Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 27: April 1580

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1872.

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 27: April 1580', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 4. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/p4 [accessed 19 April 2024]

April 1580



April 2/12. Venice.	9. Chris. Hodgson to L. Johnson. It was not as Mr. Johnson that I addressed you, but as my father who brought me out of Egypt and slavery. If a man is not plain with you, he does not love you; and if a man is not so with another, it is either because he is afraid to displease, which is not love but fear, or because he looks for some commodity from him, which is also not love but courtesy. Whatsoever I said therefore came of love, and if I said you had forgotten me, it was because I thought so, and that I might get you to write. I am sorry I was so vehement. I doubt not you will interpret both what I have said and now say, and pray God to speed you. I mean to adventure the best joint I have with you one day. I do not desire you to help my parents, as they do not need it. I have sent you 1,000 grains, five gilded crosses, the pardon whereof the bearer will tell you, and three A [gnus Deis]. I have sent you all I could get, as I shall not have so good an occasion hereafter. [1 page.]
April. 30. Guernsey.	10. Sir Thomas Leighton to Sec. Walsingham. There has been an attempt by those of Brouage to surprise the Isle of Rhé, but they were repulsed by M. de Soyion, who commands there. Then they tried to take a rich prize, but missed. M. de Rohan is gone to Rochelle; Monsieur is at Angiers, very sick.
	Eight days after my arrival in my charge, the two worst jurats died, and men think they broke their hearts through shame and fear; others look as though they would hang themselves. [1 page.]
April ?	11. "The names of the Queen's Majesty's subjects being and having been very lately in these parts of France, besides those that be merchants and trade to and for:—68 in Paris, and the servants of several; 47 in Rouen; 17 in Orleans; 8 in Nantes; 31 in Rheims; 2 in Cambray; 3 in Lyons; 6 in Douay; 52 in Rome; and 7 in Milan. Also "The names of such as are in the college at Rome, to whom the Pope gives 3,000 crowns yearly for their maintenance," 52; besides 30 Italians who have the governance. Names of six priests sent to England, 28 Oct.; and of 14 that came from Rome 25 Feb., proposing to go to England, all of whom have money given. [3½ pages, damaged.]