Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    intrigues in Spain, France, England, and Flanders ; 12 Nov. 1598. Copy. f. 65. 14. Privy Council, in favour of John Foster, merchant, of Dublin, whose ship had been captured by a French man-of-war; 24 Nov. 1598. Signed by Archbishop Whitgift, Lords Essex, Hunsdon, and North, liOrd Keeper Egerton, etc. f. 75. 15. Qu. Elizabeth to Edmondes, in reply to an offer by Patrick Gray, Master of Gray, to keep her informed of plots against her in Spain or the Netherlands (cf. f. 71); 4 Dec. 1598. Signed, f. 77. 16. Sir E. Cecil, on the same suhiect; same date. Two letters, ff. 79, 81. 17. T. Edmondes to Sir E. Cecil, that “the lord Bothwell hath ben latelie seacretlie here from Brussel! s accompanyed with one Andrewe Clarcke, a most pernicious instrument, ... their errand being to seeke to drawe all those that they corrld assemble of their nation, both of Captens and others to follow the said Earle in an enterprize . . . The lord of Weymes telleth me that he thincketh one of their desseings is to attempt the surprizing of Barwicke,” etc.; Paris, 12 Dec. 1598. f. 83. 18. Qu. Elizabeth, on the Spanish preparations by sea, and on a suggested understanding between France and England as to trading vessels, etc.; Westminster, 20 Jan. 1598 [9]. Signed, f. 85. 19. Sir E. Cecil, on the appointment of the Earl of Essex as Lord Deputy of Ireland, on overtures from Spain, etc.; Eichmond, 24 Mar. 1598 [9]. f. 87. 20. The same, relating a conference of the Privy Council with the French Ambassador on the subject of a trading treaty; circ. 1598 [9]. Imperfect, f. 89. 21. The same, on the restitution of goods taken in a Venetian vessel; 26 Mar. 1599. f. 91. 22. The same, recommending “ Mr. Lock, whome I do much desire to use in the frontiers between Spayne and France, especially to this intent, y‘ he may be hable to advertise me of the state of shipping and preparations in the portes of Biscay, w®'^ are the portes from whence any forces for Ireland must most properly goe”; Eicbmond, 27 Mar. 1599. f. 93. 23. Sir E. Cecil, on the articles agreed upon between France and England relating to Lading vessels; [Mar. or Apr. 1599]. f. 97. 24. T. Edmondes to Sir E. Cecil, on the death of [Gabrielle d’Estrees] Duchesse de Beaufort, the King’s mistress, and the King’s inten- tion to marry “ within six monethes ”; on the Edict of Nantes, and the state of religious parties; and on “ a notable practise to suborne a woaman to pretend to be possessed with a dyvell, to th’end by
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