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| Aug. 1. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| There is nothing now to be hoped for from the matter with
Soissons." Truly I am very sorry to write it, but there is so bad
an undirect dealing that I am ashamed that ever I was any motioner for them "that gave so great hope and of whom so little effects have followed; but the baddest dealing of all is the unfaithful seeking to draw still more and more without intent of doing
anything, . . . as you may see by a little billet sent to me from
one of their own company at the arriving of the last from
Montpensier, which they would have first hidden from me and
then disguised quite contrary, and when that they themselves
had sent unto him to advise him to come hither, which he will
do within these ten or twelve days, and then, when they were
determined to it to make a quarrel, [said] I had spoken of
their coming to meet with me, which I neither spoke on nor
thought on. But this is Florentine counsel, for by the Abbot
of Albene and nobody else he is governed, who I am afraid
will fall out the most untrue, unfaithful and unsufficient cunning
man that liveth . . . which I have seen long, and yet, as you know,
forborne ever to write of; but too plainly being discovered, I
cannot hide it any longer. Notwithstanding all these dealings,
I sent (as you may see by the copy enclosed) one of Soisson's
own men to him with these instructions, who, though I know
plainly answered that he would do nothing more than Montpensier, and made the same 'men' [qy. mean] answer to the gentlemen of the Religion that have long attended upon him, that he
will not have one of the Religion in his company, yet by the
Abbot's persuasion and advice came to me, disguised me the matter
wholly, excused the light credit he gave to the report [that] was
made unto him that I should tell anybody of our meeting, assured
[me] he would do wonders; that he had had means from Montpensier and withal gave me a letter from the King of Navarre which
I send you, whereof they have always one ready, desiring to
have the money presently, to do some great effect. |
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| "You may see what indirect dealing this is. I marvel the K. of
Navarre could write that letter to me, and so I have written
to him, as though her Majesty had written to him that she had
commanded me to deliver it; but surely the poor prince is abused
with these naughty, cunning people, and so are the poor gentlemen of the Religion here, whom they keep in hand still under
hope of him till it be so late that they shall not be able to
execute anything they had in hand, and shall be constrained for
lack of other means to go with him and accompany him, who,
if it be not of them of the Religion that they have delayed,
shall have nobody in the world to accompany him to go with
the King if the King doth go. |
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| But yet to take away all colours that I know he is fully
resolved to the contrary, I have offered them this (because they
say that want only maketh them to do nothing) that seeing they
are so greedy of this money, though it be against my express
commandment, . . . that if they will deliver me sufficient caution
in this town, that if her Majesty do not avow it me within one
month after her disavow showed, that I shall be repaid both the
rest of the money I do deliver now and that I have delivered
afore, I would presently in a day's warning deliver them the
money to do what they would withal; and because they should
not think I would put them to seek cautions they could not
find, I offered to take the Abbot of Albene himself and his
mother with him bound; and that if they did effects worth it,
I would write with all the earnestness I could to her Majesty
to entreat her to be contented, which having received her will
in, I would presently redeliver them their obligations. But
that they would not hear of. The Abbot offered once himself to
be bound, but I could not have taken him; but his mother I
know hath it five times told ready. . . but they made an
excuse upon that, that they would not have his mother acquainted with it." Then I offered that the money should be
delivered by a burgess of this town, and I never named at all;
with a writing between the Abbot and me to arrange the
matter, "but they would not bite at it." Then he offered to
be bound himself, but went away from it again; and "I could
not have taken him, for he is a churchman and nothing to be
recovered, but of his mother I knew well enough how to get
it." In the end, they would fain have the money but do nothing worth it. I pray God there may come better desert, and
if so, could even yet wish they had the money, "for if there
be any hope of good for the King of Navarre's profit and
the public cause (which, if they had been worth their ears,
they might have advanced greatly), I would both wish and
desire that they might be succoured."—Paris, 1 August, 1587. |
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| I pray you, communicate this to M. Buzenval. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. 3¼ pp. [France XVII. 99.] |
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| Enclosing:— |
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| The King of Navarre to Stafford. |
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| "Parce que je say au vray que mon cousyn quy est perdela et
byen fere [sic] de sorte que ceus de quy vous dependes en auront
contentement, Je vous prye, dautant que vous m'aymes et que
vous afectyonnes les bonnes yntansyons des dessusdyts, parachever ce qu'yls vous avoyent ordonne et dont [yls] mont
assuré par leurs lettres. Vous feres un bon euvre [que] tous
les gens de byen estimeront, et dont je me [sen] tyray partyculyerement tenu a vous, comme s'yl estoyt fet a moy mesmes.
