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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![racy between England and France fhould be completely finilh’d, Antonio would immediately leave the latter kingdom. But whither he would retire, was aqueftion. He reprefented no place to be equal to Florence, at Mr. Naunton’s writing his lait letter ; fince which he infilled much upon Venice, from which Hate he had been formerly honour’d with three or four folemn prefents. His devotion ferved him bell to bellow himfelf in fome of their monaileries, where he would difpofe himfelf to think only of his foul’s health, and bid the world farewell, but not before the king of Spain’s death. 44 Mean while, adds Mr, Naunton, the wind now blows 64 all for Holland *, and I mull advertife your lordlhip, that his meaning is thither, 44 that the world may know how truly he hath loved, honoured, and ferved her 46 majelly for love of your lordfhip, and that without all collateral refpeCl to any 44 other reward but the public good, and the blocking of thofe mouths., that fo 66 cried out againft him, as a dangerous advifer for your lordfhip to confer and 44 traffic with in counlels of Hate. This is the fum of my meffage now enjoined me ; 44 and yet within thefe three days he fpent fome time in a kind difcourfe fomewhat 44 paffionatein remembrance of his forrowful and heavy parting from your lordlhip, 44 and of his folemn vow yet once again to fee your lordfhip before he entered into 44 his Venetian cldiller. That he lorebore of purpofe to bring with him your lord- 44 fnip’s pi&ure, to balk all ominous prefages to the contrary. That he hath two fpe- 44 cial fecrets, one of her majelly, and another of this king, very like one another, 64 which yet in writing he hath not, and by writing he may not impart to your 44 lordfhip. Fie is zealous to have your lordfhip come over to the perfecting of 44 this confederacy, and difputeth it greatly, that it cannot be well concluded but 44 only by your lordfhip. For his own part, he will neither give connfel nor confF 44 dence to any other ; and being named by the king for a fpecial man to Hand for 44 him in the treaty, he hath refufed it, and referveth himfelf free and intire 64 for your lordfhip’s fervice. As for his private affairs, how flrongly foever he is 44 borne in his ordinary fpeeches againlt Haying here, yet the other night, when we 44 fell into farther difcourfing of matters, I found him troubled to hear, that the 44 king had lately bellowed the bilhopric of Bourdeaux, valued at 7000 crowns the 44 year, upon a follower of Monfieur le Grand's,; and thereupon he bewrayed fome 44 poffibility of inclination to remain here yet, upon affurance of good conditions, 44 by his fudden and vehement denunciation utterly undifguifed, that were your lord- 44 fhip once here, he would betake himfelf to your protection, and except this king, 44 thro’ your lordlhip’s intermediation, fhould immediately confirm unto him a fet- 44 tied eftate proportionable to his own contentment, he would no longer attend 44 thefe fo certain perils for fo uncertain rewards.55 Mr. Naunton then touches upon the dangerous iilnefs of Sir Henry Unton, the embaffador, which opprefs’d them all with grief and anxiety; Antonio Perez, being exceeding apprehenfive of his own particular interell depending upon the event of it, and thinking, that his dignity and fecurity, both for his continuance in France, and removal from thence, were not a little involved in it. But whatever fhould fall out, tc our care, fays Mr. Naunton hath not been wanting to adver- 44 tife his [the embaffador’s] fecretary in time, for affurance of all writings, that *4 have paffed between your lordfhip and him.” In VOL I. M m m](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0459.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
