_I cannot tell you so much, as you tell me, of any thing from my Lord of_ Som[erset] _since the Epithalamion, for I heard nothing._
_To the Honourable Knight Sir_ H. Goodere.
I have but one excuse for not sending you the Sermon that you do me the honour to command, and I foresee that before I take my hand from this paper, I shall lose the benefit of that excuse; it is that for more than twenty days, I have been travelled [travailed] with a pain, in my right wrist, so like the Gout, as makes me unable to write. The writing of this Letter will implore a commentary for that, that I cannot write legibly; for that I cannot write much, this Letter will testifie against me. Sir, I beseech you, at first, tell your company, that I decline not the service out of sullennesse nor lazinesse, nor that any fortune damps me so much, as that I am not sensible of the honour of their commanding it, but a meer inexperience whether I be able to write eight hours or no; but I will try next week, and either do it, for their service, or sink in their service. This is Thursday: and upon Tuesday my Lady _Bedford_ came to this town: this afternoon I presented my service to her, by M{ ris} _Withrington_: and so asked leave to have waited upon them at supper: but my messenger found them ready to go into their Coach: so that a third Letter which I received from M{ ris} _Dudley_, referring me to M{ ris} _Withringtons_ relation of all that State, I lose it till their return to this town. To clear you in that wherein I see by your Letter that I had not well expressed my self in mine, Sir _Ed. Herbert_ writ to Sir _Ed. Sackvil_, not to presse the King to fix any certain time of sending him, till he was come over, and had spoken with the King: Sir _Ed. Sackvil_ collects upon that, that Sir _Ed. H._ means to go again; I think it is only, that he would have his honour so saved, as not to seem to be recalled, by having a successor, before he had emptied the place. We hear nothing from my Lord of _Doncaster_; nor have we any way to send to him. I have not seen my Lady _Doncaster_, for she crost to _Penhurst_, and from thence to _Petworth_; my Lady _Isabella_ came to this Town, where, before her comming, a Letter attended her from my Lady of _Tichfield_: and thither she went, with their servants, who staid her comming. Hither came lately Letters with goodspeed from _Vienna_, in which there is no mention of any such defeat, as in rumour C[ount] _Mansfeld_ hath been said to have given to the D[uke] of _Bavyer_ [_Bavaria_] but their forces were then within such distance, as may have procured something before this time. Those which watched advantages in the Court of the Emperour, have made that use of C[ount] _Mansfelds_ proceedings, as that my Lord _Digby_ complains, that thereby the forwardnesse in which his negotiation was, is somewhat retarded. He proceeds from thence into _Spain_. The D. of _Bavyer_ hath presented the Emperour an account of 1200{ ml} [£1,200,000] sterling in that warre, to be reimbursed: and finding the Palatinate to be in treaty, hath required a great part of _Austria_ for his security, and they say, it is so transacted; which is a good signe of a possibility in the restitution of the Palatinate. For any thing I discern, their fears are much greater from _Hungary_, then from _Bohemia_; and the losse of Canon, in a great proportion, and other things, at the death of _Bucquoy_, was much greater, then they suffered to be published. We here _Spinola_ is passed over at _Rhenebery_ [_Rheinsberg_]; if it be so, they are no longer distracted, whether he would bend upon _Juliers_, or the Palatinate. I know not what you hear from your noble son in law, who sees those things clearly in himself, and in the near distance; but I hear here, that the King hath much lost the affection of the English in those parts. Whether it proceed from any sowrenesse in him, or that they be otherwise taken off, from applying themselves to him, I know not. My Lord of S. Albons [_St. Albans_] hath found so much favour as that a pension of 2000 _l._ will be given him; he desires that he might have it for [----] years, that so he might transferre it upon his creditors, or that in place of it he might have 8000 _l._ for he hath found a disposition in his creditors (to whom I hear he hath paid 3000 _l._ since by retyring) to accept 8000 _l._ for all his debts, which are three times as much. I have been some times with my L. of _Canterbury_, since by [_sic_] accident, to give you his own words. I see him retain his former cheerfulnesse here and at _Croydon_, but I do not hear from Court, that he hath any ground for such a confidence, but that his case may need favour, and not have it.