 'Mr Cuffe,' wrote Rowland White to Sir Robert Sidney (12 Sep 1599), 'hath had access to the queen, who came of purpose marvelously well instructed to answer such objections as her majesty could lay to his [i.e.Essex's] charge, and I hear that Cuffe hath wisely behaved himself to her majesty's better satisfaction' ("Sidney Papers").But the royal letter which Cuffe carried back to Essex was not conciliatory, and on 28 Sep, Cuffe accompanied by his master on his sudden visit to London which ended in Essex's imprisonment.