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: October 1573', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580, (London, 1890) pp. 494. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol7/p494 [accessed 20 April 2024]
October 1573
| Oct. 22. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. | 561. Sigismondo di Cavalli, Venetian Ambassador in France, to the Signory. |
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| Advices from England state that the Queen is about to send hither a lord of her Court to reciprocate the mission of Marshal de Retz, and to treat some negotiation, but the report is that the marriage prospects have cooled down very greatly. A gentlemen had arrived in England as Ambassador from the Catholic King, ostensibly to obtain the Queen's confirmation of the articles already agreed upon relating to commerce, but his real object is first to endeavour to facilitate a thorough understanding between these powers (England and Spain), because the Spaniards now perceive that in order to destroy the energy and hopes of the Prince of Orange they cannot do better than deprive him of the advantage and assistance which he derives from England; and, secondly, to arrange that the two Powers should in the meanwhile send Ambassadors to reside at their respective Courts, and the Catholic King will permit the English (Ambassador) to live in Spain, provided he cause no scandals to arise in his house. I understand upon good authority that the French Ambassador in England (fn. 1) has been instructed to exert himself with all dexterity to defeat the appointment of these Ambassadors, and probably the other Spanish proposals as well. | |
| Crepy, 22nd October 1573. | |
| [Italian.] | |