Venice: June 1595

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 9, 1592-1603. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

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'Venice: June 1595', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 9, 1592-1603, (London, 1897) pp. 161-162. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol9/pp161-162 [accessed 18 March 2024]

June 1595

June 17. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 353. Francesco Vendramin and Agustino Nani, Venetian Ambassadors in Spain, to the Doge and Senate.
In Portugal the fear of the English fleet is causing them to take many precautions. Five colonels have been appointed to drill the militia, as in the time of Don Sebastian.
Madrid, 17th June 1595.
[Italian].
June 24. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 354. Piero Duodo, Venetian Ambassador in France, to the Doge and Senate.
I have received your Serenity's letters informing me that the French Ambassador at Constantinople has sequestrated the goods of Paulo Mariani to be found in Egypt, at the instance of the Venetian Ambassador. The first time I have an occasion I will speak to the King on the subject.
Paris, 24th June 1595.
[Italian; deciphered.]
June 25. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 355. Francesco Vendramin and Agustino Nani, Venetian Ambassadors in Spain, to the Doge and Senate.
News has lately been received that twelve galleons belonging to the Queen of England landed four hundred harquebusseers at Pernambuco in Brazil. They harried the country and sacked a ship belonging to the West India fleet, and made themselves masters of a small fort near Pernambuco. The booty amounts to seven thousand cases of sugar, six thousand hundredweight of pepper, and other goods to the value of about two millions of gold. Many English ships have been sighted off Madeira, and rumours from England affirm that within this month a hundred ships will be ready there.
Madrid, 25th June 1595.
[Italian.]
June 25. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 356. Francesco Vendramin and Agustino Nani, Venetian Ambassadors in Spain, to the Doge and Senate.
The twelve Ragusan ships, which the King has hired, have arrived. They will do the provisioning service for the Ocean fleet; and it is firmly believed that the Spanish are going to augment that fleet beyond all expectation, so as to employ it at some favourable moment in another attack on England.
Madrid, 25th June 1595.
[Italian.]