Catalogue description SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--Your Lordship will see by the enclosed letters from the Lords of the Council what great care hath been had to satisfy your Lordship, so as present order shall be given for sending away the ships which are to waft our men over. They are to receive this month's pay from the justices of the counties in which they were levied, to which end it may please you to give direction for a perfect account to be made what imprests of money or victuals have been made to every band by the King. Her Majesty also wills me to put you in mind that special care be had for the preservation of the armour and furnitures, that they may be safely delivered to the country again, to be laid up in places convenient, ready for any sudden occasion hereafter.

"Your Lordship's friends and well-wishers here do greatly rejoice at the good success wherewith it hath pleased God to bless your Lordship, as well in respect of your Lordship's particular as for the great honour that our nation hath gained in their employment there." Signed.

Endorsed:- "Received the 16 December 1589 per John Buckland."