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ITBLLSHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MA J ES I v's TREASURY, UKDER TKE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. I LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER. 1866. Price 2s, 6d, ', .'■ ''"/^ iv: CONTENTS. REPORT --------- APPENDIX A. List of Documents relative to the Divorce of Henry VIII. - B. List of Letters relating to Cardinal Pole - - - - C. Translations of some Letters relating to Cardinal Pole D. Mr. Bergenroth's Communication on Documents relating to Cardinal Pole among the Simancas Archives - - - E. Papers relating to the Earl of Nottingham's Embassy F. Papers relating to the Countess of Arundel . . - G. Extracts from Letters relating to English Naval and Military Celebrities ._.---- H. List of Letters relating to James Stuart - - - - I. Will of James Stuart ------ J. Selections from the Correspondence of Giacomo Querini Page 3 42 42 44 50 69 71 76 84 86 87 90 \ ) To the Right Honourable Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, &c. &c. &c. ^2 Public Record Office, ^^^' ^ 30th November I860, u T -*-,^^?y^NT to your directions, and with the approbation of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, I visited Venice in tlie month of September last. My instructions were to make a report to you, for the information of their Lordships, relative to the documents contained in the Archives and Public Libraries of Venice, illustrating the history of this country. 1. My first object was to ascertain what progress Mr. Rawdon Jirown had made in his Calendar of Venetian Papers. His first volume, bringing the work down to 1509, was published in Sep- tember 1864. Smce that time, he has prepared the Calendar lor press down to 31st December 1522, extending to about 1 150 pa-es. Ihe manuscript is in the hands of the printer, and 208 pa^'o-es have been printed off. ^ ° 2. Mr. Brown was very desirous, not only for his own satisf ic- tion, but also for your Honour's, that I should compare his published volume with the originals in the Venetian Archives. I was induced, at his urgent solicitation, to examine a portion of it I found upon examining the originals that his abstracts had been made with great care and accuracy, and, so far as I could discover every point of importance in each document had been noticed in the fewest words possible. In justice to Mr. Brown, I ou^ht to state that his Calendar gives but a f^iint idea of tlie extent of the work he has performed. In making his selections, he was com- pelled to wade through volume after volume, and document after document, page by page in closely cramped handwritino^ in a foreign language, with no marginal or other indications to^'o-uide him as to the contents of the papers ; and, to extract the informa- tion required, he had to examine not merely the series relating to Lngland, but also those which referred to France and Germany. . ^- To show the interest which literary men in England take in JMr. Brown's labours, I may mention that immediately on the appearance of his Venetian Calendar, several men distincruished in the world of letters wrote to him for information relative^'to the ditterent periods of history upon which they are severally engaged. V\ ith his usual ready kindness, Mr. Brown liberally gave them most valuable information, as he considered that by so doing he was carrying out the object of the Master of the Rolls and the trovernment, by facilitating the researches of English students. 13951. ^ 2 / 96546 I 1 I These frequent applications occupy much time and add to the official labour, the amount of which can only be appreciated by seeing the numerous documents and collections preserved at Venice. Moreover, considerable expense is incurred by Mr. Brown in paying for transcripts. 4. As in the preface* to the first volume of his Venetian Calendar, Mr. Brown has given a very detailed account of all the Archives and Collections at Venice, it will be unnecessary for me to travel again over the same ground. I shall therefore confine my remarks to the National Archives in the Frari, the Marcian Library, and Correr Museum; which depositories I myself examined as carefully as 1 could during the limited period 1 remained in Venice. 5. The ex-convent of the Franciscans, commonly called the "Frari," was established as the National Archive, by an Imperial Decree, in the year 1817. It is impossible to go over this establishment without being amazed, not only at its extent, but at the extraordinary order and neatness which prevail throughout the 300 rooms appropriated to the National Archives. Several of these rooms are of great extent, and very lofty. The smallest is much larger than a goocl- sized chamber in England. The documents are placed on shelves rising from the floor to the ceiling, occupying nearly 18,000 feet in clear run. In many of the rooms, the papers are arranged in double rows, and in each room there is a catalogue of the papers in the bundles, so that any particular document can be instantly produced. No general catalogue of the whole Archives, however, has been compiled. I had an opportunity of testing the facility of the access afforded to applicants, and I was surprised at the rapidity with which several papers deposited in distant parts of the building were produced by Signor Luigi Pasini, a most zealous and efficient officer. This establishment is under the control of Count Girolamo Dandolo, the Director-general of the Archives of the Signory, who in the most obliging and courteous manner not only gave me per- mission to inspect the whole of the immense establishment, but afforded me every facility for accomplishing my purpose. 6. The documents deposited in the " Frari " are as multifarious in their nature as are those in our own Public Record Office. They are divided into four classes : — political, judicial, commercial, and territorial; each of these is again divided and sub-divided into heads and sections. It is not, however, my intention to notice any of the papers, except such as have reference to this country. 7. Among the Archives of the Council of Ten (a portion of the political compartment) occurs an interesting series of letters written in the English language, being a part of the correspondence h n * Nothing can better show how highly the Venetians appreciate ^fr. Brown's labours than the fact that his preface has been translated into Italian, and published at their expense in the new collection of historical works (Nuova CoUezione di Opere Storiche). ^ of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, who died in the year 1556.1 As Mr. Brown has called attention to this fact in his preface, and will calendar the documents in question in their proper places, it is needless here to do more than allude to their existence ; and I do so merely to show the absolute necessity of searching through all the various series of documents, although apparently they have no reference to England. / 8. Another Important class in the *^ political" division is the ' Ducal Chancery, in which the Public State Papers are preserved. / These of course will form a very important feature in Mr. Brown's / Calendar. He divides them under six heads, viz. : — ' I. The instructions or commissions given to the ambassador on his departure. II. The despatches written by the State. III. News-letters which accompanied the despatches, having been compiled in the Ducal Chancery, for the information of Foreign Powers. These news-letters were styled advices, ^^avvisi," and although they no longer exist in the Archives, a collection of them, commencing with the year 1510, may be seen at Vienna. IV. The despatches written by the diplomatic agents during their missions. V. Advices transmitted by the ambassadors from Foreign Courts. VI. The " report " which the ambassador read to the College and Senate on his return. 9. It is unnecessary, however, to go into details respecting each of these classes, but the value of such documents for the elucida- tion of history, both general and particular, cannot be questioned. I may say there is scarcely a subject upon which these papers do not throw some interesting light ; be it in relation to literature, arts, manufactures, manners, or customs. I will take a few sub- jects indiscriminately to show their diversified nature. One would scarcely expect to find entries relating to the drama ; such as the followinGT instance relatins; to Arabella Stuart: — On the 18th February, in the year 1610, the Venetian am- Imssadors Francesco Contarini and Marc Antonio Correr wrote from London to the Signory thus : — " The Lady Arabella quits her apartments but seldom, and is more dispirited than ever. She has complained that the public players have introduced a certain parody of her person, and of the negotiation carried on with the Moldavian prince, in a comedy, which has, however, been prohibited. Her Excellency remains very much dissatisfied, and seems determined to seek the punishment of certain individuals (whose names are unknown) " at the next meeting of Parliament." 10. Another instance is scarcely less curious: — On the 10th January 1620, the ambassador Lando writes from London, — *^ I do not think fit to omit mentioning to your Serenity, (( (C (t (6 {( (( ' -* > 6 cc a i( €6 6( it H a €t by reason of the mystery which envelopes it, the following cir- cumstances :— On the day before yesterday the Prince's plajers, in the presence of the King his father, represented in a coma^y " a subject thus :— A king, the father of two sons, causes the dea<|h of one of them by poison, on the sole susi)icion that this soVi meant to deprive him of his crown, which is afterwards taken^ from him by the other son. This disturbed and agitated the King greatly, both internally and externally, though in this country the players have such absolute liberty to say whatever they please against any person soever, that the demonstration " ao-ainst them will limit itself to what the King said to them by " word of mouth."* 11. Other notices in the Venetian Despatches throw light upon Othello, or rather as to the person whom Shakespeare intended to represent under that character ; but the subject is too long to be introduced into this report, and Mr. Rawdon Brown may feel dis- posed to publish the documents himself 12. I will adduce one more instance which gives the earliest recognized date for the performance of John Webster's celebrated tragedy, entitled the " Duchess of Mulfy." Mr. Dyce remarks that its'^first representation certainly took place before the death of Burbadge (March 1619), and Mr. .7. Payne Collier says:—" The '' only certain point at which we can arrive is, that the ' Duchess ' of Malfi' was originally acted before the death of Burhadge in March 1G19, because he had the part of Ferdinand in it, which in 1623 was in the hands of Joseph Taylor." From the Venetian documents we learn that " The Duchess of Malfi " had certainly been performed in London before the th of February 1618 (N.S.). The ambassador's chaplain writes on that day, "the English <* deride our religion as detestable and superstitious, and never " represent any theatrical [uece, not even a satirical tragi-comedy, " unless larded with the vices and iniquities of some Catholic " churchman, which move them to much laughter and mockery, " to their own satisfaction, and to the regret of the pious spec- " tator. As an instance, I may mention that on one occasion my colleagues of the embassy witnessed the performance of a play in which a Franciscan friar figured. He was represented as astute and replete with impiety of various shades, including «^ avarice and lust; and then the whole was made to end in a tragedy, for they beheaded him on the stage. " Another time the players represented the pomp of a cardinal in his identical robes of state, very handsome and costly, and ac- companied by his retinue ; with an altar raised on the stage where ce (( a (C (C 61 ti cc (t * It could not have been from the pen of Ben Jonson, as he was at that time in Scotland, as appears by a letter to him from Drummond, of Hawthornden (published by Gifford, Ben Jouson's Works, vii. 352). Drummond writes, ♦' I have heard from *' Court that the late mask was not so approved of by the king as in former times. " and that your absence was regretted." This paragraph confirms the information given by the Venetian ambassador to the Doge, .%■ V 4C 4C •^.^^ '^' position with that of Rye, alias Camber before Rye. 1 his is Its earliest delineation on any chart, but Portus Camera is inscribed on the registers of the Venetian Senate as early as the 2nd January 1397. The last Venetian record of Portus Camera iVu c r'''''^ '" "" ^^*^^'' ""^ Guistinian, No. 205, dated Lambeth, 19th ot January 1519 ; the paragraph was omitted in the edition of his letters of 1854, together with many other letters which will be noticed in the forthcoming volumes of the Venetian calendar.^ 21. The following report of Giovanni Michiel, the Venetian Ambassador at Paris, dated 22nd May 1558, to his government, although It only indirectly concerns England, is not unworthy of notice, as it relates to the origin of the Huguenots :— " The Duke of Guise departed on the 19th. " The English fleet has again appeared in front of Dieppe, and continues cruising off the coast, but has not yet attempted any landing, or done any notable damage. "Here, during the present week, a thing occurred, which besides appearing a grievous scandal to those who witnessed it * Mention is made of these letters in Preface to the Venetian Calendar, p Ixxxyii t See Preface to the Venetian Calendar, p. Ixxii ^' '^'^^^"• t There is a notice of Bianco's Portolano at p. Ixxii. of the Venetian Calendar Concermng Bianco's chart I should add, that Mr. S. R. Gardiner hw co^^t^ the conjectural translation of some of its names thus :— "**""«*^r nas corrected Godiman Copasen Cao de Lin Santarelmia Clanmenron Auhre The Dodraan. Topsham. Cob of Ljrme. St. Alban's. or St Adhelm's Head. Lymington. Ilamble. \ 11 displayed in like manner extreme audacity on the part of its doers. ** In the meadows beyond the Faubourg St. Germain,* which belong to the Students, whither at this season persons resort after supper for air and exercise, there assembled publicly a concourse of some three to four thousand individuals (though others estimate the amount at from six to seven thousand) of every grade and condition, men and women, old and young, boys and girls, noble- men, plebeians, and artificers, — who marched processionally in dense battalions, singing aloud, in the French tongue, a sort of psalmody, the precise counterpart of that which is chanted in the churches of Geneva, and other Lutheran Conventicles, adding at the close of each psalm an invective or ballad against the Pope.f For their defence in case of need against the populace and the police not only had they a considerable force in the distance armed with pistols and other concealed weapons, but likewise several companies of cavalry, the greater part noblemen and adherents of great personages, in number 15 or 20 to each com- pany, and who covered the van, flank, and rear of the psalmodists, escorting them on their march through the meadows. When it was dark they returned into the city, proceeding in this array, still singing, the whole length of the llue St. Jacques ; nor on the first night did many persons witness this display, but for the second performance there was an immense crowd of spectators, including even persons of high rank ; and although on the third day, to prevent this tumult, the authorities issued a proclamation prohibiting its repetition, the psalmodists nevertheless went forth at the usual hour, continuing their chants, and in much greater number. Orders having been given to close the city gates at sunset, the whole com[)any passed the night in the houses of the suburb or strolling through the meadows, re-entering Paris on the following morning. In number upwards of 10,000 ; nor did this deter them from going forth every successive evening in yet greater force with the same escort, but merely singing the psalms, and omitting the invective against the Pope. An account of this having been sent to the Court, the Cardinal of Sens, the Spiritual Primate of France, was ordered back immediately to investigate the matter, and to stop so scandalous a proceeding ; but he will have much to do, the mischief having spread bo far, and taken such deep root amongst the chief personages of the kingdom. " The King gave orders for the prosecution of the ringleaders ; but as amongst them were Antoine, King of Navarre, and his wife, it was not continued, though similar demonstrations were prohibited for the future, under pain of capital punishment." In date of Paris, 18th July 1559, Michiel alludes to the Protestants in Scotland ; and his successor, Suriano, uses the term •** Hughenotti " for the first time in date of Paris, 17th February ♦ These meadows were then called " Le Pre aux Clercs." f A paraphrase of the Psalms of David by Clement Marot. / 12 13 ( 1561, when informing the State that the preachers there had been lorbidden " di predicare contra Lutheran! et Hushenotti." 22. Acting on the conviction that the student of English history must not confine his researches to the papers expressly relating to this country, I thought it necessary to inspect some of the despatches from the Venetian ambassadors accredited to the various European Courts,, and I found, as I expected, in many of them materials relating to England too important to be passed over. Among them I may mention the letters of Priuli, the Venetian ambassador in Spain. They are remarkably graphic and inte- resting. I may take as an example the first that came to hand. It relates to the special embassy sent by James I. to Philip III., for the purpose of receiving " his oath for observance of the peace," agreed upon between the two kingdoms. Charles Howard, Earl of !N"ottingham, Lord High Admiral of England, was the ambas- sador chosen. In the Appendix (E.), I have given several papers relating to the Earl of Nottingham's Embassy, which appear to me to be very interesting. These despatches are important to literary history, as they have enabled Mr. Eawdon Brown to support the very ingenious theory that Don Quixote is a political satire, devised by Cervantes in condemnation of the policy of the Duke of Lerma, Prime Minister of Spain from September 1598 to October 1618. 23. On the death of Philip II., his son and successor, Philip III., dismissed the practical statesmen employed by his father, and replaced them by the Duke of Lerma and his adherents, whose policy was considered by Cervantes a revival of knight-errantry. Mr. Brown has constructed a key to the characters in Don Quixote, with which the humour of Don Quixote will be better appreciated, and much of the tale which appears unintelligible will be better un- derstood. That Don Quixote was intended as a political satire ihere can be but little doubt. Samuel Butler evidently considered it as such by his frequent allusions in Hudibras. Fifty years after the death of Cervantes, Louis Morcri informed the public that the great Spanish moralist took his revenge on Francisco de Sandoval (Duke of Lerma) for some insult, by lampooning him in Don Quixote. Rapin, who died in 1682, confirmed the assertion of Moreri with regard to the identity of Don Quixote and the Duke of Lerma, on the authority of Dom Lope, to whom the fact had been announced by Cervantes himself. Dom Lope imparted it to an anonymous individual, the friend of Eapin, through whom the circumstance got into print, and this assertion was corroborated in 1734. In that year the Abbe Lenglet du Iresnoy, under the pseudonyme of Gordon de Percel, published his work on the application of romances (De Pusage des Romans), in which he remarks, that although d'Aubigne escaped chastisement from the Duke of Epernon for having lampooned him in the novel entitled '• Baron de Feneste,'' yet was this good fortune solely attributable to his zeal for the service of Louis XIII., whereas in Spain, Miguel de Cervantes, who had done the same thing, did not execute it with f ,( impunity. His romance of Don Quixote, in which he represents a nobleman of the court extravagantly partial to the chivalry of old, obtained for him the reward which men of address and resolution bestow on satirists. The correction rendered Cervantes discreet, but it damaged his work. The second part, which did not make its appearance until after the practical hints, is very far from being so good as the first. Daniel de Foe called it an» emblematic history of, and a just satire upon, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, a person very remark- able at that time in Spain, 24. In St. Mark's Library I inspected several original ^'' letter books " of Venetian ambassadors which have the following advan- tages over the '^ files " of original despatches preserved in the Archives. 1st. The letter books contain no cipher, being meant exclusively for the ambassador's own use ; 2nd, they comprise the despatches addressed to the chiefs of the Ten, and to the Inquisitors of State, which despatches do not exist in the original files at the Archives. For instance, amongst the papers of the " Inquisitors of State" at the Archives, is one endorsed 1st of December 1617. " Received the 27th. England; Ambassador, Contarini. Dis- " course of a leading member of the Council concerning the '^ Ambassador Wotton, at Venice." Tiie contents of the letter are in cipher without any key, but in the Contarini letter hook its substance is legible thus : — "AVhcn conferrinoc with one of the most influential members of the Privy Council,* he requested me in great confidence to tell him how the ambassador served the Republic ; whether the Signory w^as satisfied with his conduct, or suspected him of being dependent on the Spaniards, as it was known in London that he held secret and nocturnal interviews with the Spanish ambassador at Venice, and also, that when, owing to the current events, his presence and assistance there were most needed to prove to every one the good understanding between the Republic and the English Crown, he on the contrary had absented himself from the city, ** I replied that I was unacquainted with these particulars, nor did I know what to say about them ; that as he was their minister it was their business to weigh his actions. ** This privy councillor added that not merely were the interests of the King concerned, but likewise those of the Republic, who fancying that she had a friendly minister in her bosom, might possibly endanger the public service, urging me for the good of my country to say freely what I knew on the subject. '^ I, however, merely repeated what is aforesaid without any addition, and he then inquired of me what answer I should make if the King catechized me hereon, and requested me to discuss the matter with him freelv ; to this I made answer that I could tell the King no more than I had told him (Secretary Lake). * Sir Thomas Lake. il v; v 14 (( I have chosen to give respectful account to your Excellencies of all these details, in order that, should his Majesty broach the topic to me, I may be able to answer him in conformity with such instructions as you may be pleased to give me, and I avail myself of this opportunity for paying my most humble respects to your Excellencies." 25. The history of the life and death of Antonio Foscarini, an illustrious senator of Venice, who had filled the office of ambassador to the Court of France, and who was intimately known to our King James the First, is of the most romantic character. He was denounced to the Inquisitors of State by two professed spies of mean condition, and put to death on the 21st of April 1622, under the folio w^ing sentence: '* We will that to- " morrow morning before day-break, in the very dunfjjeon where '' he now is the deathsman do strangle him so that he die, and *^ when dead the said deathsman do hang him up by one leg on a " lofty gallows between the twa columns of St. Mark, and that '' he be left thus for a whole day." I should not have alluded to this event except for the interesting episode connected with it relating to the celebrated Alethea Talbot, Countess of Arundel, wife of Thomas Howard. As I have given the documents at tull length in the Appendix (F.), I shall merely offer a few words on the subject. In the evening after the execution of Foscarini, the Countess of Arundel left her villa on the Brentna, and was travelling towards the Lagoons to reach the ]Mocenigo Palace at Venice. On the road between Dolo and Fusina the carriage was stopped by a horseman who announced himself as John Dyneley, secretary of Sir Henry Wotton, the English ambassador to the Signory. He informed her that he had been dispatched by the ambassador to deliver a message to her in private. The Countess declined to receive any private communication, and requested Mr. Dyneley to deliver his message publicly before her suite. The secretary complied, and informed her Ladyship " that on fitting accounts " both public and private, the English ambassador had sent his secretary to inform her Ladyship that he had heard from good authority, and that it was very generally reported in Venice concerning the unhappy fate of Foscarini, that his sentence had been partly grounded on the frequent conferences held by him with certain public ministers in the house of the Countess " on the Grand Canal ; that according to credible intelligence received on that very morning the ambassador understood that the Eepublic intended assigning a fixed period to the Countess, within which she was to quit the Venetian territories ; that in consequence of this, to avoid the aflfront of such an inti- mation, as also the peril w^hich threatened some of her atten- dants,, it was the respectful opinion of the ambassador that she " would do well to remain abroad at her villa without coming to " Venice, until such time as she should receive further intelligence " from him." a (( ted him frU commiUi g trbto'w to ;rre;s.''" *'^ '^'^^^^ "^ "-'-''^^ ^^-"^ -' »"- inl^'b/??T- u** «•'« ««n«Pl'-acy itself, and to the share taken Nicolo M 1^^ ^'^ : '■'' ,T""'''"" ambassadors, Piero Duodo and December !'