He personally oversaw and investigated absolutely everything, not merely the usual appurtenances of camps,I mean weapons and engines and ditches and enclosures and palisades,but also the private affairs of each one, and the lives, the dwellings and the characters both of the men serving in the organization, and of the commanders themselves.

These told him that he was mightily overseen, both when he went into Kent and when he went into Scotlandthe one being a place so near London and under the King's nose; and the other a nation so distasted with the people of England, that if they had loved him ever so well, yet they could never have taken his part in that company.