Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 29: August 1585

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

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'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 29: August 1585', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 147-152. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/pp147-152 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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August 1585

Aug. ? 28. Note of the number of men to be raised in Essex and 10 other counties named, for service in the Low Countries, with the names of their proposed leaders. Total number of men, 1,200; officers, 8. [½ page.]
Endorsed, "Names of the gentlemen that have not had charge."
Aug. ? 29. List of 19 officers who have had, and of 10 who are to have charge of men, commencing with the Treasurer [at War], Master of the Ordnance, Col. Morgan, &c. [¾ page.]
Aug. ? 30. List of 35 captains placed in charge, with the number of men assigned to each, to be raised in London and 25 counties mentioned. [1 page.]
Aug. ? 31.List of 38 captains, similar to the above, with the numbers of their men. [1¼ pages.]
Aug. ? 32. List of seven captains for Col. Morgan's regiment, with the number of men assigned to each, and notes of imprest for conduct money to the port towns. [¾ page.]
Aug. ? 33. Similar list. [½ page.]
Aug. ? 34. Similar list. [¼ page.]
Aug. 2. 35. List of 34 captains, and of the numbers of men raised in London, Surrey, and 19 other counties, with the places and dates assigned for their embarkation. [1¼ pages.]
Aug. 3. 36. Note of the amount required for coat and conduct money, for half a month's pay of 4,000 men, for imprest for the captains and general, and for transportation; total, 5,433l. [½ page.]
Aug. 5.
London.
37. Sir Horatio Palavicino to Sec. Walsingham. My brother's affairs with Dr. Nunez need new favour, for the 1st of August has passed without his paying anything, or giving in the expected security; nor will he do it in my absence, unless you induce him. [¾ page, Italian.]
Aug. 11.
Rouen.
38. Thomas Rogers to Sir Horatio Palavicino, London. I wrote on the 3rd of my safe arrival at Rouen. It is said here that the Pope has sent away the French King's ambassador from Rome, as the King made stay to receive a nuncio from him, viz., the Bishop of Nazareth, who was come as far as Lyons. It is also said that the Sorbonne doctors and commissioners, who were sent to the King of Navarre to persuade him to like the late agreements in Parliament, and resolve him of such doubts as he had of religion, have returned to Paris without speaking with the King, so that now it is resolved to muster the whole camp on the 20th instant, near to where the King of Navarre is, and besiege some town; the Duke of Guise to attend the coming of Casimir, or any other that shall come in aid of the Protestants.
[The remainder is written with invisible ink, more brief, but to the same effect as the next letter, in which the slight additions are marked in passages in brackets. Also the following:—]
Pray stand my friend for 30l., to pay a Frenchman, and my brother George, who will demand some money of you on a mortgage of land; also send me 5l. to discharge my debts at Rouen, and I will do my best to deserve it. [4 pages.]
Aug. 11.
Rouen.
39. Thomas Rogers to Sec. Walsingham. I certified you of my arrival here on the 3rd instant. I have since been to Paris, and made diligent search for such parcels as I was directed to provide, which I hope to obtain shortly, being promised the help of persons of experience.
[The remainder is written in invisible ink.]
In my letter of the 3rd, I certified you that Durens and Hayns, the Jesuits who were sent into Scotland 10 days before, had directions from the Duke of Guise, and were sent for by the Earl of Huntley, by the King's consent. They took shipping at Treport, apparelled in purple like mariners, and the ship was bound to Newcastle for coals.
I also certified that, in the opinion of all the papists at Rouen, the King of Scotland's religion was papistical, and that the papists in Paris take him to be a papist, and whatever he says or does to the contrary to be only policy, the Duke of Guise having had letters to that effect; also that all priests sent out of England will be sent into Scotland, where means have been made for their entertainment by Earl Huntley, Lord Maxwell, and others, with the King's consent.
