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| Aug. 16. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| In favour of a Polish gentleman who wishes to go into England, and is recommended to him by some of his friends.
Prays his honour to countenance him, that he may return well
satisfied, as all others have done who have relied upon his
honour's favour.—Paris, 16 August, 1587. |
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| Signed. Add. Endd. ½ p. [France XVII. 108.] |
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| Aug.[16.] (fn. 1) | William Lyly to Waade. |
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| "My last was not altogether the verity of the defeat of the
Swisses, for that those did not aid who I named, but only Alphonso di Corso, lieutenant to M. de Lavalet [La Valette], with
five hundred shot and some few horse. And the town reprised by
the captain, that rather in desperate sort than otherwise hazarded
upon it and had the slaughter of 300 gentlemen and 700 others,
leaguers; so as the King had two victories in one day; viz. of
Swisses and Leaguers. |
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| "We are assured here that the 'ryters' are now entered Lorraine, and that somewhat from them is every day attended. M.
La Chastre is dispatched from the Duke of Guise, with certain
lances, 2000 musketeers and other shot to hinder their passage;
the Duke of Guise having a great opinion that these musketeers
shall wonderfully break the hearts of those ryters, and make a
hole in their first fury, that the lances may enter. It is thought
that they would be glad that the ryters might be entreated to
take some other way; and withal thought that the Duke of
Lorraine would be glad to be an Alman and no more a Spaniard;
for fear whereof, the Duke of Guise is gone to him; they say
here, [not?] with resolution to fight the ryters, but rather to
strengthen the other's feebleness. There are come from the
Prince of Parma 500 lances—given out here 1000—and from
'Ballené' [Balagny] 200, so as in all they are thought for certain
at this hour 5000 horse and 8000 footmen. On the other side
there is said that 3000 are come more, and withal Casimir, but
it is not believed, nor any other chief, but only the Duke of
'Bullion' [Bouillon], who commands them in the absence of
Casimir. |
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| "The King this day in open Council showed that M. Danville
[i.e. Montmorency] should exercise the Colonelship of the Swisses
and no other. |
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| "The Grand Prior grows daily in favour with the King, and
so doth the Duke of Longueville; it is thought for that he meaneth
to break the marriage between his sister (fn. 2) of Longueville (fn. 2) and the
Marquis de Belisre. (fn. 3) This night is arrived hither the Duke
of Joyeuse. |
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| "At this present there is nothing spoken of but the loss of
the Sluce, the creation of the new Cardinal, the delivery of
Morgan, the huge army that the King of Spain hath at the
sea and the censures that every man giveth of them. |
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| "It is said here that the Sluce is of more importance than we
take it for, as well for alienating of the Flemish cold minds
as for that those rivers that may be brought thither may in short
time 'infant' a galley or two, to do some mischief. |
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| "That the Cardinal was made extraordinarily, which some give
out that the same was to make his [the Pope's] sister's gain,
but it should not seem so, for that within four hours after his
creation, the Pope dispatched a courier for Spain. How contrary
these actions of the Pope are by this in the King of Spain's
favour, and the book of his titles in his disgrace, a man may
ponder, unless I may say with him that made the relation of
it that he will bever troppo [sic] . . . These things do import
some strange stratagem, for the avoiding whereof, I trust ye
stand con li occhi aperti, which, as we have no cause to fear,
so have we no cause to neglect." And as King Henry the 8th
in his wars called in many strangers, so I doubt it were good
for us "to have some faithful strangers to aid our valours with
their modern practices and quick inventions. And consider with
what number Alphonso de Corso overthrew these Swisses only
with good conduct. |
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| "This Cardinal was created contrary to the express ordinance
of the Pope; his pension increased by the King of Spain, and it
is said he shall presently go legate into Flanders and there
attend some other directions. The Pope gave him the Palace
of Cajetan and it is thought that Cardinal Farnese will add
somewhat to him of his liberality. |
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| Margin. "He is written unto: Cardinal d'Angleterre, but he
signs Cardinal Allenus." |
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| "His [the King of Spain's] army at sea is so great as without
doubt it serveth for more than the safe-conducting of his India
fleet, and as some say, looketh eagerly upon Ireland. |
