Addenda, Edward VI - Volume 3: December 1551

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870.

'Addenda, Edward VI - Volume 3: December 1551', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65, (London, 1870) pp. 409-410. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1547-65/pp409-410 [accessed 11 April 2024]

December 1551



[Dec.]	84. [— to young Mr. Throckmorton.] By yours of 26 Oct., I perceive you are at Rome, a dangerous place, especially for the Throckmortons, but God can teach you your duty to him, your King, country, and family. Mistrust your own youth, and the wily Italian practises of the old man with whom you have to do. He will be plausible at first, but be not abused, and get all intelligence you can concerning our master's safety, on which depends your surety and the wealth of all England. If the party has English zeal, his intelligence will be better justified by his hither coming. Spy out his meaning, and do not neglect his relations. Especially learn whether he be a true convert in religion, for his old papistry would prevent his disclosing what might preserve the King from evil. It occasioned him and his master to banish themselves from England, aad has moved them to sundry conspiracies; yet hear what you can, for God sometimes serves himself by the devil. As to the Duke of Somerset's captivity, I will tell you the truth of his conspiracy. He, with men of divers estates, had conspired the death of the Duke of Northumberland, lately Earl of Warwick, Marquis Northampton, and Earl Pembroke; in this traitorous attempt, he was advised by Christian, King of Denmark, and meant to have proceeded like Catiline and Cethegus. How the law will deal with him I know not, but his deeds can be proved by sundry witnesses, without torture or reward. [1¾ pages, copy.]
	Endorsed, "Written in the time of the Duke of Somerset's captivity."