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especially for the service at land, as would have made 

 a mighty subject stoope under them, I do not see how 

 any man could justly have layd any reproch upon him 

 who commanded the same, but rather have lamented the 

 iniquity of this time, wherein men whom forren countries 

 have for their conduct in service worthily esteemed of, 

 should not only in their owne countrey not be seconded 

 in their honorable endevors, but mightily hundred, even 

 to ye impairing of their owne estates, which most 

 willingly they have adventured for the good of their 

 countries : whose worth I will not value by my report, 

 lest I should seem guiltie of flattery (which my soule 

 abhorreth) & yet come short in the true measure of 

 their praise. Onely for your instruction against them 

 who had almost seduced you from the true opinion you 

 hold of such men, you shal understand that General 

 Norris from his booke was trained up in the wars of 

 the Admiral of France, and in very yong yeeres had 

 charge of men under the erle of Essex in Ireland : which 

 with what commendations he then discharged, I leave 

 to the report of them who observed those services. Upon 

 the breach betwixt Don John & the States, he was made 

 Colonell generall of all ye English forces there present, 

 or to come, which he continued 2 yeeres : he was then 

 made Marshall of the field under Conte Hohenlo : and 

 after that, General of the army in Frisland : at his com- 

 ming home in the time of Monsieurs government in 

 Flanders, he was made lord President of Munster in 

 Ireland, which he yet holdeth, from whence within one 

 yeere he was sent for, & sent Generall of the English 

 forces which her majestie then lent to the Low countries, 

 which he held til the erle of Leicesters going over. And 

 he was made Marshall of the field in England, the enemy 

 being upon our coast, and when it was expected the 

 crowne of England should have bene tried by battel. 

 Al which places of commandement which never any 

 Englishman successively attained unto in forren wars, 

 and the high places her majestie had thought him 



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