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| "For Morgan, it was the only request that the Pope made
to the King, and the King had many to him. This Nuncio being
much his servant could have no less than his one request, and
the King shall have a great deal of money by the Bull that
he will procure for him. |
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| "Mope [sic] and he brags up and down the streets, he repairing hither so soon as he understood of the other's delivery. The
knight [qy. Stafford] would gladly that you performed your
promise. Morgan repaired to him presently upon his delivery,
but [was] sent away with a fly [sic] in his ear, being asked
how he durst come thither, having so much abused him. He repaireth to the Bishop of Glasgow, who gave him as cold entertainment, refusing to speak to him, and withal desired him not
to haunt his house and wished him hereafter to lead a more
temperate life." |
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| I pray you to take these occurences in good part, beseeching
you that my former requests may be before your eyes, and that
your great affairs may not prevent the perfecting of him who
will ever remain your creature.—Paris, this — of August, 1587. |
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| Postscript. I beseech you, one word to her Majesty of me,
or else I shall account all favours to be nothing towards the
relief of my afflicted mind. Also let your man write me somewhat from thence. |
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| Add. Endd. 3 pp. [France XVII. 109.] |
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| Aug. 16. | The King of Denmark to Her Majesty. |
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| On behalf of his lieges of the city of Bergen, Jacob Janssen,
Jacob Wilhelmsen and Cornelius van Santen, who in their own
and their partners' names have made grave complaint to him
that last year a ship of theirs, laden with all manner of goods
and bound from Holland for Bergen, having been, by stress of
weather, brought into another port of Norway, had been seized
by a pirate, one John de Mheer, a subject of her Majesty—the
master of the ship and his crew having first been subject to most
injurious and shameful treatment and transferred to another
ship—and was thence brought to England. Also the said pirates
insulted not only these men but himself, gibing at his having
in his realm ports so exposed to outrages on the part of every
one, and derisively asking them to make experiment whether
with like success they could carry off a ship from an English
port. |
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| Although at the time they could not learn the name either of
the pirate or of the piratical craft, yet the royal insignia of
her Majesty painted on the poop, as also the English tongue
betrayed them. Wherefore his subjects sent their commissioner
at great cost to England to make enquiry, and are now by him
sufficiently certified that the pirate's name is John de Mheer;
but his ship, named the Gilded Dragon, having been first stayed
in a port of his Kingdom of Norway, was thence brought to
her Majesty's port of Westiezer [sic] thence to Brostum [qy.
Boston] and finally to London, and there last summer was fitted
out for the practice of piracy, and adorned with her Majesty's
ensignia. Also that the pirate himself is no obscure person
but one well known in London. |
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| And as almost all the substance of these his despoiled subjects
is comprised in this one ship and her cargo, he lovingly craves
of her Majesty that she will be pleased to show favour to this
present proctor or commissioner, sent by these unfortunate men
and at great cost, and who beg for nothing but her Majesty's
royal favour, and that the matter may be duly investigated and
decided by proper judges delegate, and not only restitution
made or equitable compensation awarded, but also that there
may be allowed just costs and damages. |
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| Her highness knows how often he has gently brought to her
notice complaints on behalf of his subjects; but though she has
often led him to hope that she would proceed against the delinquents with due severity, yet he rarely finds the procedure
against them, when caught, to be so exemplary as to deter others
who meditate such offences. The consequence of which is, that
where there is no fear, there is likewise no end of depredations,
no end of complaints to be hoped for. |
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| Wherefore allowance must be made if after the failure of so
many direct appeals, he at length yields to the daily clamours
of his despoiled subjects, and sanctions the detention here of
the fellow citizens of the pirates, even though innocent, by the
arrest usual in such cases, until satisfaction be made. For as
it is the duty of every government to stand by its own citizens,
he will not be able to deny his aid to his subjects when oppressed by force. Hopes however that her Majesty, in accordance with her wisdom and wonted good will, will bring it to pass