- '" ' ™'°"'' ^'°"' ^""'^^"''^ °° *»>« 1^^* of .u" ^'""f '■"'''g f'e eleven conspirators, six have been already con- demned to death, and one acquitted, owing to the strong proof of t rs'TtbT^J ^^' T ''•! ^V'^^P*'^''^'' "^^* ^^««k; thoi^ mL- bere of tl e Pnvy Council who came hither to the Court for our audience having returned to Winchester for that purpose. tLnf/i'"" • '^'^'r"*^"'" of 'f'e crimes of the aforesaid, it transpired Arabella [Stuart] Queen, and that having demanded 600,000 ducats from the Archduke Albert's ambassador to be divided amongs them, he promised them 300,000 ready money ; and that ihl7^f "a"' u"?,"' ''^/''^ P'°^' ^='''°" ^obham, wrote a letter to the Lady Arabella, so long back as last August, requirlnc. her to write a etter to the King of Spain, binding he«elf t^o grant liberty of conscience to this kingdom, to make peace with Soain and Flanders, to abandon the States, and not to maiTy without the consent of his Catholic Majesty. Ti.is letter the Lady AraUeHa presented to the King sealed, without having even opened it by which act of frankness she has now saved her life • tho' it nevertheless behoved her to attend the meeting of the iudo^es if Winchester to justify herself, had it been necessary ; but s/Te was very rightly exculpated by Walter Raleigh, one of the chief conspi rators, after he himself had been convicted and sentenced to death It 13 said that they intended to marry her to the Duke of Sivoy '' On the 15th of December 1603, Nicolo Molin wrote to the Signory : — " Only one of the eleven conspirators was acquitted ; the others were all condemned to death. The two priests have already been executed, and on Friday the like will be done to all the others, • TTiere is a very curious letter from Sir Walter Raleigh to his wife, which with this Venetian l)e«patm, zt iTff" supposed that he raas better informed about thzs conspracj ''"«0:'lnt;^'26th March 1604. at about the 20th hour, the Kin " Queen, and Prince, with the Council and the whole Court went 'by he f.ver from Westminster with a very great quanti y ot bo "tl o the Tower of London, where, after landing, with muchdiffi- cultv could thev ascend the stairs by reason of the crowd which had flock'ed tosL tLir Majesties; bulls - V''"" ''"'rk^T'^ioiclnl ' and there were several other amusements, as a maik of rejoicing , the Kh, ' hav^n from Ireland, 2l8t June 1618, with a single ship, the others having left him, and his friends are now endeavouring to obtain a free pardon for him ..from the lung, that he may be at liberty to come to court and not go back to the Tower again." The death of Raleigh is narrated briefly by Pietro Contarini, thus, on the 16th November 1618 :— « After a long trial, t!ie evidence and examination havin"' been most careful, Sir Walter Raleigh has suffered death. H* in- variably denied having plotted aught to the prejudice of his Majesty, saying that he merely negotiated with tTe Frenchman to tree himself from prison ; and altho' these fresh practices [.,ueste nave prattiche]* gave occasion to proceed against him, he was beheaded in execution of a former sentence, having been many years in the Tower, under sentence of death for conspiracy." 28. In the Appendix (G.) to this Report I have given extracts from letters relating to two Englishmen of note. Sir Henry Peyton and bir Henry Mainwaring. 29. The " Esposizioni Principi " explain the story of the medal alluded to m the "Domestic Calendar" for the year 161i (a passage which would be otherwise unintelligible). , .1^- Another enigma is solved by the Letter-book, in St. Mark's Library, of Alvise Contarini, whose original despatches also exist in the Archives. At the meeting of the Archaeological Institute, at Warwick, m August 1864, the late Earl of Denbigh exhibited a dagger, said to be that with which Felton stabbed the Duke of Buckingham. Sir T. Winnington enquired the history of this dagger, the appearance of which was at variance with the account in the "State Irials,' where Felton is said to have stabbed the Duke with a « common tenpenny knife," whereas the Earl of Uenbigh s weapon is a curious double-bladed dago-er. A year before the Duke of Buckingham's death, his life was said to have been threatened by the Frenchman Toiras, as written iroin London by Alvise Contarini, thus:— "'^t^ S""''' ''^"ounces, that an individual has been arrested, sent by Toiras to murder the Duke of Buckingham, who was much exasperated, and had determined to press the sie^^e fof St Martin] to the utmost." o \. ^<- "Buckingham has sent to his wife, the dagger f" il coltello "1 with which as written, a certain individual commissioned by Toiras, the Governor of the fort (St. Martin), meant to assassinate him. A drawing of this dagger was immediately engraved, that. ^ true, the deed may irritate the people of England against the irench ; and at the same time, thro' compassion, render the Duke popular ; which is the object sought above all others," w,! "^^^ 'ould almost make it appear that Raleigh was sacrificed to hatred aeainst Frwce rather tbau to any deference to Spain. againet b2 / 20 The Warwic1; "^ read in "Notes and Queries," dat.-s ^"'^^ -^^"^ThitCa^aUon wf.rS^^ The dispute had a tendency to be acrimonious, ibisexpianauon " ir= i the disputants. 21 life, by so much the more as great offers had been made him to tlia't effect ; though, as he knew nothing which could implicate either himself or others, he preferred losing a hundred lives to bearing false witness in either case. To the truth of all this he 8wore by his salvation. He prayed God to bless the King, de- claring that there was no power on earth that could authorize him to raise an arm againbt his Majesty ; that he had always so abhorred murder, that if then, whilst in the act of speaking, he could save his life, and establish any religion and government he pleased, rendering himself as great as mortal could desire, through the death of but one of tbose who had so falsely accused him and brought him to the block, yet it was so odious to him to have the blood of any man on his head that he should reject such an alter- native ; whence it might be inferred that still less could he have thought of assassinating so good a king. Hereon he expatiated at great length, and then asked pardon of God and the people for all his offences, declaring that he forgave those who had offended him. He swore by his death and salvation that never in his life had he uttered a single word to two of the three witnesses who had accused him, anjl that with the third he had never spoken about anything but servants and lackeys, and that he had never been alone with him. In conclusion, he said he hoped he had sufficiently proved himself a man with a clear conscience, as, were it otherwise, he could have saved his life by pleading guilty, but would not now at the point of death tell a falsehood, as he very well knew it would doom him to eternal punishment. He said a few other things, and spoke about the manner in which his trial had been conducted; and, last of all, he prayed God not to avenge his innocent blood on the nation, repeating that with his last breath he asserted with all truth, and vowed that he died innocent, be- seeching God, just and Omnipotent, to treat him according to his deserts. " Such, in substance, was the most essential part of this noble- man's long discourse, which, it is said, will be printed. It is added that he has left a letter for consignment to the King. "He was beheaded with a single stroke of the axe, and some English and foreign catholics gathered his blood in their handker- chiefs like that of a martyr, as much as a hundred pounds sterling for each of tiiese handkerchiefs having been since paid by certain devotees. The body and head were taken back to the Tower, and, having been sewed together, were, by an act of grace from the Kinjr, consigned to his neai^est relations, the law which ordained otherwise being dispensed with. '' So firmly are the people impressed with the truth of the con- spiracy, and of the Viscount's guilt, that he was pitied but by few, and many insulted him in abusive language ; * nor was his speech held in any account, owing to the rooted belief of the ♦ Hume on the contrary writes that the populace pitied Lord Stafford in his last moments, and answered his protestations of innocence, saying, '* We believe you^ my •♦ Lord. God bless you, my Lord:' Hume does not aUude to the "gathering 'of Lord Stafford's blood. I ■«,-''«" -^j.J»«^;^fii 22 Protestants that the Catholics have a dispensatioii and pardon from the Pope (of whom anything is credited) for swearing to what is false even at the time of death, rather than say anything of the slightest detriment to the Catholic religion, or of the " Romish See," as they style it. (Signed) *' Paolo Sakottt. " GlUOLAMO VlGNOLA.'^ ^'On Saturday last [2lst July 1683, N. S.] the sentence of death was executed upon Lord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, one of the most noble and opulent peers of England ; the great offers made to the King even for a short respite having been of no avail. '' Lord Russell was taken in his own coach, surrounded by 200 musketeers, besides the numerous city trained band^s to a spacious square [Lincoln's Inn Fields] at no great distance from Wliitehall, the site being guarded by infantry and cavalry. " He alighted unbound, and in his usual costume, and havmg ascended the scaffold with incredible intrepidity, walked uncon- cernedly ["con disinvoltura ' ] up and down a while; he then knelt for a few moments, and on rising divested" himself of his apparel without assistance ; after which he took leave of ['' com- plimento"'] his friends, made them a public speech, brief, but of a most violent nature [" scandolisissimo "], and laid his head on the block in such form, that a demonstration of greater contempt for so tremendous a passage would be impos.^ible. '•' On its accomplishment, the populace crowded to dip their hand- kerchiefs, hats, and garments in his blood ; and one universal shout declared him innocent, all expressing pity and compassion. *' He left a sealed letter addressed to his wife, for delivery subsequentlv to the King, to whom it was shown by one of Lord Rusi^ell's uncles. It was full of the most unbecoming expressions, having lor object to justify himself and the Duke of Monmouth with regard to the assassination of the King ; according also to what he'^said in his dving speech, and the seditious seed which he has left beiiind him,' is of no less treasonable nature than that invariably displayed by him in life against the King, the royal familv, and all Catholicism. *^6n the morrow of the execution his son, some 13 years old, went to the King to kiss hands, and to swear allegiance ; he was received graciously, and, by a spontaneous act of very great generosity, his Majesty then and there bestowed on him that con- siderable paternal inheritance which by law was confiscated. *'0n the following days, in like manner, several noblemen came to pay their respects to the King after an absence from the court of about 12 years, during which period they lived with the '' fanatics," as it w^ere, in open opposition ; and on this morning the Duke of Buckingham made his appearance ; all being greeted alike with affibility, current events requiring this policy ; but should any sinister accident arise, no trust could be placed in their present change. ' ,^ „ i (Signed) " GiROLAMO ViGNOLA." s 123 32. As many materials for the history of this country are pre- served among the manuscripts in St. Mark's Library," I thought it my duty to inspect them, especially as the library contains many State papers which ought to have been found among the Records in the " Frari." In this respect tlie Marcian Library is not unlike the British Museum, which contains many State Papers that pro- perly ought to he in the Public Record Office. St. Mark's Library was founded in the year 1362, in conse- quence of Petrarch having agreed to leave all his books to St. Mark's, for the use of the State. This noble library has always been held in special affection by the Signory, and many valuable donations have been made to it at different times. It is now one of the most celebrated libraries in Euroj)e. 33. In connexion with tl^ manuscripts preserved therein, I would mention as a donation thereto, a very valuable and highly- prized gift made to it by Sir Henry Savile, of his edition of the complete w^orks of St. John Chrysostom, in eight large folio vo- lumes, still in the contemporary binding of crimson silk. In rela- tion to these volumes, I found in the Archives among the '' Esposi- zioni Principi " the following details, which I give i"n full, as I am not aware that they have ever been published : — " On the 30th April 1608 the Ambassador" (Sir Henry Wotton) " said " (in the College Hall, to Doge Leonardo Donato)— '' '^ Most Serene Prince, a gentleman of ours in EnrrJand is working indefiitigably at an edition of the complete works of St. John Chrysostom, that holy father whose doctrine ^\a3 so excellent, and who set so great an example. For this purpose the editor has sent^ persons express to several places, to review and transcribe certain parts of the aforesaid works, of which he stood in need, as, for instance, to the Palatine Library in Germany, to the Library at Vienna, and elsewhere, and I, by favour of the Signory, who gave me leave— having seen your Serenity's library — remarked there the aforesaid works, which are truly singular. As possibly our collections may have some trifling deficieucics^uch as one or two homilies, I beseech your Serenity that the person w^ho has come hither for the purpose may have permission to copy them, provided, however, that there be no order or prohibitory law amongst the statutes of said Venetian Library.' " The Doge replied, — " ' At the moment our memory does not ser^v na f..^ •^o^^ i concerning these works of St. Sob, a,ryso,^:^ f ^'^ Library ; nor do we kno^v whether there is any prohibition re^oec^ .ng them ; but the Signory having heard your desire, w.H takS Ihe "Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603-1610 " n 630 bears witness to the pains taken by SirHenrV Savile to render his work perfect, as seen by the followin-r entry ■- 'enaerhis rarl.tr\'"'-'""'f ^^'^'" ^^ ^'^ "«»• Savile to Sir Dudley Carleton) " ,n reference to purchase of books, collation of MsF relating to St. Chrysostom, at Paris and in Italy " ' m^t.Ki/«tt^mmmt r ( f 24 Sir Henry Savile's eight volumes bear the date of 1612, and on the 2nd January, 1613-14 we get news of the presentation copy now in St. Mark's Library from h.s son-m-law, _ bir Dudley Carleton, as recorded in the " Esposizioni Principi * « The ambassador (Sir Dudley Carleton, in the College Hall, "2nd January 1613) added" (to the Doge Marc Antomo ^ """'^M^st serene Prince,— PerceivinjT the good greeting conceded to the office performed by me, and that your Serenity is always pleased to honour me more and more. 1 shall take the liberty, beinSir Joseph Williamson ; " You will read in the advices from Naples " of an extravagant person arrived there, who falling in love with " the boasts daughter where bee layc, married her, but being ** observed to live as well as to talke high of his great birth, the Vice-king haveing account of it, sent an officer to seaze upon his goods and cofters, where they write from thence was found many Jewells of vallue, some quantity of plstolls and some papers or letters directed to him with the title of highness, ** for it seems bee vaunted to be the King of England's sonn, borne at Gersey, which circumstances invited the Vice-king's curiosity or suspition of his quality to imprison him in the ** Castle of St. Elmo to bee the better informed of him; being '' there hee sent for the English consul!, Mr. Browne, to assist " him for his delivery out of the castle ; but it seeniea hee could ** not speake a word of English nor give any account of the birth " he pretended unto. Since the Vice-king hath taken him out of " that castle and removed him to the fortrcsse at Gaetta, and shutt his wife (with child) into a monastery, and this is all the light I can pick out of the nation and others of this extravagant story, which, w^hether will end in prince or cheate I shall " endeavour to informe you hereafter." On the 6th of April following, Kent writes : " Noe further ** news from Naples of the English prince now prisoner in the ** castle of Gaetta." Kent's next letter to Williamson relative to this subject is on the 16th of June. He writes: *' The gentle- " man who would have been his Majesties bastard at Naples, " upon the receipt of his Majesties letters to that Vice-king, wag " immediately taken out of the castle of Gaetta, brought to " Naples, and cast into the grand prison called the Vicaria, where " being thought amongst the most vile and infamous rascalls, the << (£ ft (C (i (f «c i( a * " Nous pouvons vous asseurer que si Dieu permet que nous et notre tres honore '* frere le due d' if orck mourons sans enfans, les royaumes vous apartient, et le Par- " lement ne peut pas legitimement sy opposer ; si ce ii*est qu'en matJere d'estre ** Catholique vous en soyes exclus .... Croyez que nous vous avons toujours " eu une affection particulidre, non seulement a cause que vous nous este ne dans '* nostre plus tendre jeunesse lorsque nous n'avions gueres plus de 16 ou 17 ans, que «• particulit^rement a cau^e de I'excellent nature] que nous avons toujours remarque ** en vous," \^i 1 1 >» ** Vice-king intended to have caused him to bee whipt about the " citty, but means was made by his wife's kindred (who was like- *' wise taken out of the nunery she was put into till the discovery '* of this pretended prince,) to the Vice-queene, who in compassion *^ to her and her kindred prevailed with Don Pedro to deliver him " from that shame, and soe ends the story of this fourb who speaks ^^ no languadge but French." On the 3 1st of August fallowing Kent thus announces the death of the young pretender : " That certaine fellow or what hee ** was, who pretended to bee his Majesties naturall sonn at Naples, ** is dead, and having made his will they write mee from thence " wee shall with the next poast know the truth of his quality." According to bis promise Kent communicated to Williamson on the 7th of September the chief heads in the will of the pseudo prince, " That certaine person at Naples who in his life ty me would *^ needes bae his Majesties naturall sonn is dead in the same con- *' fidence and princely humour ; for haveing left his lady Teresa '^ Corona, an ordinary person, seven months gone with child, he " made his testament, and hath left his most Christian jNfajcsty (whom hee called cousin) executor of it. He had bccne absent from Naples some tyme, pretending to have made a journey into France to visit his mother, Dofia Maria Stuarta, of his ^fajesty's royall family, which neerness and greatness of blood was the cause saies hee that his Majestic would never acknowledge him " for his sonn ; his motlier Dona Maria Stuarta was it seemes dead " before hee came to France. For his w^ill hee desires the pre- " sent King of England, Carlo 2«H to allowe his prince Hans " in Kelder, eighty thousand duckatts per annum, which is his " mother's estate; he leaves likewise to his child and molher '^ Teresa 291 thousand duckatts, which hee calls legacies. lie was " buried in the Church of St. Francisco de Paolo out of the porta Capuana (for he dyed of this religion) ; he left 400 francs for a lapide to Jiave his name and quality engraven upon it, for lie called himself Don Jacopo Stuarto ; and this is the end of that princely cheate or whatever he was." On the 14th September Kent writes to Williamson, '^Enclosed you have the will of P^e D^ Jocopo Stuart, sent me from Naples." The before-mentioned facts are all that are at present come to light respecting this mysterious story, which, to say the least of it, certainly staggers credulity ; but this is neither the place nor the occasion to enter into a criticism upon the subject. One fact, however, may be noticed which appears to me to throw discredit upon it. The King in one of his letters says that the younp: man's title was better than that of the Duke of Monmouth, and he had a right of precedence over him " par toutcs raisons et a " cause de la qualite de une mere," yet in spite of this he grants him an insignificant pension of 500/. per annum, clogged with certain conditions, whiie he had already granted a pension to ths Duke of Monmouth of 6,000/. for life without any condition what- ever, and had likewise given him a dukedom. A list of the documents upon which this statement is grounded « (( « C( a a (( prt of Cherbury, whose first acquaintance with Angelo Contanni dated from the ye^v 1619, when they were both accredited to Louis XIII • and Marc Antonio Correr, who had resided at the Court ot - James I. as ambassador in ordinary from November 1608 until June 1611, was equally well acquainted with Edward Sack ville. Ear of Dorset, whose duel with Lord Bruce (whose sister the Earl had seduced) took place two years aft^r Correr's departure ^rom Eng- land. Accompanied by the two duelhsts (Lord Herbert of Cher- 37 bury dwells with much self-complacency on his contempt for the risks of single combat) the ambassadors extraordinary appointed to congratulate Charles I. on his accession, proceeded in the King's coach to Lord Petre's house in Aldersgate Street, ** defrayed there by the King." They mention that the Earl of Dorset spoke Italian with great fluency, and that Lord Petre's house, amongst its other furniture supplied by the royal wardrobe, con- tained two Cloths of State, one for each of the Ambassadors, who were waited on by his Majesty's officers and servants, whereof 12 of the guard gave their daily attendance. 43. In the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, date 1611, January 26, we find Sir Walter Cope writing to Sir Dudley Carleton about old paintings for Prince Henry, and for Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. On the 25th of April 1615, in date of Venice, there is a note of consignment to the Earl of Somerset ' of sundry pictures painted by Tintoretto, Paul Veronese, Bassano, Titian, and Schiavone. The favourites of James T. seem to have been partial to the Venetian school. - ^^ a i Amongst the letters of the Signory's ambassador in England (Alvise Vallaresso), there is one now in the Archives, dated London, 29th March 1624, of the following tenor :— «* Many days ago it was more than once hinted to me that the Duke of Buckingham would like to receive certain pictures from Venice ; to which I thought fit to turn a deaf ear, on many accounts. This week, however, the Earl of Desmond (Richard Preston), now his near connexion, and who, heretofore, when Lord Dingwall, went to Venice to offer his services to the Signory, after conversing with me on some other topics, told me plainly that said Buckingham wished above all things to obtain certain paintings, according to the enclosed note ; that for their purchase he would not hesitate to spend any sum ; but that as they belonged to your Serenity, he should deem them a treasure, by whatever means procured. I determined to answer the Earl that I could assure him your Serenity wished above all things to oblige the Duke, as for his very noble qualities you esteemed and loved him greatly ; but with regard to this demand for these pictures, it was the wont of your Serenity jealously to preserve similar things ; and, according to a custom pecuhar to Republics, rarely or never deprive yourself of works of art. Such was the course taken by me, nor will I say anything more to your Serenity, because, on the one hand, by granting the request I am aware that it would be opening the door to similar demands, whilst, on the other, it is by no means unimportant to gain by a trifling present a great personage, of yore the favourite of the King, as he now is of the Prince, and who was lately considered by the kingdom the polestar of his country's hopes/' In Vallaresso'fl letter there is the following memorandum : — "The Duke of Buckingham desireth, by any means possible, to have certaine picturs, made by Paul Veronese, that are in a ill ♦♦I \ 38 certaine n„T.c or passage towardes the great library, in the pallace ""' t ^yV'JrZ^^^ic^, the Senate wrote to Vallaresso on *^..'w'th r^gJrd rthVentreatles made to you on behalf of the persistence, and we commend you tor it. ^" 'Xin InU^Tt iLe his sister's marriage, was Louis Alii., in oruti lu ^**^ « Vonipp to whom n.ore accommodating than f^ . ^7^;:^^]'^;/, J^o^ LoX on Vallaresso's successor, Giovanni Fesaro, wioie iro the 28th of February 1625 :— • ^ j^ « A r>rp«pnt of choice Dictures from the l^.lng oi x !<»■ ?eekin• 29. >• 8. »» 13 J. It 26. l> 60. >» 24. »t 12. »» 28. » 22. >» 9. n 1150. dair Inglese » 10. » UJ. » 9^. » U. t> 42J. »» 33. t9 51. » lOi. 1) 43. f> 32J. if 110. • 1 32. »> 86. »> 180. u 152. w 17. t» 22. M 110. 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 «{ 49 50 61 52 63 64 65 66 57 58 69 60 CI 62 G3 G4 Al Papa Al Cardinal di Monte Al Re Cristianissimo < Al Contestabile Al Cardinal S. Gioi-gio Al Cardinal Farnese - Al Noncio Santa Crocc Al Cardinal di Mantova Alia Regina d' Inghilteri'a - Al Marcheso di Excestre - Lettera della Kcgina al Car- dinal Polo. Legato Al Cardinal di Trento A M. Carlo Gualteru/zi Al Cardinal di Moiite A M. Pier Fi-ancesco Zini • Al Cardinal di Trento Al Cardinal d' Imola Al Cardinal Morone- All' Imperatore Ragguaglio al Papa - Al Pai)a . . - Risposta da farsi a sua San- tita, dil raesso ritornato d' Inghilterra. Al Cardinal di Mantova Air Imperatore Riporto dt'ir Ab« di S. Sa- luto . - - Al Papa 65 CO 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 S9 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 S. Francesco eu. Trento Trento Trento Trento Monastcro deir Isola. • « • Trento Trento Trento Westmoiias- terio. Tubiuga Tubiuga ■ « * Dilinga Dilinga Dilinga Dilinga Stayndeayn (sic). MM* Dilinga 28 Scttembre 1553 1 Ottobre 1533 - 2 Ottobre 1553 - 2 Ottobre 1553 2 Ottobre 1553 - 20 Ottobre 1553 (sic) . m 9 • 2 Ottobre 1553 - 2 Ottobre 1553 • 2 Ottobre 1553 ] 8 Ottobre 1353 • , • • * 19 Ottobre 1353 - 20 Ottobre 1553 - • • • 22 Ottobre 1353 - 21 Ottobre 1553 - 22 Ottobre 1353 - 22 Ottobre 155:} - 24 Ottobre 1553 - 27 Ottobre 1333 Italiana, Linee. 46. Al Cardinal di Monte Al Cardinal San Clcmcnte Al Cardinal di Carpi All' Impei-atorc A M. Pietro Contarini Al Duca di Venezia - Al Cardhml di Trento Al Gran Maestro della Reli gione Gierosoliraitana. Al Cardinale S* Croce Capitolo di una lettera scrit ta al Cardinal Farnese Air Arcivescovo di Granata Al Cardinale Farnese Al Cardinale S* Angelo Al Cardinale Pighino Al Cardinale Comaro Al Cardinal di Mantua All' Ambasciatore VaiT?as Al Papa Al Maestro del Sacro Palazzo Al Cardinale Morono Al Secretario fiordibcUo Relazione all' Ab« di S. Sa- luto. Al Papa . - - Al Papa . - - Al Cardinale di Monte Al Cardinal di Monte Al Cardinal di Monte Al Cardinal di Monte Lettera della Regina d' In-") ghilterra al Card^* Polo -S Al Papa - - - Al Papa . - - Lettei'e della Regina d' In- ") ghilterra al Card^' Polo -i Al Cardinale di Monte Al Cardinale Morone Al Papa - - - Al Cardinale di Monte Al Papa . - - Al I*apa AMons' Santa Croce, Nuncio Dilinga Dilinga Dilinga S. Francesco dell' Isola sul Lago di Garda(sic). Dilinga Dilinga Dilinga Dilinga 27 Ottobre 1353 28 Ottobre 1553 2 Novembre 1533 7 Novembre 1353 14 Novembre 1353 2 „ It 18 Novembre 1553 18 Novembre 1553 Isola del La- go di Garda. Trento Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusselles - S. Giacomo - Brusselles - S. Dionigio - S. Giacomo - Fontanebleau F'ontanebleau Parigi Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusselles • Brusselles - It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. •t { 194. 17. 14. 10. 42. 7. 28. 219. 71. 37. I Ti'adottadalP Inglese. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. 20 Novembre 1553 I Ottobre 1533 28 Gennaro 1554 5 Febbraro 1554 8 Febbraro 1554 9 Febbraro 1554 10 Febbraro 1654 23 Gennaro 1554 23 Aprile 1554 II Marzo 1554 12 Marzo 1554 4 Aprile 1554 4 Aprile 1554 8 Aprile 1554 20 Aprile 1554 22 Aprile 1554 24 Aprile 1554 26 Aprile 1554 » ti 27i. 17. 