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| August 11. | 395. Throckmorton to Cecil. (fn. 1) |
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| 1. May perceive by his letter and by these two gentlemen,
the Lord of St. Colm and Mr. Arthur Askyn, whom the
Queen of Scotland sends into England, that she minds to
take nothing unkindly at the Queen's hands, but will be
content to "redoubbe" and repair all faults past. Cecil will
see by the writer's letter to the Queen what has moved the
Queen of Scotland to send for him [Throckmorton] to meet
her at Abbeville, and what has passed between them here.
Requests that the said gentleman may receive courteous
usage, whatsoever there is secret between the Princes. The
Lord of St. Colms is appointed to go through into
Scotland after his conference with the Queen, and Mr. Askin
to return before the Queen of Scots embarks. |
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| 2. Has lately received a letter from John Calvin, of Geneva,
a copy whereof he sends to the Queen. He has also sent a
book devised by a Frenchman, and printed at Lyons, wherein
he has spoken most irreverently of the Queen's mother, and
otherwise than ought to be permitted by the King and
Council. Has sent some of the clauses that are odious to the
Queen, but has forborneto send the book, to the end that
if she minds that he shall complain to the King and Council
he may have it to show them. Desires to know whether
she would have the book suppressed, which the King may do,
seeing it is invented by his subject and printed in his realm;
and also that Calvin may understand of this advertisement, and
of the Queen's well-taking his zealous affection towards her. |
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| August 11. | 3. (fn. 2) Cannot advertise how many of the great personages who
conduct the Queen of Scots home will return through England. M. Danville is presently resolved to pass that way, to
do the Queen reverence. He is the Constable's best beloved
son; a Knight of the Order, one of the paragons of the
Court, and a favourer of the true religion. If any of the
house of Guise desire to pass through England, thinks
the more honour and courtesy that is used to them the
better it will frame to the Queen's service. The bearer,
Mr. Tremayne, came out of England with intent to see the
wars in Almain, or elsewhere, thereby to be the better able
to serve the Queen. He has been here a good while to
hearken which way the flame will rise to his purpose; but
now, finding all the Princes of Christendom inclined to sit
still, retires home. Desires Cecil to do something for him to
help him to live, as it will be right well bestowed. The
Queen will have a good servant of him, and Cecil an honest
gentleman at his command.—Abbeville, 11 Aug. 1561.
Signed. |
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| 4. P. S.—It grieved him much to see the sea and be so near
England and to have to return. Hopes now that the Queen
of Scotland is gone he will not have long to tarry here. |
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| Orig. Add. Endd. by Cecil's secretary. Pp. 3. |
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| August 11. | 396. De Sevres to Cecil. |
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| The King of France, intending to inspect the accounts of
the receivers of his revenues, and understanding that many
of them who have been guilty of peculation intend to fly
with their booty, desires that they may not be received in
England. De Sevres would himself have spoken to the Queen
on this matter, but is unable to do so on account of illness.
As one of his secretaries is dead, and the other ill of a fever,
he sends this by a person who desires to have audience with
Cecil.—London, 11 Aug. 1561. Signed. |
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| Orig., with seal. Add. Endd. by Cecil's secretary. Fr.
Pp. 3. |
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| August 11. | 397. The East and Middle Marches. |
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| "Ordered in presence of the gentlemen of Northumberland
by the Lord Warden, 11 Aug." |
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| 1. List of officers of the East and Middle Marches, with
their pays. |
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| 2. A book to be drawn by the sheriff, containing the names
of all the gentlemen within the shire. |
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| 3. Four gentlemen in every ward to be appointed for hearing matters of controversy. |
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| 4. The discreetest in the shire to signify their opinions
touching the order for watch. |
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| 5. A true certificate of the musters, to be presented to the
Warden by the 25th of August. |
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| 6. Proclamations to be made in every market town in
Northumberland that in every township some persons shall
follow the hue and cry, and such as do not shall make restitution of the goods taken away. |
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| 7. Proclamation to be made that all Englishmen being
called by any Scotchman to follow "trode" within England
shall ride for assistance, and refusing to do so, shall be punished. |
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| 8. The Deputy Wardens to give the same charge to the
Wardens of Scotland at the next day of truce Scotchmen may
do the like for the trode. |
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| Copy. Endd. by Cecil: Lord Grey. Pp. 3. |
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| August 12. | 398. [Cecil] to Cardinal Granvelle. |
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| Requests him to show favour to Walter Haddon, Master of
the Requests, who has obtained leave to absent himself from
the Court for a few days, and who is desirous of visiting the
countries under the Cardinal's administration. — Ipswich,
12 Aug. 1561. |
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| Copy. Corrected by Cecil, and endd. by him. Lat. Pp. 2. |
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| August 12. | 399. Mundt to Cecil. |
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| 1. In his last letter of 15 June, mentioned the nuptials at
Leipsic. On the 8th inst. the Rhinegrave, who is in the
French interest, set out with forty horsemen for Saxony, to be
present at the marriage of the Prince of Orange. He is said
to carry a message from the Queen of France to the Protestant
Princes, of which the first part is, that as long as she is in
power in France she will not allow any persecution for religion.
