Venice: November 1569

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1890.

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'Venice: November 1569', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580, (London, 1890) pp. 439. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol7/p439 [accessed 25 April 2024]

November 1569

Nov. 5. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 463. Michael Surian, Venetian Ambassador at Rome, to the Signory.
Letters have been addressed by the Duke of Alva to Cardinal Pacheco, giving news of a great rising in England caused by an alliance which the Duke of Norfolk has made with the Queen of Scotland, with a view of setting her at liberty and marrying her, and that so soon as the intelligence reached the Queen of England she forthwith imprisoned the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of Pembroke, who were relatives of the Duke of Norfolk. The Queen was not able to arrest the Duke of Norfolk, who had gone to his possessions on the east coast to raise forces, but she has placed the Queen of Scotland in stricter confinement. The Cardinal Pacheco, together with Morone, have been for a long while with his Holiness to consider how they can promote this insurrection against the Queen of England, because they think it would be easy to assist it through the medium of the Duke of Alva; but the distance is great, and if the Duke fails to do something of his own accord, there is no hope of being able to send assistance from hence in sufficient time.
Rome, 5th November 1569.
[Italian.]
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