Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attempted assassination of Henry IV. by Jean Chastel, a Jesuit Paris, 17 Dec. 1594. f. 181. 29. Privy Council, on behalf of English merchants plundered at sea by Frenchmen ; Greenwich, 18 Jan. 1594 [5]. Signed by Lords Burghley, Howard, Hunsdon, and Buckhurst, Lord Keeper Puckering, etc. f. 189. 30. Lord Burghley, acquainting Edmondes that the King of France, through his Ambassador, has declared “ his ernest determinacion nowe to make sharpe warre uppon the K. of Spaine, and praieth the Quene to enter into confederacion thereof howe she may concurre with him ”; complaining of D’Aumont’s conduct in Brittany, and his withholding of Morlaix from the English by a clause secretly inserted in the articles of capitulation “ that noe person should remaine in that towne but such as should professe openlie the Catholicque Komaine Eeligion,” and expressing surprise that Edmondes has found out nothing of a secret treaty between France and Scotland ; The Court, 23 Jan. 1594 [5]. f. 193. 31. Sir E. Cecil, on the departure of the French Ambassador from London “ with Her Majesty’s good favour, as one whose carriage here hath wonne him selfe reputacion,” etc., and enclosing com- plaints made by Marshal D’Aumont against Sir J. Norris; Lam- beth, 20 Feb. 1594 [5]. f. 201. 32. Lord Burghley, on the French Ambassador’s departure; West- minster, 20 Feb. 1594 [5]. f. 204. 33. Sir E. Cecil, in favour of Mons. Chovin; The Court, 9 Mar. 1594 [5]. f. 210. 34. Lord Howard of Effingham, on redress for English merchants plundered at sea ; Whitehall, 9 Mar. 1594 [5]. f. 212. 35. Privy Council, on the same subject; Whitehall, 12 Mar. 1594 [5]. Signed by Lords Burghley, Essex, Howard, Cobham, and Buckhurst, Sir J. Wolley and Sir E. Cecil, f. 214. 36. Sir E. Cecil, on the ransom of an English prisoner [Mr. Gorges] in France; The Court, 21 Mar. 1594 [5]. f. 218. 37. Privy Council, demanding the restitution of a London ship and cargo seized by Frenchmen; Whitehall, 3 April, 1595. Signed by Lords Burghley, Essex, Howard, etc. f. 220. 38. The same, on the similar case of Anthony Powlett, Captain of Jersey; Whitehall, 27 Apr. 1595. Signed by Lords Burghley, Howard, Cobham, etc. f. 226. 39. [Eobert Devorcux, Earl of] Essex, on the operations of the troops in the Low Countries ; Hague, 29 Apr. 1595. f. 228. 40. Sir E. Cecil, enclosing a petition of Adrian de Porter, Merchant Adventiner; The Court, 13 May, 1595. f. 233. 41. Privy Council, on behalf of Thomas Jones, merchant, of Ply-
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