Letter from Christoph von Ehem in Speyer to Robert Beale in London Letter in Latin, autograph, 2 pages, in response to a letter of 8 August [1570] which he has received from Beale. Von Ehem is attending the Imperial Diet of Speyer, he gives some account of it and mentions the English delegate Henry Cobham and also Henry Killigrew. Dated Spirae, 6 Nouembris a[nn]o 70 Signed Christophorus Ehemius Addressed to: Ornatissimo viro D. Roberto Belo Anglo amico suo [...]is: colendo. Londini Endorsed by Beale: D. Ehemius Notes: (i) Ehemius was a Councillor of Frederick III, Elector Palatine. See Neue Deutsche Biographie, s.n. Ehem, Christoph von. (ii) A letter from Henry Cobham, written from Spiers on 22 October 1570, is entered in C.S.P. For., 1569-71, p. 360. (iii) Killigrew was sent to Germany in 1569 and went to Heidelberg. At the end of May 1570 Killigrew joined Ehemius in Magdeburg and went on with him to Dresden on a mission to the Elector of Saxony (Amos, C., Miller: ‘Sir Henry Killigre’, Leicester U. P., 1963, p. 119). [notes by James D. George] Henry Brooke or Cobham (1538 - 1592), English politician and diplomat; younger brother of William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham Henry Killigrew (c. 1528 – 1603), English diplomat 6 November 1570