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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![what he Found relating to it'in Thuanus, the only authority produced by him for it ; imitating in this inftance the example of the antient hiftorians in their fictitious ♦fpeeches, or the lefs excufable one of the modernVarillas. But even the fimpler nar¬ rative of Thu anus himfelf contains fome circumftances irreconcilable with truth. Bor it is evident from the original papers to be cited below, that the earl continued all along zealous forpurfuing his expedition to Cadiz, unmov’d by any reafoning or perfuafion of the duke de Bouillon ; and he could icarce obtain leave at laft trom the court to proceed upon it. Nor does there occur any proof of their having met and conferred at Dover ; but, on the contrary, a letter of Sir Anthony Stand en takes notice, that his lordfhip, upon intelligence of the duke’s coming over, went out to feato avoid him. However they had a converfation upon the fubjedt, either at court or in London *, for it appears from a letter 1 to be cited hereafter, that the duke in perfon deliver’d to the earl his diflike of the expedition. In the letter of Sir Anthony Standen, written from the court at Greenwich on f the 1 yth of April 1596, he informs Mr. Bacon m, that he had heard, that the earl of Eftex had been at fea towardsPortfmouth in company with the lord admiral and lord Montjoy in the Rainbow, a fhip of the queenC ; probably to (peak with Sir An¬ thony Sherley, whole father the day before the date of this letter complain’d to Sir Anthony Standen with great reafon, as the latter own’d, of the obftrudtions given to his fon’s departure, tho’ he thought himfelf much obliged to Mr. Bacon for his en¬ deavour to procure his leave to proceed on his voyage. 44 The earl’s people for France, adds he, are 44 releafed and turned back to their houfes, and fome doubt in the other 4i voyage. Elowbeit my lord’s necefiity toit being great, great is alfo his confidence, that 44 it cannot be frayed. The duke of Bouillon will this night beat Gravefend, and to 44 morrow at Greenwich, where his lodging is prepared by the queen with hangings 44 and furniture, which once before dinner being after a rcfolution revoked, and 44 the gentlemen ufhers countermanded, was this afternoon again in my hearing 44 eftablifhed to be in a houfe in the town. My lord [of EfTex] it fhould feem, hearing 44 of his coming, did take the fea of purpofe to avoid him, the princes of Portugal, 44 and Antonio Perez, who here are reported to be all come over with him, an 44 unpleafant and queafy news to this court, as by their entertainment is judged 44 will fall out, efpecially the laft three, whereof it is good you receive advice, that 44 acordingly you may frame your countenance. Mr. Bacon writing the fame day, April 17th, to Dr. Hawkyns n, and ac¬ quainting him with the lofs of Calais, remark’d, that the Spaniards could gnot have met with a greater advantage for their honour and profit, as no doubt they would improve it; and that the duke of Bouillon, after the French king’s retiring from Boulogne upon the intire lofs of Calais, was come over to England, though not yet arrived at the court; Antonio Perez being returned with him. He added, 44 our earl notwithftanding pretendeth and perfifteth to go forward in his 44 great fea voyage ; but what the fovereign power intendeth hereupon, effects will 44 fhew very fhortly.” i Mr. Reynoldes to the earl. May 18. 1596. See vol. ii. of thefe memoirs, book vii, p. 4. m Vol. x. fol. lyo n Vol. x. fol. 189 O O O 2 This](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0477.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
