Catalogue description PEREGRINE BERTIE to the COUNTESS OF LINDSEY.

--My wife sends you her humble thanks for your kind inquiry. Dr. Bateman will not yet let her write herself. My Lord Colchester tells me that my brother is willing his patent for Walle Wood should pass. I spoke also to my uncle Robert about it. "who saith the keepership of that as well as any other belonges to my brother, and that he being wood reeve, there ought to be allowed soe much wood, which he takes to be about twenty load. He saith that he recovered it for the King, and that it belonges to my brother, but I doutt he cannot make it out.

"The two secretaryes are not agreed who shall manage the desent. Count d'Estree is comming to Brest with his squadron, which makes us beleeve there may be a sea ingagement. Sir John Cutler has left his daughter the Yourkeshire estate, and that he bought of Sir Thomas Chitchely, which is 5,000l. a yeare, and sixty thousand poundes in money, but the land in case of noe children will go to his nephew. Sir Thomas Chitchely house is extremely well and finely furnished. He is not yet buried. He has given a 1,000l. to St. Bartholymy's Hospitall and has left 17,000l. amoungt his poore kindred, and 2,000l. to be disposed to any of his poore kindred he has forgotten."

"Postscript.--The fryer and Italian captaine that had agreed with the French to sett the Spanish Armado a fier when the French appeared before Naples are both executed."