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Description: | Thillemont.
"By fortune I have found the bringer of this, the trumpet of Captain Parker, the which came to seek your Lordship's cornet, Mr. Smith, who was carried from Diest to a little town named Gimblox, who desired me to assist the trumpet to get to Gimblos (sic), so being arrived to Diest his passport spake not further; and when he told me that Mr. Smith was your honour's cornet, I was very sorry that I held him not by me at Diest, 'how wel' [meaning although] I was very sick, and have ever been sick since my coming out of prison till now; so that there is now no remedy but the trumpet is constrained to return, or at the least to get a passport of the Governor of Diest, the which he utterly denied to do, but he was content that he should pass to Thillemont on condition that I would ride with him, so that I brought him to Thillemont by the Governor all there, and after that I had declared to him that he was sent to your honour's cornet, being prisoner at Gimblos, I desiring him to give the trumpet a passport to pass to Gimblos, he answered me very courteously that for your Lordship's sake he would, 'how wel' that it was against the order of his Highness, in consideration that he had heard much good and great report of your honour's virtue and courtesy towards all men and prisoners that ever came in your hands. The Governor's name is Don Ambrosius, a Spanish Captain. So that the trumpet got his dispatch for Gimblos, and I am going towards Brussels, where I must remain till Easter. Touching my son, I shall be constrained to steal him from his mother should I keep my word, for my wife will not otherwise part from him further.
"This shall be to desire your honour, according to your promise, to procure that my brother, William Smart, may send me or make me over three hundred pound against this next summer, and that he send me that out of Spain, . . . desiring your honour to help me to this money in my great need, and to take good heed to yourself, that you have always good guard about you, because I fear that the Hollanders, the which hath broken their faith to their natural prince, will not be true to your honour. . . ."
[The spelling of this letter is very eccentric.]
Endorsed "Received from your Lordship the 21 March 1587. Secret intelligence." | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 9 Feb 1588 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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