Catalogue description J. VAN HOUTE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

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Details of 8ANC7/6
Reference: 8ANC7/6
Title: J. VAN HOUTE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.
Description:

--The news of your return to England, brought us by a gentleman of Sir John Schot's company, has relieved us from a great sorrow, as we had heard as a certainty that you had died in France. The sad death of the good chevalier Drury has also saddened us much.

 

The town of Bercq is surrendered to the enemy, on condition that all may depart freely, with their arms and baggage, it being impossible to victual it after the loss of the Fort du Rees ; as the chevalier Vere, like a wise warrior, had predicted. The said Sieur Vere is going with the troops who are wintering in Holland towards Arnhem, together with the forces of the States General, to be commanded by Count D'Oversteyn ; the two leaders to have equal commissions. They agree very well, for the Sieur Vere is a very valliant and honest knight, and much respected and loved by his Excellency, Count Hohenlo and all the other lords of our provinces.

 

I think they are taking the field in order to avoid all difficulties on the frontiers, for it is said that forces have arrived at Deventer, and I suspect this is for the town of Utrecht, which has always been very mutinous and full of papists and their creatures.

 

The Prince of Parma is come to Brussels, and means, it is said, once more to manage the war, with an absolute commission from the King of Spain for two years ; the Count of Mansfeld to be his lieutenant.

 

One who has come here from Cambrai states that near that place he passed at least seven thousand men, under the leadership of M. de Montigny, the Count of Egmont, and De la Motte, who declared the Governor of Cambrai a traitor. He also states that the Duc de Longueville and M. de la Noue are in Picardy, near Cambrai, but of that your Excellency can judge better than I.

 

The Deputies of Over Yesel have to-day declared Count Maurice governor of their province.

 

Postscript.-I pray your Lordship's help in obtaining my pay and "assignation," for I am still here without any service, to my great regret and loss.

Date: 1590, [January 29-] February 8. N.S. The Hague
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: French
Physical description: 2 pages.

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