12. 42. 40. 16. lOi 7. 10. 174. 17. 87. 4i. 49. 71J. 20. It. ft 28*. It. 1) 13i. It. n 9. It. II 18. It. It 18. It. tt 15. It. >i 15. It. *i 19. It. 11 11. It. It est It. „ 23. It. „ 40i. It. „ 26. f (Sono due lettere.) lit. „ 3U. It. „ 26i. It. „ 10. It. „ 17. It. „ 19. It. „ 13. It. „ 21. It. „ 19. It. „ 40. It. „ 53. It. „ 77. It. „ 98. It. „ 99. It. „ 72. It. „ 132. ( It. „ 89. I Ti-adotta. It. „ 125. It. „ 24. rit. „ 42. i Tradotta dall' Inglew. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. »t 186. 82. 11. 12. 48. 7. 17. S-J-A^WSiP"*' 46 47 s A chi diretta. Luogo. Annotazione. tr 104 Al Cardinal Morone • 106 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 123 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 Al Cardinal Morone - Al Cardinale Nobili - Air Agente mio in Inghil- terra. Al Cardinale Morone Al Principe di Spagiia Air Imperatore Alia Regina d'inghilterra ■ A Mons' de Arras Al Paja AH* Imperatore A Don Bernardino - Lettera della Regina d' Ing» ") al Cardi* Polo - -S Lettera della Regina d' Ing» al Card'* Polo Al Papa Al Papa . . - A M. Bernardino e fratelli de Relli (sic). Al Papa Alia Regina d' Inghilterra - Al Cardinale Morone AlPapa (Al Re di Francia) - Al Vescovo di Viterbo, Nun- cio in Francia. Al Cardinale di Lorena Al Re di Spagna Breve Summario di quello che 6 passato in materia di bcni Ecclesiastici. Al Vescovo di Viterbo, Nun- cio in Francia. Air Arcivescovo di Conza Al Cardinale Morone Al Cardinale di Trento Al Vescovo di Arras - Al Papa Air Imperatore Al Sigf Contarini, Vescovo di Batto. Al Cardinale Morone 144 145 {■ 146 147 148 Al Vescovo di Viterbo Nnn- cio in Frani'ia. I Al Re di Francia - - ' Air Imperatore Air Arcivescovo di Conza, Nuncio a Brusselles Air Arcivescovo di Conza - j Al Re di Francia, con ri-"^ suosta inserita al Mar- >• | cnese di Camaer ) \ Air Arcivescovo di Conza Al Re di Francia Al Contestablle Dal Monas- tero di Di- li ngan di Brusselles. Brusselles - Brusselles - Monastero di Dilingamo. Brusselles - Brusselles - Monastero di Dilin- gano. Brusselles - Westmonas- terio, 21. Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusiielles - Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusselles - Brusselles - Londra Londra Londra Granuzzi - Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra 149 I Alia Regina d* Inghilterra 150 Al Contestabile 161 Al Contestabile 162 Conto di quello si ha nego- ziata nell abboccamento. Al Papa Al Re di Francia Al Cardinale Morone Al Cardinale Caraffa Al Cardinale Caratfa Al Vescovo di Sessa - Al Vescovo di Sessa - Al Re di Spagna Al Cardinale Caraffa Al Sig' Pietro Vanni Al Cardinale Caraffa 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 15 Ma^o 1564 28 Maggio 1554 — Maggio 1564 10 Giugno 1554 20 Luglio 1554 24 Setteuibre 1554 28 8ettembre 1554 Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Ix)ndra Londra Richemond Londra Cales Richemond Richemond Richemond Richemond Richemond Richemond Granuzzi - Granuzzi - Granuzzi - Granuzzi - Granuzzi - j 15 Ottobre 1554 19 Ottobre 1554 23 Ottobre 1554 26 Ottobre 1554 27 Ottobre 1554 28 Ottobre 1654 11 Novembrc 1554 1 1 Dccembrc 1551 4 Gennaro 1555 - 4 Gennaro 1555 - 9 Gennaro 1555 - 11 Gennaro 1553 11 Gennaro 14 Gennaro 16 Gennaro 18 Gennaro 19 Gennaro 19 Gennaro 26 Gennaro 1555 1555 1555 1555 1555 1555 8 Marzo 1555 15 Marzo 1555 14 Marzo 1555 27 Marzo 1555 27 Marzo 1555 31 Marzo 1555 6 Aprile 1555 20 Aprile 1555 21 Aprile 1555 21 Aprile 1555 28 Aprile 1555 15 Magerio 1555 19 Maggio 1555 6 Luglio 1555 7 Agosto 1555 9 Agosto 1555 10 Agosto 1555 18 Agosto 1555 19 Agosto 1555 24 Agosto 1555 2 Settembre 1555 20 Settembre 1565 4 Ottobre 1555 10 Ottobre 1556 Italiana, Linee 253. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. » » » It. Clt. (. Tradotta. (It. I Tradotta. It. It. It. 173. 14. 121. 60. 10. 15. 16i. 14. 119. 34. 61. 15. 13. 25. 83. 18. It. „ 84. It. „ 59. It. „ 117. It. „ 97. P. Scritta in data di Londra la vigilia di Natale. It. „ 16. It. „ 18. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. Clt. lit. It. It. It. 5 It. •I >i » » >i f> » » >• II if 39. 32. 140. 126. 29. 72. 22. 33. 25. 13. 23. 63. 13. 42. 14. 14. 38. 26. 9. 34. 29i. 12. 19. 26. ?5|J I Tradotta dair Ingles© It. 19. It. II 16. It. II 183. It. *i 34. It. II 49. It. •1 66. It. w 78. It. •1 87 It. II 33. It. •f 89. It. l> 21 It. II 80. It. II 26 It. II 88. Data. 164 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 7'^ 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 97 98 99 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 283 S84 Air Arcivescovo di Conza, Nuncio a Brusselles. Al Cardinal Caratt'a - Al Cardinale Morone Air Arcivescovo di Conza - Al Cardinal do Medici 11 Cardinal Morone al Car« Polo. Al Cardinale Caraffa Al Cardinal di Bui^os A Don Bernardo poi Card« Trani. Serenissimo Re (forse Spagna). Al Cardinale Caraffa - Al Cardinal Morone - Al Papa . - . Del Ite Cattolico al Card'' Polo Al Re Filippo - Sire (II Re ('ristianissimo) Al Re Cattolico Al Cardinal di Lorena Al Sig. Contestabile - Al Vescovo di Viterbo Informazione al Re Cristia^ nissirao. Al Cardinale Morone Al Cardinal Caraffa - Al Cardinal di Trani - Al Gcmon (sic) Al Cardinal Morone Al Cardinal Morone - Al Cardinal Morone - Al Cardinal Caraffa - Al Re di Francia Al Cardinal di L II II II M II II tl II II II II l< • I II 46. 34. 43. 20. 61. 32. 27. 19. 24. 19. 38. 26. 23. 31. 20. 41. 12. 11. 14. 18. 22. 32. 30. 28. 13. 38. 120. 32. 14. 22. 13. 10. 18. 33. 44. 43. 65. 14. 12. 13. 12. 13. solo 1. 14. 11. 377. 13. 7. 6. 31. n. 16. 10. 13. 16. 47. 13. 16. 14. 77. 24. 87. 82. 72. 28. 15. 74. 14. 14. 12. 16. 48 235 236 287 288 239 240 241 242 243 241 245 246 247 248 249 2C0 251 252 253 251 255 253 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 Al Cardinal di Trento Al Re Cattolioo Al medesirao - Al medesimo - Al Padre Miranda - Al medesimo - Al Re Cattolico Al Cardinal CarafTa - Al Cardinal Caratla - Al medesimo - Al Cardinal di Mantova Istmzione al P. T. Stella - Al Re Cattolico Al Re Cattolico Al Cardinal Caraffa - Al Re Cattolico - - Al Gran Maestro della Reli- gione. Al Arcivescovo di Toledo - A D° Ant° di Tolledo Al Re Cattolico Alia Ducliessa di Parma - Al Padre Confessore Afres- neda. Al Cardinale Caraffa A. D. Gio. de Vega sopra Presidente del Consilio Regio. Al Cardinal di Bnrgos Al Re Cattolico Al Re Cattolico Al medesimo ; - f Di Mons"^ Pnuh al CI""* M. I Antonio suo fratello. JAlGiberti - ,^ - i A. D. Gio. de V ega sopra I Presidente del Configho. LAir Arcivescovo di Toledo - Parere della Screnissima Rogina de Inghiltcrrache ella scrisse di sua proi)ria mano et diede a lions' R™" Legato al tempo che si fese il sinodo tradotto di lingua Inglese. Canterbury Richemoud Londra « " • Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Granuzzi - Londra S. Jacomo - Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londi*a Londra Granuzzi • Granuzzi • Granuzzi • Granuzzi Granuzzi - S. Giacomo Laraberti ■ Loiulra Loi\dra • Londra Londra — Maggie 1557 - 4 Agosto 1657 2Settembrel557 - * « * 17 Novembre 1557 7 Decembre 1557 - 13 Decembre 1567 — Decembre 1557 14 Decembre 1557 4 Gennaro 1668 - — Gennaro 1558 • 10 Gennaro 1558 - 10 Gennaro 1558 - 2 Febbraro 1558 • 2 Febbraro 1558 - 5 Marzo 1558 6 Marzo 1558 1 Marzo 1553 9 Marzo 1558 9 Marzo 1558 12 Marzo 1558 30 Marzo 1558 14 Aprile 1558 14 Aprile 1553 14 Aprile 1558 II di della Sccn- sione 1558. 6Settembrol558 • 25 Settembre 1558 27 Novembre 1558 5 Decembre 1558 6 Decembre 155S Italiana, It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. Liuee 19. 17. 19. 17. 15. 15. 17.- 26. 82. 23. 81. 64. 21. 16. 19. 12. 10. •• •> n •I n i» M M li M m •I •> »• H M M tl •I • I •I If II • I M 10. 12. 26. 10. 9. 10. 11. fl. 25. 20. 27. 253. 223. 31. 8d. td. Lettcre del Cardinale Polo (Italiane) „ della Rogina d* Inghilterra „ del Re Cattolico - „ di Jlons' Priiili • • _ del Faitta - „ dell' Ab« Saluto • „ del Cardinal Polo (Latine) - No. 254 - „ 6 1 4 1 1 »» tl If i> IntuttoNo.267 .. 82 In tutto No. 349 268 289 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 Papa Paolo III. Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa PapK Papa Paolo III. Paolo IIL Paolo III. Paolo III. Paolo IIL Paolo III. Paolo III. Paolo III. Julio IIL Ex agro Pa- tavino. Papa Julio III. Al medesimo - Marcello Pp. IL Marcello Pp. II. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV: Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Exmonaste- terio IVIa- gunzani. Londini Londini Caleto Richmondia a « • Londini Latina, Linee 60. VIII. Junu 1553 - Die ult* Novemb. 1554. 24 Juuij 1555 Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. *i 226. 31. 38. 16. 18. 18. 34. 16. 41. 61. H 11 »» • I l> l> U II 44. 43. 33. 43. 30. 14. 25. 36. 49 I A chi dirctta. Luogo. Data. 287 2£8 289 280 291 2P2 293 294 295 296 297 298 2S9 800 801 S02 803 804 805 S06 307 808 809 810 811 312 813 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 821 822 828 824 325 826 827 329 330 331 832 833 834 835 836 837 338 839 340 3-11 342 313 344 846 346 347 348 3^19 Paulo Pp. IV. Pajilo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Rcgi Gallonmi l-Vancisco, nomine Legatorum in Concilio Tridentino. Rogi Gal. Francisco - Mari.x Reginw Anglice Philippo Regi ac Maria? Rc- ginaj Anglia\ Philippo Rcgi Londini Tridenti Romae Londini Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Philippo Regi Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Andraa) Gritti Duci Vene- ! - tiarum. | LaurcntioPriuloDuci Vcne- • tiarum. Marchionissffi Piscaria? - ; • G. Card'' Contareno - - ; Placentife G. Contareno Cardinal! - Lugduni i Al medesimo - - - [ - Al medesimo - - - i - Al medesimo - - - I - Al medesimo - - - Al medi simo • • - Al medesimo - - - Al medesimo - - - Al medesimo - - - Al medesimo - - . Guidoni Ascanio Sfortioo Cardinal] , R. Pio Card'' Carponlie Erardo Card" liOodicnsi Erardo Card" Leodiensi Erardo Card" Leodiensi Cardinali Sadoleto - Al medesimo . - - Card"Maniu» Card" Tridentino Card" Tridentino Card'' Burgcui^i Card" Augustano Al medesimo - • - Card" Scotia; - - - Card'' S. Marcelli Card" S. Marcelli Card" Tranensi Cosmo Gerio fanens. Epi- scopo ... Joa. Matlipo Giberto Episc. Vcronentc. Ex monaste- i XL Julij 1554 no Dili- gam. Bruxelles - XXI. Sept. 1551 Bruxclles - , 27 Ottobre 1654 - 1 - Epenovichio ' - (sic). I XX I II J. Martis 1537. Roma' Roma; RomtP Roma; " •■ • Roma; Roma; Romse • • • Bruxelles - Londini Romae Capranica; - IV. Fcbruarij XV HI J. Januarij 1555. Annotftzione. Stanislao Hos»o Al medesimo - Episcopo Paumi Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al mi'dcsimo - Magistro Sacri Palatij ■Qmo Episcopo Vannonsi Rouellonaein - Montibus Eugorneis. Balnei Regij XV. Cal. Quintilis, I 1550. Balneo Regie' - - - Roma;- - i - Richmondia ! 8 Julij 15.05 Monasterio i VI. Augusti 1553 - Mangsaui. j Romae Latina, Linee 89. Lat. „ 38. I'f>t. „ 13.3. Lat. „ 35. Lat. „ 121. I At. „ 181. Lat. „ 38. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. liat. Lat. Lat. Lat. I^t. Lat. Lat. Lai. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. „ 38. „ 115. i» II II If II •I 118. 56. 140. 35. 29. 27. 83. 26. 75. 86. 41. 38. 61. 4S. „ 78. I, 104. 111. M II II • I II II II II II ♦ » II • I II II II II l> II II »l 6L 88. 55\. 28. 34. 114. 44. 78. 43. 48. 219. 110. 86. 28. 64. 130. 55. 31. 108. 83. 239. 81. 49. 24. 58i. 74. 39. C4. 23. 22. 362. 189. 205. 65. 461. 134. D -- * --^ 48 Annotazione. 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 2H 245 246 247 248 249 230 251 252 253 254 255 253 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 Al Cardinal di Trento Al Re Cattolico Al medesimo - - " Al medesimo - • • Al Padre Mirauda - Al medesimo - Al Re Cattolico Al Cardinal CarafFa - Al Cardinal Caratla - Al medesimo - Al Cardinal di Mantova Istruzione al P. T. Stella - Al Re Cattolico Al Re Cattolico Al Cardinal CaralTa - Al Re Cattolico - - Al Gran Maesti-o della Reli- gione. Al Arciveseovo di Toledo - A D" Ant" di Tolledo Al Re Cattolico Alia Ducliessa di Parma - Al Padre Confessore Afres- neda. Al Cardinale Caraffa A. D. Gio. de ^ega so^ira Preside ate del Consilio Regio. Al Cardinal di Burgos Al Re Cattolico Al Re Cattolico Al medesimo fDi Mons' Priuli al CI"" M. I Antonio suo fratello. AlGiberti - A. D, Gio. de Vej?a sopra , Presidente del Configlio. LAir Arciveseovo di Toledo - Parere della Sorenissima Rogina de Inp;hiltcrrache ella scrisse di sua propria mano et diede a lions' Rmo Legato al tempo che si fese il sinodo tradotto di lingua Iiiglese. Canterbury Richemoud Londra • • Londra Londra Londra Londra Londi-a Granuzzi Londra * • S. Jacomo Londra Londra Londra Londra Londra Londi-a Londra Granuzzi Granuzzi Granuzzi Granuzzi Granuzzi - S. Giacomo Lambert! • Londi"a Loudi-a Londra Londra — Maggio 1557 • 4 Agosto 1557 2Settembrel557 - • «■ ** 17 Novembro 1557 7 Decembre 1557 - 13 Uecembre 1557 — Decembre 1557 14 Decembre 1557 4 Gennaro 1558 — Gennaro 1558 10 Gennaro 1558 10 Gennaro 1558 2 Febbraro 1558 2 Febbraro 1558 5 Marzo 1558 5 Marzo 1558 1 Marzo 1558 9 Marzo 1558 9 Marzo 1558 12 Marzo 1558 30 Marzo 1558 14 Aprile 1558 11 AprilelSSS 14 Aprile 1558 II di della Scen- sione 1558. 6Setterabrol558 • 25 Settembre 1558 27 Novembre 1558 5 Decembre 1558 5 Decembre 1558 Italiana, It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. Liuee 19. 17. 19. 17. 16. 15. 17.- 25. 82. 23. 31. 64. 21. 16. 19. 12. 10. II •I •I *• »• *t II •I H II tt m M tf *» •I II M •I • I N »• • I •I H tl • I n N 19. 12. 26. 10. 9. 10. 11. 21. 25. 20. 27. 263. 223. 31. 6d. M. Lettcre del Cardinale Polo (Italiane) „ della Regina d' Inghilterra „ del Re Cattolico - „ di i^Ions' Priuli - • _ del Faitta - - • .. dell* Ab« Saluto • del Cardinal Polo (Latine) No. 254 6 1 4 1 1 I* II II II II IntuttoNo. 267 - I. 82 In tutto No. 349 r I 1)1 268 I Papa Paolo III. 2G9 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa [ Papa ' Papa Paolo TIL Paolo IIL Paolo III. Paolo III. Paolo IIL Paolo IIL Paolo III. Paolo IIL Julio IIL Ex agro Pa- tavino. Papa Julio III. Al medesimo - MarcelloPi). IL Marcello Pp. IL Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV. Paulo Pp. IV, Exmonaste- terio Ma- gunzani. Londini Londini Caleto Richmondia * a # Londini Latina, Lineo 60. VIII. Junij 1553 - Die ult* Novemb. 1554. 24 Junij 1555 Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. II II •I II •I II II II II 2-26. 31. 38. 16. 18. 18. 34. 16. 41. 61. II II f» II II II u n 4i. 48. S3. 43. 30. 14. 25. 36. I I 49 OS A chi dirctta. Luogo. Data. 287 Paulo Pp. IV. 288 Paulo Pp. IV. 289 Paulo Pp. IV. 280 Paulo Pp. IV. 291 Paulo Pp. IV. 2S^2 Paulo Pp. IV. 293 Regi Gallonun l'>ancisco, nomine Legatorum in Concilio Tridentino. 294 Regi Gal. Francisco - 295 Mari.TC Reginfp Anglitc 296 Philippo Regi ac Marite Ro ginaj Angli.T. 297 Philippo Regi Londini Tridenti Roniac 298 Al medesimo - 2S9 Al medesimo - 800 Al medesimo - 301 Al medesimo - 302 Al medesimo - 303 Al medesimo - 304 Philippo Regi 305 Al medesimo - - . S06 Al medesimo - - - 307 Al medesimo - - . 308 Al medesimo - . . 309 Andr»aj Gritti Duci Vene- tiarum. 310 Laurcntio Priulo Duci Vene- tiarum. 811 Marehionissfe Piscariu» 312 G. Card" Contareno - 813 G. Contareno Cardinali 314 Al medesimo - - - 315 Al medesimo - - . 316 Al medesimo - - . 317 Al medesimo - 318 Al mcd, simo - - - 319 Al medesimo • - - 820 Al medesimo - - - 821 Al medesimo - - - 322 Al medesimo - 828 Guidoni Ascanio Sfortiro Cardinali. 824 R. Pio Card" Carpcnljo 325 Erardo Card'' lieodiensi 826 Erardo Card" Leodiensi 827 Erardo Card" Leodiensi 828 Cardinali Sadolcto - 829 Al medesimo - - - 330 Card" Jlaniuai 831 Card" Tridentino - 832 Card" Tridentino - 833 Card" Burgenji 834 Card" Augustano 335 Al medesimo - - . 836 Card" Scotisc - 837 Card" S. Marcelli - 338 Card" S. Marcelli - 339 Card" Tranensi 340 Cosmo Gerio fancns. Epi- scopo ... 341 Joa. Mulhoo Giberto Episc. Vcronente. XL Julij 155 i Ex monaste- rio Dili- gam. Bruxelles - XXI. Sept. 155-1- : Bruxelles - , 27 Ottobre 1554 •j - - - I . Epenovichio ' - ; (sic). Londini . I Placcnti.'e Lugduni XXIIIJ. Martis 1537. Roma' Roma; Romu! Romae Roma? Roma^ Roma5 Bruxelles Londini Romae • * Capranica) IV. Febniarij XV II I J. Jaiuiarij 1555. 342 313 344 845 346 347 348 349 Stanislao Hosa?o Al medesimo - Episcopo Paumi Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Al medesimo - Magistro Sacri Palatij Rbbo Episcopo Vannonsi Rouellonaein - Montibus Eugorueis. Balnei Regij I XV. Cal. Quintilis, I 1550. Balneo Regio - Roma)- - - Richmondia ' 8 Julij 1555 Monasterio i VI. August! 1553 - Mangsani. j Romae Annotazione. Latina, Linee 39. J^at. „ 38. Lf^t. „ 133. Lat. „ 35. Lat. „ 121. I^t. „ 181. Lat. „ 38. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. liat. Lat. Lat. liat, Lat. Lat. Lat. I^t. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. Lat. I, 3^. II 115. ., 113. II 50. ij >» II •I II i» 11 n •I »l ir II •I 140. 35. 29. 38. 27. 83. 26. 75. 36. 41. 88. 61. 48. I. 78. I, IM. lU. •I II •I II 51 II II 11 l» l> II II l» II II • I II II II II 51. 38. 55^. 28. 34. 114. 44. 78. 43. 48. 219. 110. 86. 28. 64. 130. 55. 31. 108. 83. 289. 81. 49. 24. 531. 74. 39. 64. Lat. 9f 23. Lat. ft 22. Lat. 99 3C2. Lat. 189. Lat. 205. Lat. »f 65. Lat. 99 461. 134. D 50 c. Translations of some Letters relating to Cardinal Pole/ Letter from Marc Antonio Faitta to the Doctor in Divinity, Tpfolito Chizzuola. Dated London the 3rd May A-D 1556. Translated by Mr. Rawdon Brown, from a Manuscript m bt. Mark's Library, No. 24, Class 10. London, 3 May, A.D. 1556. I HAVE willed to atone for my past neglect, through thvi^^^^Y^^f ^^ Missier Michiel by giving particular advice to your Excellency of affairs W"ln^ olthe 7el?beiirg'of the most illustrious and -?^t^^^^^^^^^^^^^ T,ord our common Master, who had himself ordained priest on tne ^utn ultimo and o^ThT22nd was consecrated bishop, and received tbonallnan ?n the Cathedral church. As this, however, did not seem well to the most serene Oueen for some reason or other, his most reverend Lordship deter- mfned on array°n.r himself therein, here in London, in one of the principal Siurches of his diocese; and so on the day of the Annunciation being accompanied by many nobles and barons, and by some of the members of the cS, I wen\ to a church called St. Mary's of tbe Arches on entering which, some of its parishioners presented him with a paper, Bmyins his most reverend Lordship would deign to commence by giving S spir tual food to those souls which God had entrusted to tiB char^e^ So on the conclusion of the ceremonies, and having been invested with fhe pan/'rSis most reverend Lordship -^^'vcd thus nnprcpared o^ saluting his audience with a few words, speaking in the f°"°^-'"P t«™^. , " On entering this church, for a purpose which I had desired might be explained iif a sermon by a person learned, and fj-- '-g,ff "™;; very suited to this office, its parishioners presented me with a paper nra?in" me with great earnestness and affection to perform this act in person" and t^ commence by tendering spiritual food to those souls com- mTtted to my care. I have not only resolved not to deny a demand so hist but Tave even derived the greatest consolation thence, remem- Crin" that in my life's whole course none of my actions have ever yielded ine greater satisfaction than tho.se to which the Divine M«Jf tJ de-gned to call me and whose execution, as in this instance, conduced to Ood s honour and^lorv fecdinc' thus the souls of those committed to my charge ImofSihese perchance, there maybe some who wil listen o mo out of curiosity, or to comment on what T say ; and to such 1 shall observe that any other learned and accomplished man would satisfy them vastly better than my meai^s permit. But there may also be s°"«:^^° ^>" '^"^ to mc for the pure love of God's Word and these I am '•,'^^'ly *".// ^/y ' nor will I ever brook that, from any defect of mine there be applied to me those words of holy writ, concerning the people of IsraeS ^^ " Parvuli petierunt panem, et non qui cis Irangcret, neither will I imitate those masters, who eating white bread them- selvesc'ive bread, black and unsifted, to their servants. I shall give to you the%arae tha I myself am used to eat, and this bread is noU,iing but Ss Word, which, received in the form and sense wherein offered, pro- duces iniracilons effects, and bears the fruit of life for him who embraces '' ^.. win Inibe"; qui deseondet de ca.lo et illuc ultra non revertitur, sed mebriat terram et infundit cam, et gerniinare eam tacit. AUudintr then to the cause of his coming, he said, • j j i,„ - You must know that the cause of my commg here was -duc^d by my having been appointed legate many months since by ^^/^ Holiness o^ tlie Pope who is Christ's vicar and the supreme head of His ^hurcn upon eTrth, for the sake of reconciling this kingdom to God from wh^^^ it was so miserably severed, like a limb from the ^^f ' /"^^^ f ^^ to reunite it and restore it to obedience tx) the ^PO^^^h^^^^^^^ now again newly sent as legate to this church ot Canterbury in par ticularT and to all those dependant on its diocese. As this is the tirst 51 time of my entering any church subject to my care, I imagine that you will not expect of mc any other sermon or discourse, since I merely came to take the archiepiscopal pallmm; it having, indeed, been my intention, having given my orders to this effect, to receive it in the prin- cipal church of my diocese, but being prevented on several accounts, I was compelled to receive the investiture here. Since on the first entry of any one into any place, it is usual to salute the bystanders, so also shall I do, saluting you in the manner taught by Jesus Christ to his Apostles, to whom he said, "In quamcumque domum intraveritis dicite pax huic domui," and thus saluting you with all affection and charity, I say to you, peace be unto you ; peace to ye men and women, peace to ye old and young, and to every description of person here present be there peace. Christ taught this form of salutation to His apostles, in order that into whatever house they entered, and to which they might have given peace, and finding therein the children of peace, peace might rest thereon. And so likewise here, should there be the children of peace, God's peace, in which consists all the happiness that man can desire or imagine, will remain with them ; and this is that peace which not only gives quiet to man on earth, but, more- over, ineffable joy to the angels in heaven, who manifesting God's counsel and peace, that is to say, Jesus Christ the blessed, when approximating this world, they commenced singing with so great grace and joy, " Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bona3 voluntatis." Proceeding then to explain the ceremony and signification of the pal- Hum, he said that, " In the time of the primitive church, when any one was consecrated as archbishop, by which consecration a power was conferred of such a nature as to be supreme after that of Christ's vicar on earth, yet was it not lawful to exercise such power until after having received this 'paliium, yvhich being taken from St. Peter's body and placed on the archbishop elect, merely signified that as his power and authority proceeded from that body, so likewise was he bound to yield a correspondence and obedience like that of members to their head. Thus our holy mother Church, ever guided by the Holy Ghost, ordained this form lest the archbishops, enjoying so great authority by separating themselves from their head, might have caused great trouble and disorder in the Church, instead of acknowledging this power as held neither of themselves or of others, but only of Christ's vicar, who is the Roman Pontiff, and that thus there might ever be main- tained this unity. And though in byegone times it has been greatly dis- turbed by certain archbishops and patriarchs, nevertheless it has ever been seen for a notable example that those who acted thus, together with the countries committed to their government, have been, by God, most severely punished, as were the patriarchs of Constantinople and of Alex- andria, who, ha\'ing strayed from this ufiity, passed by God's just judg- ment under the cruel tyranny and insupportable yoke of the Turks, which bears on them so wretchedly, and since so long a while. The like was also manifested too clearly in the persons of the archbishops of Ravenna, who greatly opposed this unity, but finally perceiving their error, were reconciled to and rejoined this head. Thus, then, an archbishop cannot exercise the power extended to him on his consecration until he receive permission to this effect from Christ's vicar by means of this pallium, derived, as I said, from St. Peter's body, and sent by the Pontiff. These pallia are now-a-days made of lamb's wool, consecrated by being placed near St. Peter's body, and are afterwards forwarded to such as have been consecrated as archbishops. They are made of this lowly material, and in the form of a cross, as a contrast to the rich ornaments of gold and jewels usually worn by archbishops, as a symbol how all their power and authority received through Christ's vicar, proceeds and is derived from that immaculate Lamb, of which it is written in the Apocalypse, ** Dignus est Agnus qui occisus est accipere virtutem et honorem et. gloriam." " The archbishops then, being invested with this pallium made of the wool of lambs, and in the form of a cross, ought at the same time to array themselves in humility, in charity, and in patience, and take up the D 2 53 those committed to their care. returned again to his comments XL or uuderstaud, comparing it to the hidden maima, plain or u .. Quod nemo 6Cit, nisi qui accipit „„j ,,„ „aded .„d in wliicli aW. ^e ^^^^^:::i^^:^l 'o^teV^or from this their peace ^"'it"'«f«'«-^y'^'J^tom he asked for his people' « Solomon, whol.eing so favoured otxod, of Whom U^^^ aiscern'ing the good government, the pft of wdom and the P ^^ ^.^ God, who, that all was hut vanity and vexation ot spirit. philoso- Hismost reverend Lo''l^^''P.t^«\^=°"X°^\ \tir oecupati the pbers from obtaining peace, that ^^« ''"^ ,y • 'it"eoiisisted in the fear Lrst possible ; adding, that *'»? ]f.f ^ jf ,^™drents, and that this of God, and in the execution «/ H'f l;'" f ^°P^^ „^„f • other sort of peace, therefore, f %^>"Wed neithcT t^hat of «^i^",;=^ °;^„,/„f ,.bich poor excellence, or that of honour, or ot "«f ^^.;." ° ' -^-i,;, peace was coni- nen.and those of low estate X'tdartithe'sa4 and skilled ; to tho won both to the ignorant and "nle^^"^^^^ '" to youlh as to age ; and to ignoble as to the noble ; to man as to "O/nan to Jouiu as , ^^^^ every condition of person, provided '> J^f J«^^';^^ since there descended offered. Neither is any labour required fo ^--^- --fi*',:,a. who came from Heaven peace mearna e "»™^.'> .• 7;""A" free us from eternal war. to die and sacrifice Himselt for "Y,relf wherefore wo ought not to be giving us true P^^-^^' ^\^'^J' '^^Xrefl h tS men;y. lest there ab oculis tuis ; " ^ , ^ ^^^^ jj^g g^-gat end thus exclaimed hel. sa> ^ *? J""/ T?"" ^^ .