30 July.
B. M.
Lans. 17.
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388. Antonio De Guaras to Lord Burleigh.
Since I last saluted your Lordship I have received no letter from
the duke of Alba, although I am sure that he will not delay in
ordering me to inform you that my master the King will punctually
fulfil the agreement entered into. I am also sure that his Excellency
will send me his Majesty's confirmation of it. In accordance
with your Lordship's request that I should let you know what I
hear about it, I may say that I have a letter from a friend in
Madrid, dated 28th June, saying that his Majesty had ordered the
scrupulous fulfilment of all that had been arranged between your
Lordship and his Excellency. He has ordered, at the same time,
that the English shall be welcomed in all his dominions, and shall
receive all favour and good treatment, in accordance with the
ancient friendship between the two countries.—London, 30th July
1573.
Postscript : I have since received letters from Flanders, dated
26th instant, informing me of the confirmation of the agreement,
and that all the soldiers from Haarlem had been executed excepting
the English. I hear from Antwerp that his Excellency
had written saying that every attention was to be shown to Sir
Christopher Hatton, captain of her Majesty's guard.
Note.—Full particulars of the negotiations for the treaty of rehabilitation
of trade with Spain and Flanders carried on by Sir
Thomas Smyth, David Lewis, Dr. Wilson, Hatton, and Mendoza
both in Flanders and England, will be found in Cotton, Galba, C. v.,
as well as all the papers connected with Zweveghem's visit to
England on behalf of the States. As the English papers for the
years 1572, 1573, and 1574 are mostly missing from Simancas,
students should consult the documents referring to the affairs of
England, Flanders, and Spain, to be found in the Cotton MSS.,
Galba, C. III., C. IV., C. V., C. VI., and Vesp., C. XIII., as well as
those in the Record Office calendared in the Foreign Series under
their respective dates.
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