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If your Lordship means not to be here shortly, I might as well attend upon you as stay here and do nothing I can have no access to the Council, and besides, "as some tell me, it is unlikely that I should be again chosen unless I appear and be paid from her Majesty, whereof, if there be no hope, I were as good withdraw myself in time and follow some other course of living."
The articles set down upon the Instructions have been well-liked by those to whom I have shown them, but I stay the delivery of them until some answer had from your Lordship.
The Counsellors assemble, and with them some deputies of every province, but, as I hear, do nothing. The States of Holland are mostly gone home, but return on Monday or Tuesday next. The matter of the peace will not yet be digested, and I believe they do not mean to send any Commissioners. The other provinces seem forward enough, but would not willingly displease those of Holland, "as their chief hope to be assisted by, having of late granted some months pay with other provisions, for their frontier garrisons. Those of Utrecht are grown milder of mind, so as there is good hope the controversies between those of Holland and them will be well appeased and ended."
Mons. Brackell has sent two deputies to the Count of Hohenlo to entreat him to grant the demand for removing the garrison, but he will not agree unless Brackell will "acknowledge his house to stand under his government, and that both he, the said Brackell, and his men shall obey the said Count, which I think Brackell will never yield unto.
"The General States have not met these two or three days. I have spoken sundry times about the reduction of the horses, but they are cold and long to resolve therein, and [I] do verily think the only cause thereof to be that they would first see the conclusion of the matter of Camphere and Armewe, doubting that the more footmen her Majesty hath here, the more places they will supply with the same."
Yesterday, being at the Hague, I was sent for by Count Hohenlo, who desired to know the state of Geertruydenberghe. I made such answer as tended in every way to your Lordship's honour, and he replied that he thought no otherwise, but certain reports having been brought to him, he desired further knowledge; adding how greatly he was devoted to her Majesty, and that he had written to her at large of his willingness to obey her commands. The King of Navarre's ambassadors coming to the Count, our talk brake off, but he desired me to come to him at Delft for further discourse, which I shall do to-day or to-morrow.
"The said ambassadors hath both in the meetings of the General States and those of Holland had large audience, having above two hours harangued against the peace.
"By what I can understand, the messages passed between your Lordship and the Count were not performed as they should have been." | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 17 May 1588 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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