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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![Mr. Bacon having written in favour of fome of his friends and dependents to Mr. Gilly n Meyricke, who was fleward of the eari, and knighted by him after the taking of Cadis, Mr. Meyricki returned him an anfwer on the 10th of May from Plymouth °, thanking him for his favourable remembrance, and promi- fmg him to do all the offices within his power to him or any of his; and that when the drips, which were not yet come, fhould arrive, he would do his bell for Mr. Ba¬ con’s followers. The earl wrote likewife the fame clay to Mr. Bacon in thefe termsp. “SIR, 44 I have anfwered fignor Perez’s letter in a letter to himfelf, and the duke *c of Bouillon’s complaint in a letter to Edward Reynoldes, which I pray.you *c read over. I will defire fignor Basadonna to hold me excufed till the next meftenger. For yourfelf, I pray you believe, that tho5 your mind, which fo “ tenderly weigheth my danger, be very dear unto me, yet for my fake you muft 46 be confident; for if I be not tied by the hands, I know God hath a great work to work by me. I thank God 1 fee my way both fmooth and certain ;.and I will make 44 all the world feel underftand myfelf. Farewell,worthy Mr. Bacon, and know, that tho51 entertain you with fhort letters, yet I will fend you from fea papers, that 46 fhall remain as tables of my honed; defigns, and pledges of my love to you from 44 Your true and bell wifhing friend, 44 Plymouth, this 10th of May. ESSE X.” Dr. Hawkyns, in his letter to Mr Bacon from Venice of the fame date q, took notice, that the news of the taking of Calais had aftonifh’d all in thole parts, having put all other matters to filence*, 44 whereof, fays he, I am forry to have Cassan- 44 dra’s fortune not to be believed. The intercepted letters plainly fhewed thedefign 4i in general both of that and of Boulogne , which out of doubt will follow fhortly, 44 if it be not prevented. I could wiffi there were good and trufty guards about 44 the perfons of 234 [queen of England] and 115 [French king] there being, I 44 fear, privy defigns againftthem both. The 197 [cardinal] with his 207 [millions] 44 can gain 231 [traytors] enough, and doubteth not with 204 [crowns] to purchafe 44 the ele&ors their fuffrages to the king of the Romans, and to marry 194 [Infanta] 4Cof 129 [Spain] 115 [French king] is in medio inimicorum fuorum, I fear the fuc- 44 cefs. The example of Mr. Balxgny is a bad precedent for others to do the like.5* He then obferves, that 122 [the Turk] fleepeth, and 162 [gallies] Band ilill 5 and that his empire greatly declines, who otherwife might do great fervice againft Spain, and from Algier in a night and a day might land any armada whatfoever in Valencia, where he would find correfpondendents the Morefca, who in that imall kingdom exceed the ch'riflians by the number of 200,000, befide other infinite numbers of them difperfed throughout all Spain, and who waited only for anopportu- 81 He wrote Iris name Gely. 0 Vol xi. fol. 32* * YoL X. foJ, 89. 1 Vol. xi, fol. 45.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0494.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
