Venice: December 1551 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1873.

'Venice: December 1551', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554, (London, 1873) pp. 366. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol5/p366 [accessed 24 April 2024]

December 1551



Dec. 2. Deliberazioni Senato (Secreta), v. xlvii. p. 183, tergo.	716. The Doge and Senate to the Venetian Bailo at Constantinople.
	Have heard from England that the Duke of Somerset, late Protector, has been sent to the Tower, with his wife and children, and some of his dependents, on a charge of plotting against the lives of the Lords of the Council, in order to seize the Tower, where the King's most precious effects are preserved, and to fortify himself within it. The Queen of Scotland, who had been in France, has returned to Scotland. To communicate this intelligence to the Porte as usual.
	Ayes, 167. Noes, 3. Neutral, 1.
	[Italian.]