Venice: November 1577 | British History Online

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.

'Venice: November 1577', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580, (London, 1890) pp. 566. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol7/p566 [accessed 26 April 2024]

November 1577



Nov. 5. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives.	690. Hieronimo Lippomano, Venetian Ambassador in France, to the Signory.
	The English Ambassador resident here has obtained the release of the English ships taken by de Lansac, which is the more agreeable to the Ambassador, as he suspected that several of them had taken ammunition and victuals to Rochelle, not knowing that the place was already in the hands of the King of France.
	Paris, 5th November 1577.
	[Italian.]
Nov. 10. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives.	691. Alberto Badoer, Venetian Ambassador in Spain, to the Signory.
	It is reported that the Archduke Matthias bad entered Flanders at the request of the States. The ministers deny this, but it is nevertheless known that the King is at the present time in very dejected condition, and most averse to transacting business with any one, and that the Queen and the Princes show the greatest sorrow and melancholy, and this makes everybody believe that the news lately received is true.
	Madrid, 10th November 1577.
	[Italian.]
Nov. 18. Original Despatch Venetian Archives.	692. Alberto Badoer, Venetian Ambassador in Spain, to the Signory.
	The news that the Archduke Matthias had entered Flanders at the request of the States has greatly angered the whole of this Court, and I am told that his Majesty, who exhibits great composure of mind in all his actions, has on this occasion flown into a most violent passion, because the Emperor's Ambassador at this Court, after having declared that his Imperial Majesty had had no share in the Archduke's proceedings, had announced that the Emperor had made vain efforts to recall him.
	Madrid, 18th November 1577.
	[Italian.]