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Aug. 6.
Paris. |
104. R. Lloyd to Sec. Walsingham. Your servant, Mr. Bournham,
will both ease me of all other service, and deliver these few words,
wherein I acknowledge your favour and offer service. Mr. Stanley
arrived at Paris on Wednesday 25 July; we mean shortly to
journey towards Orleans, Blois, or Angers, and the sooner if we
had received our licence from you, which I pray you either to
send to the Lord Ambassador, or keep until our return to Paris.
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Aug. 10/20.
Your House at Paris. |
105. Nich. Cabry, apothecary, to Sec. Walsingham. I send you the
muscardines, also 35 cakes of bole armoniac, a rarity from the Levant,
which I have received from a friend of mine, a renegade in the
seraglio of the Grand Turk, whose effects are signal in many
maladies. I should have sent some Metridac treacle and salt earth,
but I thought you had enough. The bearer of them has brought
other excellent things from Constantinople for resisting poison, and
especially unicorn's stone, which may be tried before buying it with
good success, on animals to whom arsenic has been given. |
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He has also balm of Juæa, turpentine of Scio, and other rare
drugs. He as also silver medals, idols of Isis, taken from mummies,
&c. I expect soon some manna from Lebanon, which will be good
for your complexion. Thanks for your good treatment of my
brother. [1 page, French.] |
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106. Petition of a Frenchman of St. Martin's to Lord Treasurer
Burghley. Has been wronged by the pewterers of London, who,
when the law had ordered the restoration of his merchandise, in his
absence, took it, promising to buy it, and pay his creditors if he
would never more work in England, which would be his ruin.
They have forced his creditors three times to imprison him. Prays
an order to them to restore the merchandise, without damage to an
action against one of them for taking it away; also an order for
restoration of merchandise taken from him three years past by
Thos. Aker, in Southampton fair. [2/3 page, French.] |
Aug. 12.
York. |
107. Henry Cheek to Henry Earl of Huntingdon. By our general
letters you may perceive the store of priests and seeds of rebellion
which are cherished in this country; besides those lately taken,
there were two others in their company who escaped. Thomson
was very near being taken by Mr. Wortley, who overtaking him
carrying a long pike staff upon his shoulders, examined him and his
companion as to where they lodged the night before, and finding a
variety in their answers, began to suspect them, and found Thomson
to be a priest. I was informed by Wortley that they left a cloak
bag full of vestments at Thos. Waterton's house, whereupon I directed
a commission for taking him and his wife; but before the pursuivant came, they fled, and, as is supposed, are now with her brother,
Mr. Draycott of Painsley, in Staffordshire. If you procure a commission from Council for their apprehension there, I think they
will easily be found, or at least taken here by a commission
dormant. |
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The justices of assize required me, at their departure, to commend
them to you, and to signify their want of your presence here; they
were forward in proceeding against the traitors and recusants.
Mr. Attorney took great pains in furthering the service. |
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The assembly at the arraignment of the priests was very great,
especially of Papists, so that the Court was in great disorder, and
the justices of assize forced to make room themselves like ushers.
The attainder of these traitors has done some good, but their present
execution would do more. Pray labour with Council for it as soon
as may be, or at the least that of one of them. |
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I hope we shall shortly receive the commission and instructions
for this Council, whereof we have often great want, not knowing
how far we may proceed in divers cases by warrant. If the business
here is not great, and I am not otherwise commanded, I mean, after
the sitting, to take the country air for a fortnight or three weeks,
with Sir Thos. Cecil, and have, with much difficulty, entreated
Mr. Rokeby to keep the signet in my absence. [1½ pages.] |
Aug. 17.
Lyons. |
108. Thomas Arundel to his father, Sec. Walsingham. At my
coming out of England, intending to pass the course of the Rhine,
you favoured me with letters of recommendation to the Count
Palatine; but seeing my journey frustrated, I restored you them at
Paris. The same intention being renewed, I hope the same favour. |
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The Prince of Piedmont's soldiers lie scattered about Geneva, so
that the entry is dangerous; so I have not yet delivered your letters
to Master Beza, but will the first opportunity, and hope ere long
the state of the town will be brought to such quietness that I may
remain there sometime, rather as a scholar than a soldier. In my
return thence, I will see the territories of the Count Palatine, and
the Duke Casimir, and therefore desire to have letters to them. |
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I understand some false accusers,—to set forward either their own
private cause or that of their friends,—have burdened me with
matters I never thought of; but seeing the time of my return draws
on, I will not commit my just excuse to these few lines. I hope in
all my proceedings you will vouchsafe me such counsel as proceeds
from a favourable father to a loving and obedient son. [1½ pages.] |
Aug. 27.
Orleans. |
109. Charles Merbury to Sec. Walsingham. I have before advertised you of my Lord Ambassador's proceedings towards furthering
the cause of the town of Chester, as also that by his advice I resigned the charge of the said town, which you committed to me, to a
Frenchman, an acquaintance of my Lord's, who for his abilities
seemed more fit to further the cause. Doubting however whether
my letter came to your hands, I certify you thereof, that you may
not impute my weakness to want of desire to serve you, but of means
and ability to satisfy you. |
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As to my own business, I am waiting until the pirates that robbed
me have returned from the seas, and Mons. Carronge into Normandy,
to reap some benefit of your recommendations, and my Lord Ambassador's endeavours. [1 page.] |
