F

Fair Isle, 146 note.

Falaix, maltre d'hôtel to Eleanor, Queen-Dowager of France, 370.

Falkland, letter dated from, 588 note.

Falmouth, 375, 514, 525, 526, 528, 529.

Fane, Sir Ralph, 386, 389, 406, 453.

Fano, Bishop of, papal nuncio with the Emperor, 15, 76, 245, 296–298, 432, 433, 459, 490, 491, 503, 582–585.

Farnese, Alessandro. See Paul III.

-, Alessandro, Cardinal, 3, 15, 29, 33, 34, 75, 289, 297.

-, Octavio, Duke of Camerino and Parma, 34, 35, 36, 52, 53, 75, 76, 264, 274–278, 283, 289, 294–295, 297–298, 310, 325, 458–463, 519, 585, 616.

-, Pier Luigi, 36 note.

Fast Castle, 339.

Faulton, M. de, 327.

Ferdinand, King of the Romans, 30, 46, 246–246, 309, 377–379, 395 note, 467.

Ferdinand, Archduke, second son of the King of the Romans, 26, 379.

Ferrara, Cardinal of (Hippolito d'Este), 3, 11, 15, 29, 52, 275, 519–520, 543 note.

-, Ercole II, Duke of, 60, 289, 297, 334, 542, 616.

-, ambassador of, in France (J. Alvarotti), 29.

-, 281.

Ferrario, Bernardino, Italian secretary to Sir John Mason and Sir Philip Hoby, 88, 153.

Ferrers, George, Lord of Misrule, 444.

Ferrette (Pfirt), 378 and note.

Fiennes, 26.

Fiesco or Fieschi, J. L., 52 note, 295.

-, Ottobuono, 52 note.

Figueroa, Don Gomez Suarez de, 53, 76.

-, Don Juan de, 609.

Finance. See England, France, etc.

Finisterre, Cape, 418.

Fisheries, 146, 147, 345, 391, 551.

Fitzalan, Henry, Earl of Arundel, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 20 note, 21, 39, 44, 47, 168, 263, 347, 392, 393, 425, 451, 453, 468, 536, 605.

-, Henry, Lord Maltravers, 62 note.

Fitzwalter, Lord. See Radcliffe.

Fitzwarren, John, Lord, 62.

Flanders, the Council of, Order in, 430.

-, -, 446, 447 and note.

-, See Low Countries, and 123, 143, 144, 145, 147, 155, 171, 217, 250, 264, 281, 332, 376, 402, 409, 449, 478, 493, 512, 527, 534, 545, 566, 595.

Fleming, a Scottish mistress of the King of France, 588 note.

Flemish merchants, their claims in England. See England.

Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of, 313. 34, 327.

-, 528.

Flushing, the Bailiff of, 178, 179, 494.

-, 99, 109, 114, 115, 142. 146, 147, 161, 165, 174, 199, 348, 409, 494, 551, 552, 604.

Foligno, 275 note.

Fontainebleau, 15, 29, 36, 37, 50.

Fontanella, 36.

France, Advices from a spy in, 399.

-, Kings of. See Francis I and Henry II.

-, Queen of. See Catherine de Medicis.

-, Queen Dowager of. See Eleanor of Austria.

-, the chancellor of. See Olivier.

-, the Constable of. See Montmorency, Anne de.

-, commerce and foreign merchants' claims in, 24, 27, 355, 523, 551, 552, 575, 590, 603, 615, 616.

-, currency and finance in, 25, 73, 153, 166, 220, 334–335, 457–458, 469, 575, 579, 590–593, 602, 603–604.

-, military and naval affairs in, 5, 16–17, 25, 30, 46, 93, 188–191, 193, 197, 217, 219–220, 229, 244, 273, 294–295, 301, 307, 310, 318, 327, 333–334, 344, 345, 356, 370–371, 391, 395, 399, 402, 403–405, 418, 426, 449, 471, 475, 484. 493, 494–496, 499, 513, 522, 525, 526, 551, 565, 578, 579, 580, 589, 616.

-, religious affairs in, 118, 262, 302, 309–310, 313, 323, 324, 343–344, 369.

Franche-Comté, the, 499.

Francis I, King of France, 52, 59.

Franeker (in West Friesland), 94.

Frankfort-am-Main, 550.

Frederixen, Cornille, a merchant of Amsterdam, 610.

Fressé, Jean de, Bishop of Bayonne, 369 note.

Friedwald, the treaty of, 369 note.

Friesland, 65, 402.

Fuchs, Hans, German Protestant envoy in England, 369, 425.

Fuggers, the, Augsburg merchants, 265, 282 and note, 469, 496–497, 498, 574, 578, 617.

Fumel, M. de, French envoy to Scotland, 59, 62, 108.

Fumes, letter dated from, 106.