- On uttering which grace God grants you, ^he mission of this peace u J',,^,;^ ^ords,his most reverend Lordshm CO Id otcslrain his ^^^ ^_^^^^^ ^^_ ^ uttered that expression ' n-onia you ^ '«'»"';' "remained silent for a moment, and then addu.g, "jj"'^"^ fl«"f ''^'^gn after a little, he con- short while, Ws;.y- ^^-r^. -'^^'„tw what has parsed. I pray you guard ^Cainl" thc°f turT •• andThose words " SI 4no-W' he uttered with "i;iI^:\-t;:lw;S:rr\Tw-m^^^^^^ pefce,Xn, which I am come to offer yoii on t^e par of God .™i^ ^e re^ to her in these words Dominiis tecum," and although she ^^ ^^ :^\:^'^l!i ^^^ rrt Tfnutmrr^ly'^wSfnVte^e"^^^^^^^^^^ of God's will for its hotter execution, ^^^^^^ • ^^ ;,,„,, ^„oniam virum non cognosco ^ • ^, if she wolTld fail, know, whether ^^^f -^^^^^JP^f tt hlv n'g V" anTiftrnaturallv since naturally she could not conceive, nob u b "^S^^^ man. WhereuU tbo «ngel an-^re^ her - Spiritus sanctus supervemet m to, ct virtus Altissismi tibi," and hence, comprehondinir immediately that the Holy Ghost would be the author of so miraculous a conception, she replied, " Ecce ancilla Domini ! fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum." And here it must be considered that she did not doubt the fact, but from mere anxiety to obey the will of God, inquired concerning the mode, neither would she be curious and say, *' How can the Holy Ghost effect this ? " nor, in fine, would she constitute herself the judge of God's word, as did the first woman, who, being invited by the serpent to contemplate the :ipple's beauty, commenced judging God's commandment, causing thus her own fall from so great happiness into such an abyss of misery. For the reparation of such presumptuous pride no other antidote was re- cpiired than this simple humility of the glorious Virgin, who did not like Eve, make herself the judge of God's word, but venerating it in humility, believed in the Holy Ghost's omnipotence ; and thus, through her great modesty, quem Deus respexit, she obtained for the world that grace and peace which the first woman lost, through her pride and temerity." His most reverend Lordship then continued, that the holy Writ afforded examples of three persons to whom God had spoken through His angel, announcing to them great joy. The first was that of Gideon, to whom the angel said, '* Dominus tecum," &c. ; whereupon he was most ex- tremely perturbed, fearing death ; (because after the sin of the first man, to whom God's angel spoke as commanded by God, forbidding him to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, under pain of death ; but Adam having disobeyed, on hearing God's approach from a distance, thought to fioe and hide himself, lest God should give him death :) wherefore, from that time forth, all to whom God spoke feared death as •lid Gideon likewise, to whom, although the angel said afterwards, ** fear ** not Gideon, thou shalt not die, but wilt free the people of Israel from ** the hands of her enemies," yet* did this seem impossible to him on ac- count of his decrepid age, and because his wife was barren and very old indeed, nor could he believe ere he received a sign, and as the penaltv of this, his incredulity, he remained speechless until his son was carried to the temple. The third instance was that of the most glorious Virgin, who without entertaining any doubt, received in all humility the peace offered to her, in whose imitation, you ako, to whom as to her, the first sound of God's word may appear strange as repugnant to the flesh, and to human sense, yet by receiving it in simplicity and humility, as did on this day the blessed Virgin, it will lead you to a peace truly blessed, and which will render you the children of God. And as Christ said to his apostles, " Beati pacifici, quoniam ipsi filii Dei vocabuntur ;" the which peace will quiet your hearts, irradiate your minds, and cause you to despise the vain and transitory affairs of this world, making you journey in the way of the Lord, and possessing in 3-ourselves the light of life. And, when listening to the Word of God, should you perchance ever doubt of any point, you ought to demand its explanation in all humility, as did the glorious Virgin, and not with a disposition to judge the Word of God as it was judged by Eve, interpreting it according to your own sense, but rather, that by knowing Gx)d's will, you may be bette*r enabled to execute it. And to whom will you apply for this information ? Surely to none others than to those whom God has appointed through His spouse the Church, with which He will ever remain till the end of time, namely, to your curates and deacons. And immediately on hearing in what sense you ought to take it, conformably to the doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church, then ought you to be *^ ready to execute what you know to be the will of God, in like manner as did the glorious Virgin, who said, " Ecce ancilla Domini ! fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum ;" and do you thus make a sacrifice of your hearts to God, and be ready to keep His holy commandments, and then He will come to you and dwell • The text oppoars here to be imperfect, havin>? passed on without notice to other subjects. ,1 If t: 1 i r 54 with vou brinffini? you the true internal peace, together with tbe treasure :}V:i\sIoZ gfvLg you in thi. world -tr^e ha^^^^^^^^^ the other, life and peace eternal; which may God grant to all, lor c\er au ^"'sut f^o^'ss to you honestly, and in all truth, that with how great grace his most' reverend LordLip delivered thi»brcf sermon, ^hus unnreoared by so much the less have I described it, omitting many &?ngs which I did not write down at the moment, because I was unable *° O "th"e 'conSn of X ™n, his most reverend Lordship went to dine with the EarTofrembroke. this being the first time he has eaten firoad since his return to England, and the said carl treated h.m very ''^The'stmon, although simple, and delivered without preparation gave much pleasure notwrihsUndiug, and we have heard since that it bore eood fruit during the Holy Week. We then . eturncd to the Court, where furhig all tti-s Lent, «ix^.r eight ,.ri.:.t» hav., ,prciich.|a 'ojfj^^ learnedly and with such piety, that I can ».iy with trnth, that I i ever hea?d be«e"in all my lifo ; and on ll..ly Thursday at Ihr.r o clock .n Ihc arernoon [he most scrciio Queen performed the cerc.noi.y ol the loot '^ Wpl"fta^stv''beine aocompanifid by Iho mort reverend Legato and by th? Co^n n %nS r lar Jo hall, I tbo head of which ^^ >^J^^ Bishop of Ely, the Deacon of tbo liuocir* Ohaplaum. with '•»« /^ ''°^ 'Jj"^'' of her Majesty's chapol. Around thi, ball, on clbor «<»«. t^ore -^oro slated on certain benchon. with tboir foot on 8looK """iyf°°l^^^„ thoamountof forty and one, buc i being tho number of Ibe ntn OT Mio mosncrene Quee^.'^ Then ono of tho»o of the Court of low ccnd, .on Winrwashed the riirht foot of each of Iboxo poor pomon*. and ihm func^on S also i o^xt porfor.nod by the Under Ab".'»er. »oJ «Uo by [he Grand AlLner, wl.0 i^ the »'-}i<>l' "f t'''-''"''''-' l7';.^^:-S'„cr«r commenced the ceremony in the foUowuiK tnannor ■-'^V 1? H^ ?.f thrhill there was a grv/l numbor .>f tU* ol.i«f dame. ..i«J noble l»dl« of the Court and they j^«,.a.uikI ll»*ir ncrtM »cy hung a towel, which w«» »o long w lo ""^i" I^'^TV *'2nS' tw'w and each of them boro » oiWcr ••or filled w.lh water. -wJ "^J^ flowers hi their handi. Her Jl«j««ly «Uo being arrayed in like manner. knllt down on both bor kocct fefcw the fin.1 of the IkmH- women, and havng taken "n the l.ft b««l her riKU foot .ho waUied a «^«^ ^cr OTO ri<.l t hand drying it vctt well with lb« towel which huii); M JforatOl, anThav ng sS^d it with the cro«. .bO ki«ed H «> fcrvrnlly ihnt xi seemed asif sf e were cn.br.cing .otnclhing rwy pr«:uni» M.- .«tod .n thisVameway by all and each of tbc other poor woown, one by .m • , coch of thL ladTes her a^ttendau«. giving her ju turn th«r ^'^.^^^ «^ towel • and I swear to yoS that in all bor movement and gettnre*. and *by h ; dinner, she secmW to act tUu. ,.ot '"'^'y,^;!"^'''*^:^-^^ f;;-.m f«-Unff aod aObetioo. Aoooagsl ihow dcm«Mt»tiOB» iMre wo« [hUW«««ta*1?^m*ly. tJu»t in wm.hing tbo fool Ae went llu. whole toiToTTSr ball, from^u* end to tbo «Ui«r. J""."" ,»',f, ^ lU?^ finUbed »»d ri»cn on h«r feci, tbo rcturae-l w the ke»^ ?f ««f Wl S^vc in tart, to coh of the poor -^"^ •, i^'->!''.*°±l»'^ wbich cocilained eiuMgh food foe tour pcnoiw. flllcd with great pH«w Tf^lt^nuh and tu/t l«»vc.. «nd thn« .bo went a .ocond UOM ^trf l«t"g thi^ ^m»."hc next rrtun.ed a tbirxl time. »«H»-«>?»»«|^"'«^ »^ Ote bS»d of tbc hall K»vc to eocb of tlv«e a wooden cup filled witb w«c. or liXr! I AittV. ffppocr*.; alter which, for ibe foiirl h t.m*, •!» %w7ned and gave to K of thci* jHKir p~pK..a piece of cloth of n>J^ BbdMrc to olo^O tbcnwrtw with. Theo rcluriung for the fiW. timo. the S^W ^h a pS- of dioo* a»d .toee»g« ; for tS« .ixtU ''^f.. ♦j'" J^V^ ^ web a loalhin piirw. ««taiwi>g forty^nc peuniw. ««»j;J»n« ^*' more than half au lufian goldo.i crown i fin.-ilU. for Ac ;J«*» **!»*• ^d moved from tho bc»d of th» hall n«>d di»»rlbut«d aU lh«e apvooa aaa 55 towels, which those dames and noble ladies had bonie, and which were i.. number forty-one. giving each with her own hand Her mIlIpJ^ ii,„ quitted the hall to take off the robe which she hid worn and Wf,^n h^ ■ fnThn'^^'K'^' '■"i"™?''' •'""^ P''"'^^"^ by one carrying the said rob^ '• and thus she went twice round the hall, examining very closely all thos '■ .poor women, one by one; and then returning for the third °me she eav- the said robe to one who was in truth the poorest and the mok aged of and wli «^y°^° ''"' f '^' ^T' P"'-P'« ^1°*, lined with ma te^> fur and with sleeves so long and wide that they reached tho ground During this ceremony the choristers chaunted the^Miserere, with^corTah; other psalms, reciting at each verse tho -.v ,.i-,]s, certain A ft ^i.'- ■"•" '^'^"'l '"'^ mwlier quae erat in c'ivitato pcccatrix." Alter this, on Friday morning, the offertory was performed n,.nAr.i;„„ to custom in the church of the^Franciscan Friart,^S 1 contituonf mJL^.P"'"*'^-^'^^'^:; tbe passion, for the adoration of the Cross" her ^vitl^/^rr '^'"T" ^'T}""' """"^'y' accompanied by my Lord the risht t/^w«.^. It I - 1 ' .-"..^..«^ «H*«ou«i v«i.Yw»oce from me croji^, moved -idkuJd';^ nLfr""' P^°J'"K ''^•'?'.o it «;Tic«. o»d Ibeu rfie d.^C^,^S Si .h^ J • P">'^^""""'« t'»'«.»cl with inch derotioo as greatly to odifV Thl ,^ "ho wcr* pn.«cnt. Her JInjorty next ga.-o hcrT^icO^ t^ IhermK, and ,u ,uodo w*, Uiui !-A baiVier waS nu.od for W lUii^tv toAo nght of h« high altar, by mean, of four iK^iuhci. pLoS «Cto ftr». »qo»ro „,to Ibo «lrt« o| which .h* a«ai„ came oa (hem weft II rough li r hawir^vi^, aftoUwT prayer, whicb cooimcnced thiu :— ' * _, . ^. " "•■etifiea, Oominc. nanutoa ixtoi." S^?^o!^f^^ tbi« net pr.v*u.|y m a g„||cry wbore tbero w^ro no* anoTc twenty perooii. i oad an altar beJmr raiwd there rIio IcnfU IZa rt-cited ,be coiifcMlon. on ibo cooelwionuf whicb b^ M^rtr tiJrSSd tow»«fa my m«t reverend Lo«l the Ugau,. wl«, ^o h« .SJSST .»,» ^.. 1 " ^"'r."". "S^ """O" impooet ct lieoo liabehnnt." «„ fc? L ""* "^ "'*"' 'i'''"" '"""«° ♦<■ •» I'roiiL'ht up to ber and over on Ihc .pgt where tbo tore woj. with .uch charity oad darotioo aT^ boa manel; and whiUt tbo continued doing this to a inti. Md to tbi^ womoo. the pm«t kept orw repeating tb«c »ame word.- Tben, oo t«f muiBting the Uo«p»l. aftir tbo wonhi-. . , . " ^" pnnoipoo erat Vorbum." and on connng to (bow following, namely— m Jidunl^r* '"" '»"»"■»» «»»«'» botnincm venicntew in hnto li^"a^,r'"r.' ^i""" Q'T^".™*^"^ '•'*'.'''<* P*"!*'* come np to ber asain Sf^hrCrri 1 ""'"'i '"'*. ^^'"F * ""Wen coin, uamelv. an angel the ton^wl the place where the evil »bowod iUclf.a.id .igiK^ it »ith Tbia coi^ tbrough a hoV which had been pionsod lii the coin, »r^ nli^fWo* ih™ port with thai coin, which wa« hhtMcd. aavc in c»m of cxlrooM oetd inid Aoo. ^viiig wadicd ber hand*, (lie napkin being prc««l«d to Kr m v Lord be rigl.1 revereiid U.o Legate, shrr^rncltrw oratory- ' ^ Bein« preirent iny«lf 04 all ,hc afo,e«ud e«««aKuii«i hit MaicMv lu'^tl"" " '"^i'-V I' ««•» nnd raw oxoinpleTgoSiT^.. ^rfoXinu- ^l^"* "Pt,'"-\.'^ '^'■"'*y "™» l->vo of «liSSn.^erWTfe' niih^ ^^J"^ -uc* alfcrtion awl gwaii fMigae. And toeing thu. that Li ' i 66 57 proportion as her Majesty advances in this kingdom's government, so does she daily exhibit greater and fresher opportunities for lauding her great piety, I dare assert that there never was a queen in Christendom of greater goodness than this one, whom I pray God long to save and prosper, for the glory of His divine honour and for the edification and exaltation of His holy Church, not less than for the consolation and salva- tion of the people of this island. I will not omit telling you that on Holy Thursday alms were distributed here in the court to a great amount, to upwards of 3,000 persons. And this reminds me that my most reverend Lord the Legate, having sent in advance to Canterbury to make great provision for his entry — which, subsequently, the Queen refused on any account to permit — his most reverend Lordship then caused all his provisions to be distributed amongst the poor, two thousand of whom were reckoned, and these alms were t-aken to their houses. Nor do I include herein the alms given to many other poor people who had flocked to Canterbury from the neighbourhood, all which caused his most reverend Lordship to be now more anxiously wished for by that people (of Canterbury) than ever. Letter from the Caudinal Pole to the Marchioness of Pescara,* dated Padua, A.D. lo46, October 4. Translated by Mr. Rawdon Brown, trom the MS. in St. Mark's Library, No. 24, Class 10. Most Illustrious Lady, and my most revered Mother, Immedlvtely on our Lilio's arrival here, at his first interview with me, he laboured with all the power of words to make me understand how much, and from the heart, your Excellency wishes me well. I, as if the fact were new to me, and never hitherto known, allowed him to say as much as he would, and which continued for a long while, awaiting the conclusion he would draw thence ; and, had this proved such as was war- ranted, that is to say, had he made a comparison between my behaviour and your so great and more then maternal love, condemning me for in- gratitude, (since neither in word or deed have I ever evinced the slightest return for such aflection, but on the contrary have rather acted contrariwise, which he might easily have demonstrated,) I should have been greatly pleased by such just reproof, given me with that simplicity which I have ever loved in him. But as he came to no further conclusion, I myself shall draw an inference, so much the more to my confusion, as I feel my error without ever correcting it ; yet I cannot say that I ha-ve not studied to com- pass what I know is my duty herein. Nevertheless, finding by experience that it does not answer according to my wishes, I let it be, as if Cod had withheld from me the grace of satisfying our mind in that one respect, which I so earnestly desire, and which in truth greatly troubles me some- times ; and seeking to soothe myself, the only consolation I find, as I said and wrote to your Excellency heretofore, is in persuading myself that the divine will has ordained this in order to grant to you that first reward promised to all those who are beneficent, and do not expect any such, as our Lord declares in the parable of those who invited the poor to their banquets. Thus it docs not allow me the means of tendering that courtesy which your Excellency extends to me ; and I comfort myself with this hope, praying God to grant ample retribution, and with my soul's so much the greater affection, inasmuch as I feel my own utter inability to effect this of myself, though I thus enjoy the image of divine love as ex- emplified by great charity, which although it meet with no return in its object, yet does it never cease the continuation of its goodness, nay multiplies it so much the more, as does your Ladyship by me ; wherefore I thank the Lord infinitely for this experience, imploring pardon for my defects, first of His infinite goodness, and in the next place of your Ex- cellency. '"■-■' — .1 - — ■ ,. ■ I ■ -Ill -I .1 ■ — ■ ,. „ , — ■ ■ -^^ — ^^^^^ ^^^ — ^ • Vittoria Colonna, the widow of Ferdinand Francesco d'Avalos. \i It is needless for me to say anvthino* oUp nf m'.r r^^^A'*- .i , of this is our Lilio, who will I ^7^^^^^^^^ . i«y condition, as the bearer the great conveniJces which Ten^^^^^ of all both of excellent Bembo, where I remain ii tvf^ fi, f i •^P''^^ ""^ *^^ ^°st 7 ^ .1 , Amodo voca me Pater, mens es t\\ S.r4 .""S" "'" ^° ""■"•" " -■ " • «"* '--"y --i.™. IS* r.-Srsisi'S""' ■""■"• ■»- "■" ""■ tmuedtothispreseTnordo?knor?v. f /^"^"''' '^'"^ "•^ic'i ^as con- be to cry to tlio Scfan in HoavPn n ». w "''^ <=°"?""i"g >*. "nless it as I hav-e not the hearrto th^nW W r *.,^'' may de.gu and succour you, to take any other remedy 'aye advf J'T ^ " -^""r ^ Phj^ician you ough which I implore you to allow y^r^^fffr™'"" "^.f /"'^ """'' concerning oraison« I very mC"htmS ;;:«]/ ^" ^"""^<="^''' «"d '» -Vour deyou-t From Padua, the 4th of October, A.D. 1516. Letter from the Cardinal Pole to the Cinnmi, c. from tlie Palacp «f «St T, " ^^ardinal Caraffa, dated to remedy other defects and r1i«nr.Ji^!. • \"^ j , ^ ^'^^ crown, as also through tie corruption and bad 'ove^^^^^^^^^ ^^"^ clergy, by means of this Parliament and llT.l' ,,? ■ P^'^ '""'=^' «"'! t^us expense to the prelates, we have Lv r Jr '^'""""^ luconvenience or conyocation. ' ' ^^ ^ c^^ « g>-ace, now commenced the said bythe'Soro^^L^^ndo^in^r Xp^^l If ^.^^^ ^^^^ - chaunted the usual ceremonies were performeris cut^.^^^'^'.P.t'''^^''''''^'- ^l-'d* of synod. We then adjourned to a 'hall of fTf^ ^ *''^'^°'""'*'"=^'"'="t arranged for this purpotc, both because I «! 1.!, '"'l'*/»l'«c which was serene Queen, as also because my I nrd ^f ^r^^i ^^''^' "«^'' ^^^ ™°«t grieyously indisposed, and resides in tL «» Wmchester, who is yery On this first dOT nothing wa, hL^ ""^ P'''^"^' "'^y attend. ^ and others of the clergy^ X°cr;, 1?L' •" '^J^^}"'^^"''^' l-'^^ops causes of this conyocatf/n Tnd w^ich 7 1, ?, ^iVi,„„if P'^J®^'- "^^ 9^ ""r country people, reverend Lord who in hlfrin^f ""^ conveyed the news to my most then said to histtimate fS theTiXon'^of'sTV'"" I ^^°? ""''^ ^^^ were present, that in the whde coursf of hk life Lfv ''\^5'^ *° "'^' ^^^^ the course of^ he Queen's life aG o? h '" '^u °{'>'}'^'' "^"d- that in a great conformity, afshe like hi,^L?f\r, ''*' ^^^ "^"^ '■<>°iarked man wears for onp nVf^ u, ' wmsclf, had been harassed durinc so God to'^raLe her to the throne'ZVr'"' ^^^ ^"erwards, when it plefsed troubles entailed by that eieVa^^^ greatly part cipated in all her other ship, and to the grLt s milarUv of th^ir H '° ''•l-'^'^'^ ^^l'"^'^ ''^l^ti""- conBdence which Lr Ma e" v demnLfl I , ■ 'Pu"-''''""'' •^"'^ '° "^« g^eat ing these facts, as alL tht i™^e m ,fv,iS'° ?"?' '^^^"^ ^^^^ consider- death, he could not but feelTprL™.f *v. ^"^'"^ "/«''' ''^^"1' ^om her same faith and reliance on the'Lfvine V^^^a' ^''' ^l ^°'^'' g™««' "^^^ forted him in all his adversities m-Z.Ti ^^^'de^icc which had ever com- and additional infl ct!on He uttfr!^ J^ ''°"'°'^f ^"^ '° *'^ «° grievous evident they cai^ frZ kis ver v Wrt 3 T"''*' '° ^^'""''^y- 'h^*" was of consolation, at percSvW how our L^rd r n/^f ''^^^ T^^^ '''•" '° *«^" at such a moment/ had srantedT h^L rf' ^''V£^ ^ ^"""^ received might soothe not only h^^^lKt^^o 1 . who'lovfdtr'''"^^' ^°^ ''"'^^ ho^' but h^^rht sS'^a^-re »r ^^^^ ^ '^^^^^ "^ - and brought on the „aro 'vs^t/r ' ^^^ ^^''°^^- '^"*^''^d into his flesli cold than he had hUherto eSennid""' ^^^"W^^i^d with more intense said he felt this would be Kst w'e f,,t^1''''7°?* T^^^''^ ^'''^dship be kept ready near him the hnnt .. . * ^!f ^^ '^^^"'^d that there might for the dying He tC hL °? contaimng those prayers which are slid which paJ- ol- the office vet r.!!!?"".' V'^T^^ ^^ "^"^1- and the Complin; two hoSrs before sunset^ hS on fhf ^'"^ '° ^^""^ • ^°<^ *'« ^^^ *bou also, as was his daUy custom *^ An^ T"^ "t™^ """""'"S ^'"'■^ "^^ss health that sainted Zlwa^rv'er WpH f r ' i' ^^f.^^dent that, as in and troublous malady din<.I^^„T '"• ^°^' ^° I'^ewise in this long and made its p"satre wAh <,,!! 1^ J' maintain that selfsame tendency^ than die, as di^d Kj^en iikewit'''''*T'.*^''','^" ''''^'^ '^'^'' *" «'^eP the act, none would have n!».wfi "° that,. had not a physician perceiveS My Affection has moved me t.,^ " ■'"'"^ °^ ^"J Majesty's departure, truly holy Prelate a,rdnff^ thus minutely to detail the end of this tell your^Ma^nlficence of the '^l^,^"\^T^- ^' "°^ ^^""^'"^ ^"^ "« *» a^nmcence of the will which his most reverend Lordship 1 60 determined on making, as your Magnificence will sec by the enclosed copy ; premising to you that I urged his most reverend Lordship with all instance not to have any thought for me ; that is to say, not to give me any other testimony of his affection than that of which I had ever felt most sure, or extend anything to me beyond his conviction of my love and faith towards him, but praying him to dispose of his property as he might deem most expedient ; but, as his most reverend Lordship remained fixed in this resolve, I considered it my duty to acquiesce finally, and not decline this pious charge which he chose to confer on me. His most reverend Lordship insisted at all events on leaving me some considerable portion of his possessions, to which I would by no means consent ; alleging to his most reverend Lordship, and to others who spoke to me on the subject, the mere truth, whicrh was, I doubted not, known to him, namely, that I had not come to him, or passed so many years with him, for any sake of acquiring honours or worldly convenience; nay, that when his most reverend Lordship had no rental, my mind was ever ready and made up, should he have experienced the want, as seemed probable, to give him not merely a part bat even the whole of my property. On the other hand, I so confided in his love for me that, had I been in need, I should have applied to his most reverend Lordship as to my own father. Since, however, our Lord God had not permitted him to need mine, or that I should require his, it would seem tome that I were injuring myself and others by accepting any part of this his property, Which he knew ought to be all distributed for pious purposes, and amongst needy persons, since I for my own part was aware, through God's grace, of having derived the greatest possible wealth from my intercourse with his most reverend Lordship, whilst by Divine grace, my mind was entirely free from the wish for any increase of temporal riches beyond what I hold, and which I consider very suffi- cient for my modest maintenance in that state wherein I find myself. I even dared say that I did not see what his most reverend Lordship could leave of sufficient value to be worthy either of him or of me ; but as he persisted in his proposition, I at length said and protested, that if, despite all these my entreaties, his most reverend Lordship insisted on specifying for me in his will some particular legacy, I was most determined on not accepting such at any rate, and that I should dispense the whole amongst these his poor relations and servants ; but that I should be greatly distressed at being reduced to th'is necessity for causing persons to suspect that my renunciation was induced by pride and arro- "-ance and from an impression that the bequest was inferior to my desertr., or else I should be accused of vanity for performing so extraordinary an act. With regard to his giving a proof to others of his affection for me, I said that, in addition to those so great and manifold which he had afforded at all times, this additional demonstration of freely confiding to me all his property ought to suffice. At length his most reverend Lordship yielded, and made" his will in the form which your Magnificence may see. I then, having risen from my bed, made with all modesty another re- quest to his most reverend Lordship,* namely, that he would make me understand as distinctly as possible his wishes concerning the distribution of his effects, in the hearing of his old familar friends, the Bishop of St. Asaph and the Dean of Worcester, and that of Messers Enrico and Giovanni Francesco, our countrymen, and thus was it done in the lifetime of his most reverend Lordship. A list was made of all these details by Messer Enrico, and on the completion of this paper I wanted to have it sigped in his right reverend Lordship's own hand ; but from lack of time, and from the inconvenience of his malady, as from other impediments, it was impossible fuHy to understand all his wishes ere the last day of his life, or in time to finish the list before the fit of the last paroxysm, which • The copy of the will is not piven in tho MS., thoucrh alluded to by A postal© Zcno in Ins notes on Fontanini : it scorns that Monsignor Priuli was left isole executor and dispenser at hi* pleasure of the Cardinal's property. ci ^me on before its usual time and was so violent, as narrated by me to vonr Magnifieence, that it became impossible to sign tl.is or any Kr papers My aim in this was, in any need, to make it known and tan Jible thafffi ITL^'^lT^^n^^ "'r ^"^ •^^P^'-'^'J '■'•°°> *e expressed wU of his rtu reverend Lordship ; after whose death, by the advice of thrpersonsabfvo named, it was thought well, and resolved not to commnnicate these rTr ticulars to any one until after the expenses of the obseZes and senuItCe" and of other very necessary and important matters had been d"fravedZ amount of which could not be foretold. Not knowinrthf. it rnf.tS „ '. k fully ctermined whether the funds would suffi^X the e;;;urn1>f"what «M« »? r^"^ ?!.''"*"'' concerning the will of his most reverend™ In L^^°^°'u "\*^^ testament itself and by word of mouth gave me full thnn^M^l, r"'' "il' f-"^ ^><^^^e,ls as might seem most fittiii|Io me I thought therefore that m the event of any necessity for their alteration bv making such, in the same sense or proportiouall/, as might seem best^ although 1 J?"*'"' "^'^^'^ ^'''''' ^»"-'« f"r murmur ^i" complaint aga'^st me' although no harm could consequently result to me thence .cin^rtlw! T^i fZ^T'^ T ='''""^-«J- ■• -oreovJr, I consfder^d that b^h«e mea^s I could keep the members of the household better to their duh- t"rou^h their hopes of being better treated according to their good and Sm service during the forty days that they remain at board, &c _ Immediately on the Cardinal's death it was deemed well not to delav intimating it to the new Queen, recommending this housXo d to her and supplicating for her favour and protection in the execution of the defuncts r, i V • u "?