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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    90. James I., on the Due de Bouillon’s negotiations; Westminster, 20 May, a® 10 [1612]. Signed, f. 280. 91. Sir Thomas Lake [Clerk of the Signet], on the same subject: “ I speake plainly to you, I thinke him a crafty man and he hath more his own endes then the matter of religion,” etc.; Charing Cross, 20 May, 1612, f. 282. 92. Eohert Kirkham, on the same subject, and on the negotiations for the marriage of Princess Elizabeth with the Elector Palatine; 21 May, 1612. f. 284. 93. Sir J. Dighy, on the French and Spanish marriages : “ I finde these people extreamely lifted up with their newe Alliance, and thei presume so muche upon the timourousnes of y® Queene of France, who thei thinke will not dare in any thing to crosse or contradicte them, that thei stick not puhlicquely to say that now is the conjuncture in which thei are to effect greate things and to advance their monarebie ” ; Madrid, 23 May, 1612. f. 289. 94. Lord Salisbury, reporting an interview of the French Ambassador with the King on the state of the Protestant Party in France, and on the intended recall of Casauhon from England; n. d. Imperfect, f. 293. 95. Sir D. Carleton, on the matter of the Port of Goro and general Italian news; Venice, 26 May, 1612. f. 295. 96. Pierre Du Moulin; Privas, 19 June, 1612. f. 302. 97. Sir J. Dighy, on the affairs of the Spanish Court, etc.: “ Thei are very muche displeased heere with our newe discoverye of the Northe-weste passage; hut more particularly with our plantation in Virginia, which thei stick not now to say that, yf his Ma*'® will not cause yt to bee recalled, this King will he forced hy a strong hande to assay the removall of yt ” ; Madrid, 20 June, 1612. f. 307. 98. Lord Dorset, on the filling up of the Lord Treasurer’s place : “ When greate men dy, such is ether there deserte or the malice of people or both together as commonly they are ill spoken of, and soe is one that died but lately, more I thinke then ever any on was and in more severall kindes, and his death hath wiped away the memory of others misdeedes, and, as it were, extinguished there faults, his beeing, if not greater, yet fresher in every mans mouth and memorie” ; Dorset House, 22 June, 1612. f. 319. 99. Sir D. Carleton ; Venice, 23 June, 1612. f. 321. 173. Edmondes Papers. Vol. VIII. (ff. 311). 1 July, 1612—24 March, 1612 [3]. Edmondes’s drafts are very numerous in this volume, and are addressed to the King and to Eobert Carr, Viscount Eochester. They give a very particular account of the dissensions
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