Fetes au reste estat certeyn de l'amytye de Vostre afectyonne
et plus assure amy, Henry. |
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| Holograph. Undated. Injured by damp. ½ p. [France
XVII. 99a.] |
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| [Printed in the Supplement to Lettres Missives de Henri
IV., (Vol. IX. p. 305). |
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| Aug. 1. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| I have sent you the truth of how things have passed here,
which you may use as you see cause. "As bad people as there
be, and as great cause as I have, I am 'lofte' to hurt anybody. But in truth there is nothing here but art and cunning,
and I pray God that there be truth and faithfulness to them
that they profess to. Truly I am afraid of that. I would to
God I might be deceived, for else I would think bareness and
need maketh them to do they care not what, to get [something];
for truly they are all so bare here that for one that was
to be sent in haste to the King of Navarre yesterday, all their
credits could not get a small thing to send him away withal. I
was fain in the end to lend it them of my money or else
he could not have gone. Truly for my part, any thing I have
in the world or can get shall not want to serve the King of
Navarre withal, and love him so well as I will impute the
unkind dealing I have had not to him but to the false reports
of his bad ministers here, that have been glad to engage any
body's reputation to cover their own naughtiness and insufficiency. But I will never deal with some of them, neither hot
nor cold. |
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| "I have sent you a couple of books of M. de la Noue's doing,
come even now newly. I pray you that one of them may be
fair bound and given to her Majesty, for so I have promised the
gentleman. You will take pleasure in the reading it, for the
style and the matter, and the love you bear to the man, who
by a letter he hath written hither very plainly to the Abbot,
is greatly perplexed for that he hath written of him into those
parts; but surely, Sir, the Abbot's tongue and his pen spareth
nobody that cometh into his head, and that cannot or will not
be governed according to his broiling humour. I pray God the
King of Navarre wish not he had never meddled with his
matters."—Paris, 1 August, 1587. |
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| Postscript. "They give out here today a great practice against
the Queen by Jesuits taken in England; that her Majesty is
dangerously sick; that Sir Francis Drake is dead; that the
passages be stayed in England." |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. 1¾ pp. [France XVII. 100.] |
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| Aug. 1. | Richd. Saltonstal and Dr. Fletcher to Walsingham. |
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| The bearer, Mr. Tirrell, being in these parts about the matter
of religion, came to us of himself, and confessed his name, profession and fault; viz. that after favours received in England,
"being once in hand before, he had broken away and revolted
again: that since that time he had grown daily into a greater
dislike of himself and of popery" and that he had resolved to
return home and offer himself to your honour, whether for
punishment or for mercy. He seems utterly to have renounced
the gross parts of popery, and I [sic] believe his conversion and
desire further to be informed in the truth "is not in hypocrisy,
but in very truth." Whether you will be pleased to be a means
for him to be drawn forward with love and compassion rather
than beaten back with rigour, I leave to your godly discretion. |
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| For our proceedings here, we find that the Hamburgers and
other Hanse towns are all in confederacy not to yield us any
privileges "till her Majesty have performed her decree or promise
of Nonsuch, which they allege not to be done as yet; forasmuch
as divers new impositions are not yet remitted, which by information from the Alderman of the Stilliard they recite in
particular, as that of Sir Walter Rawley's licence; the grant to
Mr. Beale for steel; a new exaction (as they say) by the Customer
of Hull etc. Whereunto we answer them that her Majesty
already having dealt so largely and princelike with them . . .
