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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    Sir Henry Wotton was sent thither in August, 1614, to assist in the negotiations jointly with the French representative M. de Eeffuge. Wotton’s letters give an account of the conference. The treaty was signed in December, and after some delay, owing to his reluctance to give up Wesel, was ratified by the King of Spain. 1. Instructions from James I. to Edmondes on his return to France, concerning the treaty of marriage, 20 July, 1614. Signed, and countersigned by Sir Ealph Winwood, Secretary of State, f. 1. 2. Privy Council, nominating six merchants to be “ Conservators of Commerce ” at Eouen, Bordeaux and La Eochelle, and instructing Edmondes to move the Qu. Eegent to appoint French merchants to act with them, and others to be conservators at London; 30 July, 1614. Signed by Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, the Duke of Lenox, the Earls of Pembroke, Shrewsbury and Worcester, and others, f. 5. 3. Sir H. Wotton, on the state of affairs at his arrival at the Hague, as Ambassador Extraordinary to negotiate an accommodation between Brandenburg and Neuhurg; Hague, 18 Aug. 1614. f. 18. 4. Anne [widow of Philip Howard, Earl of] Arundel; Arundel House, 19 Aug. 1614. f. 20. 6. Nicholas de Neufville [Seigneur de Villeroy], on the marriage negotiations, and stating that M. de Eeffuge has been despatched to the Low Countries to confer with Sir H. Wotton on the war in Juliers ; Nantes, 20 Aug. 1614. f. 22. 6. J. Dickenson, ou the progress of affairs in Juliers, the composition of the Spanish force under Spinola, the chances of an accommoda- tion, etc.: Diisseldorf, 10 Sept. 1614. f. 33. 7. George William, Prince of Brandenburg, asking for Edmondes’s support and interest with James I.; Sept. 1614. f. 35. 8. Sir H. Wotton, on the conference with De Eeffuge and Barneveld concerning the Juliers affair, the movements of the Spanish and Dutch troops, etc.; Hague, 16 Sept. 1614. f. 46. 9. — De Plessen, on the general state of aflairs in Germany; Heidelberg, 17 Sept. 1614. Fr. f. 48. 10. Earl of Somerset, instructing Edmondes to represent to Conde, through the Due de Bouillon or “ sum other fitt person,” that he ought “to intrest himself and assume that right in managing the affayres which properly belonges [to] him in rjght of his place, that they fall not hack againe into the former absolute government of the Queene and ministers,” hut that Edmondes is so to act “ as the King may not he suspected to work in this distrac- tion, but that the mater may be so sudgested unto the Prince as naturally arysing out of the present state of the affayres,” etc.; Hampton Court, 27 Sept. 1614. f. 58.
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