Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![them sit till their beards grow; from which one may comprehend that there are turbulent spirits, and very daring ones likewise (to oppose them ?). Angelo Correr and Michiel Morosini thus serve to annotate Pepys. 41. The Correr Museum likewise possesses what may be termed a MS. supplement to the English printed newspapers. The Postman, May 17, to Tuesday, May 20th, 1707, and London Gazette, from Monday, May 19th, to Thursday, May 22nd, narrating the public entry into London of the Venetian ambas- sadors extraordinary to Queen Anne, Nicolo Erizzo and Alvise Pisani. 42. The first account of the landing in state at the Tower Stairs of any embassy extraordinary from the Republic of Venice to the Crown of Great Britain, bears the date of June 1626. On the 16th of that month Marc Antonio Correr and Angelo Contarini arrived at the mouth of the Thames in two Dutch men-of-war, from Rotterdam. On the preceding day, Thursday, King Charles I. (having signed a commission for the dissolution of his first Parliament, which had commenced its sittings on the 6th of February,) was walking in St James's Park, when a deputation from the House of Peers accosted him. The deputation consisted of the Lord President Montague, and the Earls of Pembroke, Carlisle, and Holland ; their announcement purported that for the interests of the Crown his Majesty should delay the dissolution. The King replied, No, not for one moment, and the speaker and the peers having re- turned to the Parliament, and the Commons being summoned to the House of Lords, the Lord Keeper Coventry read to them the order for their dissolution at the early hour of 10 a.m. The King and the Legislature were early in their habits, and the Venetian secretary Rosso, to whom we are indebted for these particulars, adds, in a postscript to his letter which was written from London on the 16th of June : — '•' I understand that his Majesty has already commenced chas- tising the enemies of the Duke of Buckingham, having sent the Earl of Bristol to the Tower, and desired the Earl of Arundel to return with his wife and son and daughter-in-law (lately married) to the mother of this last [Duchess of Lennox], resident at a country-house 20 miles from London. The Venetian ambassadors were accompanied from Gravesend in the royal barges by Sir Lewes Lewkner to Tower WharfFe, where they were welcomed by the Earl of Dorset and Lord Her- bert of Cherbury, whose first acquaintance with Angelo Contarini dated from the year 1619, when they were both accredited to Louis XIII.; and Marc Antonio Correr, who had resided at the Court of James I. as ambassador in ordinary from November 1608 until June 1611, was equally well acquainted with Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, whose duel with Lord Bruce (whose sister the Earl had seduced) took place two years after Gorrer's departure from Eng- land. Accompanied by the two duellists (Lord Herbert of Cher-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21021284_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
