Catalogue description The DEPUTIES OF THE STATES OF UTRECHT to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

--We would very gladly comply with your Lordship's wishes concerning the English forces in this province, but we have already sent a hundred men to Col. Schenk, eight hundred to Bergen, and eighty or ninety men for employment in the fleet from the companies of Morgan and Champernon, lying here and on the Vaert, so that your Lordship will understand that we can spare no more; and if the departure of the rest of these two companies is insisted upon, we must pray you to send us the hundred Niederlandish soldiers whom we sent there, as, otherwise, we cannot let the other go without hazard and danger to the places here, on which so much depends. We understand that certain companies lie at Woerden and Oudewater which are not needed there, since those places are protected by this province; therefore if your Lordship needs more, you might write for these to the Council of State or to Count Maurice.