KDC441070 Letter to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, written on board his flagship, \'Elizabeth Bonaventure\' at Plymouth, 26 July, 1586 ( pen & ink on paper) by Drake, Francis (c.1540-96); Private Collection; (add.info.: stating that foul weather had only just prevented Drake from capturing the entire Spanish treasure from the Indies and requesting money to pay his crew in return for which he will send bullion; Drake left England on 14 September, 1585, to raid Spanish ports in Spain and the West Indies and to try to intercept the Spanish treasure fleet; on the return he brought back some of the demoralised English settlers from Roanoke, the settlement in Virginia founded by Sir Richard Grenville in 1585; William Cecil (1520-98), 1st Baron Burghley and principal adviser to Queen Elizabeth I; facsimile from \'Facsimiles of Royal, Historical & Literary Autographs in the Department of Manuscripts\', British Museum, 4th series, printed for the Trustees, 1898; Lansdowne MS.51,f.27.;); English, out of copyright.