it is very unreasonable they should stand in these terms, and
require all or more of her before themselves have performed
any one thing on their parts again; specially seeing it had
been their parts to have yielded first to her before anything
granted on her part to them. Notwithstanding, she hath had
that further regard to satisfy them in all reasonable sort (as
appeareth by a clause of her decree) as that she promiseth to
refer it to a commission . . . But finding them not satisfied
with this and like reasons, we are forced now to drive it to a
conditional conclusion; viz.: they to ratify our former privileges
for a certain time. In the meanwhile (we tell them) her Majesty
may be pleased to consider of their further grievances concerning these particulars, not by our means (which cannot nor
dare not undertake any such matter) but solicited by their own
letters." And in case she do not satisfy them within the time
limited in this conditional contract, then they may resume their
privileges so granted for our Residency. This may serve our
turns for a year or two, when we may hope for some better
events to give us the advantage which they now have. Their
reason for standing so wholly upon the consent of the rest of
the Hanses (contrary to the promise of their letters) is their
fear of the King of Denmark, who will not compound matters
between them "without flat resigning to him their criminal
jurisdiction and best part of their territory. And therefore
of late hath sent back their commissioners (which they sent to
him about the redeeming of this claim . . .) with nothing else
but absolute threatenings if they yield not out of hand." He
has ordered a castle to be built in Holst, at the mouth of
their river, to check their trade and has now sent forth of the
Sound eight tall ships, which they fear are to go against them.
But I believe they are sent for Scotland with the King's daughter.
"1. Because I hear of certain that were at the Danish court when
the Scottish ambassador departed thence of late that the marriage is agreed upon and concluded, notwithstanding the report
cast abroad here that the treaty brake off because the Scottish
King will not render the Orcades; which seemeth nothing else
but a very cloak to cast over the lady to convey her in more
secret [wise]. 2. The Danish ships set forth with the Scottish, all
in one day, the one in the forenoon, the other in the afternoon.
3. The wind not serving them, they were forced to ride about
this coast, the Scottish barks about the Holy Island [Heligoland],
the Danish, four within the Ems, and four within the Weser,
not far off the one from the other, and so with some dissimulation kept company together. 4. Certain of them went up
into the Weser . . . near to the Bishop of Bream [Bremen] who
is nephew to the King, as may be supposed that the lady being
aboard might have better opportunity to refresh herself on land.
5. The wind coming about and serving their turns, I hear it
reported that they were met all sailing together the day before
the date of this letter towards the north-west." |
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| This perplexity with the King of Denmark makes the Hamburgers join fast with the other Hanse towns, especially the
nearest, Lubeck, Bream and Lunburg, which are the better
content to join with Hamburg, as "they doubt their own case
if so strong and absolute a neighbour as the King of Denmark
should come so near to them and be possessed of one of their
chief towns." We hope your honour has received our letter
sent by way of Middelburg, and that you will favour our petition
for the helping of this treaty.—Hamburg, 1 August, 1587. |
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| Postscript. We are promised a copy of the Alderman of the
Stilliard's letter, which we will send you. |
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| Signed by both. Add. Endd. with short note of contents
by Laurence Tomson. 2¼ pp. Seal of arms. [Hamburg and
Hanse Towns II. 62.] |
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| Aug. 2/12. | Mazino del Bene to Walsingham. |
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| This comes only to refresh your honour's memory of me,
and to pray that you will keep me in her Majesty's good graces
and your own. |
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| What news there is this bearer will tell you by word of
mouth, and he also carries letters to those who will impart it
to you; though I do not think you will receive any satisfaction
therefrom, for we are sailing in a great tempest, without hope
of being able to gain the port where only we may be safe,
which is that of peace, if God at this time of his grace do
not put thereto his holy hand; fortifying our King with better
counsel than that which he has employed up to the present; for
which I supplicate him with all my heart that he will preserve
his and our kingdom from all evil.—Paris, 12 August 1587.
