Catalogue description CAPT. M. FOSTER to JOHN PRIDGEON.

--I wrote formerly by way of Mr. Cokaine's correspondent at Leghorne, but hearing that it has not come to your hands, I send this to Monsieur George.

"Your friends are all well. Mr. Wray was sequestred 7 February instant. My Lady Nottingham dyed last Thursday, and has left all her estate to her brother Coxcombe (sic), who deales unworthily with us. The ladies att Grimsthorp are well. The Irish, they say, are rampant, and has lately given a defeat wherein young Cromwell is falne. The Scots make great preparacions, and wee are not hindermost att London. I cannot but give you the returne of one of their Governors of Hume Castle to a summons to deliver it to General Cromwell, vizt.:--

I William of the Wastle am now in my castle and awe the dogs in the towne shan'd guerre me gang downe." 1 p.

Endorsed:--"From Mr. Mart. Foster."

* Mary, eldest daughter of Sir William Cockayne, and sister of the Earl of Lindsey's 1st wife. Edward Wray of Rycote was father to the Earl's 2nd wife.