Catalogue description Memorial of LORD WYLLUGHBY to the COUNCIL OF STATE.

--Stating that when Bergen was besieged, he put himself into the town, to hold it and to preserve the surrounding places, and was there from Sept. 24, N.S., 1588, until Nov. 15, when the enemy had raised the siege. At his arrival, the places were not sufficiently fortified to resist so powerful an army, and he repeatedly prayed their Lordships to send him pioneers, but no orders were given in the matter. Preferring to use his own means rather than to see evils supervene for want of due provision, he set both soldiers and others to work at the fortifications, and during the above mentioned time paid them 1,850 florins, 18 sol. Flanders money. Having also vainly prayed for powder for the artillery, he himself procured it, paying for it 1,500 florins. As both these sums were spent on the service of their country, he confidently trusts that their Lordships will reimburse him. Copy in Houfflin's Journal.