Catalogue description M. DE TRELLO to LORD WILLOUGHBY, at Grimsthorpe.

--I have been grieved to hear by Captain Wels that you have been tormented by the gout (" des gouttes") and only wish that some drops (gouttes) of my blood would ease you, but as I cannot aid you in that way, I can only do so by my prayers.

The town of Corbeil, which has cost the King of Spain, the Duke of Parma and the League so much, in men and money, has been re-taken by the men of Melun, without the loss of a single man.

Captain St. Paul, one of the first men amongst those of the League, has been defeated by the King's forces, with three regiments of French infantry and four troops of horse. Eight hundred were killed on the spot and the rest taken prisoners.

M. de Maligny, son of M. de Beauvoyx, has overthrown four or five hundred Leaguers.

The King is in Champayn, at Chasteau Thierry. His forces have captured a great booty of cattle, provisions, munition and money, on its way from the Low Countries to the Duke of Parma. It is said here that the Duke wishes to retire towards Hainault, to refresh his men, who are daily dying from plague, dysentry and the pangs of hunger. He who wishes for good cheer must not go to France.

The Vicomte de Thureyne is still in London ; but it is believed that he will shortly leave for Germany, to go to the Duke of Saxony and other Protestant Princes in order to arrange, by their means and with the Queen of England's money, for a grand levy of Reiters and Lansknechts before the next summer.

In the Low Countries, Holland, &c., all is quiet since the vain attack upon Dunkirk.

I am kept here by the expected arrival of my wife from Holland, but as soon as she comes, I hope to visit you, feeling sure of a welcome, not from my merits, but from your kindness. "A Groenewyts." Seal of arms.