Add. Endd. Italian. ¾ p. [France XVII. 101.] |
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| Aug. 10. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| I was very sorry that your letters confirmed the rendering
of Sluse, before reported by the Spanish ambassador but not
believed here, and that they who should have more care of
their own good, "for the which her Majesty so liberally both
spendeth her money and hazardeth her subjects" are, by their
slackness and inconstancy, the causes of so great a loss and
dishonour. I pray that they may so amend their old faults
that they may not be brought to ruin hereafter. |
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| As you wrote that Sir Francis Drake should presently go
forth. I advertise you with all diligence "what the King's agent
in Spain hath advertised hither of the 24th of July, that the
Marquis of Santa Crux is gone out with a hundred and ten
sail of ships of all sorts, and very near twelve thousand men
embarked upon them." |
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| I also send you a copy of a letter to M. Fonteynes, the governor [sic] of Brittany, from a man he has at St. Lukques, "that
thereupon you may so consider of the furnishing of Sir Francis
Drake that he may (as I hope) return with his own honour,
the good of her Majesty and our country and the confusion of
the King of Spain. |
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| "The King hath not been here this good while, but is shut
up and [sic at] bois de Vincennes, and will be yet this sennight,
so that nothing here is done. They promise at his return that
I shall have audience and satisfaction of all things with contentment. |
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| "The King of Navarre . . . is besieging of Tonnay-Charente
(Tonnecharente) and is now stronger than M. de Joyeuze, his
forces coming daily to him and the other going daily from
him, who doth daily send to the King for further supply or else
to come home; but neither the King hasteth to send any nor
will give him leave to come away. |
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| "Some think the King of Navarre besiegeth Tonnay-Charente
to provoke M. de Joyeuze to come to succour it, and so to have
his revenge on him; others think it is to annoy him with that,
while he with few passeth on his way to pass somewhere the
river of Loyre to meet with his strangers, which I would he
had already done and joined them, because his presence with
them is very needful. But there is hazard in all things, and
particular[ly] in this going with small company, though there
be yet nowhere any forces together, and that the river of
Loyre without a bridge is passable in a number of places. |
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| "All the Council almost are at their houses hereabouts, the
King being away. At their coming home I will easily find
whether the ambassador spoke of that which you writ to me of
his own head, or whether they desire it here yet; and whether
if her Majesty should do it, it would be well taken to do any
good effect. |
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| "They have word here that the Reiters do march to enter
towards Burgundy ward."—Paris, 10 August, 1587. |
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| Postscript. "If my lord of Leicester do not find some means
to keep the Prince of Parma [a] work with all his forces, surely
it is thought he will send most of his horsemen upon the frontier
either to back him, or into the country to help him; which
will be of great importance for them of the League, both for
some bad effect for them of the League [sic], and chiefliest for
their reputation, which is no small matter at this time." |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd ! 2 pp. [France XVII. 102.] |
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| Enclosing, |
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| John Hawarde to Stafford. |
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| The letters your honour procured from the King being delivered on Wednesday the 29th [n.s.], we were next day resolutely answered by the Due de Mercure that we should have
no restitution until those in Brittany taken by Englishmen have
had their release in England. |
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| One M. de Lisonnett, Governor of Canquernaw [Concarneau]
in Brittany has arrested our ship; "the report is he hath lost
four pieces of ordnance, which according to the Duke's rate
amounts to 2000 crowns soll: for here his pleasure standeth
for a law. He hath delivered one of the three ships conditionally, giving his bond that he should bring him 3000 weight of
gunpowder; so that the accord made by your honour between
their Majesties is made but a jest by the governor, nothing
being obtained of him without extreme expences or else unreasonable conditions." |
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| The ship whereof I made report to you arrived here before
my coming, and was ransacked by the Bretons, the men hurt
and our goods spoiled. "Here is neither King obeyed nor our
country beloved."—Nantes, 30 July [n.s.], 1587. |
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| Add. Endd. 1 p. [France XVII. 102a.] |
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| Aug. 12. | Buzanval to Walsingham. |
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| According to your advice, I am resolved to go on Monday or
Tuesday at the latest to the Court, and pray you to tell me
to whom I ought to apply, in order to gain access to her
Majesty. If you have anything from Paris that confirms my
request, I pray you inform me of it. The King of Navarre,
by his letter of August 18 [n.s.] urges me strongly to get
the aid for the reiters and says all will be topsy turvy (sans
dessus dessous) if the Queen does not take pity on this affair.—
London, 12 August. |
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| Postscript. They write of the defeat of some company of M.
de Joyeuse. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. Fr. ¾ p. [France XVII. 103.] |
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| Aug. 12/22. | Declaration of the Senate of Hamburg on this date for the
continuance of the English Merchants Adventurers' trade there
until Easter, 1588. |
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| Qy. copy. Latin. 2 pp. [Hamburg and Hanse Towns II.