that none of these may any more have reason to complain of
justice being either delayed or denied; and prays with all
brotherly affection that, the cause being determined in accordance with justice and equity, the said commissioner may as soon
as possible be sent back to his own people. And in return, will
ever manifest the readiest goodwill in doing justice to her
Majesty's subjects, and heartily gratifying her in matters of
much graver consequence. But against the said pirate, it is
only meet that he [the King] should expressly reserve his right
of action, by reason of the wrong so offered to himself and the
violence perpetrated in his realm.—The Palace, Kolding, 16
August, 1587. |
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| Add. Endd. Latin. 2¾ pp. [Denmark I. 97.] |
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| Aug. 16. | Copy of the above. |
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| Add. Endd. Latin. 2¾ pp. [Ibid. I. 98.] |
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| Aug. 17/27. | Advertisements from France. |
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| "The defeat of the Swisses in Dauphiny is continued, but they
were not so many as was given out, being but 2200, whereof
1200 are in the citadel of Valence, the rest being slain. |
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| "The execution at 'Montlimar' (fn. 4) was more than was spoken of,
fifteen hundred being slain on the place and two hundred taken,
all of the League, and many gentlemen of importance; namely
one M. de Romford, (fn. 5) for whom it is thought all the Swisses shall
be delivered. |
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| "M. de Joyeuse arrived in post at Paris with ten horses,
earnestly pressing the King to be sent back with new forces,
promising to do great services. The King saith he shall go,
but makes no haste of his despatch. |
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| "The Reisters be said to be still in the plain between Blamont
and St. Nicholas. The Duke of Guise sent a cornet of theirs to
Paris with report of the defeat of fifteen hundred, but it appears
since to be but three hundred, which were set upon going to
their lodging; whereupon the whole army rose and pursued the
other to Nancy gates. |
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| "It is affirmed that the two thousand horse expected from
the Duke of Parma are come to M. de Guise; but hardly yet
believed. |
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| "A prisoner come out of Poictou and freely set at liberty
affirms that the King of Navarre is within four leagues of
Saumur with four hundred horse, and hath taken the Marquis
of Renel, (fn. 6) M. Vicques, the Marshal of Matignon's lieutenant, with
many other gentlemen, which are released upon their promise
to come when he shall send for them. The soldiers are dismissed
freely; few slain but in the first fury. |
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| "The King doth assure that by the 5th of September he will
himself be ready to go; and the Marshal de Biron is gone already
towards Montereau and Sens, to consider of the fittest place for
assembling the King's forces between the two rivers. It is
thought the King cannot be ready so soon, for that there is
neither forces nor rendez-vous, neither can the 8000 Swisses
expected come before the end of the month. |
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| "The Italian forces that are to go to the Low Countries
are in the Franche Comte, and shall succour, as is said, the
Duke of Lorraine. |
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| "There was a mutiny, 24 of August in Paris about the curate
of St. Severin, whom the King commanded to be apprehended
for using some large speeches in his preaching; but the people
rose and rescued him, and hurt divers. |
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| "The news, 25 August, that the King of Navarre hath defeated
M. Joyeuse's company and taken Mailly, his ensign, M. Villeroye's son and all the gentlemen prisoners, with all his equipage and baggage." |
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| 27 August. "The King is advertized that the King of Navarre
hath shut up La Vardin in La Haye in Tourraine and besiegeth
him, the place being but bad to hold. M. Joyeuse is to depart
with succour of 6000 Swisses and six companies of men at arms.
The King of Navarre is said to have with him 1100 good horse
and 4000 footmen; and that the Prince de Conde and Vicomte de
Turenne are joined with him. |
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| "They are in great alarm of M. Montpensier, who they doubt
will declare himself for the King of Navarre, as also the Prince
de Conty and Count de Soissons, which are all sent for to come
to the King with their forces that they levy in his name. |
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| "It is secretly affirmed that Ossonville is defeated in Lorraine,
and M. de la Chastre repulsed to the gates of Nancy, attempting
an exploit against the Reistres." |
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| Endd. "25 August, [perhaps date of receipt] 1587." French.
