Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 34: March 1602

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1872.

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'Addenda, Queen Elizabeth - Volume 34: March 1602', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 419. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/p419 [accessed 19 April 2024]

March 1602

March 17.
Blackfriars.		 48. Sir Thos. Leighton to Cecil. I send a note of intelligence from Guernsey, to compare with other advertisements. [½ page.] Encloses,
48. i.Intelligence that at Lisbon, 50 ships are preparing for Ireland, but may be retarded by the defeat of the Spaniards at Kinsale. The King of Spain has obtained leave to pass 20,000 men through La Bresse [Brest ?], provided it be only1,500 at a time. Rumours of war with Spain have come to nothing, and St. Malo ships have gone to Spain. Marshal Brissac allows all trade with Spain, except in goods of England, Holland, and Zealand, and has sent a copy of a letter from the King of Spain to the chief trading towns, to that effect. In Spain they are expecting their two Indian fleets from New Spain and Terra firma. St. Malo, 20 Feb./ 2 March;1602.
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