Catalogue description CAPT. M. FOSTER to JOHN PRIDGEON in Rome.

--"Deare Jonee, I have taken order with Mr. Cockain's agent att Leghorne for the payment of 150l. sterling to you. . . . Here is no newes, only that my Lady Nottingham is dead and has left all to her brother. My master wonders you do not write oftener, especially your master seemes to neglect his grandmother and mother. Sir William Farmer has been troubled with challenges and quarrells concerneing his lady by H. Howard. I feare your cozen has not done so handsomely as was expected. For heaven's sake, either never quarrell or be sure to fight, for you know my master's humour (this by his directions). There is great preparations on all hands to fight in Scotland, Ireland and att sea. New plots against this Commonwealth are daily discovered by sanctified eyes, but truly I, poore sinfull mortall, cannot discerne them."