Our taxes are prodigious, the ordinary and extraordinary, and we have a Spanish army at our front door." The armaments, already so great, had been enlarged during the last month of the year.

Vaudemont was at the head of a further force of 2000 cavalry and 8000 foot, paid for by Spain and the Pope; 24,000 additional soldiers, riders and infantry together, had been gathered by Maximilian of Bavaria at the expense of the League.

Even if the reports were exaggerated, the Advocate thought it better to be too credulous than as apathetic as the rest of the Protestants.
"We receive advices every day," he wrote to Caron, "that the Spaniards and the Roman League are going forward with their design.

They are trying to amuse the British king and to gain time, in order to be able to deal the heavier blows.

Do all possible duty to procure a timely and vigorous resolution there.