I also wrote that Charles Arundel was the man who was to have led the army into England, if it should be invaded, and that he has lately received 300 crowns from the Duke of Guise, [who allows him 30 crowns a month], which I find to be true, from conferences with papists at Paris, and with Charles Paget, in whose company I travelled from Paris to Rouen, where he is now, with Mr. Tresham and the Bishop of Ross, to see the profession of two Englishmen, and three women of the Order of Sion. I was invited, and intend to be there to hear their discourses.
From the conferences at Paris, I found that my tokens of commendation brought the effect I looked for. I also certified what friends the papists had in the Court, and that the Earls of Cumberland and Rutland are in working, by Fortescue and Doyland, priests; they have also friends in Lord Herbert and Sir Edw. Herbert; but their women friends I cannot as yet learn.
I certify this again, fearing that my ink may fail for lack of experience.
I have delivered the token of Tramsom, alias Barber, to Thos. Fitzherbert, who upon sight thereof, received me into his company most willingly, and has given me credit with all the papists at Paris, except Charles Paget, as they are divided in factions, viz. [Lord Paget his brother], the Bishop of Ross [Dr. Lewis], Charles Paget, Thomas Morgan, and Thomas Throgmorton, and some few priests; on the other part, Doctors Allen plays on both hands, and Thomas Throgmorton is rather with the Jesuits than against them, and the Jesuits, with their party, use him in the following practice; viz., that Charles Arundel, who is now with the Duke of Guise, shall conduct part of the army upon the west parts of England; the Earl of Westmoreland, who is also at Paris, is promised 10,000 men and 100,000 crowns from the Duke of Guise, to invade the north parts upon Westmoreland side, and is secretly determined to take the two young sons of the late Earl of Northumberland with him; Thomas Throgmorton to invade the south parts with Spanish forces. The Duke of Guise himself will invade England by way of Scotland and other Spanish forces are to enter Ireland. This is expected to be performed this winter, [and all the papists at Rouen expect to be in England before Christmas].
All this was told me by Thomas Fitzherbert, as a great secret, upon my showing him the three ciphers. I also understand by him that Thomas Throgmorton goes very shortly into Spain, to further the practices, and that Parsons is secretly in the camp of the Prince of Parma, to the like end, and shortly goes to Rome about it. Fitzherbert is likely to know of these matters, as he is secretary to all the persons before mentioned of our nation, and of the Jesuits' party. He has offered me a chamber in his house at Paris; but his commons are above my reach, and I must buy a bed, if I will be there; [also he will want to borrow, and I have nothing to lend, being six crowns in debt]. Yet it is a place most necessary, as he gives and receives intelligence, and his house is the place of common conference, and the lodging of Charles Arundel when at Paris; but if I lodge there, I must do so amongst a great number of the libels in French that were written against the Earl of Leicester. I mean, however, to stay out of his commons, until I hear your resolution. If I go there, I cannot so well sound Charles Paget, as they are jealous one of another; yet he has great means of knowing the proceedings of Paget and his company.
The Earl of Westmoreland is but seldom used by the Duke of Guise, matters being wholly referred to Charles Arundel, who seeks to discredit Paget and Morgan, and to keep this conspiracy from them, as they are taken to be spies.
A new Lieger ambassador has lately gone into England from the King of France, with whom the papists have conferred, and framed him fully to their purpose, and have means to convey letters to him in the King's packet, which letters he will deliver to an Italian, to be delivered to James Taylor, a grocer in Fleet Street, and by him as shall be directed, if he will undertake it; but his answer must be first obtained, which I hope to be made acquainted with, for Fitzherbert is the principal man that has dealt with him.
Charles Paget is now here, writing a book in answer to that against Throgmorton and the Earl of Northumberland's death; but he waits for what shall be printed against William Shelley, and so to print his book in English and Latin; and Clitheroe, the priest, is also here, assisting in it.