63.] |
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| Three other copies of the same; one of them being endorsed
by Walsingham's clerk, "February, 1587[-8], when perhaps
the copy was made. [Ibid. II. 64–66.] |
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| Aug. 12/22. | "Abstract of the Council of Hamborough's decree of the 22
of Aug. '87." |
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| "Granteth our merchants free exercise of traffic for the bringing in of their cloths, and the transporting thence any their
commodities; so that they contain themselves within the suburbs
of the city of Hamborough." |
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| [On the same sheet are abstracts of Count Edzard of Embden's letter of Oct. 23, and the Senate of Hamburg's letter of
Nov. 7. See under these dates.] |
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| ¼ p. [Ibid. II. 72 II.] |
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| Aug. 13. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| The bearer, Touston [or Tonston] Walton, has asked him for
passport, which he has given, on condition that the said Walton
shall present himself to his honour. He confesses he has offended by coming over without licence, but does not seem to
have misbehaved himself in any way while there.—Paris, 13
August, 1587. |
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| Signed. Add. Endd. ½ p. [France XVII. 104.] |
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| Aug. 14. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| I send this bearer in haste, "upon this accident that yesternight, after the Pope's nuncio had audience, presently the King,
even at his going to Bois de Vincennes to M. d'Espernon's
marriage, commanded the chevalier du Guet, the keeper of the
Bastillo to set Morgan at liberty; the most sudden thing that
ever I saw, for upon his [former] audience, that he so earnestly
pressed it, that the Pope desired it as a particular favour from
the King, the King flatly refused it him. But yesterday upon
his audience, and the grant that he brought unto the King from
the Pope for the selling of 50000 crowns' worth of the ecclesiastical livings, pressing that again, the King granted it and hath
put it in execution, as I am very credibly informed, being very
earnestly required it by St. Goard, his ambassador there, who
hath assured it him that the Pope did desire it with so great
earnestness, that if he did grant it, the Pope would not refuse
him any reasonable thing. |
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| "I have presently sent to ask audience, but I do not look
for it of a day or two, for the King is not here; and to
speak to Brulard of it, Pinard not being here, it were as good
speak to a stock; but at my audience, I will deal as roundly
with the King as ever any ambassador dealt with prince." |
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| I thought fit to let you know this, "and whereas Nau's
friends do look for his delivery presently, to desire that if
you think it so good, at the least you do not make any haste
in [it] till you hear further, for if the King be resolved in it,
and upon my audience do not put him up again, that to have
him [Nau] out, somewhat may be done by his friends' means
for the having of Morgan, which is a thing neither unlikely
nor unpossible. |
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| "And also to put you in remembrance to send me those
extracts of all those Morgan's and Paget's letters that touch
anybody on this side, private or public person, signed and
avowed with Nau's and Cowrle's [Curl's] hands. I do hope,
without her Majesty's meddling in it, to have means found that
Morgan shall never do great hurt to any body again. |
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| "I pray you tell Mr. Waade that the man that did promise
to him to give warning of Morgan's going out (who he is I
know not) did send me a writing not long agone . . . there
was no hope of it, which I knew well enough then to be true,
but I marvel now I heard nothing of it from him. |
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| "Gilbert Gifford this morning used a speech to one that he met,
as though they would have it thought that Morgan was let out
by her Majesty's consent underhand . . . to pick out some
matter of him for her service. The said Gifford's going into
Spain is stayed. |
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| "I have sent you a packet sent me even now from Nawe's (fn. 1)
friends in answer of the letters from him to them you sent me in
your packet. It is above a sennight agone that they should have
sent me the answer, but it came not [till] now, so that I think
if Morgan had not been delivered, I had had no answer at all.
