Catalogue description G. DE PRUNINCQ to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--The States and Magistrates of this province and city have decided, by the advice of the Conte de Neuwenar, to send a hundred picked soldiers to the aid of Bergen-op-Zoom, although my own opinion is that the enemy will rather attempt to invade Ter Toelen, leaving Bergen blockaded, for what good would it do him if he had not the forts in the harbour, for the defence of which your Lordship has given orders, both by sea and by land. And how could he do much when the highway from the south to the great fort at the mouth of the canal is commanded by the cannon on your men of war.

Postscript.--Recommending his cousins Bax, whose eldest brother feels himself very badly used by having his company taken from him.