I can learn nothing as yet of the cause of the Earl of Arundel's intention to leave England, or that any on this side were acquainted with the matter, except Dr. Allen and Bridge alias Gratley, out of whom I can get nothing as yet, as Dr. Allen has gone to the Spa for the benefit of his health, and we are not certain whether he is alive or dead.
It appears to be true that Charles Paget did go to the late Earl of Northumberland and others in England, to move a rebellion, and to give them notice of the then intended invasion by the King of Spain, the Pope, and the Duke, although the Queen of Scots sent him letters not to proceed, as the time did not fit for the purpose; the Earl of Northumberland sent to him to the same effect, [but he concealed it, and went on his journey,] and Drs. Allen and Parsons laboured with the princes in the conspiracy.
Paget has been blamed by those of the new conspiracy for not dealing in the matter as he was directed, and for discovering it to the Council in England, by which means he has overthrown two great persons, so that they account him a spy, the rather as he has often protested that he never dealt with the Earl or Mr. Shelley on any such matter, notwithstanding he went to England for that purpose. This brings him deeper in suspicion than before; and the great suit which he makes for the release of Thomas Morgan (who is also accounted a spy by all the papists here) brings him further into it, so that they exclude him from their practices, and labour to discredit him with the Duke of Guise, the Pope, King of Spain, and others, as also to keep Morgan in prison; they have much prevailed, though Paget is ignorant thereof. Let me know of the receipt of my letters, and pardon what is amiss, as I cannot peruse what is written. I shall remain at Rouen until I know your pleasure as to lodging with Fitzherbert, by doing of which I must exclude myself from Paget. I hold it best to be familiar with Fitzherbert, as he and his are the principal practisers, and by them I shall know some of Paget's courses. Rouen, 13 Aug. 1585. [7 pages, endorsed by Phelippes, with abstract of the contents. The italics in brackets are supplied from the preceding letter to Palavicino.]
Aug. 12.
London.
40. Col. John Norris to Sec. Walsingham. The bearer, Capt. Hen. Studdevant, wishes to serve in the Low Countries. Pray, upon the next supply, prefer him to a charge, which I know he will deserve. [½ page.]
Aug. 13. 41. Note of the charges for coat and conduct money, and transportation of 1,750 men, to sail from Poole, Southampton, Hull, Yarmouth, Harwich, and Dartmouth, sent into the Low Countries, under the charge of John Norris; total, 1,750l. [½ page, endorsed by Burghley.]
Aug. 25.
Paris.
42. Thomas Rogers to Sec. Walsingham. I advertised you, by mine of the 3rd and 11th, of such parcels as I had then provided, and will send the rest.
[The following is written in invisible ink.] Since mine of the 11th, my friend has arrived from England, and I have delivered him in writing the state of all things here, which he promises to send you. Lord Morley has been solicited by his mother to come over, either to avoid imprisonment in England for seeming a Catholic, or the peril that may befal him in England, if foreign princes invade it, and make a conquest. It seems she has intelligence of such an intent; but whether she would make her son an agent, or whether she is moved by any of the Princes on this side to call him over, I know not. He has promised to come when she sends for him, and has certified her that 6,000l. is the most he can bring over, in money, plate, and jewels. Since then she has sent over one Hanmer, a gentleman, and Ithell, a priest, to fetch him over; they set forward three or four days since to get all things ready, when Mr. Lentroppe, his Lordship's cousin, who lies on this side with a ship of France, will come and fetch him.
I send you verbatim copies of letters delivered me by Bridge, alias Gratley, to send to Henry Donne. The letters I have given to my brother, to be delivered to Donne. One is private, and addressed to Mrs. Paunsford from her husband. My friend thinks Donne should adopt some other means than that of my brother for sending his letters, as he may get into danger through them. If Donne might find means to write to Gratley through me, his or my Lady's letters might declare more secret matter than otherwise will be revealed, as I am still persuaded that Donne was privy to all these proceedings. [3 pages.]