I Heartily thank you for the last letters of the first of this moneth, wherein you did well deliver us from some perplexity, being by the French Ambassador here otherwise advertised, to the advantage of the Cardinalists; his letters are dated the 30 of December from the King; and I marvel to perceive by your letters that the skirmish should be the 23. and the advise should not come to you before the 28. for thereby it seemeth the Camp should be so far off, as in four or five days tidings could not come; but this I think may be said, that evil news are brought to that Court slowly, at the least they are uttered slowly. Of this acci∣dent Page  151 of Arrest, you shall be by her Majesties letters fully advertised; at the signing whereof, her Majesty said that she would have sent a Gentle-man expresly to the King; but she considered that being sent by Sea, the journey in this Winter time will be very dangerous and uncertain, and to send him thorow France, where the troubles are such as she could not (either without mistrust of the French King, because the party should pass thorow Gascoigne, and the Queen of Navarrs (ountry, or without certain danger by souldiers:) and thereupon you shall so adver∣tise that Ambassador of Spain, and require him to make advertisement accordingly; whereunto you may add, that her Majesty hath thought of three or four meet persons to be sent thither, for one of them to be an Ambassador Resident; but none will be gotten, that with good will will serve, in respect of Mr. Mans strange and hard handling; which things her Majesty would have you set out more plainly to him, that the King may finde that onely to be the cause why there is no Resident Ambassa∣dor there. And thus I end, having willed Harcourte to take some of the Proclamations, if they be ready printed in French.