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see pformed accoidinglie, as heretofore you haue done, and 

 to give you the better incouragem' I will lette you knowe 

 what happened this other dale at the Counsell horde, A very 

 discreete & sufficient Capt. (as any is) who was newlie come 

 out of Ireland beinge asked by the Lords what mann' of 

 men those were that were latelie sent out of Yorkeshire & 

 those pts (of whose insufficientcye ther had bene some com- 

 plain te made by some of the Cheife Comaunders there) he 

 answered, that there was lust Cause of such Complainte indeede 

 except for those that came out of Derbyshire, and those he 

 said, were the sufficientest that were sent and not onelie at 

 that time, but the like at all other times gen-^ally heretofore 

 w'" all the 11?. tooke in very good pte at our handes, I assure 

 you, And therefore I hope wee shall not hereafter lose that 

 reputacon y' we haue allreadie gotten in that behaulfe, but 

 where you shall pceave the lis : dirreccon to be, that rather 

 then to faile of sufficient men, we may take some pte of the 

 trayned bandes, I hope there wilbe no such Cause ; but that 

 yo" maye finde very fitt aud hable men for that s'vice, besydes 

 those of the trayned bandes, w<='' I will leaue to yo'' good 

 discretions. And where yo" may pceaue by hir Ma'' Ires, hir 

 pleasure is, wee should (in good sort) both publikelie and 

 privatelie lett hir subiects vnderstand hir gratious goodness 

 in sparinge them & layinge the burthen of this Charge at 

 this time vpon hir selfe, as also to let them knowe both what a 

 principall pte of that Realme they are to be sent into (w'^" is 

 Monster*) and that ther is espetiall care taken y' all necessary 

 pvisions for them whatsoeuer are & shalbe pvided to be 

 sent in due time theither for them, I pray you fail not to 

 deliuer all theis things publikelie when they shall come before 

 you, remembringe neu'theles to add this Caution, y' though 

 for this time her Ma'''= be content to take this Charge vpon 

 hir, yet that the like may not be expected hereafter, beinge 

 indeede a matter vnpossible for hir to pforme if shee would. 



* Munster. 



