lend unto us all such plate, of what kind
soever, which belongs to your colledge;
promising you to see the same iustly repaid
unto you after the rate of 5 _s._ the ounce
for white, and 5 _s._ 6 _d._ for guilt plate,
as soon as God shall enable us: for assure
yourselves wee shall never let persons of
whom wee have so great a care suffer for
their affection to us, but shall take
speciall order for the repaiment of what you
have already lent us, according to our
promise, and also of this you now lend in
plate; well knowing it to bee the goods of
youre colledge that you ought not to alien,
though no man will doubt but in such a case
you may lawfully lend to assist youre King in
such visible necessity. And wee have
entrusted our trusty and well-beloved Sir
William Parkhurst, Knt. and Thomas Bushee,
Esq. officers of our mint, or either of them,
to receive the said plate from you; who,
uppon weighing thereof, shall give you a
receipt under theire or one of their hands
for the same.

"And wee assure our selfe of your willingness
to gratify us herein; since, beside the more
publiche considerations, you cannot but know
how much your selves are concerned in our
sufferings. And wee shall ever remember this
particular service to your advantage.

"Given at our Court at Oxford, the 6 day of
January 1642."]

Henry's exertions were effectual; and, soon after midsummer, he found
himself prepared with men and money to renew his expedition to
Normandy in a fleet of fifteen hundred sail, and with an army of not
less than twenty-five thousand soldiers. Before he embarked, (p. 212)
however, he commissioned Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, whose father had