Catalogue description SIR PEREGRINE BERTY to his father, the EARL OF LINDSEY.

--"I have beene with the Maire and some of the chiefest of the burgers of our towne, and I have used the best meanse I can for the advancing your Lordship's desires for the making of Mr. Cooke a burges. I do find nothing that cheere-fullnesse in them of pleasuring of your Lordship, as these had at first; whether the reason bee that your Lordship is to leave these Northern parts or no I know not.

"Sir Robert Jackson [Jackson] hese latlye mustred us, and mye ensigns pay hee hese checked, but your Lordship's servants hee hese mad good. As yett wee have none shipps in our harbour, butt wee expect daly a Boston vessell to com in from the Holy Iland: in her I shall strive to imbarke your goods. I have spoke with those men that did lett your Lordship the Maundling feild, who sayd at our Lady day they will yeald up the ground to Sir James Dowglas, and do likewise steedfastly affirme, notwithstanding Mr. Robert[s] certificates, that your Lordship was to have no profitt on the ground after our Lady day." I hope to get a better price for the rest of your hay than the last, as we daily expect a troop of horse here.

"All the newes wee hav is that some of the workes of Edenbrough chastell on Munday last did slip downe."

Addressed " To the Right Honorable the Earle of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, at his house in Chanell Row, Westminster."