Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to the STATES GENERAL.

--Memoir concerning 1. the state of Ostend; 2. the soldiers there and at Bergen-op-Zoom; 3. the rendezvous for the troops going to Spain, and shipping for their transport; 4. commissaries for their convoy; 5. his Lordship's troop of horse; 6. advertisement to be made to her Majesty; 7. praying that certain counsellors who speak English may be appointed to discuss with him some difficulties that have arisen. [There is a copy of this, and an English translation of it, in S. P., Holland, under date, but without the marginal notes.]

Margin.--Replies by the States to the above points:-

1. Persons will be sent at once to Ostend, to make arrangements for the necessary repairs.

2. They expect the companies to be filled up and kept complete, according to the Treaty with her Majesty.

3. They do not consider themselves obliged to furnish transport to England for the troops destined for Spain, but will provide, both as regards the place of rendezvous and any other matters, whatever they are responsible for.

4. No answer.

5. They have never been informed that her Majesty had ordered his Lordship's troop to be of two hundred men, and cannot believe it has ever been so strong, still less that it is so now. They advise that it shall be of the same number as those of other chief lords of the country, with as many servants passed in the musters for his Lordship's house and stable as these other lords have; but the troop must be employed for the service of the country as are the others, according to the orders of the Council of State.

6. They will give notice to their agent, the Sieur Ortell, of their resolutions, but leave it to his Lordship to inform her Majesty.

7. They will commission the deputies of Zeeland to hear his Lordship, although they are ignorant of the difficulties to which he refers. Signed Egmont; C. Aerssens. Noted as received from the States on Jan. 23.