Catalogue description PEREGRINE BERTIE to his brother, the EARL OF LINDSEY.

--I am very glad to hear that Stamford is so inclined to choose my nephew Philip. " I was afraid that my Lord of Exiter would have sett up his sonne, but he declines it, and I beleeve Sir Pury Cust will not be verry willing to enter into battle with soe great a family, for I told him he must expect, if he stood, to spend 500l. or 600l. in the election. He would have faine made a bargain with my nephew to spend nothing and then I suppose would have treated them privately at his owne house, and I suppose you have interest enough with Sir Richard Cust to make 'im make his sonne lay it downe, and then my nephew will come in easlye. But courtiers must venter there fortune, and they can have noe better lottery than our House to pushe there fortunes in. Wee doubt wee have lost our East India shippes and two men of ware that was there convoy with the hole Barbadoes fleete and Jamy Kendall in it."