2 pp. [News-letters IX. 33.] |
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| Aug. 18. | Buzanval to Burghley. |
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| I have heard of your lordship's good offices on behalf of the
army of Germany, and thank you humbly for them. We must
have patience in our misery, that the princes who are so near
to her may have no grievance. I know that the Queen is only
bound to do what she wishes, as the King of Navarre is
to do what he can. There have been great tumults at the
place of muster, for lack of the promised month's pay. The uproar was appeased on condition that the army should remain on
the frontiers until the King of Navarre found means to give
them the month's money within the given term; which being
elapsed they might return into Germany. |
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| M de Bouillon is threatened that as soon as peace or a truce
is granted to the Low Countries, Sedan and Jametz (Jamays)
will be besieged. It is what the King of Spain desires above all,
because of the Meuse, and what the Prince of Parma has treated
with M. de Guise. So much for public affairs. |
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| This exiled French merchant withdrew a part of his property
in reals, which he sent to Rye for the lading of the English
ships which he had hired; and was astonished that he had
slighted the laws of the realm. He asks not for justice but
for mercy, and has prayed me to intercede with you for him,
that he may obtain your favour, and a hearing.—London, 18
August, 1587. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. Fr. 1 p. [France XVII. 110.] |
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| Aug. 18. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| Praying that this letter may "be made a packet" (fn. 7) to the
bearer, being one whom he loves well, and who wishes to go
over on some occasion of importance. Also that he may be
sent back with the first letters.—Paris, 18 August, 1587. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. ½ p. [France XVII. 111.] |
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| Aug. 18/28. | Memorial of the French ambassador for restitution or satisfaction for the ships and goods of certain French subjects,
viz:— |
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| That the goods of the Sieur de Bretigny and Michel du Boys,
merchants of Rouen, worth 12000 ecus sol, stayed in Guernsey in
March last by the governor and sold in Lyme, Poole, [South]
Hampton, Bristol, Ipswich etc. may be restored or their value
paid; as has been agreed between the Lords of Her Majesty's
Council and the said ambassador; and in regard also of the liberties and privileges of the isles of Jersey and Guernsey; and the
rather as Pierre Savart, factor of the said merchants, had commission and letters of assistance from the said lords, (fn. 8) yet has
been able to get no satisfaction. |
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| That order may be given that Nicolas Vincent of Havre de
Grace, master of a ship captured and taken into the Isle of
Wight may have satisfaction. |
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| The like request for Martissan de Gastellussart of St. Jean de
Luz, whose ship, coming from Newfoundland laden with fish
was captured in August, 1586 by Capt. Remond and taken into
Weymouth, where the fish was sold. |
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| The ambassador also prays her Majesty to forbid her subjects
to take any commission from the King of Navarre against the
subjects of the French King; and to have those punished who
by virtue of such commission should seize any of the said subjects and take them into ports of her realm.—London, 28
August, 1587. |
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| Signed, Endd. Fr. 1¾ pp. [France XVII. 112.] |
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| Aug. 18/28. | Letter from the Huguenot Camp. |
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| I know well that you will be imbued with belief in a great
defeat which they announce they have given to these poor people
here. (fn. 9) If they shall have no greater occasion to praise themselves than this, they have not much to rejoice about, for except
one ill defended cornet, which 500 of their horse, led by the
Sieur de la Chastre, Rontigonti, Rone (fn. 10) and the young Ossonville
[Haussonville], [attacked?], none of ours were killed save three
lackeys; for the alarm was presently given to the whole army,
which took horse, and killed, as is known, more than six hundred, and chased them up to the gates of Nancy. An espial
come from Nancy assures us that 'Rone' has not returned, and
is believed to be dead. The cornets of 'Rottigontti' and Ossonville are left in our hands, and there was thought of sending
them to the King, as rebels and disturbers of the peace, but
it was believed this would irritate him, and that he would think
he was being mocked, so it is resolved to send them to Duke
Casimir or to Strasburg. |
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| Count 'Dono' [Dohna], sent hither by Duke Casimir as his
lieutenant-general, and from whom much is hoped, arrived six
days ago [Margin, by Burghley 22 Aug.] and seems to be an
honest man, for a German. He assures us he has orders from
Duke Casimir to employ all his credit with these people to do
whatever we wish. |
