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A Calendar of Manuscript Material relating to Ireland, 1580–1602 (Author: Richard Combus )

Document 2

Sir William Stanley to Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Elizabeth I, 28 September 1586.

There was not in the field (at the battle of Zutphen) of ours, of horse, in the whole ij c. whereof these Lords and gentlemen, with their followers, to the number of iij score at most, did all this feate, with the help onlie of Sir William Stanley, who had but 300 for their 3,000 foote, and he did most valiantlye himsealf, and his owen horsse receaued viij shott of the muskett, and yett himsealf not hurt. He and old Read are worth their weight in pearle, theie be ij of as rare captens as anie prince living hath.