^^^°g«"- ^•<^°t fi'st to the Chancellor, but being unabl" to speak with him, he went forthwith to her Majesty, who witiourmakin^ any other reply, referred him to those of her Council and thev ^^v nf consulted together, intimated that her Majesty woud send hither ^^ racdiateb-, as she did, the Earl of Ru(land,Vith whom here also ca^e" two other gentlemen much favoured by the Queen. ComiW to me he said that her Majesty had sent him for all details, for the merf purTOs'e of aiding the execution of the Cardinal's will, which Lhe wished o sCCd to have a copy thereof; whereupon, in order to demonstrate to hiin my loyaltv and sincerity, I narrated all those details concerning his right rev/rend Lordship's will which I have communicated to your MagniBcence and then his Earl wanted to see the paper concerning the details On my men" loning to him my reasons for not divulging it, and recmestincr w" LorS therefore to be satisfied with my reading it to him alone, hS yet in^tteS on Its being heard by the other two gentlemen also, and he^fnsstedon having a copy, signed in my hand, that he might send it to the Oueen promising secresy They then proceeded to a^k me and Messer eS of what amount and nature was the property left by the Cardinal and Ihis we specified with all sincerity, distinguishing between what was out of The kingdom name y at Venice, in Rome, and iS Spain, and what was here good part of which had been brought from It^lv, namely, thrgreate; part of the plate and many other things besides.- I also mention^ed mv conclusion that the property here, (namely, all the plate and the re"i<£e of the revenues of the archbishopric levied last Michaelmas toeether with the additional 4,000 ducats, which the most seren" Queen had granted him for his own life, and to bequeath for one year after death as a so that part of the pension on tl'e Bishopric of^Winchester yet due,) would not al ogether suffice for the payment of the debts ^d expenses incurred since Michaelmas, and for other necessarils. inc udtof the Cardinal s obsequies and interment. At length this Earl of Eutland appeared well enlightened and satisfied on every point, and as he had already frequently said again told me not to entertain any doubt but that the most serene Queen's disposition was excellent, and that her Maiestv would have every honourable regard for me in particular, a^id for all ttZ.ZVSZl\t'V^f- '^f ''"■^}^ ';n""'l^^ ^^l' f'^^'""'- ''"d assistance for the execution of the Cardinal's will. To this I ever replied that I could have no other belief, and I also freely told him that I was aware that her frniS 7u , '■^'^'^ u ". *^ '^™^ '■^P'""*^ "= already prevailed, not only amongst the vulgar, but even m the breasts of persons of condition how that there were in the Cardinal's hands hundreds of thousands of croWl il C2 on account of the P-Pev^^-^^^h th^ a--e\Quocn^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *^^ <=t; w;st\;' sted'to Ws ™oTt rrrnd Lo'rlhip, the an^ount hither- agement was '"'J-^^^^;" „ 30,000 crowns, as they saw and ascertained to recovered not exceeumg w Enrico, who received and dispensed through the ''l^^'i/f \^"^°'^^^dfd that I^^^^^^ tow another report had also the sums f^°:f„7'^,Jg^^Xars great treasures derived from some other beencirculated of the tard^^^^^^^ sfrprised at her Majesty > wishing to as- source ; t"*! ^f^^'^'^ij J „,sertions, most particularly since she had not certain the truth of these assernous, " >- „.-,;cui„r knowledge and hitherto enjoyed any "T'PO'-tumty of obt^ain^^g P»rt><:ular Jc" S experience ot; the sincerity and candour oj^^hu, right r^^^^ ^^ ^^^^. I^^ mind; nor to this Uia tne x-dri "'* Hpemed it expedient to write a again to rest perfectly assured :^^ ^'j^^^/^Xsed ani^it was approved If "fhVEarT S' cut b/one^o^f Writttdant gentlemen, together with the by the Earl, ™° ^.''"^ "^ " ' , „v.:„u thev found, and I await her Majesty s "^K: midst of so many f'^^.'^Z:^'^'^^^ nature on many accounts, I ^n^l ^>^^'^ °^°^^ efpericncing thus how mind more vigorous than usual and very t™iq^"^; «^P ^^^^^ jt guilelessly greatly it imports t° ^^^^fj' ""^f" ,Sc and private interest. All these ^^\rV::et^oJrZhlrZ:^ln^^^^^ augiJiented my quartan malady matters have mcloea laiuti ic^b » consolation of "';!^VatSce°T%ufnrt^ornir[o1t:^::'hrw^^hatmorningwhen your Magnihcence, i " ",, „ „.>,„.„ t ,.„, cxDCcting my paroxysm m the the Earl oanie here with the others I was cxp^^^^^^^ oVbriefir duration evening, and had it but ™"^'' ™"™ '^"j ^ ^^ ^j bt hours consecu- thanmy former attacks, and f f'-^.™ ^^ch I do nof remember having tively without ever waking ; he like of ^^ h^^^^ ''^j^j^h is again that of mr::'Hr ''l.XVodT^iTe-freU stif iger than ever ; for all XrpvSed;nd^hank.lbeHis infini^ TnC any messenger been I wrote thus far °"„^'^,21s, nor since t'^^^^^^.^^^^jio^ed Earl said that by Uod s graf.e so x »cia. , , . , • •■ j -^^ j^q^ fail now to reverend Lordship, and '^^^ "°\^"'. f ^^ ,vliose courtesy I cauld. ^^^ ^^Vt°vsX''.u'lnXt ^oura^l part^™ larly from the^Earl of Krd,Xln?LK\now.i and loved h^^ be.ng a very co^ur- teous iiobloman an^.^--^^'^ "^J' n^VavtielV l.^ has frequ'ently made tion for f;\"°' "f;°"',ersincr himself much obliged for the signal ser- the greatest o't"-^'^!^3XZ„e rendered him when iu Venice ; neverthe- r"'-rn^\t'omiiSo nfe tota^^^^^^^^ '" ^'« '"'"''''''^ "' 'V."^ Zl ^T rr her Al" estv's favour, not considering it necessary. The two To^e » ?^^^^^^ ^^ ^^■ form the cxe,uies f- *e Card.nal good m m^ory^ an ^ orders and legacies. ^*^® T^^?,^ ,. ^^' ,"n ^_„ nf nnblic affairs, having on another occasion, nor shall i now tell ^^^^^j^*^ P^'^.^^^^^^ ;,e most written thus at length «7[-^,^^ ^^fpnu^^^^^^^^ ^'''' particularly, knowing as I do, that the f."^^^^^^^^^ opportune. 63 most quietly, her Majesty professing her intention of not choosing in any way to change the matters of religion, and exerting herself to keep this her people united and well contented, which may God give her grace to do, for His Divine Majesty's service, as for the salvation of this king- dom. It is intended to commence with the exequies of the late Queen, and then her present Majesty will, it is said, quit the Tower to-morrow, and come to her palace here at hand, whence she will pass to Gi^enwich for the Christmas holidays, and afterwards be crowned. I send to your Magnificence a copy of the will, with the additions which you will see, and I wish you to inform me as speedily as possible whether this mere copy will suffice to render my order valid for drawing out of the mint part or the whole of such monies as are there, or any others that may be in Venice, belonging to the Cardinal's good memory. I continue better of my quartan by the grace of God, who gives me strength of mind and body according to my need, and I hope the like for the future. I exhort your Magnificence to receive all these things with that courage and good patience which our Lord God has granted you in so many of your other troubles and adversities, and I much recommend myself to the prayers of the most excellent my sister-in-law, the consort of your Magnificence, saluting all the family affectionately. From London, on the 27th November, A.D. 1558. Letter from Monsignor Luigi Priuli to Giberti. Translated by Mr. Rawdon Brown, from the MS. in St. Mark's Library, No. 24, Class 10. Magnifico Messer Antonio, my most dear, I am sure that ere the receipt of this, the news will have reached Rome of the deaths of the most serene Queen, and of my most reverend Lord our master, and you will be the less surprised at not receiving letters from us on the subject, knowing under such circumstances how many events might arise to keep us all harassed and occupied. I wrote to you a few days previously, how I was ill of my quartan, and that the health of the most serene Queen was publicly considered hopeless, whilst that of my most reverend Lord was in great danger on account of a certain defect and obstruction. Nor were the contents of this letter falsified, for both one and the other grew worse daily, so that the Queen made her passage on the 17th inst., about seven hours after midnight, and my most reverend Lord expired at seven o'clock after noon of the same day, affording a resemblance both at the close of their illness as at its commencement. Nor did the similarity merely exist in these respects, for they also gave mutual and manifold signs of their piety, communicating frequently with great devotion, and two days before their end they each received most devoutly the most holy sacrament of extreme unction, and by their amelioration on the following day proved that this holy medicine had not only operated on their souls but also on their bodies. On the morning which followed that night wherein he received this holy sacrament, my most reverend Lord communicated, and caused the mass of the Most Holy Trinity to be per- formed ; and on the next morning, which was his last, he listened to the mass of the Angel, who, we may truly believe, accompanied that sainted soul to Heaven, and indeed of this he gave some sign by his most tranquil and placid transit, which appeared a slumber. At the commencement of that day's paroxysm, which was his last, his right reverend Lordship, having heard of the Queen's death, said, that he felt this would b.e his last fit', and desired that there might be kept ready near him the book which contains the prayers for the dying, and they were repeated to his right reverend Lordship in the presence of many of his attendants and of the Bishop of St. Asaph, Thomas Goldwell, and of the Dean of Worcester, who remained here with us almost throughout his illness. The Queen also made her passage so tranquilly that on its commence- 64 n.ent. had not a physicia^ remarked it, all the othera.>ought her better. entreated his rigUt • "^ ci eiw ojui i = f .. / . exeontors, or that he his will's execution, to «PP°"'t ^"0 *" °; °^^^^^^^ would at least ^R«^>fy/l'^\''.f f J" *^/e4r Ind W^^ not to have any of his property ; begging his >g'''.^f'^3{,a proof of his trust in me, care for paying me this ^^'2Jy%:''f,2%^i^lZosi convinced of the since I neither T^'^^^d or sought toi ^ucuoe.ng ^.^d Messer fact. However, he would not >" /'"J ^^^^ ^^^f ^^ j^t in my refusal, Gio. Francesco was of opinion t'^f,I„°"S^;,"°i " Pg Added to this, I but consent to his '•ig^t'-everend Lordship spleasm^^ ^^ had another dispute with his "g''>'^.yX^art of bis property, to which any rate on leaving me some <'°f ''•'^f.^J';? ^b^ God^^ either want him that whatever I might ^'^^ "^".^'^^PX^^^r^^^^ bis poor servants, as snatched from bis relations, and *'°'^ °XTi kZw it w^ bis intention from other alms and pious purpo^^^. t° ™,^ his mosTi everend Lord- that this property sboulJ be dev oted f '"^"y;^'*'?,^^-!!! ; but I pro- ship contented me ¥ ?pecif>^ng whatsis stated^ ntM^^^ tested at the time and.since, and «;™ .^^^^^^ "Ifterwards, on Rising thing, save a few V'*l«^,-"^"r/';'4^'^''tTbi9 right reverend Lordship, from my bed, when I could myself f P^^*'. 7. ""."° j^ ^^ most distinctly I urgei him ^^^rnestly to satisfy me by 1^^^^^^^ his wishes concerning the d'^tj-f l^'-^g^fdwe i^;°Pth?Pean of Worcester, of his death, tUis my oiner papers as was requisite, r^' ?rrnaroxysm camion ea^^^^^ and with greater violence than because the pa,, oxysm came eifications for my own satis- usual. Ij«;^, ,^"/\°j^^\ I mi .^ deficit exceeding 8,000 Teat However feme*:? tt' P''^"'""*' ^".' '^f' » and thus in this period it was contrivpH'tnT. p Pensioners died off, 8,000/., as disburs'ed by the bs^ who coined °tW*''' said property dioceses. Besides their te.itimonv mv T ^^A ev , amount in their Ely, and some others his Wends kTi'ew^th^rfl ^°I^ ^",'' "^^ bishop of my most reverend Lord or rather tTnLf^-%'f^ ""^^"^^ ^^^ l^^nis of managed all the monies, Jy the slid 8 ^,°^ tisMesser Enrico, who ever war were given to the'most serene 0^'„' .Tu'"- ^°^ *''^^^ ^''"'^ °f *!•« over to the bishops the presentatkfn, tn Ij ?ompen8atiou, made gift, and which they cons^dertd^f mnr-h Tl '■^"'T^' t^^^* ^^^e in her he receipts for whic\ M^ Eur oTa sh^o'wTa; it 'ott" *'l^- ''"'°™'.- lated Vhfs 1st reverend'S^^^^^^ concerning the treasures accumu- not alluded to, it vet oulht tn b. P' v''?^'' ?*^'- channels, though tion, his most^e\^rtd"iordslij\ront flile'd'to°"' '^""^ '""^ '«"- but on the contrary, actually iLi^^L^ll *° receive any profit, whom he was obliged to maTntZ and nav V^^f "'" °^ "^^ ^^^^'^^'^ the most serene Queen he neve, a.Tp/5 ;ts support, whilst from himself, or for any friend or relation n '^''"^"i anything, either for which her Majesty offeedWm 7nnr,f.' ™ .^'^''^ant. save those 1,100/. bishopric, and ifteCrds graced C XT ^V^'*^"''\'''' ^'"^ *^ ^^"h- for the term of one year after h^ o,^ Zj^-l H"' ^'* P'"^'^'- *" dispose had heretofore depended on the scp r.f w™ tf °/ '"''^?"' P^P^rty, wtich proved, that, besides these revenue, LJlf^''";- u^' '"'S^* ^^ 'clearly most reverend Lordshp had never ^''"1*^°=^ "^ ^^ archbishopric, hii excepting in the first yTa. of his an^aUn En11°^''"\'"'''"? "^« <='-own. It can be further demonstrafe,! if^i • 1 \ *= '""^' "^^^'^ ^e got 3,000/. of 20,000 ducat" andTtffolwTng y': s'hT n'jTt '^^f^^.'^f "Pw-ds the rentals which he drew hence 3 I? i, .J^ ' ""'^ disbursed all from Spain and Italy For the maniflf t ""l *l'°1? Y^'''^ ^^ 'J^^ved greatly served that I should have been el^rSf °i ''" *,^^"« *"^'=t«' i* has of hisVost reverend Lordshrn's wilf ?.^ -^ '^T ^^'^ Particular note effects, and comparing its amoL. Zfk ,f """fP'^g *« distribution of his both abroad, in Ven°ce and^n Sn Jn ^ estimate made of his property, Italy, and o'ther pi^^^h'ased ^e-Td pretntldto^f' ''''*'' brouShtVm' here on the first of the vear bv H 7 r)„»r f I u° ?"™' *^ '^ 'he custom equivalent,) togethewfth other et,?f?!f' ^^^^ ^"""""^ ^'^^^ ''^'^eived an counts, part bfing alr^Ldy bvi^d'^ wh kf .?? '■^"*- °5 *^« aforesaid ac- well that the affairs should^ I'o "^if ^"^Burtr? '^""- ''"l 'hus it is creased, that we were half «ti,v»^ o„^ x j '°® suspicions had so in- of the defunct Wil[,\uLgrthete^^^ ""^ <'^^'="'^°" excellent messages, intimating the ^n^^? Majesty ever forwarded most tions by the person; whoTsSf sentS:pt here" '"*^""°"^ ^""^ -^'^P-'- tofh'ett Ttr pUterd^hTv'LlSre'n ''"' f"' ""1 ''^^ "°- «"-'^ quies and sepulture of mrmost reveraid LoT'n^' "'1'°/° .*'''^ °'^««- good will, the body will be moved towards cTntU^' ""-i^*"" ^^ajesty's although at the same time, there ^"^10 be wf 7 1!''*'"'? ^ '^='"' ^"^y^- of the deceased Oueen Votw^Vb.fnl ''« P.'^'^fo'med here the obsequies the Asa/on, Goldwell! have recetved the^nrefe'nf O ^"^"^ ''^'"•'"^^' ^'"» appeared to^take ^^U^' i^:'Z^7^^J^^^ . very sL'ng! bftUn mlU\tdV*odf t'^' !^ '^ God's grace, have felt myself pietV of mycausc'i^'^n' that tt r rw£f;e';;it°h 'fe '" *^^ ^'•"^"^ endowed me for its exeeutmr. <.„^ * I ^'">eren ith Ills divme bounty has .onal interest I Lve yet mvoiirt.nb?-;-''™''^ "'i.*'^ slightest per- and I feel that in Hl^go<^nesl''rr loVd PnV' -'"^ ^''gh* an*^ bearable, all this need and T frnVf w "u ^°^ ^"^^ ™c sufficient aid for terminatk,', ' '"''* "" "'" ^°"*'""« 'J«ig""g »o to do until Us E \ - \'if* 66 It was necessary to communicate with the Queen the details of °>y most reverend Lord's legacies ; but of his own household none, save my^lf I^d the four persons above named, are yet acquainted therewith. This Xrve was de^emed advisable, because the amount of his most reverend Lordship's property cannot be told until the expenses of his obsequies and totermeSt, W other important and necessary household cos s shall have been defrayed. Hence a necessity may very possibly result for alter- ing and diminishing of all or great part of the P"'2:'« legacies in which wife it would not h^ve been fitting that the persons affected thereby should have h^rd what was originally^intended for them. His most reverend tordship remembered us,%s you shall hear at a future period ; but for the present this is very sufficient to give you information of all that has chanced. Communicate all this my letter to my most --everend Lord of Cervini, as also the copy of the will, praying his most reverend Lordship wUl Sn communicate what he shall think fit therein to his Holiness, and to others, you will participate in all or part of its contents, as you may 'TshalTnot' commence telling you of public affairs, having been so fully occupied with these private matters ; but will merely observe, although doubtless Ae news have already reached you, that this most serene Queen before her sister's death notified her intention of not making any further alteration in the affairs of the religion, and two days after her late Majesty's demise, subsequently to her proclamation, ^he publ shed an edict announcing that she did not intend changing any of the acts which had W instituted and confirmed by her^ sister, d"""^ t^* „^Xn^.« reien desiring that all should conform to this her will Thus no change has been witnlssed in the churches, and matters proceeded and jet Proceed most quietly, nor is it heard that any outrage has been offered either to the ^riestl orfrYars who perambulate London, and her Maj«/ty has continued, as previously, to hear mass, and causes her household to ^oar it daily. She immediately confirmed in their posts some of her sister s counsellors, appointed certain others newly, and has given d^ers principal offices of her household to her chief favourites. My Lord of York was the first person confirmed in his office of counsellor, and the intention was intimated to Wm oTalso confirming him in his post of chancellor, which has since lacked effect; moreover, it seems to be supposed, universally, that the Dean of Canterbury, namely, Wotton, who was ambassador in France, and^s now in Flaaders for the treaty of peace, will be most favoured and that, with the archbishopric of Canterbury, he will also receive the °®Mav A^^L^ord God, of His infinite mercy grant that this kingdom ever pefsevere in its union and obedience to the Church for the honour and Lrvice of His Holy Majesty, for its own salvation and to the oonsolation of all good and pious persons, both here and throughout the rest of Christen- dol Since^the demise of my most reverend Lord, the Bishop of Darten has also died, so there will be seven churches requiring appointments, and the Dunelmense, and other bishops besides, are so infirm and aged, that it can scarcely be credited they will be long for this lite. Console yourself, and accustom your mind ever to receive at God g hands all things willingly, thanking Him for whatever His divine Maiestv and providence may please to impart. ,■ j • j.i,„ iZl days before my most reverend Lord's death there died m the house of his most reverend Lordship's brother, the Lord Geffery Joseph, our countryman, very piously and catholicly, according to the report of his brethren ; and subsequently this very Lord Joseph fell very sick, and the fact coming to his most reverend Lordship s knowledge he sent Messer Carlo to visit him as the bearer of pecuniary assistance lor his need : he was not irierely m domo tenui, sed et paupere. „„,j:„„ The said Lord Joseph has left five sons, the eldest of whom, acooramg to the laws here, will inherit that small property which '',>* g!^?*^Xn culty sufficed to maintain in poverty the-whole family, and four mamen daughters, one of whom is already with the nuns of Sion here, and deter minid on taking the vows and living with them entirely. He alsolea^es two other married daughters, burdened with families, whose husband* y I 67 are very poor, and these are those poor relah'ona t^ „i.^ u- reverend Lordship desired *hnf xio^f „f i,- "^^'""ons to whom his most You must know that du^^hirtilf^'' P?Pr'? ""'Sht be distributed. Sei:;n:i'L' ffHHF """^■='''-?- ^^^^^^ wealthy wid^w that sW^ I.'^ T ^ p*?i ""^^'^ ^^ ^^**«^ ^^ ^ very Thi^n^tTfir^H^^^^^^^^^ do,'^mo'Sp:rticiarly asTe dTd°"n°.';^"r.'^J"°f'^ *° ^ persuaded so to youth, 'ilieofter instance 1 ^ti^ '*" *°° ^?? ''" "P'"'"" of the notified his intention rfm^rL.v ' ^.J^7 '^^^''^^ o^^^alier having any dower bntrnrtL carrying one of the brother's daughters without an^ asZt^d^i^Ihe CarS'in° f ^ "' °°"''* ""' ^^^'l' °' ^^'"^ f-^-t "d reverend Lordship gave hTm to LTZ '"P^J-'^'i'; 1^^ suit, his most never fail to favour Wm h,^ W '^"'^"^"'"d that in justice he should remained null Non s^is i?lnL" "^'^^ otherwise; and so the affair i-Hon satis mtelligimus non esse in tempore. Letter from Monsignor Luigi Priuli to Don Giovanni de Virr. Most Illustrious Lord most°r:ver'end'ca"rdiri P^^Z^ Z:^^'^^^^ "^ ?!' '»'° himself the of two months and a half somSLefn^^'^t > had been ill for upwards fevers, which at his age a^d wTv, ll "-f ^o™?**^"^ °^ *^o quartan move him from this l!fe T,> {. Y''^ constitution, sufficed to re- serene Queen a?so died, or' to avbetter'ir ^^.f^-^o^day as the most be sure is the case, both with o/ean^;i.«l?r*''l' '" ^'"^''">' ^' '^^ '"ay lives, and through the manv «nH 1! •»• . °^^^''' ^^ ""^^^on of their holy piety' which thfy havT gfven Tt ht def '. ^°^ .'^^t^onies of grea^ reverend Lordship in mfkin^' hiV wi f '^^'''^''o i' pleased his most execution, and to^dlsperetfe property ^Wcrhe^' "^T^ ^''^ '*« many most poor orpfians. his reSonf In^ f^ }^^*' ^' '"«" *« alms and pious purposes I wisbfiT' ^"'^ 'o servants, as for other as possible and rtraUdiLrnce a *b,f,fp^"-^ his behests as speedily reverend Lordship's effects wS t?» i rl i" collecting all his most Italy and in SpaL! SLt^'auXntl * cojytf thr;ilVL^\° ^ ret're^nf LTrdThtbrrSe^d rmf -'t''^"—^ mott including thosraCL for tbVlf • ^*l!-\'"f ^^ ^"'^^^ ^^ Bruges, know th! affection which your mos^^Z.r^""' r' '/l''^'^' ^°d l I and truly holy prel^e.Nrronrrmi ""t'^^hartt^'feirr^.^* T^ your Lordship; and inasmuch as vo.,r in^^-i? 7^ ®'i ^^ '^™ for your authority and favour afded the a^^nT.f J'?"^'"""^ Lordship, by ship, (who, shortly before hi thousand ducats should be sent to bankers in Antwerp. On the other hand, however, he permitted the w'of F*° ""'""t^" ^'K'" «" *° ^"^^^"'1 through F?anc^ If Pole he^m«L tTp ' '"^^ '"''" ""^ calculation of the Emperor, arrested EnLknd T. w^Ih °P' *"! ^"''°'^- ^^ ^^ PC>-™itted Pole to proceed to £-ngland, he would come to an open rupture with Kiiiff Henrv As it however, was still possible that Pole might be successful, the^Emperor ■nstructed Chapuis in England and the Queen Maria in F anders to act according to circumstances, and to aid Pole if he had a fair chaiwe of success, or to take no notice of him if fortune was adverse to him ^ Frnm tw"tif' *° ^'■'^r- ^ Carpentras, I think, he was stopped. I,''^;^ irom that town he sent a long memoir to the King of France in which '' ' ''1 and wo ,M Hn Tv^^ '"t^^T^ FT'^ '^'°™ h's ^^y *o eternal perdition, Prlr T "JOthingmEngand that was not approved by the King of nf F^!;.Jl 'P''^ "'^ his readiness to sacrifice his life, he asked the King ot France to procure him a safe-conduct from the King of EnglanI i„!.^'?^ ° France was not duped by the assurances of Pole to go on a peaceful mission, and Pole returned to Italy. " go on a rwwl"in ^'^ '*?'*^ '?^P®'L^ relating to the transactions just mentioned wi^.^f n'"^°"?T'^i*h®'''', ^""^ *'"'"* one hundred or more copies of letters of Cardina Pole from the originals which are or were preserved in the archives of the Vatican. They are directed to the Pope tnd hS mmisters and belong to the years l553 till 1558. The subjects of which they treat are various, religious as well as political. Tie copies were made at the command of King Philip II. ior his private use. . .. one podrian suceder cums de mane« quo so curasse con la princes., y a est* (in no ha quirido S.S. que torn.' grado aleuno sino sola corona. E. Papers relating to the Earl of Nottingham's Embassy. eIZ"ii:T^%^.-" ''°^" '''" "P"'"'' arrival of the ambassador IT " ,'r^ese Spanish lords are so anxious for the friendship of the Kinp of England that they know not how best to secure it ; so at one moment tlev have recourse to intimidation by displaying their power , an?ft"nasS7 they seek to win him by a show of confidlnce. So on hearing Thtfwa Britanmc Majesty had issued a proclamation to the effect thft foreioi, vessels were prohibited from quitting his harbours untirafterththS remained there during the ebb and flow of three tides, they gave orderH of'theV? 'P'"'"'r°J^ ^°'''^ •'^e." Portuguese galleons if th^ f^ater Ja™ of the garrison of Corunna . These galleons were to steer dirfct for Eng » i( tl it f'l 72 land thou£vh their an-ival there was to be attributed to stress of weather ; the obiect being to blazon the confidential relations existing between the two Crowns Sd at the same time render manifest the abundance of troops with which the vessels of the Catholic Crown made their voyages. It was also purposed by this same opportunity to find means for landmg these troops in Flanders, such being the professedobjectof the expedition. - This plan, however, will not be carried into effect until the Admiral of England reaches the heart of Spain ; not merely from a disinclination to leave Corunna bare of troops and ships at the moment of his arrival ; but also because they choose to have a pledge in their hands, lest under Bome fresh pretext the Spanish vessels experience mal-treatment. They think it strange that said admiral should not ^^^accompanied by the English ambassador who is to reside here m ordinary m the ^me fashion as observed since so long a while by Tassis at the Court of Kmg James, without any retui-n of the compliment. , rr • - In consequence of this the despatch of Don Pedro de Zumga encoun- ters delay, and the report that Tassis will return, without awaiting his successor, continues to gain ground ; it being considered a convenient excuse to say that they wish to honour so great a personage as the H^arl of Nottingham by causing him to be accompanied by his Catholic Maiesty's own ambassador." , -i^ i p -vr ii.- i,««. After a fortnight's voyage, Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, -Lord High Admiral of England," entered the harbour of Corunna on Monday the 15th of April. '' He was accompanied and attended with one earl, three barons, thirty knights, and many gentlenaen of note and quality, one herault, two doctors of phisick, besides thirty gentlemen of his owne in cloakes of blacke velvet, six pages m cloakes of oreng- tawny velvet, like to the rest of their apparell ; he had also fower score yeomen in livery cloakes of oreng-tawny cloath, six trumpeters in oreng colour damaske and livery cloakes of tawny cloath, and six foote- men In oreng-tawnv velvet. He was well furnished with divers coaches and chariots very richly adorned, the like whereof have not been scene " in former ages." , , . ^ t7< i j The ambassador-extraordinary had performed his voyage from England so much more speedily than was expected by the Spaniards, that when the news arrived at Valladolid considerable embarrassment arose with re-ard to his reception. To extricate the Couii) from this dilemma, Philip III., whose face-ache had subsided, instantly rode post to Yento- siglia ; and, on the plea of his Majesty's absence from Valladolid, as also under the pretence of allowing the Lord Admiral and all ^is tram to - rest and refresh themselves awhile before they set forward on their " land iourney" an express hastened to the coast with instructions for the authorities there to suspend the progress of the English emba^ssy. It was said that the King's sojourn at Ventosiglia would not exceed three weeks, which were employed in the completion of certain temporary structures adjoining the palace, destined for tournaments and other diver- sions, including a masque to be performed by the Queen in person; al which entertainments were announced for the Lord Admiras arrival although they served chiefly to celebrate the birth of King Philip s eldest son. The Spaniards sought thus to dazzle our countrymen with magnificent pa-eants, and to persuade the earl that they had all been devised for his exclusive honour, nor did they fail additionally to secure his good will by also preparing for him very costly presents. The Earl of^Nottingham was expected at Valladolid on tiie 20th of May, and, independently of the presents destined for him, the cost of this em- Lssj to the Spanish government exceeded 200,000 ""owns Eive hundred mules and horses for the personal service of the Lord Admiral and his train were sent from Valladolid to Corunna, as also upwards of 200 beasts of burden for the conveyance of baggage. At this period it was not usual to exempt ambassadors from payment of duties, but on the present occa- sion not only had the English embassy free passage through the custom houses, but was also boarded and lodged at the King's expense. Nine days after the arrival of Lord Nottmgham at the Groyne, there arrived there from Valladolid, Don Blasco de Aragon, who announced (( (( (( ti 73 to him on behalf of Philio III *' Thn Tr,\^« i.: j " Lordship's personall p'rLcnoe, wut^u^otrhe IXttlea'id to bring along with hiin. And thereupon the English were numbered and found to be about six hundredli and fiftio persons aiTthe-e' withall considering howe unable the countrey was to su'sti ne them atd J f"'^'"'' ^'^'^y ^l^°"'d pass, his Lordship^al^ated parSd hereo?