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| He also assures us, on behalf of the Duke, that if this army
does not bring about the desired result, he [Casimir] will come
himself with a second; but if this one does nothing, in my
opinion the other would be long in coming, and not much to be
hoped from it. He professes that it is for this object that he
remains there, and also to prevent the coming of the levy for
the King and the others; to which forces, he assures us, all the
princes have determined to refuse and hinder passage through
their country. But we know well that it is for his own private
interest and anxiety for his domestic affairs, in regard to his
nephew. All the benefit to be hoped for from him is that he
really will hinder the levies made against us. So far as we
can see, we have great cause to be satisfied with Count 'Dono',
whom he has sent us, and to hope that he will be a good
comrade. |
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| All here are very resolute, especially the Swiss, from whom
we can ask nothing that they do not do more willingly than we
demand it, and give courage to all the rest. All they ask is
bread and not to go quite naked. The others [the reiters] do
not yet speak of demanding anything, as nothing is promised
them until the King of Navarre joins us; then one fears that
according to their custom they will expect the promises made to
them to be kept. |
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| Since this last enterprise, the Duke of Lorraine seeing that
they are resolved to ruin his country, we hear that very sharp
words have passed between him and the Duke of Guise, the Duke
of Lorraine holding him and his ambition to be the cause of
the ruin of himself and his country, and having even sent here
to ask some of ours to go to him and offering an agreement
as to money and passage. Courcelles and Sarazin (fn. 11) have been
sent, but some fear that they will think more of their own private
profit than of the general cause, and there have been many
discussions as to sending others, but in the end the majority
carried it for them. |
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| Some think that although the King of Navarre has expressly
commanded us to halt here, to spoil it and show that it is
against this house [of Lorraine, i.e. the Guises] that enmity
chiefly exists, he may yet content himself with drawing our means
from hence, whereby, if the men we are sending to the Duke
look to the public good and are not corrupted, we may gain what
will be more profitable than the ruin of the country. |
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| You shall have frequent news from me by the addresses you
have given me, and will not find your liberality ill-employed.
If any agreement be made with this Duke, and we turn our
faces towards Burgundy, the addresses you have given me will
not serve; but I shall find some means of sending to you, and
you may trust what I tell you. |
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| The little journey taken by M. de la Noue, who returned more
than a week before I arrived, did great good, and soothed
down many things which were in ill odour from partialities
and ambitions; but now all is reconciled, and whatever may be
in their hearts, nothing appears outwardly save union for the
public good. |
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| The strangers greatly desired M. de Noue to remain with them,
and engaged to be as obedient to him as to the greatest prince
of Germany. I wish to God he could have done it, but it was
not possible, as you know. M. de Bouillon is the most honourable and well-affectioned gentleman in all the world, and the
Germans have now a great affection for him.—Blamont, 28
August, 1587, stil neuf. |
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| Copy by Stafford. Without signature or address. Fr. 2 pp.
[France XVII. 113.] |
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| [No doubt the letter referred to in Stafford's of the 31st.] |
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| Aug. 19. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| This post, John le Roy, going away with the ordinary letters,
I can without expence send you the news which came last night
from Rome. |
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| The Pope, against expectation, and also against his last year's
bull, that Cardinals should be made but once a year and that
in Advent, "upon a sudden, being in the consistory . . . fell a
praising of Dr. Allen, and sent for him without declaring what
he would do; and as soon as he came, making much of him,
took off his minever cap and put it upon his head and said he
thought it would become him well; and bid all the rest of the
cardinals to salute him as their brother. And the next Tuesday
after, with the accustomed solemnities, gave him the hat, which
being done, the next day all ambassadors and cardinals came
with much applausion to visit him and congratulate with him. |
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| "I saw letters come from Rome from a very private body in that
court, that the chiefest cause was to gain to his sister, some say
four hundred but they that say least say amost two hundred
thousand crowns of wagers that she had made by interposed
persons to be laid of his head, whom nobody would take any
thing hand [sic] at the next creation of cardinals. |
