Addenda: Miscellaneous 1582

Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 17, January-June 1583 and Addenda. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1913.

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'Addenda: Miscellaneous 1582', in Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 17, January-June 1583 and Addenda, (London, 1913) pp. 716-717. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/foreign/vol17/pp716-717 [accessed 26 April 2024]

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Miscellaneous 1582

[A.D. 1582.] April?] 760. Advertisements from Paris.
Letters from Paris state that the despatch of soldiers from Spain to Italy was going on slowly.
That the galley Spinola, carrying 800,000 crowns from the King into Italy, had encountered a great storm and had to throw away money, artillery and ammunition and to take refuge at Cagliari in Sardinia.
That King Philip had cruelly executed those students who rose in favour of Don Antonio in Coimbra; had bargained with the Fuccheri [or “Fuggers”; see Cal. for 1581–2, p. 622], for 1,300,000 crowns, and was raising men for Terceira; but it was believed that 2,500 French had gone into garrison there.
That a good number of fresh soldiers were to go to Italy with the Vice-roy of Naples, and the old garrisons there to be sent to Portugal.
That Don Antonio had received many mariners and was going to have an interview with the King of Navarre. Those who plotted to poison him were to be broken on the wheel.
That a bull was to be published in France, by desire of the Pope, for the aid of the banished English, and that the nuncio had censured certain Cordelier friars because they would not obey him.
Endd. Italian. 1 p. [Newsletters IX, 9a.]
[1582, end of.] 761. At the despatch of Sir Henry Cobham to France (in 1579), he was ordered to acquaint the King with certain orders for suppressing piracies, that, upon his good liking thereof, some way should be taken by both their Majesties to execute them.
The King and his Counsellors approved of them, if certain additions were made, which were set down by the advice of Mailleray, delivered by La Mothe Fénélon and Pinart to Sir Henry, and sent to her Majesty. The matter remained in suspence until La Mothe's late coming over in October last [1582], when it was revived, and “so considered of by the Lords and the said La Mothe, having associate to him the French ambassador” that the orders, with Mailleray's additions were agreed upon.
There remains now only to put the said orders into execution, to which purpose the King is to be made acquainted with the proceedings here, and to be prayed to appoint commissioners there to confer with her Majesty's ambassador for the establishment and execution of the same, the like whereof her Majesty will do here with his ambassadors.
Endd.: “How the orders for redress of piracies have been proceeded in from the year 79 to this time.” 1 p. [France VIII, 135.]
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