Catalogue description LORD WYLLUGHBY to the GARRISON OF GEERTRUDENBERGHE.

--Hearing that Count Maurice (having by the advice of mistaken counsellors besieged your town) has sent you a paper concerning my promise to give up to him the said town, which may cause some misconception of my past actions, I pray you to think of me as my actions merit, it being certain that since the day of the treaty with you, and for the time during which my brother, Sir John Wingfelde, and my only sister have been among you, I have done my utmost for the carrying out of the said treaty. All being happily settled, and Count Maurice having established my brother in the town, after giving letters of oblivion for the past, there remained no longer any reason for me to think of the said promise, which was annulled by the articles of your agreement. Since my arrival in England I have so ordered it that her Majesty has declared her good will towards you, and as I heard that her letters did not come to you so quickly as I hoped, she has written again. I pray you to give her letters due consideration, for I hope that matters are not so desperate that you will abandon the true Christian religion and all your friends to embrace idolatry by submitting to your sworn enemies, which can only bring perpetual ruin. I send you a copy of what I have written to Count Maurice, that you may see on what footing I stand in this affair.