The same dissatisfaction at the result of the Cadiz expedition so far as it affected the citizens of London was displayed in a previous letter from the mayor to the lords of the Privy Council (3 Nov.) in answer to a demand for 3,000 men and three ships to ride at Tilbury Hope and give notice of the approach of the Spanish fleet.—Remembrancia (Analytical Index), pp. 243, 244.

Repertory 24, fo. 60b.

Journal 24, fos. 210b-213b, 216, 217.

Journal 24, fos. 324b, 325, 329b; Repertory 24, fos. 268, 287, 306; Id. 25, fo. 4b. Elizabeth asked for £40,000, but only succeeded in getting half that sum.—Chamberlain's Letters, p. 15.

Journal 25, fos. 34, 47b, 48; Repertory 24, fo. 352b. In July, 1600, a deputation was appointed to wait upon the lords of the council touching the repayment of this loan.—Repertory 25, fo. 119b. It still remained unpaid in Feb., 1604.—Journal 26, fo. 163b. By the end of 1606 £20,000 had been paid off.—Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p. 188; Repertory 27, fo. 278. And by July, 1607, the whole was repaid.—Howes's Chron., p. 890.

Journal 25, fos. 74b, 75, 77b-78b, 81, 81b, 82b-84, etc.

Chamberlain's Letters, p. 59.

Journal 25, fo. 79b.

-Id., fos. 80, 80b.

Chamberlain's Letters, p. 59.