Catalogue description The COUNCIL OF STATE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

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Details of 8ANC5/31
Reference: 8ANC5/31
Title: The COUNCIL OF STATE to LORD WILLOUGHBY.
Description:

--Directing him to husband all the provisions and ammunition which have been sent [to Bergen-op-Zoom], and not to touch the magazine except in case of necessity; also to see that the "vivandiers" and other persons accustomed to make provision for troops, are on the spot and well treated, as otherwise they may depart in discontent, and so endanger the town, if the stores have to be used for lack of other provisions, which was one of the principal causes of the loss of Antwerp. He is to send a list of all the stores which have been received. Signed Meynertsen; Van Zuylen. Seal.

Date: 1588, September [18-] 28. N.S. The Hague
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: French
Physical description: 1½ pages.

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