He and many others are not going thither to advance their own affairs, to make themselves rich, or because they have not means enough to live magnificently at home.

They proceed to the Netherlands from pure affection for your cause.

This is the case, too, with many other of my subjects, all dear to me, and of much worth.

For I have sent a fine heap of folk thither--in all, with those his Excellency is taking with him, not under ten thousand soldiers of the English nation.

This is no small succour, and no little unbaring of this realm of mine, threatened as it is with war from many quarters.