Catalogue description GEORGE GILPIN to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--The difference with the Amman [? Ambtmann, i.e., Bailiff] of Thiel is ended, he conforming himself to the States' wishes. It is thought that Col. Schenck will follow the like course shortly. Col. Morgan has written to the States that he has received orders from Mr. Secretary, in her Majesty's name, to send away three companies, and that men from Brill and Flushing should be sent in their place, but the Council [here] has given him orders that none are to depart until the others are arrived; "and hereupon there passed some talk of the act by your honour sent the General States concerning the weakness of the garrisons in Bargues and Oostende; and something there will be written over, the said weakness being imputed to them [that] had charge thereof, and mean to take an advantage also, thereby to prove that the companies are nothing near complete, and that her Majesty and this country have been much deceived in the musters and payment of the prests."

I had hoped to speak to you at Rotterdam concerning myself, "but the entertainment of the magistrates there and the haste to further your journey, letted me." Before her Majesty allowed me my entertainment, I had fifty pounds prested to me for my charges in her Majesty's affairs, which is now to be defalked out of what the treasurer shall pay me. Your Lordship was pleased to acquit me of £20, but for the other 30l. I acknowledge myself answerable. Yet my estate being for the present very bare, I humbly crave your Lordship "to bring the same among your charges extraordinary to be allowed and answered by her Majesty, and I am sure there will be no difficulty nor opposition made against it, either by my Lord Treasurer or any, considering the pains I took and the charges I was at, without any penny allowance this three years."