Catalogue description CAPTAIN FRANCIS VERE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

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Details of 8ANC5/16
Reference: 8ANC5/16
Title: CAPTAIN FRANCIS VERE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.
Description:

--The enemy yesterday sat down before our town with intent to besiege it, and as the place is "on every side subject to mines, against which by mines only we may be assured," and our number of miners is very small, we have made enquiry for such as have any understanding thereof, and having found one Capt. Mintoye, of Capt. Parker's company, that commanded in Mastrycht, who is very experienced in his profession, have desired his assistance. As he has commanded over La Croy, he is unwilling to serve under him, but offers, "if he might have commission to raise twenty-five or thirty, with letters from Count Maurice to take such miners as he could find dispersed in companies, he would in short time have together a sufficient number of good miners." Knowing how much your Lordship tenders the welfare of this place, I pray that the bearer may have your commission and some imprest of money, and may forthwith be despatched.

 

Postscript.--"If your Honour thinks that Morgan cometh not hither presently, if your pleasure be that I may have the second place, it were convenient I had some manner of commission."

Date: 1588, September 11. [O.S. Bergen op Zoom.]
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1½ pages.

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