Catalogue description [QUEEN ELIZABETH ?] to MR. BODLEY.

--Her Majesty is not a little displeased with the States' disorderly proceedings against the town of Geertrudenbergh, for albeit they have made many complaints against the soldiers, they have proved none of them, and have entered into these violent courses without privity of herself or her ministers, "whereby they have not onely geven her just cawse of displeasure, but also opened such a way and entraunce to th'enemy as they could not have devised how to have served his turne better, or to have done more prejudice to the countrey." You are therefore desired to deal with the Council of State, States General, and particular Estates, to induce them to use their best means for the preservation of the place. Her Majesty, of her princely care and regard for those countries, can do no less than admonish them thus, and it will be "very convenient for you, upon this so good occasion, to make known her Majesty's real disposition for their good."