I know not what the meaning of it is; but if you do not deliver
Nawe till you hear further, they will, I think, think of the matter. |
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| "News is come even now of the taking of Montelimar in
'Dolfine' by M. de la Valette by surprise. The castle yet holdeth
and some think it will [be] succoured by M. Chastillion, who is
not yet passed, and Ediguieres [Lesdiguieres] with him, but it
is doubted, because M. de la Valette hath put himself between
them [and] the Swissers that were to join with them, and is
very strong in the field."—14 August, 1587. |
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| Postscript. The news of the armies' of Spain's departure is
confirmed. If you send me the extracts of Morgan's and Paget's
letters, signed and acknowledged by Courle and Nau it may be
Morgan will ere long wish himself in the Bastille again. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. 3 pp. [France XVII. 105.] |
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| Aug. 14. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| I send you the copy of an advertisement sent me two days ago
from one very near the King, and who never yet sent me anything
false. I never heard afore of any intention of Count Soissons
to enterprise anything at this time, but one who is acquainted
with those matters has confessed that he "meant this day or
tomorrow to go to his brother, the Prince 'Cownty' [Conti] and
together to join and have some practice in hand for the King
of Navarre's service. I wondered when I heard of it, and more
that the King knew of it; for surely there is somewhat in it if
they go forward with it now the King knoweth it; besides, since,
I know it of more than half a dozen; 'then' [sic] none of them
are belonging to them. Some think that they will do nothing
but assemble the most they can together and so come unto the
King, and then dispute with M. Mompensier the leading of the
avantgarde, as of the elder house afore him. I know that is
put into their heads by them that would be glad to have a
division between Mompensier and them; which they have already
begun to brew by a message that the Count hath sent by
Du Perron to that effect: that he and his brother will dispute
the advantgarde with him, and have place afore him, seeing he
cometh to the King, which they would have yielded to him if he
had kept his first promise for the King of Navarre. |
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| "I am afraid that will breed small good blood, considering
the man's humour . . . [also] that there is so much ambition
put into [the] young man's head, and his elder brother's (fn. 2) imperfections so much preached to him, that seeking to have
by his defaults greater authority than the other will yield to,
there will be jarring between the two brothers." I pray you
communicate this to M. de Buzenval.—Paris, 14 August, 1587. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. 1¾ pp. [France XVII. 106.] |
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| Enclosing, |
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| The above-mentioned advertisement. |
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| Beware what answer you make, for they will shortly ask
you why you mix us up in it, by moving the Comte de Soissons
to do what he is doing. They have assured the master today
that he will see something stirring in this coming week, and
that you have given him the means for it. I can assure you
that the master [the King, inserted by Stafford] mocks at it,
either as having people to guard him of whom he is assured,
or as desiring that he and his may do their duty otherwise
than they do; which I know certainly he would desire very
greatly; and that he is sending to you only to satisfy the importunity of the little man [inserted, M. Villeroy] and others
who press him for it, not that he is troubled as to whether
you have done it; for he would wish that they should do more
than they are doing; and was angry yesterday, seeing that he
knows there are disturbances amongst them which there should
not be, from the incapacity of those who meddle in their affairs. |
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| I know not if the Mother, who arrived yesterday evening very
late, has discovered anything of this, but I can assure you that
the master is very certain that she hides nothing from him;
and even of those who profess the contrary (sic). I pray God
that you do not one day find true what I sent you word from
St. Jermain. I pray you, take advantage of it, and speak of it
to no one, as you did of what I lately told you, that you know
we were reproached for after our last audience. If it were not
for your own service and some affection which I have for the
public good, I should never move a step in it, knowing how incapable and unfaithful are the men who meddle in their affairs. |
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| Copy, without signature or date. Fr. ¾ p. [Ibid. 106a.] |
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| Aug. 14. | Stafford to Walsingham. |
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| Has opened his packet to put in these lines, to tell him that
"a very particular gentleman in M. Joyeuse's army" sends news
"that all his cavalry hath left him, and all his gentlemen were
a leaving of him, but that he is retired to Nyort and hath with
importunity retained them about him, upon assurance that he
will retire himself within four days in post hither, if the King
within that time send him not new forces. The King of Navarre
is stronger a great deal than he now; but hath made a great
loss in Guienne of the three brothers of Gurson (fn. 3) which were
killed all in one day by the companies of M. Matignon."—
14 August, 1587. |
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| Holograph. Add. Endd. 1 p. [France XVII. 107.] |
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