Catalogue description THOMAS BODLEY to the STATES-GENERAL.

--Lord Willoughby finds himself greatly touched in his honour and reputation by the accusations lately published against him in a printed "placcart"; by which also her Majesty feels herself not a little prejudiced, seeing that therein your Lordships tax her Lieutenant General with crimes which you have never notified to her or spoken of to him. His Lordship, for the defence of his honour, has prayed her Majesty to require you to put down in writing the particulars on which you found such general accusations, wherefore her Majesty's Council have desired me to treat with you in this behalf, requesting you to deliver to me such proofs or testimonies, in writing, as may verify the accusations which you have published to all the world; to the end that seeing and weighing your reasons, her Majesty may take proper measures in regard to her own honour and that of her Lieutenant.