Catalogue description ADOLF, COMTE DE NEUWENAR, to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

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Details of 8ANC11/128
Reference: 8ANC11/128
Title: ADOLF, COMTE DE NEUWENAR, to LORD WILLOUGHBY.
Description:

--I had hoped that your Lordship, with your men, would have been at the appointed place on the 17th, and am astonished to have heard nothing from you. The loss of Wachtendonck ought to make us hasten our movements, for if we go on with these delays, I forsee that "en fin l'ennemy nous aura a bon marché."

 

It is no small pity and shame to the country to have abandoned those good men who behaved so well in the defence of their town, and I fear that if matters are not taken more to heart there will soon be no town which will not surrender at the first summons. I pray you hasten your coming with the promised men, that we may lose no more time in aiding Berck. The boats, laden with victuals and ammunition, left the Vart yesterday to go towards Aernhem, and to-day all the companies which have arrived begin their march; three others are hourly expected. Signed.

Date: 1588, December 19. O.S. Utrecht
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: French
Physical description: 1 page.

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