^ ^nil! ' '°"^ ^ sh>p.board, with much of his owne provision as coajches, carriages, and divers other things, whereof he ^ho, Id L^^ little or no use, by reason the way was bad, 'and that tt Kn" h^Ie provided more conveniently for them " ^ "® «t "tC'lt'^^ **"* ^'■'^ '^^^ "'-' ^^^- ^'^ Lordship being amply furnished all at the king's cost, wuh coaches, letters, mules luulet/nnH nil !;fi,„ necessaries that might serve for ease and pleasuVe for el-eTv m^n ttv set forward on their journey " * "'>- '"^ i.\eiy man, tliey Meanwhile, the Earl of :Nottingham arrived in twelve days at Simanca, Upon second thoughts, it occurred to them that the pomp and m^?fi' v^rf v^*'''" '■°''S^°"/ P''S<^^"'' '=°"1'^ "«' fail to gi'^Tt'he embas^ a" ^ery high opinion of the grandeur of the Spanish crown +s^ it ^at determined that the Lord Admiral should mai^e his enTy on the 26th ^ The Venetian ambassador writes that flio tTo^i ^p a- j-i.- i greeted in the King's name byTe cin^'aUe of Cystine' -"^bu "gatTwW to a deluge of ram, the entry proved disorderly, a drcumstlnce whch r/T*n!^T;' '•«f^"fd..i"''^«"'uch as the weather cleareTu^ he moment the Lord Admiral and his attendants arrived at their appointed dwelW ^^^^'^'^^^^'^^'''^^^^':^^^^owed Lord Nottingham all possible courtesv g^S JrHHF^ .r.»":?t.r i-^,:}i^z ircolterrst^Ti^po^l^^^an^^^^^^^^ particulars, ends thus : '•'ihis third name was ^tZhir^Zo^^o^^f^ naent o the Prince of Savoy, his godfather, alilTn order not to off^d the Admiral by denying him attendance at a sacrament acknowledged by his sect ; whilst on the other hand the grant of such nomnlimfnt seemed unbecommg.I contrary to the cuftom h therto obsr^eTon similar occasions none of the ambassadors were invited to to ceie mony; neither did any of them accompany the King and Oueen ot the morrow when, in very great state, their Majesties went to present the Prmce before our Lady's Shrine at Saint Lorenzo but tlFe^^^t morning, after the Imperial ambassador, the Prenchmak, ai d 4°eTf n^Z T^''"''""^ *^, ^'"^^ *° "'^''- ^^ '^^"'^l i^ the chapel ro^f we ofifered our congratulation to the Queen on her auspicious deUverv receiving as customary a gracious ?eply ; and to me fn u^Lnla, X' evinced a great gratitude towards your Serenity P^rticulai, she wnrp%sent%he''"^mh!,7'!J ^^' ^^if. P"vate audience; at which he will present the ambassador m ordinary, and moreover npar,ti«t^ certain busmess, whose discussion has hitheko been deferred." ^ ft ti tt it tt tt tt tt tt 1 1 1 1 tt • See Howes, as before. V nSJ^-^,^ ^P»^*^-^t« d' incontro, fatS dal coiT^t^^^ del corrente ViUladohd, 31st May 1606) »^fa" «ai tomesuDUe, Ac—tSee PnuJi Despatches, date t Indecente. ■BWSS^S^^S^^*'''***'*-' ""- - ■••-^■si^ss^^ta^x'V'^ S-T-v - ^e^,Ts 74 In confirmation of Gongora's (the Spanish Pindar) account of Lord Nottingham's reception at Valladolid, Howes informs us that,— *' All the while his Lordship abode there the King manifested great signes of his especiall good affection towards the English, uppon sundry occasions ; but chiefly, and in the highest degree, he expressed it at the christening of the young Prince, the churching of the Queene, in severall processions before his Lordshippe's lodging (where the iling himself carried a burning taper in his hand)." The contemptuous tone of the Gongora epigram is, howevei% somewhat iustitied by our own historian, who represents the Earl of Nottingham as *' never having had any great fund of sense, and being then the jest " of the English court; too vain and weak a man to be employed m any *' business, or entrusted with any important negotiation ; but he was well " enoucrh cut out to make a shew in matters of mere ceremony and *' compliment; especially at the Court of Spain, in whose interest he *' was entirely embarked."* . i i_- 4.1. Althouc^h not invited to attend the christening or churching, the English embassy doubtless had places to view these ceremonies, and will assuredly have been much startled to find a part taken in them by Jupiter and Ganymede : this also is recorded on the authority of Gon- ffora,t and Cervantes himself in the " Buscapie, which was most probably first published during Lord Nottingham's sqiourn at Madrid, expresses himself concerning this mixture of the sacred and profane as follows " who can be otherwise than offended and hurt, at hndmg the *' names of the Almighty and the most Holy Virgin, and of the sainted ** prophets, coupled with those of Apollo and Daphne Pan, byrinx, *' Jupiter and Europa; and with the cuckold Vulcan and the whoreson *' blind god Cupid, the adulterous offspring of Venus and Mars. J Again, in the second part of Don Quixote, are we told of the pasteboard fibres representing St. George, St. Martin, St. Diego Matamoras, and their comrades. § . ^i • a The Venetian ambassador makes no comment on the surprise caused to our countrymen, by the attendance at Queen Margaret's *' churching ; of Saturn, Mars, and Cupid; but explains how the Spanish government obtained British convoy, as follows :— , . ^ , , , ^u o riAA 4- The Count de Caracena who had been desired to take the 2,0(K) troops fromCorunna to Flanders, proposed awaiting the return of the Earl of Nottingham, lest the transports should become the prey of the Dutch privateers, of whom there were eighty sail afloat between Cape J imsterre and the "Narrow Seas." The suggestion was approved, and in order to gain time, the transports ventured to proceed alone from Corunna to Santander, Lord Nottingham consenting to re-embark in Biscay rather than in Galizia, it being represented to him, that besides obliging King Philip, he would thus shorten his own land journey. The ambassador had been ordered to neglect no opportunity of cultivating friendly relations with Spain ; and therefore adhered to this request, however detrimental to the United Provinces. Nor must it be forgotten that the disrespecttul attitude assumed at this period by the Dutch naval commanders towards the Ent'lish flag,|| in some degree justifies this breach of neutrality. Afte? alluding to the advantage thus procured for these reinforcements in aid of the Archduke Albert ; Francesco Priuli shows that the Ego, if not the *• Rex mens" of Cardinal Wolsey, was now adopted by the Duke of Lerma, concerning whom the Venetian wrote to the Senate in date of Valladolid 9th June, thus:— ^, . . , ^. t j i.- " Thursday, the 30th of May, being Corpus Christi day, his Lordship was sent for "to Court in greater state than before. The English lords, ♦ See Carte, in Collins, vol. iv. p. 272. Edition 1812. - ♦ «*tf Snnnpt hv Proriosa DP. 184, 185, vol. viii. Tales or Cervantes. , , « a- • I "A S no ofenirrponr mrncilla ver el nombre del Divino verbo y el de la Sacratissima vigen Saria y'saZs ^^^3 con Apolo y Dafhe. Pan y Siring^, J"P%[,f: Eujop^y^con el ooWo de Vulcan y el hi de puta de Capidillo cieKO dios, nacido df^ adulterio de ^ enua y Marte""-(-S^e El Buscapie, edited by Don Adolpho de Castro p. 19 : edition Cadiz, 1848.) § See Don Quixote, part ii. chap,5S, p. G<^8 (od. Madrid. ^JJl) U See account of misunderstandinfcs between Sir ^\ m. Monsou and the Dutch in April ana May 1C05 (Naval History, vol. v. p. 115). 75 and the ambassador Liefer t^ .Ufn X ' Lordship, and caused him The grandes and nol^ot^n/^ • ^""^^^ ''PP'^'' ^ ^^^"^^ ^^ ^^^ left hand. handSrtro dejees S'^tLT ^^T.^ "^^^ ^ l^^T' ^^ *^^ ^^^^ Spaiu were recondled ' ^^'"'^ ^ I"-°f^«t«d >^ar, England and ^ After wrating the mode in which the peace had been signed, Priuli "rf kix SaiL: tw r.''T^ ^"^""°°°^- ^^^^^^^^^^^^ house after midniihi tft^f „ • ', ^^'" ""'"^ '"^^^ ""«« toFranqueza's that he ^r^^^^^-lt^^ -hioh -k- L -iving, was the surrender to the ArrhrlnVA r^f ^^^^„.l,• ^^'^^j' vvitu uib tionary towns were undeniably mere usurnpr=, i^rl tw vl ?^ ■. ?; be no great marvel should a ^in^o? ITIS^itlJtdtrtm'^r^^ crown on perceiving that the relel states'Se unXe to diIwrse^so°c™ ^ttt?dra?srir;f*° ^:%:gf-^ --- ^I'^rXotz anxious about; all these arrangements, neverthplpqo nm o- ^I* Hcems from conclusion, but besides trlatin^ tbp ■pf.„r v. 4. ' !u ^ ^^^ T^"^ ^^^ given for the birth and cSenTng of^the Prinf^tW method for displaying it m divers manners. To this effect after thp n»r formance, in very great stat«, of the ' cane game ' by the Kin^ thePri.lp« of Savoy, and eight grandees, there was t review of allZe li»htbn^!p airlLrto=t - i-- =:^ef -e Ko^reTUl:^- C,- ■ i mim'tiMW'W ^SS '''^^'swwsipis^^^'^^ 78 overy effort was made to delay the departure of the Earl of Nottingham in the hopes that time might render him and some of his companions naore accommodating than they had hitherto shown themselves with regard to certain concessions most earnestly desired by the Duke of Lernaa ; but as it at length became manifest that nothing further could be gamed by the protracted sojourn of the ambassador extraordinary he was permitted to depart on the 20th of June. , . , . , • j i. -n On his homeward voyage the Lord Admiral was accompanied by JJon Pedro de Zuniga, the destined successor of Don Juan de Tassis, Count of Villamediana, to whom orders were in the meanwhile transmitted, not merely for him to send as many Ensrlish mercenaries as possible into Flanders, but also to insist on the recall of all the British soldiers m the service of Court Maurice, whose cause they were said to have espoused without the permission of their lawful sovereign. In return for similar concessions the satirical Tassis was desired to promise the most ample reciprocity, whatever the crown of Great Britain could possibly require I'rom Spain was exuberantly placed at her disposal ; nor did the Court ever weary of vaunting the presents and honours lavished on " the '• Lutherans " (as to this day the English are designated throughout the Spanish realms) ; but the chief mark of pre-eminence vouchsafed to our nation displayed itself at a ball, when his Catholic Majesty selected Lord Nottinc^ham for his partner in the time honoured Torch dance.* This° honour passed current at Valladolid as the most complimentary of any but on the other hand his Protestant tenets subjected the King's partner to several indignities. Although the populace killed some of his attendants in a broil,ihe declined making any formal complaint lest the punishment of the aggressors should prove unequal to their offence. He was in short determined to evince satisfaction at the treatment he had received nor could it be denied that the entertainments had succeeded marvellously, and above all the "Masque " performed by Queen Margaret enchanted everyone. The embassy, however, did not escape the lash ot popular satire even in England, for Stone, a jester, celebrated by Ben Jonson in '* Yolpone," was soundly whipped for saying that there went iriixty fools into Spain besides my Lord Admiral and his two sons. F. Papers relatimg to the Countess of Arundel. The English ambassador having come into the most excellent college with the Lady Countess of Arundel, whose arm he supported with his right hand, and having given her the seat usually occupied by himself to the ritrht of the Doge, he placed himself on the left, and after the coun- tess had made her statement in English, and it had been rendered by the ambassador standing, he resumed his seat, his narrative having been couched in the following terms :— „,.,-,. " Most Serene Prince,t the motive of this extraordinary appearance m this most serene assembly is induced by a grave and urgent reason, although the cause be ideal and groundless. ^ •, 4 ** Yesterday this most excellent lady returned from the country, and at her residence found a crowd of company, who, discussing the melancholy case of that unfortunate nobleman who ended his days by the hand of the deathsman, added that, according to general report, her ladyship was some- date Valladolid, 21 Juno 1605.) I'or an ax>count, 01 im« lurcv* *\^"^^»« -iv- \^^^- csiid ia-sfi iSeptember 1856, the reader is referred to Notes and Queries, and Series, No. 47. Nov. 22ud, 1856. t The reigains Doge was Antonio Priuli. 77 what concerned in the catastrophe ; that it was in contemplation to make some announcement to her hereon ; and that it would perhaps be advisable lor her to take the initiative, thus guaranteeing her own reputation, as the circumstonce was talked about publicly. This lady, jealous as she .justly is ot the maintenance of that decorum which becomes her noble birth, and being the wife of my lord the Earl Marshal of England, which is the most eminent dignity of our kingdom, aware of the purity of her own conscience, has determined on presenting herself before your Serenity availing herself of me as her usher to acquaint you with this much, and to receive your commands, which she is so far from wishing to avoid, that she, on the contrary, submits herself to them, for the acknowledgment of her sincerity and reputation, a matter concerning which she has great reason to feel extreme anxiety. *' The most Serene Prince replied — T **^y^o^^ ambassador! with regard to this business we will tell your Lordship that it is quite new to us (but with your leave we shall address ourselves to the Countess, being well aware that she understands our language), and that not a word nor shadow fell upon the topic which your most illustrious Ladyship has caused to be announced to us by the ambas- sador, and still less could, there be grounds for such. AVhen your Ladyship sent this morning to demand audience of us, and made your appearance, we congratulated ourselves immensely on the visit of so meritorious a lady, who has favoured this city with her presence, and we imagined it had been induced by a request for some courtesy or other, much to the delight of these noblemen. We now can but regret the present cause for dissatisfaction as received by your most illustrious Ladyship, but, on the word of a Sovereign, we assure you that no idea imaginable exists of a similar invective, which must have been circulated by malignauts, possibly with a view to screen themselves. " The Cavalier Foscarini has, by a just doom, followed the track of his previous misdemeanors ; nor, for him, is there any redress. Your most illustrious Ladyship may rest comforted by the love and esteem wherein the Republic holds your illustrious family, and your own dignified bearing here, where the best possible greeting is given to the entire English nation, to whom, were it the custom of the State to render her affairs public, we would communicate them more freely than to any other, in proof of the full confidence reposed by us in his Majesty and his ministers, especially in the ambassador, whom we have ever known to be well affected. "The ambassador rejoined:— I return most humble thanks for the honour done me by your Serenity individually, and collectively for our nation. This lady has heard your gracious reply, and her mental relief on departing this place can but be equalled by the load which oppressed her when she entered it. The most Serene Republic has not a more sincere soul in her dominions, nor one of more immaculate conduct than this lady ; neither throughout Great Britain does there exist any one more partial to the Signiory than the Earl Marshal her husband. The report which wounded her, being public, she would have wished, in like manner, for some public apology, but at the same time remains quite comforted by the reply of your Serenity, and refers her suit and herself entirely to the affection and goodness of the State. Upon this the most Serene Pi mce again addressed the Countess in affectionate language, adding, that had the ambassador thrown any light upon the authors' of similar falsehoods, they should have received condign punishment ; wherenpou Lady Arundel was profuse in her expressions of gratitude, her mamier being humble and very composed." Such is the account preserved in the Venetian Cabinet Journals of the first public audience given to the Countess of Arundel, and those of the Senate bear record that six days later the affair was communicated to that body. On the 28th of April 1622, the bench of the Grand Sages in the Senate Hall was empty, and the Sages for the Main Land and the Colleacues for the Orders alone proposed the following draft of a letter to the Venetian li 78 ambassador in London, Lando ; and that a present should be made to Lady Arundel. The absence on this occasion of the six Grand Sages appears to imply that those statesmen would not oppose the measure openly, considering, perhaps, that it was politic ; but although they did not put a veto on the grant of wax and sugar-plums to the wife of the Earl Marshal, the fact of their not countenancing it suggests a doubt of the gifts having been fully merited. The decrees of the Senate concerning Lady Arundel are registered as follows : — Sages of the Coun- To the ambassador m England, cil absent. Fran- rjyy^^ ^^dy Countess of Arundel having come into the Doge?) ^^es for College with the ambassador Wotton represented to us the Main Land. ^ certain injurious accusation circulated against her, as SagesfortheOrders. ^^^ ^.^^ perceive by the enclosed copy of her state- ment :— Although in answering this, his Serenity made ample amends, nevertheless, we, with the senate have also chosen to make an express and special demonstration towards her according to the accompanying decree. In conformity with this, we charge you to confer with the husband of the said lady, and to speak to him in such strong and earnest language that he retains no doubt of the invalidity of the report, remaining perfectly convinced of the esteem and cordial affection entertained towards him by the Republic, augmented as such are by the dignified and open mode of life led here by the Countess, and in which she hastens the education of her sons in the sciences to render them as they will become faithful imita- tors of their meritorious father and ancestors.* Should he evince any wish to this effect you will not fail reading to him our aforesaid decree as communicated to the Countess, allowing him moreover to make extracts of the principal clauses, for the omission of nothing which can avail entirely to tranquillize his mind about a matter in which it becomes us to give just satisfaction. Should the other noblemen of the Court discuss the topic with you, you will repeat these assurances, which by admitting the news to be false, and announcing our regret for their cause, as also the wish to confirm this regret, will, on true and just grounds, save the private character of the Countess, and also that of the entire English nation. Should the Earl Marshal make you any request to this effect, you will also give similar earnest and loving assurances to the Kmg, so that our wish to render the Earl utterly satisfied may be manifest, letting him perceive that at his request we were induced to represent the whole to his Majesty. Should you ascertain that any report at variance with the truth be in circulation, and have reached the King, we leave you at liberty to make precisely the same statement to his Majesty as that which the aforesaid Countess received at our hands. In proof of our good will, and of the ample manner in which such was expressed verbally, we have moreover determined on giving public testi- mony thereof by presenting the said Lady with various sorts of confections and other refreshments. And as certain particulars have been communi- cated to us concerning this affair which render it more important, opening our eyes and displaying the origin of their motives, and the ends of those who, perhaps, aim at avoiding an immediate and manifest discovery of their own proceedings here, we send you, besides, the minutes of this audience, so that merely using them as a guide, by keeping on the watch, you may be enabled to sift the matter, and ascertain the impression which it produces in England, so as to give us distinct account thereof. • Thomas Mowbray, first Duke of Norfolk, died in Venice, 1399. an event which is recorded by Froissart and Shakespeare. In 1^2 according to Freschot, and until the commencement of the present century, as testified on equally good authority, the headstone of Thomas Mowbray was Sle immured in the gaHery of ^e ducal palace, opposite the island of St. Georgio and at this nresent a cast of this memorial may be seen in one of the private chambers of the Doges. See furtheron this subject. Mr. Rawdon Brown's Preface, P- Ixviii. There is among the early Chancery proceedings in the Public Record Office, a bill addressed to the Archbishop of SSry , Chlncellor of England, by John Duke of ^Norfolk stat ng that his father enfeoffed H^r? late Cardinal of England, and others, of the manors of Wftston Alconbury, Ac., with the SSt^tthly should, with the issues and profits thereof, ^o^deyne and make the b^^^^^^^ •' of Thoma* late Duke of Norff., aiell of yo' suppliant, to be caned fro \ enyse into Englonde. WWi''»ira-ir]|ftiiiMiMiBflaii 79 n^\^^ '^ forthwith carried that the officials of the old Accountant's Office,* do expend 100 ducats money of the mint, in confections and wax to be sent m the name of the State to the Countess of Arundel Ayes, 138. Noes, 3. Neutral, 14. Besides the vote of sugar-plums, I found in the Venice Archives in a " oTif T''^^'^' .?°- 1^^' Deliberations of the Senate, Files, A.D. 1622 ofthffon?;Vtenor. '"^^ '"'*'''' ^''"'' concerning Lady Arundel Sages of the Council absent. Fran- That the Lady Countess of Arundel S^s»eSSI^.^^*'^^^^"^^- and the English' ambassador be senl read to them, as follows :- '" "'' '''' '''"'^^' ^"^ *^^* ^^^^^ ^- Lady Countess ! the mental purity and candour exhibited bv vour Ladyship in the worthy mode of life led by you here, neither can or may be m the slightest respect disparaged by slanderous reports, but through the communication made to us by you, together with the ambassador, our republic acknowledges yet more intensely your very noble and most meritorious qualities, and in like manner might you thus reasonably remain fully satisfied in your own mind. Although from what was told you by word of mouth, and with the whole heart of the Kepublic as abun- dantly expressed by the most Serene Prince, your Ladyship might be sufficiently convinced of this, nevertheless, we choose that by the present decree of the Senate itself, you may, moreover, be assured that the news ot so false an imposture proved the greatest surprise to us, not the slightest shadow thereof having been ever entertained in any place or by any member of the government, no word to this effect having been heard previously. Besides surprise at these injurious accusations, we regret to see that certain persons have iniquitously raised them on the basis of their own ill-will, and we could have wished by some means to come at the truth, in order to take measures which on every account should be severe. Our ambassador Lando will have orders to give account in conformity to the Earl Marshal your husband, and to notify the whole in whatever other quarter necessary, with the fullest expressions, as confirmed by us here to your Ladyship, of the vast esteem and affection entertained by the Republic for your worthy endowments and right noble descent, which, coupled with the open manner in which you have ever lived here and continue so to do, has augmented to the full the satisfaction already derived, and which will be felt for the future at seeing you enjoy for a long while the sojourn of this our city. In like manner you will at all times receive from us the most cordial and conspicuous marks of our good will such as you yourself can desire from a Sovereign excellently disposed towards you, and equally well aware of the merits of your candour and goodness. And your Lordship, lord ambassador, in reporting to the Lady Countess and to the Court what is aforesaid, will, we hope, as is your wont, fully display those abilities which are peculiar to you. Ayes, 138. Noes, 3. Neutral, 14. Mention has been made of the Secretary Lionello with reference ta Foscarini and Wotton, and from the journals of the College we learn that this same secretary was the person commissioned to request the attend- ance of Lady Arundel, and that of the English ambassador in the College in conformity with the decree above mentioned. The opinion entertained of Wotton by Lionello may be gathered from his letter in date of London, 11th August 1617, and the following extract from the journals of the College is curious, as it proves that Wotton did not possess that invariable command of countenance which one of his epistles in the " Reliquiae " inculcates: — • TheProveditors of the "Rason Vecchie" were three in number: Amelot delaHoussaye likens this office to that of the Roman Questors. These Proveditors were charged to send the £ resents destined bj the state for foreign princes, ambassadors, and others who received similai' OJOOUTB. \i ■' of Gr' Brittain that I could not find any person equall in Birth to my sonne or daughter Y;\by J^^d s grace my sayd wife, the Lady Doima Teresa, may bring forth to be its God father but its one Parent, that is the magnanimous most Potent and most Serene Louis XIV. of Bourbon, King of France and Nauarre, ol whom by this my testament I doe, w^'> I cainiot entreate by worth of mouth recomend itt and remitt itt into his owno hands, that according to the generosity of his most X'tian Ma'^ w<^" is knowne ouer all the world, he would taken care ot his owne forsaken blood, beseeching him and the name of the lining God not to refuse me, but to fauo' his poore Kinsman and in danger of death, who wishes him all happincs and prosperity aswcll in his greate designcs as in the continuac'on of his admirable Gouuermn^ w^^ he keepes m his kingdome to the wonder of all the world. I beseech him therefore to favo' my sonne or daughter w^'^ shall be borne, as also the sayd Lady, mv beloued Consort, in wh'^'' I haue aboue desired. I recomend also to his most Christian Ma^^ Sign' Fran^ .