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| "This may be, and like enough, considering his covetous humour,
to be part[ly] a cause, but there is further matter in it, for as
soon as ever he was created, there was a post presently sent
into Spain with great speed, and the Spanish ambassador in his
master's name at his congratulation assured [him] that besides
the abbey that he gave him the last year in Naples, he would
give him further, towards the maintenance of his port, a hun
dred and fifty thousand crowns a month; and the Pope thereupon hath assigned him Cardinal Cajetan's palace to dwell in. |
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| "At this, with his ordinary, which came away within two
days after he had received his hat, he hath not failed to write
of his honour bestowed upon him, which he prayeth to God
may be for the good and advancement of his poor afflicted
country, [and] hath written to my lord of Westmorland, which
he had not done these two years, to desire that he may hear
from him at all opportunities, and to remember with himself
what a member of his country he is; and hath written divers
others to that effect here, of the which I have seen some, and
I can assure you the others contain the like. He hath not
written, as I hear, neither to my lord Paget nor Morgan, and I
know that they be greatly angry of his sudden cardinalship,
and great[ly] offended that Dr. Lewys was not made, who was
their patron, which I think be the chief cause of grief, for else,
what private grudges soever there be, Pilate and the high
priests will agree well enough to crucify Jesus Christ. |
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| "Considering what may be conjectured of the meaning of the
other, the contrariety of this which followeth is able to make
any man to stand at a gaze of the disposition of the Pope,
for whereas he had oftentimes found fault with the King of
Spain's book set out of the pragmatic of titles, and had commanded that they should not be used; being in a great choler
in the consistory, sent for the Spanish ambassador; rated him
marvellously for the matter, sware that if he heard any more
of it, he would do otherwise than he had done with St. Goard,
would commit him to prison, and said he should not do so
much wrong to the liberty of an ambassador in doing of it, as
he should do his own authority wrong in not doing it; that
he would presently excommunicate his master for attributing
unto himself, in his pragmatic, of [torn] simply which was
due but to God only; and 'razed' in such a choler and with
such assurance that he would do it, protesting that the King
of Spain was no more a Catholic than a dog but for ambition,
that all the Cardinals affected to Spain were fain to come to
him to entreat him, and could get no other at his hand but
that he would defer it till such time as a present dispatch were
made to have present answer again; that as he had openly
published it, so he would openly call it back and that in the
mean time, the book should be called eroneous and heretical,
and in the same censure as the books of Luther and Calvin;
and they that kept any of them to be in the same predicament.
I am sorry that they did not write whether this were in the
forenoon or in the afternoon; that we might the better have
judged thereby what might be thought of [his] humour at that
time. |
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| "A third thing worth the laughing at: a great officer of this
crown, coming to see me yesternight, showed me, in a letter
written to him from the ambassador at Rome, that the Pope
being pressed to lend some money of his great store he had,
he answered that he would touch nothing till he had made it up
three millions, and then, and not afore, he would declare what
he would do with it; and thereupon some other speeches growing
of a very fair sepulchre that he hath made in a very fair
chapel, (fn. 12) it was told him that it was a very meritorious thing for
him to seek with those means that [he] had gathered together
and help of other princes to gather together and to join for
the winning again of the true sepulchre. Whereunto he answered that there were a great many princes richer than he;
if they would do the like as he doth, it was a thing might be
thought on, but when he had done, he did not know anybody at
this time in christendom fit to enterprise it; for the King of
Spain was ever shut up in the 'Scuriall,' had no more care
for the Catholic religion than a dog but for his ambition; a
coward that suffered his nose to be held in the Low Countries
by a woman, br[av]ed and spoiled at his own nose in Spain
by a mariner. The King of France, he took as much pleasure
of a king to become a monk, as he of a monk had sought to
become a prince; that Frenchmen were at all times known to
have heads to take any enterprise in hand, but not brain enough
to continue and go through with it. That there was no prince
in the world showed any courage but one woman, for whom
he would give all [the] treasure he had gathered together that she
would become a Catholic; he would make more account of her
than of all the rest. Thus his Holiness taketh his pleasure of
everybody and spareth nobody, specially in the afternoon. |
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| "The reiters are arrived in Lorraine, and Ossenville, (fn. 13) that
was set in 'Falsbourg' to keep the passage, hath given it over,
and they seized of it, and come forward as far as Blamont.
