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Lettre de Wilson au comte de Warwick. Adressée à Warwick House, London. (MSS. of the Coke family, of Melbourne, co. Derby, belonging to the Earl Cowper, K. C, preserved at Melbourne Hall.)

1637, October i/io. Bruges.

The fair easterly winds since my unlucky departure out of Zealand into these parts makes me conceive your Lordship may be in England before my letter comes to you. Notwithstanding my passport from Sir W. Boswell 1 and your Lordship's letter to Monsieur le Comte de Fontaine 2 I am detained here a prisoner in Bruges, my letters taken from me and sent to the Cardinal Infanta. They pretend this hard usage of me comes from a restraint that the Cardinal hath lately made that no man shall come from the country of rebels into these parts without his passport. I lie at the signe of the White Hart : I have written to Monsieur Jarbier^ to Bruxelles : I doubt not he will further my release... My restraint here not so much afflicts me as the interruption of my letters, besides the neglect of your Lordship's occasions.