^^''^^^^ ^ Gentleman of Sora, and the Lady Anuccia de Anicis, his wife, the father and mother of the sayd Lady D. Teresa, my wife, and also their sonne called Gaetano, and their daughter called Chiaia, and their other sonne. Gio Battista Nicola, in all fine persons, as also a Nepheu, a clerk, called D. Ciccia Arduino, beseeching him to be pleased to haue particular care of ther persons. To the sayd fine first named, that is the father, mother, Brother, and Sister of my beloued wife, I assigne a stock of 50'" Crowns lor one tyme, beseeching his most X'ian Ma»y to cause his Ma*' of W. to pay it. besides the 180°» Crownes of yearly Revenue w*^** I bane assigned to my M^irfi. » , - *>^ r% e To mv Ultle Page called Aiitonio Bremch T ftMigne 5- CrowiiJi for one time, for hi» failhfall and R^l Scraicc. with mnch dihgi'iicc for a long Bctidcc I iktoigno to the abottMAvd RcTCrtttd fft«*«J^ I Antooio di G^glUno. ol uttwtit Corrector of ibo >»ftyd >IociMvin and b^c.ch from Z- bottom of my Wateryc. thnt t boy m..y b. disposed of t„ ,„y winn'K k if.dred to w^Cl urn Ob bdgcd. and on the olJ»r aide to b,., oxpondod for my souJnVnd o^hor I .„,g« „ ,.|,.rt import4i..co to mo. Umt if t woro lining^ oZhtte m«k« thorn oth..r dommiMtrm.onB of RMmtor eoneornmont. ond ftiT Uik over and abouo tbo «.iyd yearly Koat of lyo» Crowns Kinon to my hern! that .« to «By ,„y ,vifo and the poatb..mou« birl.b malo or fonf«l<..V: oucbl to como intire mt^ tboir hand« without any dimunio'on. tact on of tho Hayd I.0KM70» in tbo n.nnncr ubouo«ayd aocordinL- 1^1;* ^dXrl K<-""<='-°«"yi »"'a in ra«c it bo otborwdc. to tbo Ind to ^^■xf. .< '""ncs may bo secured and -atisfyod with that punetQolity and MarqniBatc do IhuugnS 10 tli« valne of 30(P Ctowdcj *iia ifcS and Motlicr and broth*!* alr«MJ^ boruo or l^reiiftcr l« be borne. w.lo «han for eucr pnMj,™* W .clfe » »iddo™-. ofw-Mimwolh^J^ hoee«, tiint alVr any doMh be chaU, tutooM M k« can after beioK co«. ^a ■ **• P""^"" »« ""J- "w*. »'i'l HhentiuiU to 000 with tbe mum n,ortiflc«tw„ to the Ch,,,pcll of St. A»pi^mo, whe^I iSK,u/cd bit d»agb.er, ...d doc thj «lw dcMticn*. nod then In ,be ume iwSier to ac^ I«i^*«J'!Rf'*i'^ of S».PniB-di P««|«. into tt.0 Ch.R,ell wWe i. toSJ wectod my lombe, tn the mum mawicr »bon<*^ to mIw th* Man' uraiY.™ nUT*^ ""f"^ « the lewt • ou*Rcr of aa hoirfa, eirfplK^d to bo done with fc».i«it dcuotiam o? all the h«artv ^^ ^ I oHor tl»t DTCMOitiy »lUor the receipt of th« loid r.0K»cycs mv witte*. ki»d«.l .jhall j&^e the »yd OWar. Coion*. my wiue'. ^rtei'in /«<^ t^^f^fc^*^ ?*^""' P^'l^'^ that tke tuonuury shtU luMcr pnUad to W fuTtbor logncy thoii the 50- Cn>«nc» given br mo to the laid WWJ to I'ii'f'.*^'*^"*,*^'^'^'''^' •«'"» t"* »«» fruit d«ri^ ^.^^^ lr.!["b!!; ""S' ?* "^ ^'^"' '•* <««!"»»«« of it .hall be bin., to r.LCki:[b';?tsj2it,i?'^* "' ■''""'**'*'« •''^' K«,««ci.»ioa ftf'tllfJi*!?'^"' ''^ "* I^r'"ffil'.**"' PO'thumotiB iHoo w* fboll Ihj borne of my wife, Dov gt«M« with child, .hall net bo borne olioc, w* Ood forbid. w 90 ^llaiJaa^oartLular regard to her house, and perticularly to such other Sen tsTerf^her shall haue ; a^d if the sayd principality, as .t ca^ot be dismembered by the blood Royall. shall upon the death [of] my said wife retumTa^arne to his Britannick Ma•^ as the same is intended and ordred [fcaTe mv s" wife dy first and afterwards her posthumous Issue vnder r^e mv savd wife firste dying and afterwards her issue as is sayd, shee ^f^ilTave power to dispose of 100- Crownes to whom shee pleases, on c^dic'on th^at the remayning stock be of »f-"Tw\htJv present dis- And .iinoe mv intention hath beene and is that this my present ais noiu shall noTLraade knoNvne till after my death to any person huemg, ^rw=' reason I ha,^ caused this my testam' to be closed and sea ed up. for Thiacause I order that if. by any accident this my disposal! shall come to he dfscoucred to any person, and shall be publicq either m the wZle or hi any more substantiall part in the same manner and forme in ^^ I made itwithout any variation, since it may be that Bome person may Lagine some what of my intention and guesse at some P^rt of my dis- nosfll in which case I intend not to breake or alter my present wiU, but S: mv nresent will be publisht ad vnguem ac cording to the manner and 11 my present wui ue p s ^ Father I Antonio de Gagliano, S"c^XUr'ThX"rofsUKlicac-on and be assured of the t^^^^ hereof I shall though lining referre it to t^e discretion o t^« -7^/^^^^ Patber to "oe to the Notary who made my present lestam , to cause mm forestorelt and to cancell it immediately ; and because the said Notary sUl not refuse to restore it, I make a writemg a part to the sayd Father subscribed by my hand, declareing my will, and appomteing the fayi Eev" fXr to lldr the sayd writeing t°>^'^^-y.'^„Notery for th« receiuing of my sayd Present Testam' or an obligac on [for] the deUuery [hereXsothSf he presently may teare it in little pieces, according to my ^XrL^y, ntl^tthlNotary, for the paynes he has taken in tHs my will what is usually giuen him att the time of openmg it, and for the mak'eiir the copy thereof, obleigeing the abouesayd Sig' Fran» Corona, when h? shall ha'Jfe receiv;d all the moneys mentioned m my sayd testa- ment to eiue him fifty ducats more for one tymeonely. ment, lo giu^ ^.^ d. Giacomo Stuakd, affirme all that is aboue written. The uresent Copy is taken of the originall Will made in writeing the 24 AuL 1669 openei upon the death of the said Testato', D. James Stuart. ^d^publish°nhe 27 of the same month, at the sealing and opemng whereof I was present upon call. I. Antonio de Blasis. A Notary of Naples andTtestimony thereof haue written and signed this, hauemg allway regard to the Letter compareing of them. (Indwso.) The last will of the late Imposto' at Naples, who at first pretended himselfe to be a naturall sonne of the King of England. 1669. J. Selections from the Cobrespondence of Giacomo Querini. Giacomo Qijebini to the iNquisiTOEs or State. Most illustrious and most excellent Lotds my most revered Masters, with the idea of rendering my own private motives serviceable to the supreme commands of your^Excellencies, in whom I with reason revere 91 ^^ °°°P Tv.^^ authority of the most serene Eepublic, I, with that helpmate whom God has given me, undertook some while ago this so long a joS whichha^ proved incredibly toilsome and unbearable by reasol of the unl expected thaw, the swoln rivers and the frequent inundations whfch I anH p"n !lf"^ ou the road Here I am nevertheless safe arrivedTn Hoover and equally well disposed to proceed farther, unless I receive a contr Jv oommaad. owing to the hope entertained of very soon seeing the S of England back in his dominions here. I. however, have strong reason! for entertaming a contrary opinion, as a private and confidentfal servant of his Majesty's m London writes to me that although the King has eve?v wish to cross the sea forthwith, yet will his movements bf regulated b^ the course of events in Parliament, where although it may bf sumfosed entirely devoted te his Majesty, there will nevertheless Te much E^, of great importance which cannot be settled so speedily, no^withou the Kmg s presence. So, possibly, not only the spring will pass b„f « l»»t part of the summer likewise before they see himTn^Han„ver ' ^"^' With obsequious respect I give this notice, not that it may merit thp consideration of your Excellencies, but because it serves asTmeXm for my zeal to transmit a second, which I consider more Lp^rtant and perhaps, worthy of your supreme knowledge. By word of mCth fC a person who has a great share in the regency here, I have been enaWed by slow msinuation to elicit that the powers interested in the quiet of the North are endeavouring to form a plan for curbing the S of Sweden by force, rather than by reason,\nd severing him entirelf from Germany.* For the execution of this proiect it seems tC T^ihW.1 more is wanting than the final decision of the'^iiperor, who stUl hesitates^ because he cannot bring himself to believe in the King of Prussia T^om It IS not incumbent on me, but whenever I hear of anything relating " even indirectly to the Eepublic's interests I shall, if your Ex^cellencTe! ^rofounSy: ""' '^'""'^ *° "°'^^^ '*' "'''^ '" *^^ meanWhil^ hnmWe myself Your Excellencies Most humble, most devoted, most obedient Servant Hanover, 5th April 17154 . ^'^''''' ^^'^'^'' ^^S^*' Fkom the same to the same. In continuation of what 1 had the honour respectfully to write t/i vn,„. l!^t of°^"'f''TV^ ^^'^^^^ *° ^^'^^ °f Mo'nsr. El^z on behalf of the King of England, I have now to announce his (Eltz's) return to Hanover which took place last Friday. From what I could ascertai^befo7e seeTn^ ^rS;rAt'Tt-^'"^°™*''°° ?'^° *° ™« ^^'^ ^' own hps, I My com^ prehend that his journey proved utterly useless, as the King of PrussS notwithstanding the alliance already stipulated by him with Tw3 conceal, his intentions, nor will he declare whTch Lde he mean^&^a with regard to the intricate aflfairs of the north. The cLSeS^ncti&^l taon of his projects was to propose a toast to Eltz at dfn^er thus -" To i tf\T^?t "^'^ ^r^ P^'"=^' <"■ ^ fortunate war;" tTwhich end it i« mdubitable that by the end of the present month he wiU Ce 30 WW men encamped ,n the neighbourhood of Stettin, the artiUeTy beW ac;^l, !° the march. This, however, is by no mean; conclusivef and should on th^ contrary yet more stimulate those whose interest t is t^ seek auLt and to calm the excitement of the King of Sweden by mZ forcT ' • Eliminandolo intieramente dalla Germania. I 92 Havine obtained this information, I on Monday rode toyfj^^ "'^"^jf,?; hntterto^ascerto^ whether the Duke was disposed to grant the Republic buttel to a^f*^^"'" r, • . ^tich at the utmost amount to four or five ^JS mTn%n tt S^ that the Court was at Lauekemen. a nleasure residence, three leagues from Brunswick. •^ T Xrcfore, took myself thither on Tuesday morning, and tbe Duke ' • „ 1 ™» vUv Braciouslv ; so. in the course of conversation, I made it M,™ to th" presenf steT of a^a rs, and to the impending Turkish war. He" up^n heTv^i'ccd groat regret at being unable to J^oo-^^ol**^,^^ R^nnblic and told mc as frankly a« possible, that the King oi i^n.g'aj'^ at tJaib languiu ^"»'b»''° ., Prussian frontiers to assist SS.:'hould he ctotrac?^"co'nfo*rn4^^^^^ TbT al^J""*" „„«.in,T Sweden or to attack him, should he declare himself her ally. ^TWs stme m°u?st«r plenipotentiary also assures me that another corps of 29 Ken h^ln like mL.er bee'n ordered to advance into the Ukraine ..; tn'r-^nur the Poles, whenever the Turks attack them. The c^trtrv winds have prevented me from receiving the letters which 1 w^expeS from England from the King, and of which the Minister 1 was expecmit ._ j'„f i.,t. week I choose to believe that they are rtr^oadTrnd'ht: :„ m/r^urto kell which will take place in a few ^*K'tle mea^tife!Tt u'Jv'^dent that the return of the King of Sweden to In the meanwaii.-, iv intentions of more thaa c"et™gn nK^^^ Republic in her present • ^red G^^dff^^^^^^ this same cause, by compelling I^ngland to send a Targe s^ualron to the Baltic, mav not render useless the negotiations of ^v.-f^^JaPivbYincenti. and mine also, both here and elsewhere. pface fn th^^^ i^» therefore, desirable, for without it, it seems Imnossiblc to obtain any aid from the foreign powers. ,, . impossioic lo u "^^..^ profound respect, the most humble &c., * GlACOMO QUEKINI, Kuight. Brunsvrick, 12th April 1715. Fbom the same to tub same. '. AUi,m.crh the Statc will have no lack of the most certain and accurate SriK.Ed» t S bK™" tkS. f. „.l .o ?cry tJm from .b. Urn thence into Pomerania, and subsequently into Poland. The Kmg 93 Sweden, therefore, impatient at waiting for the decision, asked the Prus- sian minister resident with him, what his King meant to do in the matter. ,;a;sKJS!s,i"iw.««a.'5-a- '--■'"■ —• '" fortress, and succeeded m surprising and taking it, cutting 200 Branden- burghers to pieces, and making the rest prisoners, he on his part losing but 40 men. The news having flown to Berlin, the King was so enracecL that meditating reparation and revenge, he first of all expelled the Swedish minister his capital in four hours, granting him but 24 within which to vacate the Prussian territory, and is incessantly marching the rest of his troops towards Stettin, so that from one minute to another we shall hear of the recovery of the fortress, as the Swedes are incapable of keeping it any length of tinie. having no army in the field to make head against that Z aaT^"^^'^^ ^^^'''^ ^^^^ ^^^ J^"^^^ ^7 8,000 Saxons, amounts to a good 40,000 men. It seemed necessary that the sword should be drawn in that direction as otherwise the Prussian, armed and irresolute, by causing suspicions to ail the other powers, would have compelled them to act cautiously and keep troops to watch him ; whereas now, being no longer apprehensive of his secret designs, Sweden by her violence having rendered him hostile, they will make a combined attack upon her in every direction, so that at length l^harles XII. will be compelled to accept such peace as the allies shall be pleased to grant him. To day Monsr. de Vcrpnp, who comes from Eatzburg a place a few hours distance from Lubeck, where he is governor for the King of England and now on his way straight to Hanover, confided to me another eauallv important event. ^ ^ The Swedish souadron having taken some 2,000 regular and veteran troops to Stralsund with provisions and ammunition, received orders from the llmg of bweden to give battle or its return towards Stockholm, to any vessels it fell m with whether of inferior or superior force, even should they chance to be some English or Dutch fleet. In the course of the voyage, they gave chase to three or four Danish trigates, which endeavoured to escape by getting into shoal water, where the enemy could not follow them. The Swedes, however, blockaded them watching an opportunity, when the vice-admiral of Denmark, Monsieur Lraber (sic) a brave young man 35 years old, perceiving their position determined to succour his countrymen and with 7 line-of-battle ships and three or four other frigates attacked the Swedes. The action lasted throughout the 22nd April (N.S ?), nor had victory declared for either side when they were separated by nightfall. On the morning of the 23rd the Danes had gained their weather eauffe and cannonaded the enemy so briskly, that being to leeward they all surrendered in action, or shortly after, being compelled to sheer off towards some sand-banks where they ran aground. Your Excellencies will perceive the loss of the Swedes by the enclosed sheet, and the battle is said for certain to have been fought in the neieh- bourhood of Ilolstem and Lubeck. (?) o ^ 6 It is also asserted that the Prince of Wirtomberg the general in Denmark has intercepted some letters which show the whole game that was to have been played in the North during this next campaign. The seizure of the fortress mentioned in my last, was to give the Swedes passage into Poland, where they would have joined the malcon- tents of the kingdom, and the followers of Stanislaus. The Turks on their part, would have contributed what they could. A detachment was to have marched thence to invade Lower Saxony or at least to raise money ; and to prevent succour from the Emperor, the Turks were to alarm him by ©ending a considerable force to the frontiers of Hungary. France, likewise, was to have assisted her friend the King of Sweden with a coiys of 25.000 men now on the Rhine near Philipsburg, and which he would have sent to join the troops of the Landigrave of Cassel, another Swedish ally, for the purpose of embarrassing these Hanoverian States 04 and giving occupation to the King of Prussia ; but now that the secret is disclosed, and his navy weakened, the Swede will be apprehensive lest the Muscovite fleet approach his very capital and bombard it ; and must change his tactics. That the Czar has the wish to undertake this expedition is very intelligible from the present made to him by the King of Denmark, of some pilots well acquainted with the waters of Sweden. It also chanced to the officials of Denmark to intercept a letter signed by the Princess Ulrica and the Prince her consort, to the King her brother, brother-in-law of the Prince,* in which, expatiating on the miseries of the kingdom, they prayed his Majesty to seek peace at any cost. This letter, after having been read and copied, was sent to the Swede ; and it is understood that whilst reading it, his pet lap-dog fawned upon him, so he said to it, "Thee also then art fondling me for peace," the words being interpreted to mean .that he ridiculed the anxieties of his sister and the lamentable miseries of his subjects. This combination of circumstances warrants strong hopes that as Sweden has provoked so many enemies stronger and more powerful than herself, she may ere long receive the law and submit. Should the pro- phecy not fail, I firmly believe that it will then be easy to prevail on the Emperor to make diversions in Hungary and to obtain other efficient succour of troops and ships for the Morea. I in the meanwhile being somewhat indisposed by my long journey, shall remain here about ten days longer, to establish (as I hope) my health and capacitate myself for a fresh march, which I shall undertake immediately, towards Holland, and subsequently to London, as the letter which the King did me the grace to write to me in datef of the 9th of April encourages me to do so. My object will be same as that which caused me to detach myself from the centre of my adored country, namely, to render me, if possible, capable of serving her, obeying the precious commands of your Excellen- cies, before whom in the meanwhile I bow myself with profound obsequiousness. _ -- . ^ Tour Excellencies most humble, &c. Zell, 2nd May 1715. Giacomo Querini, Ca'. iSTote of Swedish ships and frigates which the Danes attacked and con- quered on the 23rd of April 1715 :— The Princess - . .74 Guns, Crew, 500. The Star of the North The Dermanland - Gottenburg Wideom Le Tocon (sic) - 74 - 57 - 56 - 40 - 40 >i jj >j >> 500. 315. 200. 190. 130. There are two other ships besides these, names and number of ffuns unknown, but they were captured by the Danes in the aforesaid enffaee- ment. ° ^ From the same to tee same. I have nothing to boast of, but may at least congratulate myself on mv good fortune in having anticipated the supreme command of your Excel- lencies, when, despite the reasons which might have dissuaded me I undertook this journey to London without the escort of your most revered commands. ♦ TJlrica Eleonora, sister of Charles XII.. wife of the Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Cassfil Rh*. became Queen of Sweden on the death of Charles XII. in 1719 nesse-Lassel. She teJo?!^- ^ '^ ^"^ "*^'*° translation of the letter amongst the Querini papers of the foUowing Monsr. Count Querini, or, ihl^^^'^ll^l Ti}^. "^"^^u satisfaction by the letter which you wrote to me from AuMburjc on the 9th March that you have obtained the permission to come to me. Your nresence SnnJS t'he .^TdttTc^oI;!^ '' "^' ^^ ' ^^" "^ ^^^>' «^^^ '^ «^- '^' ' alw^yriSoToSToS^wiTh Whereupon I pray God, Monsr. Count Querini, to have you in his holy keeping. Given (trata) at St. James's the^-MS^^ 1715 9 April GSOBOB B. «« •^rz.- 95 ceeded to the Brfu. remaininl there "ft^hor Three°whorH ""'' f'T' length on Tuesday morning the^captain set sail with a slal of w^ J -• ^* favour which lulled an hour afterwards, and gave way to th^'^^ ^ ''"■■ Grarbm," which blowing a ffale and in mio+o • j^, ^^® -IN.VV. or 40 consecutive hours, ani tofk 4 upwarro^'IoTri^^T^ ^'^ <*""°S * our course, with manifest risk of shipwreck and of ,^1 ? -^"^^ °"' ^^ sacrifice of my life for my country ItT^^^ *f T7 "^""'"^ * ^^^^less mands both sea and winds^ ^antJd atalm fu^Xf l^'^f^ ^^^^ °°'^- a week ago to-day, I landed in this capi J Iherrthp rl J'?;'"*'""'-.' ^^^' took me to the lodging appointed me b^^'elTng three we'eks^w''''"^' arrival, near St. James's Palace. My small amonnf ^f T ^'"''^ "^ at the Custom House to be examined f and whTst waiwL f^^TrT^.^'^ remain at home, where his escellfinrv fhJ A vfl '^"■'5">g for it I had to me to the blush and confusion came to^ ee ^Zf% ^™"°' ?"*""« repute for me with those unacquainted with a person iv.rv^^'-''^r"'" as I am, through the honour of his visit ^ ^significant Saturday was a day of gala, being the anniversarv of tT,^ v , x.- „ and I was impatient to go to Court but had L w{f f ^'"^^ ''"'*• for a whole suit from the tailor I was read v^. u "I *''""'^'' ^""^ and went immediately to the feet of his Matstv IL^^^"^ f'.^ P''"' several times ; the entire crowd of comLSf^ I ^^ ^^^^^ ^°'- me vent me from'having an aXnce of hXn hour^^^a U^^- ^l^ "°'-^''- apartments ; and I can say with truth tW vl +' 1 j ^^' " ^^^ pnvate were the King of Great /riUiUutVLlttm^TettoTif"^^;^ ''l' who during so long a period has e-rarion«W Jlt^y -^f^J^/ ot i3runswick, known, le contifues'^to show mf the sami KnS of T f T'^^'^'y additionalproof by immediately desirineXch^^h'',"*^ ''^'"^ ^e gave me pass a., a private attendant r'Sf/amS "1 -.T "^l^'^ *°J^* asking permission, a favour conoWedTeUertoX LZ T "^^^ °^ the nobility [" ai Milordi "], but only to a W r». '*'"''»«/ ^^ors nor to in waiting: Such a grace en-^ed bv mnnl ^ ™u^"u ^^^ *° *« lords through the Sovereign's goXess win T'w"*^ ^^'''^ ^ '■«°«^« solely quentfy. At this firsfvisif ^fter ^'ajing ^u^h 'co^owT^^'^S ^'"^ '''■ accession to the throne, and on th^ Sra^^n'^Ph^XthdlvTl"".'''' time m expatiating on the esteem and respect home h?n, hi' \l^^''-J'° public, expressions which he received eracionX .^T • ' ^^ ,*® ^^' Saving then made the conversation turf oHshLnowT'^iT^*"-'^ *^^'"- these dock-yards (seen by me on mv wav^ %^T "^"A'^i'^S '" ""^ of imd which will carry 120 g^s I ex^fa3's,^ffl.^ °.ri^ ^'"^ ^">^!"'" of the State, and her regr^et a havfng been Sfel hr™"'' ^''''^' succour from England for defence aifain!*^^! °''*^"' ^"^ ""■^al tendom I explailed to hTs MSySTe wouldlX'r"^^ °? F^^^" on the Republic should he deien to rivp a^!!^ • i * ^'S^*' f^^our and throulhout he listened S^megfiTouTlyanTaSri '° ^n?,!°"'^° = yersation was brought to a close bf the neces^tv for thp-^^' F^^ '=*'"- m public, and I remained fully convifloed th^ff ^ j, * J* ^'°? *° Wear on the mind of his Majesty. ''"°^"'<=ea tnat 1 had made an impression I then went to pay my respects to the Prince of Walp« nr,^ f„ *i. Princess his consort, both of whom received me witwri!ru,nl» Ju° Princess indeed choosing to see me nn tl,» r^^lT ^'.'".Sreat kindness, the quite alone, and she apole to me atf^elt leTXrbol ^h' °T ^^^^^^^^^ between father and son, remarkine tC th ! ilf p • *^ "i'sagreements very detrimental to the royTfamHy * of misunderstanding was On that same evening, after the ball. I had the honour to accompany ♦ 96 the King to the apartment of Mademoiselle (sic) de Schulenberg, a lady who enjoys more of the royal favour than any other at the Court, the King knowing her to be truly attached to his royal service, and so in the evening he very often sups with her. When necessary I shall not fail to make her back my demands on behalf of the Republic, as she is an old acquaintance of mine, and has always shown herself my sincere and affectionate friend. During supper nothing was heard but expressions of esteem from the King for the State, and for her ancient friendship towards his family, though nothing particular was said, and I took good care not to broach anything, as there was another lady at table and the comptroller of the household [Marescial della Corte, HughBoscawen?], in whose presence I thought it well to be reserved. Your Excellencies will know from another quarter [the Ambassador Trono ?] what took place in certain quarters of the city of London on Sunday evening and on the following Monday. There was a mob of as many as 2,000 persons that shouted *' Long live King James the Third," "Long live the Duke of Ormond," and "No Hanover" [niente Han- over.} The soldiers of the guard having been accoutred parsimoniously bv their Colonel, the Duke of Marlborough, whose avarice is not to be told, burnt 150 of their shirts in the park because they were too coarse. The mob was dispersed by a few rounds of musketry, and 500 cavalry charged the soldiers and put them to flight. A much more perilous riot occurred at Oxford, and the Court is about to take strong measures to prevent the increase of similar disturbances. I do but allude to them, being very sure that the State will have received full details and most mature remarks thereon ; it is certain that of late, as elicited by me from the lips of the chief ministers, affairs are no longer so prosperous for the King as they were at first. Even in Parliament there was a sharp debate on Monday about the amount of troops to be kept on foot, including foreigners ; the Duke of Marlborough replied that there was not one single foreign soldier in the service, the rejoinder he got, was that there was no occasion to go to the Indies to enlist thera , as there were Turks even at the Court, alluding to his Majesty's two favourite Turkish servants, Mahomet and Mustapha. On Monday I had the satisfaction to receive a letter from your Excel- lencies, dated the 17th May, enclosing the copy of one written on the 21st of March, the original of which had never reached me, the loss of it delayed my departure for England, as my belief was that the tribunal wished me to remain at Hanover rather than elsewhere, owing to the report of the King's expected visit to his German dominions, which will, doubtless, take place on the prorogation of Parliament, unless accidents arise to make him change his mind. This intention was not communicated to me by the King himself, but by a friend who is in his confidence. On Tuesday evening I had the advantage of supping with the King at Mademoiselle de Schulenberg's in company with another lady. I remarked that the royal countenance was somewhat sad and melancholy ; his Majesty eat Jittle and I saw that he was really unwell, so I did not think fit to speak of business, and deferred it till the morrow, when, to the surprise of all beholders, I followed the Hanoverian ministers into the King's presence. I told his Majesty how much the Republic and some of her merchants would be benefited by the grant of an English passport to the Secretary Colombo, and he answered me kindly that I was to speak about it to Stanhope the Secretary of State for the Levant and for Spain, and that so far as his Majesty was concerned he should have no difficulty in conceding it to me. I will canvass this minister and acquaint your Excellencies with the result as soon as possible. I then alluded to the earnest desire of the State to obtain through his Majesty a few English vessels for the Republic's service, to which effect he said he would render me every good office, and indicated the Prince Curachino [Karaskin an old acquaintance of mine,] now ambassador in England to his Majesty from his ally the Czar [Peter the Great], telling me to ascertain from him the means he employed to obtain ships for his sovereign. I saw this minieter at the Court, but the time and place not allowing me to disoussi 97 this matter, we agreed to have a conference at his house. The distinction with which I am received by the King and the royal family has caused some of the English nobility and all the foreign ministers, seen by me at the Court (with the greater part of whom I was already acquainted) to visit me; and finally last evening, for the third time, I supped with the King at Madame di Kilmanseck's, the Duchess of Shrewsbmy (Adelhida Paliotti), and Lady Albermarle (Isabella Gravemoor), being of the party. There was no talk about business, but the King told me that he should attend Parliament to-day, to pass a Bill, that the Secret Committee had announced to the House of Lords that it was ready to make the report enjoined it concerning the late Ministry, and that the House had appointed the 20th of the month, N.S., to hear the reading. The persons impeached are Bolingbroke, Oxford, Strafford, and the Duke of Ormond, and some others besides. The decision of this matter, whatever turn it may take, will always be of very great consequence, even according to the opinion of the King, who to-morrow or Monday will go to Hampton Court, where he has a country palace, and at a short distance thence will see some horse races. He also told me incidentally that if the Emperor does not take part m the hostilities [impegni] against the Turks, he supposes there is some hidden reason besides the lack of means. Your Excellencies will be pleased to accept tlie homage of my most implicit obedience, as ex- pressed in this sheet, however confused, and be thoroughly convinced that for the sake of rendering any especial service soever to my most adored country, I, following the example of my forefathers, will never hesitate to place at her service my poor remaining substance, and sacrifice both blood and life. Your Excellencies most humble, etc. GiACOMo QuERiNi, Cav', London, -- June 1715. 