Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 26: August 1579

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1871.

'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 26: August 1579', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda, 1566-79, (London, 1871) pp. 563. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1566-79/p563 [accessed 16 April 2024]

August 1579



Aug. 7.	21. Edmond Yorke to Lord Burghley. I think it my duty to send you advertisements. An English ship with ordnance arrived at St. Malo, and sold 30 pieces, and armed a great ship, said to be for Tripoli. I will stay her if she passes this way. The Spanish fleet of 16 sail was in St. Sebastians, ready to depart for Flanders. It is reported that certain Spaniards were landed in Ireland, and that they had been joined by MacMorrris with two ships, and had done some spoil, but his companion, M. de la Roche, was lately sore spoiled by some Englishmen.
	At Bordeaux, Bayonne, and St. Jean de Luz, ships are preparing, and ordnance is brought. Senor Strossy is general of this army.
	The sea was never so full of pirates. A Plymouth ship, passing here for Dartmouth, was robbed and chased on to the rocks; four sail of Frenchmen keep these coasts.
	M. de Bellegarde, a wise and valiant general, is likely to succeed well in Piedmont. Some say he is revolted from the King, and maintained by the Duke of Savoy; others doubt a practice against the Genoese. The Prince of Condé, and all the nobility of the religion are with the King of Navarre, and new troubles are doubted.
	Pray consider Guernsey as a place of more importance, and more able to do service than is thought of. [2 pages.]
Aug. 10.	22. Account of the remain of powder in the office of ordnance in the Tower, exclusive of the powder brought in by Henry Dale, merchant. [½ page. Noted by Burghley.]
Aug. 12. Sudbury.	23. Att.-Gen. Sir Gilb. Gerard to Mr. Johns, clerk of the Signet. My neighbour, John Lyon, is yet called upon for the loan of 50l. I think he has not so much ready money, nor is likely to make so much presently of his goods. He has lately bought some land, disbursing all he could, and he is yet indebted for some part. I know his meaning is to bestow his lands for the erection of a school in the parish of Harrow, as he has no children. Some prefer him to this charge, to spare themselves. [¾ page.]