Catalogue description The QUEEN to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--Giving him permission to keep the troops a month longer in France, "perceiving the greate contentment and satisfaction the Kinge our good brother hath received by your good service, and of our companies under your charge, wherebie also such as have conceived an opinion either of our weekenes or of the decaie and want of couradge or other defects of our Englishe nation maie see themselves much deceived, in that the contrarie hath nowe well appeared in that countrie by so small a troope as is with yow, to the great honour and reputation of us and of our nation. . . . And for that it is to our no small comforte to perceave the forward indevours and valour both of your selfe and of those under yow, we are pleased not only to let yow understand the same by these our owne letters, with our thankefull acceptation to yow in particuler, but also we will and require yow to signifie so much both to the whole companie of our souldiours ther, and to such captains and gentelmen particulerlie as yow shall thinke most worthie therof." [There are two other copies of this letter amongst the State Papers, France, from which it is printed in Five Generations of a Loyal House; where however the "preamble" (in one of these copies), is mistakenly stated to be in the Queen's own hand. It was, however, no doubt so in the original.]