one of the King's broad arrow trees, with the arrow head upon it," and his wife fell a crying, and said he had no wood but what he bought of Heaster. He is not worth sixpence in all the world more than his team of horses, but if you make him believe you will commit him," he will confess enough to break Heaster's back."

Endorsed with memo :--" That the commission for artillery is to be call'd in, for their abusses in severall shires. My Lord Keeper [Coventry] alleged some had bin fined in the Starchamber in Queen Elizabeth's time."