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43. The Queen to Henry Lord Scrope, Lord Warden of the West
Marches, Sir John Selby, Wm. Bowes, and Christopher Dacre. We
understand that at a day of truce held at Cocklow in the Middle
Marches, according to the ancient treaties and laws of the Borders,
Francis late Lord Russell was horribly murdered, to the great discontentment of us, and to the evil example of all others, if remedy
may not be had for stay of such practices. |
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Considering therefore how greatly it would touch us in honour
to have a person of that quality murdered, and the peace broken
after the assurance given,—a thing of most dangerous consequence[We] have moved our dear brother and cousin the King of Scots, by
our Ambassador resident there, that special commissioners may be
appointed by either of us to proceed jointly to find out the executors
of the said murder and breach of the peace. Finding that in the
part of the said King there is the like forwardness to the prosecution of the offenders, he having already appointed persons to
join in commission, we therefore have appointed you our commissioners, to join with his, to inquire by whose procurement, and how
and in what manner the said Lord Russell came to his said death,
and who were practisers or parties to the said most horrible murder;
and such as shall be detected to have been culpable of the said
murder, or infringers of the peace, you shall require the commissioners deputed by our said brother to deliver to you, and certify your
proceedings herein to our Court of Chancery, there always to remain
of record, and also to our Council, that order may thereupon
follow. For better execution of the premises, we require all justices, wardens, serjeants, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables and
all other our officers, ministers, and subjects to whom this case shall
appertain, to be aiding and assisting you in the due execution of
this our commission. [2¼ pages, copy.] |
Sept. 5.
Alnwick. |
44. Sir John Forster to the Earl of Leicester. I understand by
yours that Her Majesty has granted you and my Lord of Warwick
the wardship of the young Earl of Bedford, and the farm of his lands
during his minority, which is a great comfort to me and all his
friends, as he is the only joy and comfort that I have next under
God. You also write that I am to send him to my Lord President
at York, who will bring him to London, and I received a similar
letter from the President himself. As the young Earl is sickly and
weak, and not able to travel without danger of his life, pray allow
him to remain with me until the spring, and I will do my best to
see him brought up in learning, and keep a schoolmaster for that
only purpose, one whom his father made choice of during his life.
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Sept. 30.
Paris. |
45. Thomas Rogers to Sec. Walsingham. The last parcels I sent
were of the 18th inst., since which my friend has departed hence.
I have never received any advertisement of their receipt; let me
know what you have received. I have sent notes thereof by my
friends. |
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[The following is in invisible ink:—] In mine of the 18th, I
certified that Dr. Allen was gone to Rome with Morris, a priest. I
have since seen, by letters from Parsons of 20 Sept., that he is gone
after him with speed, and wills that if his going is discovered, it be
given out that he is gone on a pilgrimage, and to sequester himself
from all worldly affairs; his going is to forward the invasion of
England this winter, and he and Dr. Allen have concluded to sift
Batson, the Jesuit in Rome, about his being in England, and to discredit some of the Cardinals there, if they can, about the matters
which Aldred deals in. |
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The enclosed is the last from Rome. I do not know the contents
of the cipher, but I have set it down verbatim. |
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Lord Paget's coming from Rome is to meet with Thomas
Throgmorton at Genoa, where they will take shipping for Spain, for
furthering the invasion there. Thos. Throgmorton is still here in
Paris, attending the coming of Malvoisier, the old French Lieger,
hoping by him to hear from the Scottish Queen, and also for money
for himself; but he cannot stay long here, as Lord Paget has already
come from Rome to meet him. All the rest of the papistry expect
his coming, as he brings them answer from the new Lieger about
the conveying of their letters to and fro, and also an answer from
Arnold, the Frenchman whom I mentioned before, about the Scottish
Queen. |
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The Irishmen who passed Scotland have arrived here, and been in
Normandy, with the bishop that made this Irish bishop a priest,
and he gave them a few crowns. There was a convocation of bishops
here yesterday, of whom the Irishmen begged, alleging they were
forced to fly their country through fear of persecution. They also
conferred with Lord Hamilton, to whom they brought commendations
from the King of Scots, and divers of the nobility there, as they said,
and eight letters from the Earl of Arran, Lord Huntley, Maxwell,
and others; but being pursued upon the seas, they cast them into
the water, and do not know the contents; they will stay here
this winter, and go to Rome in the spring, to procure some pension.
As yet I cannot perceive other than that they come directly a
begging. |
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There is an agreement made amongst the gentlemen; they will
not come to conference, so Drs. Gifford, Stillington, and Barrett
have returned to Rheims. One Boyle has the direction of the
seminary, until the return of Dr. Allen, who has given out that no
priest shall be sent into England before he gives order from Rome. |
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Here is great looking into Aldred's doings, and they are very
vigilant upon him, and intend to do him mischief, except he looks
warily to his business. Three or four days since, the Pope's Nuncio
received letters from Rome, with articles against Charles Arundel,
tending that he is a spy for England and maintained form thence,
the suspicions arising from his haunting much the English Ambassador here. Upon the coming of these articles, the Nuncio
sent for all the gentlemen here, and swore them to answer the
articles preferred against Arundel, examined him himself, and is
now well satisfied of him, and so returned him to be an honest
man, and gave him credit, and his own nag and foot cloth, with
one of his servants to bring him to his lodgings. This is supposed
to have been done at Rome by Charles Paget. The pope is the
more desirous to be persuaded of Charles Arundel, as he has been
commended to him by the Duke of Guise, for a meet man to have
the conduct of an army to invade his native country; and Arundel
suggested to the Pope certain plots how the country might be
invaded. He goes to the Duke of Guise's camp next Friday. The
general hope of all the gentlemen papists here is to be in England
with a force this winter, or at least before Shrovetide. [3½ pages.
Endorsed with an abstract by Phelippes.] |