He is also said to carry wedding gifts for the bride and bridegroom, and the insignia of the order for the King of Denmark.
The decree lately passed by the machinations and bribery of
the Guises very much alarms the pious, and he does not think
that it can be altered, for the King seems to have greater
power over his subjects than the Emperor has over the empire.
It is to be hoped, however, that God, who took away Henry
and Francis, and who also broke the weapons of Charles, will
not desert his own. The Prince of Condé lately sent a nobleman to the chief German Princes begging them not to desert
the cause of religion in France; for the King of Spain, with
dreadful threats, has endeavoured to terrify the Queen of
France from making any concessions to religion in France; and
the chief people of that country who favour the cause of
religion desire that the Princes would send an honourable
embassy into France to oppose the Spanish influence, and hope
that the Queen of England will send one at the same time.
And although the Emperor may take it ill, yet the usefulness
and honour of the cause must be preferred to the wrath of
man. The prudent fear lest they be driven by the insults of
the Papists to repel force by force; and should the Papists
succeed they will carry their impious arms further against the
righteous. |
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| 2. Some think that the King of Denmark is going to attack
Sweden, for the most skilful German captains and soldiers are
gone to Cologne, and it is expected that his invasion will be
as sudden as was his attack on Ditmarsh in 1559, for the
Danes do not choose to wait until the King of Sweden has
strengthened himself by some marriage. The Count of
Swartzenburg, a vassal of the Elector Augustus, was lately in
Lorraine, as was thought to seek the sister of the Duke of
Lorraine as wife for the King of Denmark. The King of
Denmark is doing all he can to strengthen the friendship of
the maritime states. The Rhinegrave says that the King of
Sweden is dead, not without some suspicion of poison. Certain
French noblemen have reported that the Queen Mother wishes
to shake off the friendship of the Guises, but that their power
is so great that she is obliged to look to the patronage of Philip.
It is thought that if this cancer [the Guises] were removed,
the whole state of France would be restored. The Duke of
Savoy also deters the Queen Mother from the religion by
threats. It is reported that he invaded the Waldenses inhabiting the valley of Arona, on account of religion, and that
being defeated he set fire to several villages. The Emperor
and his sons Charles and Maximilian are quietly at Vienna.
Both parties in Switzerland are looking forward to the day of
meeting, Aug. 24.—Strasburg, 12 Aug. 1561. Signed. |
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| Orig. Hol., with seal. Add. Endd. by Cecil's secretary.
Lat. Pp. 4. |
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| August 13. | 400. The Queen of Scotland to Lady Throckmorton. |
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| Has charged her Mâitre d'hotel, Le Sieur D'Esguilly, to visit
her, and to give her a present as a remembrance of her affection, and a token of the regard in which she holds her husband. The bearer will explain her sentiments more fully.
—Calais, 13 Aug. 1561. Signed. |
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| Copy. Endd. Fr. Pp. 2. |
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| August 14. | 401. William Chester and Others to Cecil. |
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| 1. Have been in hand with the Portuguese, who has been
recommended by Throckmorton, touching the voyage which
he offered to discover upon the coast of Barbary, and find it to
be the same place that has been known and traded to by them
these twelve or thirteen years. They also find that he is a
person of small credit and honesty. The bearer, Thomas
Herne, can inform Cecil of all that shall be needful.—London,
14 Aug. 1561. Signed: William Chester, William Garrard,
Thomas Lodge. |
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| 2. P. S.—Forasmuch as the said Portuguese is commended
to them by the Queen's Ambassador, they will defray his
charges, and give him in reward 100 crowns towards his
return. |
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| Add. Endd. by Cecil's secretary: Lord Mayor of London
and others, to my master. Pp. 3. |
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August 15.
