One of 18 folios giving instructions issued by Elizabeth I to Essex and Howard prior to the expedition to Calais, 1596.
Consists of general account of the reasons for the campaign, detailed descriptions of the duties of the chief officers of the army such as the Lord Marshall, details of the officers of regiments from colonel down to corporal and a list of the 64 knights serving in the campaign.
One of 131 folios on the organisation and finance of the expeditions to Calais, Germany, the Low Countries, Ireland and St Vincent, the condition of the militia and French officers’ military duties, 1400-1643.
From a manuscript book consisting of 174 folios of military information compiled during the early seventeenth century.