Sir Roger Williams was despatched by Leicester to bear the melancholy tidings to his government, and the Queen was requested to cherish the honest Welshman, and at least to set him on horseback; for he was of himself not rich enough to buy even a saddle.

It is painful to say that the captain did not succeed in getting the horse.
The Earl was furious in his invectives against Hohenlo, against Maurice, against the States, uniformly ascribing the loss of Sluy's to negligence and faction.

As for Sir John Norris, he protested that his misdeeds in regard to this business would, in King Henry VIII.'s time, have "cost him his pate." The loss of Sluys was the beginning and foreshadowed the inevitable end of Leicester's second administration.

The inaction of the States was one of the causes of its loss.

Distrust of Leicester was the cause of the inaction.