6,000 pairs of boots, 2,000 barrels of beer, biscuit sufficient for a camp of 20,000 men, &c.

The Prince hath received a marvellous costly garland or crown from the Pope, and is chosen chief of the holy league..."] Nor was much concealed from the Argus-eyed politicians in the republic.
The States were more and more intractable.

They knew nearly all the truth with regard to the intercourse between the Queen's government and Farnese, and they suspected more than the truth.

The list of English commissioners privately agreed upon between Burghley and De Loo was known to Barneveld, Maurice, and Hohenlo, before it came to the ears of Leicester.

In June, Buckhurst had been censured by Elizabeth for opening the peace matter to members of the States, according to her bidding, and in July Leicester was rebuked for exactly the opposite delinquency.