Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to the COMTE DE MOEURS.

--I received yours after I was embarked for Dordrecht. As to your belief that I was marching with the English troops, since we parted the States (without my knowledge) have resolved that two thousand foot and six troops of horse of her Majesty's forces shall go with the Ambassador, Sir John Norris; upon which he at once desired that none of these troops should be employed in any service whatever, but should be kept in readiness to embark; nor will he allow the three companies newly arrived under his conduct, and which, by his consent, were ordered for the present expedition, to march.

The Governors of Flushing and the Brill have declined to send any troops, so that I had only four companies of mine, which are come as far as Rotterdam, and as the States do not think them sufficient, and their withdrawal from Bergen in this time of frost exposes that town to great danger, I have ordered them to go back again. Noted as N.S., but evidently in error.