Tytler, vi. 469. | 402. Maitland to Cecil. |
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| 1. Captain Anstruther, sent by the Queen of Scots, came
yesterday, who says that he left her at Morin, six leagues
from the Court at St. Germans, where she had left the King,
and was coming towards Calais there to embark. He has
letters to most part of the noblemen, whereby she complains
that the Queen of England not only has refused passage to
M. D'Oysel, and the safe-conduct which she courteously
required for herself, but also makes open declaration that she
will not suffer her to come home; yet is her affection such
towards her country that she means not for that threatening
to stay, but takes her journey with two galleys only, without
any forces, accompanied with her three uncles, the Duke
D'Aumale, the Marquis D'Elbœuf, and the Great Prior, one
of the Constable's sons, M. Damville, and their trains. In
the meantime, thinking that the Queen of England will by
some means practise with her subjects, she has written to
divers, and specially to those whom she knows most affectioned,
to continue the intelligence; willing them in any wise not to
receive any Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth or renew any
league with her until she [Mary] be present. The bearer says
that she will arrive before the 26th inst. |
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| 2. What this message means he cannot judge, but marvels
that she utters anything to them which she would have kept
close. If the galleys may quietly pass, he wishes that the
passport had been liberally granted. To what purpose should
they open their pack and sell none of their wares, or declare
themselves enemies to those they cannot offend? It passes
his dull capacity to imagine what this sudden enterprise should
mean. They have determined to trust no more than they
shall see, yet he fears the issue through lack of charges and
sufficient power. If anything chance amiss they will feel
the first dint. It will be well done to keep some ordinary
power at Berwick of good force, as long as they stand in
doubtful terms. Its neighbourhood will discourage their
enemies and make the English bolder. |
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| 3. Prays Cecil to send his advice what is best to be done,
as well in the common cause as his particular, who is taken to
be a chief meddler and principal negociator of all the practices with England; though he is not in greatest place, yet is
not his danger least, especially when she shall come home,
having so late received at the Queen's hands (as she will
think) so great a discourtesy. |
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| 4. Captain Anstruther has also a commission to receive
from the French captains the castle of Dunbar and the fort
of Inchkeith, and to send home all the soldiers. Has heard
that the Queen means to draw home the Earl of Lennox and
set him up against the Duke of Châtellerault. Trusts that
the Queen of England will have good regard thereto. If he
can receive every four or five days a line or two from Cecil,
it will be his greatest comfort; and because he must now be
jealous of his letters, he prays him to mention the receipt of
so many as he has sent this month. This is the third.—
Edinburgh, 15 Aug. 1561. Signed. |
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| Orig. Hol. Add. Endd. by Cecil. Pp. 4. |
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| August 15. | 403. M. De Seurre to Cecil. |
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| 1. Has received a despatch from the King announcing the
intended departure of the Queen of Scots, who goes with two
galleys; and several nobles intend to go with her, amongst
whom are the Grand Prior and M. Damville, who wish to
pass through England; therefore the King has directed him
to request passports for them and their train of forty persons.
Requests a passport for Guilliame Lambier and Jehan Lulle,
who desire to proceed to Scotland for the purpose of procuring
restitution of a ship laden with cloth, to the value of 12,000
crowns, which a Scotch pirate had taken in the month of
May off the coast of Bretagne. Reminds Cecil of his letter
sent by a Frenchman dwelling in London, named De Sousrie,
containing the King of France's request that certain clerks of
his treasury, against whom he is proceeding in order to
chastise them for their malpractices, may not be allowed to
retire themselves into England.—London, 15 Aug. 1561.
Signed. |
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| 2. P. S.—Complains of the detention on 24th ult. by two
of Lord Conway's brothers, of one of the writer's servants at
Canterbury, who was coming from France with letters. |
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| Add. Endd. by Cecil's secretary. Fr. Pp. 4. |
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