And I pray you to remember that I have not had one penny of her Majesty towards all these charges of mine--not one penny-and, by all truth, I have already laid out above five thousand pounds.

Her Majesty appointed eight thousand pounds for the levy, which was after the rate of four hundred horse, and, upon my fidelity, there is shipped, of horse of service, eight hundred, so that there ought eight thousand more to have been paid me.

No general that ever went that was not paid to the uttermost of these things before he went, but had cash for his provision, which her Majesty would not allow me--not one groat.

Well, let all this go, it is like I shall be the last shall bear this, and some must suffer for the people.

Good Mr.
Secretary, let her Majesty know this, for I deserve God-a-mercy, at the least." Leicester, to do him justice, was thoroughly alive to the importance of the Crisis.