Catalogue description [QUEEN ELIZABETH ? to the GARRISON OF GEERTRUDENBERGE.]

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Details of 8ANC11/181
Reference: 8ANC11/181
Title: [QUEEN ELIZABETH ? to the GARRISON OF GEERTRUDENBERGE.]
Description:

--Her Majesty is very sorry to understand of the distress wherinto they have been driven by the States' proceedings, and of her princely care and regard has addressed letters to Counsellor Bodley and the States themselves for them to forbear those violent courses. Yet are they prayed to consider how dangerous a thing it is for them to deal with the enemy, both for the common cause and their own particular. "For princes love treasons, but not the traitors," and their case will be the harder "for that in so many speciall services as they have done against th'enemy they shall find them selves amongest many of the frendes of such whose bloud and lives they have spilt, which by all meanes they will seeke to avenge." And therefore her Majesty, in her princely love, requires them not so unadvisedly to abandon that affection which they have so solemnly promised and sworn to her service, but still to hold the town for her and the country's good, promising them that the old treaty shall be performed, and all other things convenient granted to them. And as of their own free will they made choice of her subject and servant for their governor, she hopes they will not now entreat him worse than before, he having endured with them the brunt of these services, and "considering also that such her subjects . . . have so faythfully done their endevours for their good. And therefore, albeyt they will not trust the States, they shall not have any cause of diffidence in her Majesty or hers."

Date: [1589, March ?]
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.
Physical condition: Draft minute.

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