The end for which I venture it to you is that you may prepare to open the furthest gate toward Valencia, and have four thousand Miquelets ready, who will have the employment they love and are fit for, the pursuing and pillaging a flying enemy.

The country is as one can wish for their entire destruction.

Be sure, upon the first appearance of our troops and the first discharge of our artillery, you answer with an English halloo, and take to the mountains on the heights with all your men.

The Conde de las Torres must take the plains, the hills on the left being almost impassable, and secured by five or six thousand of the country people.
But what will gall him most will be the whole regiment of Nebot, which revolted to us near Valencia, is likewise among us.
"I was eight days ago myself in Barcelona, and I believe the Conde de las Torres must have so good intelligence from thence that he cannot be ignorant of it.

What belongs to my own troops and my own resolutions I can easily keep from them, though nothing else.