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encouraged with the service of divers brave and va 

 liant noblemen and gentlemen voluntaries ; in sum, 

 the most flourishing and complete troops that have 

 been known to have been sent out of our nation in 

 any late memory. A great mass of treasure pro 

 vided and issued, amounting to such a total, as the 

 charge of that army, all manner of ways, from the 

 time of the first provisions and setting forth, to the 

 time of my lord s returning into England, was veri 

 fied to have drawn out of the coffers, besides the 

 charge of the country, the quantity of 300,000/, and 

 so ordered as he carried with him three months pay 

 beforehand, and likewise victual, munition, and all 

 habiliments of war whatsoever, with attendance of 

 shipping allowed and furnished in a sortable pro 

 portion, and to the full of all my lord s own demands. 

 For my lord being himself a principal counsellor for 

 the preparations, as he was to be an absolute com 

 mander in the execution, his spirit was in every con 

 ference and conclusion in such sort, as when there 

 happened any points of difference upon demands, 

 my lord using the forcible advantages of the tolera 

 tion and liberty which her majesty s special favour 

 did give unto him, and the great devotion and for 

 wardness of his fellow-counsellors to the general 

 cause, and the necessity of his then present service, 

 he did ever prevail and carry it ; insomuch as it was 

 objected and laid to my lord s charge as one of his 

 errors and presumptions, that he did oftentimes, 

 upon their propositions and demands, enter into con 

 testations with her majesty, more a great deal than 



