Catalogue description The QUEEN to LORD WILLOUGHBY.

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Details of 8ANC5/49
Reference: 8ANC5/49
Title: The QUEEN to LORD WILLOUGHBY.
Description:

--"Right trustee and well beloved, we greete yow well. Whereas we have presentlie sent thither as Ambassador to the States our trustie and welbeloved servant Sir John Norris knight, for some speciall service which we have committed to him, wherein he is to deale with the said States for matters that doe greately importe and concerne theire universall benifitt and well doing, wherewith yow shalbe made acquainted by the said Sir John Norris: we have thought good to advertise yow heereof, to the end that yow shall give him your best assistance aniewayes that yow can, and wherein he shall require the same both towardes the States Generall and particuler of the provinces, to the furderance of this service and charge which we have thus committed unto him. We have also appointed him to conferr with yow upon some other matters and meanes concerning the state and releefe of the towne of Berghen, wherein as yow have aunswered our expectacion to our greate contentment, by the care and travell which we understand yow have allready taken, so we assure our selfe that ye will no lesse persist hereafter, wisshing yow nevertheles not to expose your selfe to muche to hazard, considering the place yow holde. For the compounding also of the disorders and dissension of Gertrudenbergh and Utrecht, or anie other places, we requier yow to give your best advise and meanes, that maie furder the spedy redresse of the same, upon such conference as shalbe betwene yow and the said Sir John Norris. Geven under our signet at our mannour of St. James this nynthe daye of October, 1588, in the xxxth yeare of our raigne."

 

Signed Elizabeth, at the top. Also, in her Majesty's own hand:- "Good peregrin suppose not that your travail and labors ar not gratiusly accepted and shalbe ever kept in good memorye."

Date: 1588 October 9. Manor of St James
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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