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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    74. Sir H. Wotton, on the sentences upon the dehauchers of nuns, and on general Italian newsj Venice, 28 Nov. 1608. f. 268. 75. Sir C. Cornwallis, on the negotiations; “ For mine owne parti- cular, I hould still my first opinion that, although both parties, and especyallie we here, doe stande in extreeme neede of it, yet must the peace or truce that shall succeede be such as will appeare straunge to the world, and almost exceede mans understandinge. Some short time will open the locked coffers of secret intentions”; Madrid, 10 Dec. 1(108. f. 264. 76. Sir E. Winwood, on the treaty: “I make no dowbt but we shall come to a treatie, but yf before the beginning of Marche, thease men must mend much their pace ” ; with remarks on the report of M. de Preaux, sent by the French and English Commissioners on a special mission to the Archdukes; Hague, 11 Dec. [1608]. f. 266. 77. Sir H. Wotton, on the flight to Eome of the Patriarch’s Vicar, Ribetta (cf. f. 278), etc.; Venice, 12 Dec. 1608. f. 268. 78. Sir G. Carew, on the negotiations and the quarrel between M. de Balagni, “ a gentlemen of great reputation for his valour in duell,” and [Henri de Lorraine] Duo d’Aiguillon; Paris, 14 Deo. 1608. f. 270. 79. The same, on P. de Toledo’s behaviour, and on the Papal Jubilee : “ It seemeth that it was not embrased with so great devotion as it was set on foote with earnestnesse and endeavour by the authors, who sought as much as they could to render the people by this occasion uncommunicable with the Protestants ”; Paris, 16 Dec. [1608]. f. 272. 80. Sir H. Wotton, on a projected league of the Pope “ with diverse Princes of his Churche, great and small, for the sustentation of the Catholique fayth, as they call it ”; Venice, 19, 26 Dec. 1608. ff. 274, 278. 81. Lord Salisbury, giving a full account of the negotiation of Don Fernando Gj rone [Girono], sent on a special mission by Philip III. to James I.; Whitehall, 31 Dec. 1608. f. 280. 82. Sir G. Carew, on Toledo’s prolonged stay in France and Girono’s employment in England, and enclosing (^f. 288.) “ a little eschan- tillon of the verses, with which this towne doeth swarme, of Bartholomeo Borghesi’s death. The partisans of Eoome doe now very commonly blaze abroad, that this Bartholomeo was suborned by the Venetians to rayse a scandale to the Pope to geve himself out for his sonne” ; Paris, 4 Jan. 1608[9]. f. 286. 83. Sir R. Winwood, announcing the “ gladde tydings .... that the States now at lengthe are resolved to treate even according to the proiect which the President Richardot himself did cowche,” and that the English and French Commissioners have been entreated
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