Appendix: November 1586 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 21, Part 1, 1586-1588. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

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'Appendix: November 1586', in Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 21, Part 1, 1586-1588, (London, 1927) pp. 656-657. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/foreign/vol21/no1/pp656-657 [accessed 10 May 2024].

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November 1586



Nov. 5.	Stafford to Walsingham and Davison.
	Advice of a plot to kill the Queen, contained in a letter dated Oct. 18 from Gravelines, a man having been landed at the North Foreland, who is one of four that have sworn to die or perform it. Takes the man to be a Welshman, who has served someone in the Queen's house and thus hopes to get in again; he has served the Prince of Parma. Two of the others are 'Scotchmen', the fourth a Frenchman. They were 'resolved' by a Jesuit that to save the Queen of Scots they might lawfully do it.— Paris, 5 November, 1586.
	Holograph. Add. Endd. 1 p. [Ibid. 152.]
Nov. 7/17.	M. de Taffin to Stafford.
	A Venetian courier lately come to Rouen from England, reports that the Queen of Scots was sent to the Tower of London on the 13th inst., seemingly for her trial.
	That the King of Scots has consented to it, saying—in answer to the English Queen's demand what he would have her do, his mother being convicted of having attempted her life—that if it were so, he would not by his prayers hinder the course of justice. It is difficult to credit such a reply from a son against his mother, and perhaps it is only founded upon a rumour on the London Exchange.
	He says that the Earl of Leicester is expected in England, and that Lord Gray will command in the Low Countries. He was in Utrecht when George Baste, much esteemed by the Prince of Parma, was brought in a prisoner, who says Zutphen was parleying and would soon surrender.
	A Flushing courier reports the death of M. [Sir Philip] Sydney. He was wounded in the leg, and would not have it cut off. It is a great loss for his country. The fight was because the Prince of Parma tried to re-victual Zutphen; in fact he put in some food, but so little that it surrendered after a great fort was taken.
	He says positively also that four deputies from the United Provinces are going to offer the Queen their sovereignty, since the King of Spain tried to do her so ill a turn by means of the Queen of Scotland.—Rouen, 17 November, 1586.
	Holograph. Add. Endd. French. 2 pp. [S.P. Dom. Addenda Eliz. XXIX. 153.]