14 FllOM THE SAME TO THE SAME. The bodily exercise taken by the King during the last few days by attending the review of the Foot Guards, and the amusement derived by him from the horse races at a distance of some four leagues from London, in like manner as it pleased everybody, so did it also give me an oppor- tunity of following his Majesty, and of finding myself on Tuesday with the Duke of Shrewsbury awaiting his return at the royal palace of Hampton Court, where I had the great good fortune to walk in the o-ar- dens a long while, with his Majesty and the Duchess of Shrewsbury (Adelhida Paliotti), and afterwards, for about an hour, with the King all alone. I availed myself of this opportunity to tell the King that Secre- tary Stanhope raised diflScultics about drawing up the passport requested for Colombo, and said that, expecting from his Majesty much greater favours for my country, I had commenced by making small demands, in order to encourage myself by degrees to prefer more important suits. The King smiled, and answered me that I was not to doubt but that he would keep his royal word. Thereupon I thanked him, and made a second proposal, namely, that he should accommodate the Republic with some of his brave Hanoverian troops. I said that by granting me this, he would renew in his own royal person the obligations conferred on the State by his father, the late Elector, of glorious memory. To this point his Majesty answered me that he would gladly convince the Republic of his esteem and true friendship, by these means likewise, but that even were the war on the North to cease, he still had reasons to retain all his own forces, and [also] such as he could obtain from his friends, so very far was he from being able to deprive himself of them. I was then silent, and again thanked his Majesty for the excellent disposition of his heart! The conversation then fell, I know not how, upon the Wirtemburg troops, and he told me that Prince ought to grant them all to the Republic, as the King did not sec how he could employ them elsewhere, his Majesty dis- believing the last news received in London, namely, that besides pecuniary supply, France meant to succour the Swede with a military force. Our G 98 walk was terminated by the King's going to table ; ^^l^ ^^"PP^^ jc^row^^ witb the above-mentioned Duchess and a number of officers ot the '^ro"^"- Twas the only foreigner who had the honour to sit at the royal board Trk*nc-°eemed to^treat me with partiality and confidence ; he addressed Wmsflf to meTen- often, and askedVe for some of ^e^nds wh-ch were nlaced before me. He discussed a variety of topics, and alluded to ms ?™v to VeSce saying he shall be able to find his way from St. Stae, ih™e he lodted to ^iafto and St. Mark's. He then went to bed, and on Wednesday moriing I attended his levee, and as he was mvited to dine at Lord Glocere [sfc, Lord Rochester's?], in a house two miles from H^moton Court towards London, I preceded him thither; and on that fame'^enS at^he Court I saw Secretary Stanhope to whom I an- IxcelTencres L I do not suppose it will be any longer in time to find ^ te"terday^mCrng at 10 o'clock. Prince Curaxino (tlJK-''/^'"^! TrSSrhis :lf rSc^^ &S. t^^^^^ SES-iS^ilTuX^me^wr-^^^^^^^^^^^^ Concerning "he purchase of ships made by him for h.s ""f^ter the Czar rPeter Ih^ G?eat], from 1712 down well nigh to the present time he told Kat he had purcbased 13 in all, viz., one of 74 S""^; /o'?; "^ ,^;,*^,^ "st of 54, and one, the smallest, of 48 ; they were al lately-bmlt vessels of from six to seven years old, only one "»>"bering eight ye^s^ Part of them half fitted out, and the rest rather less. He o^'^'°f '°Xem or of merchants, and promised to give me the names of «ome oj them or ot tho^e best informed. He said that this would be for me as for him, the most direct method, and the easiest and most advantageous. He P^?™ sed r some notes of the prices paid by him, and in conclusion sa>d that rtwp of 80 guns, completely found, had been ofi-ercd l?'™._«;^ich the PTar declined to purchase. I know not what scruples induced him to reauest me to keep his communications a close and eoufident.al secre , W afl was obliged to give him my word of honour to this efl-ect l" enturerbeseelh your^Excellencies to make me appear punctual and "^^This'prince Caraxino (sic) [Karaskin ?] took leave yesterday of the King to whom I shall give account of the interview as he suggef^ t to m4, aid will assuredly be glad of the result. " °-^f ^.^^y-J/^tke ask him to grant me his royal favour, quite in a private w»> , for the saKc rfobtaTnin- every possible advantage, though of this there is small need a withre?chante the strongest recommendations proceed f™™ rf b 11 of exchan-e. On foundations of this sort, should hope not to deceive myself in° promising your Excellencies some such purchases as you ■^^fshall be on the watch for your most revered orders, andjn the mean- while will not fail to keep on foot such negotiations as may best enlighten and render me more capable of serving you. and renaer u»- i ^ ^.^^ profound veneration, ete. GlACOMO QUEJIINI, Cav'. London, ^ June 1715. Fkom the same to the same. On Wednesday the charges against spme of the four persons impeached rOrmond Oxford, Bolingbroker Strafford] were to have been taken up to ^t^e House of Lords; b'ut for good reasons this was delayed^-.t 1 that d^vweek. Both parties employ all possible devices. The Whigs sees tolnnlhilate the Tories utterly, 'and to place them under the yoke: they 9p want to impeach even the Duke of Shrewsbury, and' to accuse him nf high treason, because as one of the chiefs of the late minist?^ witho,^ an express order from the Queen, and consequently against the Stltutes of the Realm, he held secret conferences with Mons Mesnllr T..^ lating the preliminaries of peace, together with the EarlToiford Td" because haying returned from the embassy to France, and beino- annoin^^^ I'lTfh^ '" ^"ff""^' ^' ^"o^^edtroops to be raised therefor the'PrSer All the good favour of the King, cultivated for him by the addresrnf his wife, who belongs to certain parties of ple^urj gfven by h^ Majesty, will perhaps not prove a sufficient shield for his defence^ HU euem.es have the upper hand; and to try and appLf them the KW ihTt"''^ ^A ^^oretly hinted to the Duke through Mon'd"' Bothmar^ that he should resign the Lord Chamberlainship. as perhans on 1^^^ retirement, the King's recommendations would have the effect of 'exemnf ng him from the impeachment. In the meanwhile the animosity of the two parties, and the well nigh hostile maimer in which th"y treat each 1. « 'f r""^ ^^T ^''"^ ^"'^ ^'•''"'^^ -^""^ Spain. Those two crowmre^rd le.s of their pledge to accept the mediation of his Britami°c EestV fo^I ?fj"^ "^?' V'\ the people of Majorca, availing thomse^vis Vthlse troubles in England have now fitted out the expedition (alknownl to subjugate that island and punish the rebels. With this thp Tf^r.^^ ? put-up, and dissemble his^•exation until the Ilrren^distorisTe' The majority of the populace in this kingdom are TnWo^ „„> <■ tt'hT"'./° ''"' IreLkr, but at the in^^tir oT the 'preacher'" who hate the new King, for no other reason than because [hev find themselves excluded from office [dalle cariclte), and consecmeutlv unaW« London, 12 July 1715. In a former letter I alluded to the danger in which the Dulc« of Shrewsbury found himself, and to the advice ^iven him «f fho gestxon of his Majesty, I have now to add! tha? last Monday evenlnf af er everybody had quitted the antechamber, he entered The K^n/; cabmet, and saymg a few words resigned to him the W Chambefe: On the following morning, the Duke's kinsman, Lord Cardi-an im mediately resigned spontaneously into the Kind's hand^tli"?' .^ Master of the Buck Hound.s, a v^ery proLbl^fharge a^^^^^^ ^'e Th?.'ln'/ 7'^ g^^^at favour at the commencement o"f this rei^n This mode of proceeding renders the Court somewhat susoiclou. V.f The Duchess, his wife, protected by the KinJ >> >> I) >> >> J> it 3* J> J> }> >> JJ J> JJ J» >> J» >J >> )) 1. Una Mad* di pieta di Paolo Veronese 2. Un S. Francesco di Paolo Veronese - 3. Una Nunziata del sud° 4. Un Salvator del sud° - . 5. Una Maddalena del sud° 6. Una S. Elena del sud° 7. Un Christo alia Colonna del Palma - 8. I tre Ke del Bassan Vecchio 9. La Vergine, S. Franc°, e S» Chiara di Franc° Bassan - _ - - - 10. S. Girolamo in rame di Paolo Fiamingo - 11. Un Endemion di Squerzin da cento 12. Una Flora di Squerzin da cento 13. La Nascita di Giesu con Pastori di Franc° Bassan - - - - - 14. Un Christo all' orto - del sud» - 15. Animali del Castiglione - - - 16. Una Vergine in Tavola del Zambellin 17. Animali del Castiglione - - - 18. Un Quadretto in Tavola la Vergine e Puttini di Bonifazio _ - . - 19. Animali Quadrupedi del Castiglione 20. Uu' Annunciata di Tentoretto - - 21. Paese con diverse figure Adorazion de' Magi di Giulio Ran" - - - ; 22. Paese fiammgo di Giazzo con figure picole di 23. Architettura con figure in picolo del Ghi- solfi . - - - - 24. Una Vergine, Sa. Giustina, Sa. Catterina di Polidoro - - - - - 25. Una Vergine in Tavola . . del sud° 26. Un Christo morto con due ritratti di Lean- dro Bassan . - • - 27. Quadrupede del Castiglione - - - Mantoa.I Ghinee 150 50 50 50 5J 50 16 30 16 6 34 34 66 50 10 20 10 8 12 14 94 54 44 18 10 30 12 >> )) }f >> >> ft ft ft ft ft ti ft ft it it tf ft )> it ft it it it Edward Russell, First Lord of the Admiralty t "e procuroro di far disporre Milord Orlord, ma il Rcnnon pu6 parlargli poich6non sa farlo' in"lnplese, e qupllo non intende uua parola n6 dji Tedesco n6 di Franceae supphri pero, il Sc'cretario Townsh»'nd." , , , , . i, : The Duke of Mantua, Charles III. orlV., died at Padua 5th July 1708. being then 56 years of sage Querini had perhaps been intimate \*ith him in the Venetian territories, where he beems to have resided occasionally after his departure from Mantua in 1704. No. 28. 29. it it ■it it it M ft ft » »» it 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39 40. 103 Paese con Cavallini e figure di Gio. Miel - Ghinee 8 rrospettiva con figure in picolo del Vivarini di Roma - Marina di Mons' Montagne - Sposalizio di S. Catterina di Carletto Cagliari La Vita umana della Scola di Bonifacio Frutti e volatili di Giacomo di Castello ' - Maddalena del Cav' Liberi - - ' _ S. Girolamo del Cav' Liberi Marina di Mons' Montagne Pesci di Giacomo da Castello Frutti e volatili del sud° - Prospettiva con figure in piccolo del Viviani di Roma - - . . Uno Sbozzo di piu figure in Rame del Tentoretto - - . _ }) »» 11 11 11 fi It a it It if 30 25 42 50 16 30 30 25 6 16 30 11 14 From THE SAME TO THE SAME. At length by private sales, and not by lottery, I have disposed of some of -my pictures at a reasonable price. I may say that I have the most inferior still on hand, and shall find it difficult to get rid of them T , 30 December 1715. London, ^ j^^^^^^ ^y^g - From the same to the same. In former letters I announced the sale of half of my pictures : 1 am bargaining about the rest, but as yet without success. At the worst, the least mischief will be to send them back to Venice. Could I have imagined the trouble and expense which they have caused me, I would never have removed them from their niches ; at present I can only apply a half remedy, but have no reason to be dissatisfied with the price of those already sold.. ^ London, oT" January 1716. Fkom the same to the same. Concerning my pictures, I mentioned having disposed of half of them at a reasonable price ; those remaining being inferior, I find it difficult to enect their sale. 9 London, ~ March 1716. From the same to the same. I daily repent me of the false step which I took in bringing my pictures to London. The custom-house charges were enormous, and by no means can 1 dispose of the pictures here. The lottery proceeds so slowly as to leave me no hope of filling it ud • It IS not to be dreamt of, and the more I think about it the mofe it dis- tresses me. I on my part likewise had imagined that these vast do- minions, and the opulence of so many noblemen [signori], would have facilitated the undertakmg ; but I find the English closer ii their expen! diture than I could have supposed. At any rate I must get rid of this embarrassment. As yet the King has given me no other marks of his generosity beyond those already mentioned, and should he do anything more, I cannot expect it until I am on the eve of departure. In the mean- while, I promise your Excellency to be sincere on this chapter, as it is my duty to be in all other matters. London, ^November 1715, 104 Fkom the same to the same. Should I not receive some commission from the Tribunal, it will be a proof that my stay here is no less useless to my country than burdensome to myself. I cannot even hope to dispose of my pictures, for which i must inevitably pay 66 per cent, import duty, so it behoves mo to send them back either to Germany or elsewhere, without any appearance oi deriving profit thence. 17 London, qo" J^ii^e 1715. From the same to the same. Ihave already commenced writing in my own hand to the Tribunal, and if they can bear with the character, they must also tolerate the style which after all, being a mere arrangement of words, I should care but little to excel therein, provided my deeds could correspond to my own heartv zeal, and to the expectations of others. The conspiracies now hatching are of the most malignant mature pos- Bible and 1 is Majesty resents them so much, that, utterly disgusted with ever^tng I believe England would not have him for her Sovereign were the niffiiir to recommence. His melancholy augments daily, and those who know his humour dare not speak to him Schulenberg hersel who is the most privileged person, keeps aloof I avail ^y^^^^.f «^^ moments as seem to me the least sombre and therefore thought fit on Whit-Tucsday to wait for his Majesty at Hampton Court, on his return ^'T^enuoTyour Excellency to ascertain from the Inquisitor Gabrielli how long i am to remain here. The cost of living in this country with some little decorum is too exorbitant, for although my lodging is gratis, all the rest, namely, coach, sedan-chair, and four servants, are all at my charge ; nor from certain quarters do I choose to receive gratuities. On Wednesday morning I attended the Kmg's levee, and his diversions in the garden and park (at Hampton Court), where some hunters which the Master of the Horse wished to have purchased were ridden on trial. \t 12 o'clock the King went by invitation to dine with Lord Rochester, iwo miles from Hampton Court, on his way to London, whither he returned that same evening. London, oj" J^iie 1715. From the same to the same. We know nothing concerning the affairs of the North. The English and Dutch flee have joined forces in the Baltic. One of the chief minis- ters told L that the ittack on the Swede (Charles XII ) no onf^er de- ncndedo^the Kin- of Prussia, but would not unbosom himsef further. Cfhsmrt post lam writing also to the Tribunal, and send them an ru^t&cTett'^^^^ for the Britannic ambassador at Constantinople, in favour of Colombo, adding a copy in Frencli, &c. I have found mean; to obl.in some ^O^glm ships and larger if requi- site For their construction some six months will be required I have caused the King to be persuaded to grant a good amount of lead, and perhaps an thafis required, at the lowest price, and shall speak to him '^^l^S.hirnsol^ in vain with the hopes of going into Gei. many thi^year, for Parliament will adjourn m September ^"d re-assemble in the winter He has suggested to me, as Commander-in-Chief of the RenubS forces, a very^able and sage General, a Scotchman Mons^ Murrarnow n the pay of the Dutch. His Majesty assured me that he, mS' har f^w eqials, and that it would be impossible to make a better fhZ7' About Ihisi^v;ite more fully to'the Tribunal, but omit the name of the"Kin^!who does not choose to be mentioned, as it is uncertain whether Ms General would listen to the offer even were the Republic to make it -but should he be thus inclined (and this I shall soon know), the kS promles me his good offices with the States, that they may cede 105 him, at least as a loan for some years, as they arc enjoying a most pros- perous peace. As for the rest I will write nothing more about the favour which the King shows me by invitations to his suppers, it is now a matter of course, and I can say without vanity that if they do not see me at the Court,' they seek me in every direction. ^ On the two penultimate evenings the ambassadress Trono [born Chiara Grimani] was likewise present always in the last place below the other ladies. I observed with regret that her manners were unsuited to her station and to the habitation in which she found herself, and I said to myself either that the Venetian ambassadors at the Court of England must come without their wives, or that these last must be women who comprehend their position, and who will not easily cede that ground to which they are entitled and which they are bound to maintain. I am very sure that your Excellency will keep this paragraph secret as usual. The ambassador [Trono] never appears at Court, save to pay his respects to the King on Sunday mornings, and after making his bow departs immediately. He shuns every opportunity of conversing with the minis- ters ; but I see him intent upon collecting news ; for every post day he goes abroad and returns home very late, I do not know whether with his despatch written or to write, but I do know that he has sometimes de- spatched an '* estafette " to overtake the courier who had already departed. For the moment there is certainly nothing to excite much curiosity, although the House of Commons has impeached Bolingbroke and Oxford but the bill has not yet been carried up to the Lords. On Monday his Majesty reviewed the Foot Guards, and an immense crowd greeted him with incredible acclamations, the like of which are said never to have been heard, the people kissing both his hands and feet. Xot only from this, but also from many other proofs, the King himself infers that the people of London are very good hearted, but that the preachers,* who are corrupt and disturbers of the public quiet, are no less opposed to him. It is asserted that their sermons caused the late rising in Yorkshire, on which occasion the Pretender was proclaimed, his health being drunk, and all persons of the contrary party forcibly expelled, so that the Lord Lieutenant demanded troops which will be sent to him. As I flatter myself that his Serenity [Doge Giovanni Cornaro] will see my public letters, I will not trouble him with private advices, but beseech your Excellency when paying him your respects to present likewise my most humble service. I do not send the tribunal any news, but transmit a number of articles concerning which, as their Excellencies are not authorized to decide, they must communicate them to the Senate. Should the party of the Ambas- sador Trono thwart the resolves, as I anticipate, my stay here will be useless and most burdensome to me, and private interests will prevent mv serving the country ; so unless the King cross over to Germany where my hands would be more free, and where I should not injure any one. I must endeavour Having heard that the Dutch are about to disband a whole corps of veterans, I commenced negotiations to see whether they (the Dutch! would cede them to the Republic ; for the present, I write nothing about this to the Tribunal, but hope to do so by the next post. I dined yesterday with M. de Bothmar ; I found him the same affection- ate friend that he was of yore, and the good servant of your Excellency, to whom he recommended himself heartily, and drank to your precious health. After binding me to the strictest secrecy that the King may know nothing about it, this minister besought me to propose for the Republic's service the General his brother ; I know him well, he has the same manners as the minister ; he served with distinction throughout the war in Flanders, and the Duke of Marlborough will at any time give him the highest testimonials. He is, in fact, only major-general, but would * 'J ^K}° hanno altrettanto perverse i pre Ucanti, seduttori e perturbatori della public* <»mete.^^ Si vuole che sia un etfetto delle loro prediche la sollevazione scandalosa nella coatea di 106 have had the grade of lieutenant-general a long while ago, but for the death of the Duke of Zell, which subverted all military promotion, when those territories passed to the present King of England. Concerning this paragraph, I request your Excellency to answer me something that I can show, to convince him that I really wrote. 17 London, 50^ June 1715. Fbom the same to the same. The King takes pleasure in the advices which I communicate to him, not receiving many from that quarter [the Ambassador Trono] which would be the most fitting. I find that the resident Vincenti has gra- tuitously written a letter in my favour to the Senate ; this I attribute to your Excellency, as likewise the copy of the document, for which I return most humble thanks. I do not know what report the ambassador will have made, but it probably contained more of justice than of favour. Since my arrival here he bestirs himself, and I fancy he stands in awe of me ; this I regret^ for several reasons. Had the King been but able to go to Germany, I might then have had it in my power to serve my country without causing jealousy, and without any danger, lest the party consisting of his Excellency's friends and relations, should take amiss what little I might have done. At any rate, I do not meddle with his commissions, and provided I can effect anything advantageous for the Republic, I shall do so without scruple, because I consider this to be the duty of a citizen. On Sunday night his Excellency [Trono] departed on a long journey, and was to return last evening or this morning. I subsequently became acquainted with an idea of the ambassador's [Trono], who purposes manufacturing grenades of his own invention, with which to burn the sails of the enemy's ship. If practicable, it would be a fine device. He also thinks of raising levies of Irishmen. I might with greater ease have obtained embodied regiments, and had hinted to the ministers that it would be a political hit to cede them to the Republic, as they might be Jacobites ; but afterwards I was compelled by persons of prudence to change my opinion, as all the troops of England receive bigh pay, and the passage would cost a mint of money. In addition to the impeachment of Bolingbroke and Oxford, the House of Commons, on Tuesday evening,* by a majority of 47, also impeached the Duke of Ormond; and some of the Whigs themselves refused to vote. In the meanwhile the motion is carried, and on Wednesday the Earl of Strafford was accused of having infringed the laws, but not to the extent of the other three. To say the truth I regret these proceedings, and the King had in fact ii-dopted more clement maxims ; and it was his intention to mix and blend the two parties ; but before he set foot in London, a German counsellor [)ersuaded him to attach himself to the Whigs, who, blinded against the Tories, seek to revenge themselves on the late ministry, in the fashion witnessed from day to day, and there is great danger of bloodshed at the commencement of this reign. The result of the Committee of Secrecy has been published, and I believe that I shall be able to enclose a com- pendium of it for your Excellency in this letter. In all my daily conversations with the King, whether walking in the garden or at supper, he always talks to me of crossing the channel in the autumn. His ministers are of a contrary opinion. We shall see wlio will win. 21 June ^^_^ London, ^ j^ 1715. From the same to the same. The impeachment of the late ministry was put into the King's head by the present ministry with apparent zeal 'for his service, but I believe for * The dftte of Ormond's impe«chment was 21st June. 107 the purpose, in reality, of taking revenge on the opposite party and putting it down. By degrees the thing made such progress that, although it was wished to spare the Duke of Ormond, they were unable to do so by reason of his haughtiness, as he never would humble himself to the King, and at least protest against the acclamations of the populace, so he has been obliged to give way and withdraw to Prance, showing that he was ill- intentioned. His Majesty was really not of a humour to injure any one. but the counsel of impassioned ministers prevailed with him. The Duke of Marlboro' and his son-in-law Sunderland, Lord Townshend, Stanhope, and Walpole, aided by the Germans, Bothmar and Bernsdorf, have managed the great trial, and likewise direct all the other principal affairs of the kingdom, and I find that this monarch, who in Germany did every- thing of himself without even asking the advice of his ministers, acts here quite in a contrary fashion, and does nothing without consultation. Shrewsbury will be out of danger if he continues to resign himself to his fate as at present. He has good friends at Court and the King liimself favours him. 5 London, - August 1715. LONDON : Printed hy George E. Etre and Wirxi am Spottiswooi>k, Priuters to the Queen's most Excellent Majest)-. For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. [3333.— 250.— 6/66.] / iSir,'^^"^ UNIVERSITY 0032254881 OCT 8 l^ ''», t'. l.'-i^l. «» I 4 » I • ■,•.'♦.,•-•,♦*.» t i^'W >*#••- rr*'-- ^» 1* 1¥ ^^J II •■*■;/ ■ 2 > , ^