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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![ceived the copies of Mr, Rolston’s two laft letters, he Signified to Mr, Bacon, that he would that day vifit him, being very defirous to confer with him at large, of which conference he would fend his lordfhip a due and true account. As for the report of what had paffed at court fince the earl’s departure, he doubted not but Mr. Reynoldes had with all diligence and fidelity perform’d that duty. The fame day the earl’s filler, lady Rich, in a letter to Mr. Bacon n profefs’d, that there were many refpedls, which led her to an extraordinary eftimation of “ his virtues ; befides which, fays fhe> your courtelies towards myfelf increafe the defire I have to requite your friendship, and to do you all honour, praying 6C you to believe my words, fince your merits challenge more than I can acknow- ledge, altho* I do with much affection efteem your worth. And while I am in this folitary place, where no found of any news can come, I muft intreat you to let me hear Something of the world from you, efpecially of my brother *, and €C what you know of the French affairs ; or whether there go any troops from hence to their aid.” And in the poftfcript, file adds, 25 I would fain hear what becomes of your wandering neighbour,” meaning Antonio Perez. Dr. Hawkyns, in his letter to Mr, Bacon, from Venice, of the fame date % acknowledged the receipt of the earl of Effex’s letter of the 27th of February, to himfelf, in which his lordfhip complain’d of the trivial nature of his intelli¬ gence. This letter of the earl he ftiles “ a manifefl teftimony of his lordfhip’s moil noble affeblion, and a clear glafs to fee mine own imperfeblions; my anfwer C5 to the which I crave for this time may be my vowed endeavour of amendment, cc yourfelf being the faint of mine interceftion j altho’ it may feem to ferve for 46 mine excufe in not particularifing every thing to the full my fmall means hitherto 64 of underflan ding any thing of this flate, being fo little beholding to the houfe of 236 [probably Basadonna] as with all my importunate requefis I could never obtain of them the acquaintance of any man of worth fince my coming hither. That little, which I have gotten, I protefl before God, hath been by « mine own travel obtained prece & pretio.” He then mentions the return of Jacomo Marenco to Genoa fix days before, to whom he had declared the earl’s good opinion of him, and honourable intentions towards him, endeavouring by compliments to fatisfy his difcontent for not having received the money, which he cxpeded, and had been promifed ; and having prefented him at his departure with the belt jewel, that the dodtor had laft brought out of England. After mention¬ ing the news from feveral parts, he adds, that feveral of the Englifh there had been feiz’d with burning fevers, petechi, and fuch like, of which the earl of Rutland had been fick a good while at Padua, but was then well recovered. Mr. Bacon, in a letter of the 4th or May, from Eftex-houfe p, where lie con¬ stantly relided, inform’d the earl, that after the writing of his laft to his lordfhip the day before, Monfieur de la Fontaine came to him, and after a long volun¬ tary difcourfe, containing confirmation of the duke of Bouillon’s ftngular affeblion , ,#nd firm amity towards the earl, and a recital of certain demonftrations of it on Vol. xi. fol. 46. • Vol. xi„ fol. 56. p Vol. xi. fob 24,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0485.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
