Venice: June 1575

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1890.

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'Venice: June 1575', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580, (London, 1890) pp. 530-531. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol7/pp530-531 [accessed 23 April 2024]

June 1575

June 1. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 625. Giovanni Francesco Morosini, Venetian Ambassador in France, to the Signory.
We hear from England that the Queen has discovered a conspiracy organised against her by the Queen of Scotland, who had suborned a physician to poison her (the Queen of England). This physician has been imprisoned, and is said to have confessed everything; but on the other hand I have heard that these accusations are merely inventions for the purpose of refusing, for an apparently reasonable cause, the leave which has been promised to the Queen of Scotland to visit certain baths for a cure, and also as a pretext to indict the Queen of Scotland for a capital offence; or, if this were not done, then to obtain credit for great clemency, and thus to follow the course which the Queen of England has so long taken, of keeping the Queen of Scotland a prisoner without ever even seeing her.
The Lord who is coming from England to bring the Order of the Garter to the King, and to offer congratulations upon the King's marriage, has not yet arrived. It is said that the individual appointed had fallen ill, and that another Lord would be sent in his stead.
Paris, 1st June 1575.
[Italian.]
June 7. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 626. Giovanni Francesco Morosint, Venetian Ambassador in France, to the Signory.
When the deputies of the Huguenots left the Court to communicate to their principals the result of their negociations, and the concessions which his Majesty was prepared to give, the English Ambassador immediately dispatched a gentleman to his Queen, to acquaint her with all particulars, and her Majesty, on receiving this information, forthwith sent two couriers to proceed with the utmost speed, the one to the Prince of Condé and the other to the Marshal Damville. Although it is not exactly known what was ordered to be done, nevertheless it is to be inferred from what the English Ambassador resident here has said, that the object was to persuade the above to accept peace on whatever conditions the most Christian King might offer; because it appeared to the Queen that any conditions would tend to disseminate and increase the power of their religion throughout the kingdom; but nevertheless the conclusion of peace is not more hoped for now than when I last wrote, and indeed the King has determined to send Mons. de Schomberg, one of his colonels of Roisters, to learn what the Prince of Condé was doing so far as regarded levies of cavalry and infantry to serve in this kingdom, and in case De Schomberg should find that such levies had been ordered, he was then to levy eight thousand soldiers for the service of his Majesty.
Paris, 7th June 1575.
[Italian.]
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