APPENDIX XIX

[P. 389, n. 4]

STATE PAPERS, FOREIGN

Elizabeth, Vol. CIX, No. 444

[Norris to Cecil]

Right honorable————The Admirall hathe lately written to the Cap^en of la Charite that praise be givin to Gode he maye now joyne w^th the vicountes at his pleas^r & that he hadd forces sufficient to make hedd to his Ennemis, Praying the Governo^r to loke carefully to the places on the frontiers & provide all thinges necessarie for the commyng of Mons^r de Lizy, withe the Armey of Allemagnes whiche puttithe these in great feare & use all meanes to treat a Peax that possibly the can. Wrytten at Tours thise 19^th of December 1569.

Yo^r honours ever assuride to commaunde

Henry Norreys

[Addressed] to the Right Honorable S^r William Cisill Knight principall
Secretarie to the Quene’s most Excellent Maiestie & of hir
highnes preavy Cownsell.

[Endorsed] 19 xbr 1569
S^r Henry Norreys to my m^r
from Tours.