martes, 2 de junio de 1587

Edad:
60 años

Parma se dirige a Sluis.

SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL to WALSINGHAM.


I now hear certainly that the enemy is gone from Ostend, hearing that I had sent both men and victualsand, as is thought, is gone to 'Slues,' where likewise I have persuaded our burghers to send 60 lasts of corn and some ammunition.

I have also sent an express to Sir Roger Williams whom I dispatched this morning with some of this garrison to Ostend to put himself with all speed into Slues with two or three companies; for "the Estates are so backward and so careless of those two places as though they did not belong to the United Provinces" ; and as yet there is neither men nor victuals in either save that sent or procured by myself.

"The enemy is persuaded that my lord of Leicester cometh not, the which maketh them the bolder . . . therefore the hearing of his coming would do much good. "I have received by Captain Huntley your honour's letter with the good news of Sir Francis Drake.

You daily bind me more and more to love and honour you. . . ."

Flushing, 2 June.

Holograph. Add. Endd. 1 pp. [Ibid. XV. f. 11.]

Fuentes

Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 21, part 3, April-December 1587.

Holland and Flanders (2).

ed. Sophie Crawford Lomas and Allen B Hinds.

Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1929.

 

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