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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![1596 *, the rather as the duke’s anfwer did not prevail with Antonio fufHdently to perfuade him to return to France in his company, without the earl’s confirma¬ tion. Mr. Bacon fent likewife the copies of two letters, which he had received the night before from Mr. Rqlstqn, whofe purpofe continuing to return to Eng¬ land with the Hr ft opportunity, upon the hope of the earl’s protection, Mr. Bacon defired to be directed to whom, in his lordfhip’s abfence, he might addrefs himfelf, in cafe Mr. Rolston fhould land at Plymouth, as perhaps he would do in com¬ pany of the brother of Mr. Arthur Jackson the merchant. Mr. Bacon added, that he had, according to his lordfhip’s leave and liking, difpatch’d to Sir John Fortescu the copies of Mr. Rolston’s letters, referring to Sir John the com¬ munication of them to her majefty. The earl of EfTex arrived at Plymouth on the 28th of April, 1596, from whence he wrote the fame day to his fecretary Mr. Reynoldes k, to excufe him to all his friends, 44 for I muff, fays he, reft both my brains and ray bones before I can 44 write to them. Go to every one of my lords, and make this excufe for me, 44 and follicit the haftening away of the fleet, and above all things the fpeedy 44 fending of the apparel, which Rigby took charge of; for which, if my lord 44 admiral be gone, Sir Walter Ralegh will take order,” His lordfhip wrote again to his fecretary from Plymouth on the 2d of May !, directing him to deliver the two inclofed letters to the duke of Bouillon and An¬ tonio Perez, and to inform the duke, that prefently after the letter to him was written, the lord admiral came thither, and that they hop’d, that the rear-guard of the fleet would be there very fhortly ; which being come, they would go nearer the fun. 44 I have a charge, fays he, that would give a wifer man. than myfelf his 44 hands full, and therefore I hope, till I have fettled things in a little better order, 44 that he will pardon me for writing much. Commend me to Mr, Anthony 44 Bacon, and my lord Harry [Howard] and tell them, I know, that they, 44 that are moft forry for my going, would not wifh me diverted from this army, 44 if they faw the beauty of it.” Mr. Bacon wrote to the earl on the 3d of May m, that it would be a prefumptu- ous folly in him at any time,a but efpecially then, to trouble him with reiterations of any thing, which Antonio Perez in humour, or Mr. Naunton by his di¬ rection, had written to his lordfhip : 44 And therefore, fays he, one particularity 44 only 1 think myfelf bound to advertife your lordfhip, that Mr. Valentine ** Knightley, brother-in-law to Sir Harry Unton, brought me very honeftly 44 a memorial note of Sir Harry’s own hand, containing a remembrance to give 44 your lordfhip a caveat againft Mr. Edmondes, whom fignor Perez fufpe&eth,. 44 and perhaps my lord not unjuftly, to have feeonded Monfieur Sancy, if not 44 fully matched him, in incenfing the queen’s majefty and others in court againft *4 him.55 Fie then informs his lordfhip, that after Sir John Fortescue had re~ 1 Vol. xi. fol. 23. in the pofleffion of the right honourable Charles k Collection of Original Letters to Robert earl earl of Egremont. of Elfex, prelented to the earl of Northumberland 1 Ibid, by John Castle, clerk of his inajelty’s privy feal, m Vol. xi. fol. 22, ceived](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0484.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