Their stay all this while, as I saw written, was for the Duke
Cazimyr, who hath sent word he cannot come, and the whole
conduction by him sent to M. de Bouillon. I pray God that that
be not the cause of no such effect as was looked for."—Paris,
19 August, 1587. |
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| Postscript. "Since the writing of this, it hath been told me
that [the] Pope will have Allen called Cardinal d'Ingleterre
but I believe it not; for I have seen his 'signe,' only Cardinal
Allen." |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. Also, in 17th century hand: "The
ceremony of making of Cardinals. Pope of Rome threatens to
excommunicate the King of Spain and to deprive an ambassador
of his privileges because of a pragmatique set forth in Spain
touching titles." 3½ pp. [France XVII. 114.] |
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| Aug. 22. | The Queen to the Senate of Hamburg. |
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| Has of late by her letters pleaded diligently the cause of the
Merchant Adventurers of her realm for the restitution to them
of the privileges formerly enjoyed in the city of Hamburg,
and has granted to those of the said city and other Hanse
towns certain privileges in return, also of old enjoyed by them;
but desires them to understand that the restitution to them of
the said privileges is entirely conditional, and revocable if they
on their parts do not show such favour to the Merchants Advenventurers as is required.—Otelands, 22 August, 1587. |
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| Copy. Endd. by Laurence Tomson. Latin. ¾ p. [Hamburg
and Hanse Towns II. 67.] |
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| Aug. 24. | Buzanval to Walsingham. |
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| On returning from M. 'Palvezin's' country house I find a
packet of letters from Paris at my lodging; a part of the
negotiation of Mr. Geoffrey's (fn. 14) nephew, which, in my opinion, will
not have been useless. I have some letters for her Majesty and
several particulars to communicate to her, but I should like to
speak with you first. I send my servant to you to learn if I
can have audience on Saturday. I hope to tell you some fine
mysteries. I should like to know where I could lodge near the
court, if I cannot get through my business in a day.—London,
24 August, 1587. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. Fr. ¾ p. Seal of arms. [France
XVII. 115.] |
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| Aug. 31. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| I pray you not to let the King of Navarre's agent [Buzanval]
know that I have sent you a letter from one that I have with
them in the camp; (fn. 15) "for he is an honest gentleman, and one
that I love well; but there is never a one of them all but
that is contented that either I or you or anybody else shall know
but what pleaseth them," and if they know I have anyone there,
they will hunt him out and perhaps 'pourchase' (fn. 16) him. |
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| "They must be helped, the cause is common, and for some
peevish, fine humours in the ministers the masters must not
fare the worse, that be sometimes as finely dealt withal by
them as other men. I speak it not without cause, for Marsilier,
the King of Navarre's secretary, was here and is gone from hence
but within these two days, and lay here out of the town and
sent to desire to speak with me under a hedge as a particular
favour; that he would be seen of nobody, that he was here but
for special business of his own by the means of a brother of
his that is but 'newe' dead; that he saw nobody, but was fain
to return, only was desirous to see me to desire me to favour his
master's cause, now in need and at a pinch. Whereupon I writ
that letter that I sent to you by M. la Fontaine's son (fn. 17) about
the King of Navarre's affairs. . . My good will deserved plainer
dealing, for I know he spake with Villeroy at his father's garden,
where the orange trees were, and with the King at the Chancellor's [Chiverny's] garden at la Rochette, where he was secretly
above two hours with him. What he did with him I cannot
yet know perfectly, but it may be I shall; but I hear no great
matter, for he went about to sound the King to make him to
speak, as I hear, and the King went as cunningly about with
him to make him to speak, so that [as] I can as yet hear,
there was no great matter done, but that I think he hath assured the King that he shall find the King of Navarre tract[able]
and the King hath assured him that if he will offer reason,
he will not further his undoers and enemies." |
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| I pray you keep this to yourself, for I would have nobody
hurt by me. |
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| "They give out here terrible speeches of the Earl of Leicester
of Shinkes' sudden death. (fn. 18) I never saw man so hated in my
life. I am sorry to hear it, both because he is a public person,
and besides, he hath promised to be my good lord and friend
at his going away, and I am very glad of it. Trust me, I
never saw the like of it."—Paris, last of August, 1587 |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. 2 pp. [France XVII. 116.] |
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