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Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 till her death. In which the secret intrigues of her court, and the conduct of her favourite, Robert Earl of Essex, both at home and abroad, are particularly illustrated. From the original papers of ... Anthony Bacon, esquire, and other manuscripts never before published / By Thomas Birch.

Thomas Birch

Date:: 1754

Credit: Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 till her death. In which the secret intrigues of her court, and the conduct of her favourite, Robert Earl of Essex, both at home and abroad, are particularly illustrated. From the original papers of ... Anthony Bacon, esquire, and other manuscripts never before published / By Thomas Birch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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embaftador from Turky was daily expe&ed at Venice, who was to be received with extraordinary folemnity. Mr. Faunt wrote again to Mr. Bacon on the 16th of Auguft following, from Pila, defiring to fee Mr. Bacon before the latter pafs’d the Alps, as he then feem’d inclin’d to do e. The negotiation of marriage between the queen and the duke of Anjou and Alencon, and her majefty’s defire, that a league offenfive and defenlive fhould be previoufly concluded between England and France, rendering it neceftary for fe- cretary Walsingham to take a journey to Paris, in the latter end of July 1581, he wrote from thence on the 3d of September an anfwer to Mr. Bacon’s letter of the 13th of Auguft f, in which the latter had mentioned his having before fent a. journal of his travels between Bourges and Geneva, which had not come to the Secretary’s hands. The bearer of Sir Francis’s letter was to inform both Mr. Bacon and Monfieur Beza of the caufe of his coming to Paris, and of the fuccefs of his negotiation. Mr. Faunt in his return from Italy palling thro’ Geneva, was with Mr. Bacon there in the latter end of November 1581 g, and proceeding to Paris, wrote from thence a letter to him on the 4th of February 1584 h, informing him, that he expe&ed a full anfwer from the Englifh ambaftadort here, concerning the paffport, which Mr. Bacon had requefted. This embaftador was Sir Henry Cobham, de¬ scended of a noble family * in Kent, and from his tendered: years dedicated to her majefty by his father, who however not daring to prefer him to her Service during the reign of her lifter Mary, fent him to the earl of Devonfhire, that he might be in place to her highnefs’s liking. Upon her advancement to the throne, Mr. Cobham was made one of the gentlemen-penfioners, and afterwards employ’d by her to the emperor k, and the king of Spain, in the end of March 1571 !, and again the year 1575, to perfuade that monarch to change his meafures in the Low Countries from war to peace m. He Succeeded Sir Amias Paulet as embaftador to the Court of France in November 1579 n. Mr. Faunt in his letter Speaks of his temper and behaviour, elpecially to the friends of Sir Francis Walsingham, with Some Severity. “ You muft not, fays he, marvel, that my lord embaftador “ doth not make too much haft to difpatch for you, feeing he is changed from ill 44 to worfe in pleafuring any, that know him, as you do. And if heretofore he *c cared little for me, and fuch, as belong to my mafter [Secretary Walsingham] 44 now he is become fo flout and ftrange towards all, efpecially fuch, in wrhom he 46 may in any refpedl conceive jealoufy, that he hath been at odds with all the 44 honeft gentlemen my mafter favoureth, even to have chafed them away ; and * Vol. i. fol. $5. ftatefmen, by Leonard Howard, D. D. p. 340. f Ibid, fob 56. Edit. London, 1753, *n 4t0* * There is a note of his dated at Geneva, Nov. k Ibid. p. 353. *3, 1581, for twenty crowns, borrow’d of Mr. 1 Sir Dudley Digges’s Complete EmbaiTador, Bacon, Vol. i. fol. 24. p. 71. edit. London, 1655. fol. k Ibid. fol. 47. m Cambden’s Eliz. p. 266. Edit. Lugd. * Collection of letters from the original manu- Ba*av. 1 <64'5. feripts of many princes, great perfonages, and n Dr. Howard’s Collection* p. 353. Vol. I. D “ far

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