Catalogue description RYCHARD ALLYN to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

When at Dort he received his Lordship's plate, both gilt and white, the whole not amounting to more than 400l., and has laid it to pawn for three months "with bargain and sale thereupon," wherein he has had no small ado in this miserable town. In Amsterdam it would have been easily done with half the trouble. Has not coined the white plate, as was his Lordship's order, because there is not above 200l. of it, which he thought would be rather a discredit to his Lordship, after his request to have an act for the coinage of 2000l. sterling. Has received from her Ladyship a jewel with twenty-three diamonds and two salts of gold, for which he can get no money as yet, but hopes to do somewhat this day. Seal of arms.