Copy 1, Volume 1
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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![44 yield the lead; contentment or ufe to your honour by thefe frank advertifings 44 what I find. But for entering into any courfe of perfuading him either this 4w way or that, I have not prefumed lo far, having no order from your lordfhip 44 but to fecond his humour, as bed: I could. I am now advifed by my lord 44 embaflador, to crave lbme piece of farther inftrudlion from your lordfhip, how 44 I may employ any fuch fmall intered, as in continuance of time I may gain in 64 him by fuch daily offices, as pafs between us, to bend or incline him this way 44 or that, in cafe he fhould fuddenly break out into any unexpected courfe for 44 difpofing of himfelf. Fie gives me in charge daily to pay all his debts, and to 44 have all things in readinefs for a fudden remove; yea, and fometimes between 44 jeft and earned he bids me forgive him, tho’.he hap to give me a flip without 44 bidding me farewell.” The next day, March 4th, 1594, Sir Henry Unton wrote to the lord treafurer Burghley from Coney *, taking notice, that on Saturday the 28th of February, he had received by Symonds the queen’s letters of the 5th, and his lordfhip’s of the 8th and 10th of that month, accompanied with her majefty’s reply to the king’s anfwer to Sir Henry’s firft negotiation with him. Upon the receit of thefe letters he prefently lent to demand an audience of the king, becaufe he un- derftood that his majedy was to go to St. Quintin’s for a few days, to give order to thofe parts, upon advice received of the enemies readinefs to march to the re¬ lief of La fere. The king granted an audience the next day in the afternoon, and Monfieur de Rochepot % with others, were appointed to receive Sir Henry, and to entertain him for a while in a lower chamber, till the king fent for him up to his own chamber, whence he commanded all men to depart except four or five of the principal perfons, whom he direCfed to day, but at the fame time to withdraw themfelves down to the lower end. After Sir Henry had delivered her majedy’s kind falutations, which the king received thankfully, inquiring thereupon of her health, Sir Henry fignified to him, that her majedy having feen the declaration, which he, the] king, had made in anfwer to his, the em- baffador’s, former negotiation with him, had thought good, for the better clear¬ ing of all doubtfulnefs between them, to fend hirn her like reply to all the par¬ ticular points thereof; which, Sir Henry doubted not, would content him, for the weighty reafons and juft confederations contain’d in it. The king received it of him, and finding it, as he faid, to be very long, call’d for Monfieur de Vil- leroy to read it to him ; during which he fhew’d in his countenance many tokens of difeontentrnent, and in the end of it broke out into this fpeech, that he did not defire to conteft with her majedy, as that multitude of words did only infer, which was a confolation of poor virtue for his preflmg neceftity, and unnecefiary for him to entertain at this time, in refpedi of their fruitlefs end ; wherein his expedation was not deceived to his grief: But he would exercife his patience ; and fince he was thus refolved, the matter required the lefs deliberation. Sir Henry told him, that he was forry, that the pafiion of his necefllty made.him conceive otherwife of her| majefty’s intent, than there was caufe. But that if he would truly underftand the date of her majefty’s affairs, and the reafons and fub- ■ . ; N ... , ' * « * Vo!, v. fol. 24. 9 Antony be Sillt, count de la Rochepot. . dance](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0446.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
