It would have been cheaper, no doubt, to pay the demands of the garrison in full, and allow them to depart.

But Maurice considered his honour at stake.

His letters of summons, in which he spoke of the rebellious commandant and his garrison as self-seeking foreigners and mercenaries, were taken in very ill part.

Wingfield resented the statement in very insolent language, and offered to prove its falsehood with his sword against any man and in any place whatever.

Willoughby wrote to his brother-in-law, from Flushing, when about to embark, disapproving of his conduct and of his language; and to Maurice, deprecating hostile measures against a city under the protection of Queen Elizabeth.