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<P>Letters conteyning &s;un|dry <HI>deui&s;es, touching the</HI> &s;tate of Flaunders and Portin|gall: Written by <HI>Card. Granuelle</HI> and others, and lately inter|cepted and publi|&s;hed.</P>
<P>Imprinted at London at <HI>the three Cranes in the</HI> Vinetree by Thomas Daw|&s;on, <HI>for Thomas Charde. 1582.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Letters of the Cardinall <HI>of Granuelle.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>_SIr prouo&s;t my Lorde the Pre|late of Sainte Va&s;tz brought me your letters of the <HI>14.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the pro|uo&s;t Morillo~ April. 1582.</NOTE> of Fe|bruarie, wherin you yeelde mee &s;ufficient te&s;ti|monie of the &s;aide Prelates &s;ufficiencie and good qualities, the which for the time that I haue had heere to deale with him, I finde to bee corre&s;pondent to your words. I haue v&s;ed him friendly, and haue endeuored to make him good cheare. I haue al&s;o writte~ to the court, there to pro|cure him &s;ome good entertainme~t. I am &s;ory y^t here we be &s;omewhat dry, howbeit we do (according as we ought) e~deuor our &s;elues to winne credite with &s;traungers, at the lea&s;t I will do the be&s;t I may, to let them vnder&s;tand of it. I haue al&s;o very
<PB REF="3"> earne&s;tly preferred the &s;ute of his brother and of Secretary <HI>Va&s;&s;eur</HI> and his father, and that is all I can doe, beeing &s;o farre off. The matter is the le&s;&s;e, &s;eeng the countie <HI>Egmond,</HI> and the L. of <HI>Cham|pagney</HI> be yet in <HI>Gau~t,</HI> notwith&s;tanding they be kept very &s;traitly: for if they had bin tran&s;ported into Zealand, I feare we &s;hould neuer haue had any good reconing of the~. If this wretched Orenge had died of the blowe, there had been better hope of their recouery. I remayne &s;till in the &s;ame feare as before: that is, that &s;o long as the &s;aide Orenge may and &s;hall beare any &s;way, we &s;hall hardly obtayne the de|liuerie of the &s;ayde Lo. of <HI>Champagny.</HI></P>
<P>His Maie&s;tie hath written very ear|ne&s;tly to my L. the prince of <HI>Parma:</HI> but it was needele&s;&s;e, con&s;idering howe fa|uourably of his grace he a&s;&s;i&s;teth vs. God &s;end vs &s;hortly good newes, &amp; graunt you (my L. Prouo&s;t) the accompli&s;hment of your de&s;ires: commending me hartily to your good remembraunce.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill,</HI> <DATE>this <HI>19.</HI> of Aprill. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your good brother and a&s;&s;ured friend.
<PB REF="3"> <HI>Ant. cardinall of Granuelle.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P>To my Lord the pouo&s;t of Ayre. Sir Maximilian Morillon, great Arch deacon of Malines, my good bro|ther and friend.</P>
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<SALUTE>SIr prouo&s;t,</SALUTE>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the &s;ame man. April. 25. with his owne hand.</NOTE> I haue no letter of your vnan&s;wered. As they write out of France the prince of Orange is yet a foote, notwith&s;tanding his hurt re|ceiued by a young Bi&s;kain, who lo&s;t his life in this worlde in the enterpri&s;e. God peraduenture keepeth him for an other purpo&s;e. <HI>Alancon</HI> triumpheth, but it will be without an Iron cor&s;elet. <HI>Non durabit</HI> as I hope: the moneth of May is not yet pa&s;t. I doe to my power &s;ollicite the &s;ending of &s;ouldiers into the Lowe Countreys, and e&s;peciall go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d proui&s;ion of &s;iluer. I a&s;&s;ure you there is no want in thee, as not re&s;pecting how &s;mall thanke I haue of tho&s;e of <HI>Hazienda:</HI> &s;o that may be done which belongeth to the &s;eruice of God, &amp; the ma&s;ter, &amp; the benefit of y^e poore countreys. There is on al &s;ides great pre+paration, as wel by &s;ea as by land, again&s;t
<PB REF="4"> tho&s;e that would hurt vs, and I hope that the French can not procure y^e ariuall of y^e turki&s;h armie this yere, howe arne&s;tly &s;o euer they labor, as wel by y^e ordinary em|ba&s;&s;ador that is at <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> as by an expre&s;&s;e me&s;&s;enger, whom the Queen mother hath &s;ent by <HI>Mar&s;eyles:</HI> bcau&s;e that by letters, euen lately receiued out of the ea&s;t, wee are a&s;&s;ured that the Per|&s;ians haue of late giuen the Turkes a &s;hrewde blowe, whiche muche trou|bleth the <HI>Con&s;tantinopolitaynes:</HI> be|&s;ides that the Turke laboureth all hee may about &s;ending away <HI>4000.</HI> Iani&s;&s;a|ries, and <HI>3000</HI> Spachies: and hath com|ma~ded two <HI>Sangiaques</HI> to be in redines, and ha&s;ted the fea&s;t of the circumci&s;ion of the &s;onne, to the ende, the better to entend to the &s;aide re&s;i&s;taunce, for that all hope of agreement is pa&s;t, al&s;o in the Ar&s;enall they worke more &s;lowly about the furni|ture of the nauie. I hope my Lorde the Prince, hath already deliuered you the nomination of <HI>Turney,</HI> and the deane of Saint <HI>Gaule</HI> that of Malines, and I haue written to <HI>Rome,</HI> by the former or|dinarie there to preuent, and there with
<PB REF="4"> my Auditor M. <HI>Leander Lana,</HI> and <HI>Bli|oul,</HI> hee &s;hall finde all good addre&s;&s;e. I haue al&s;o &s;ent my procuration to re&s;igne, &amp; by this ordinarie do hope to &s;end the co|pie. Wee haue had a &s;hrewde turne a|bout the Pen&s;ions leuied vpon <HI>Turney,</HI> but wee mu&s;t for the time haue patience, and looke for remedie hereafter. I lod|ged here my Lorde of S. <HI>Va&s;tz,</HI> making him the be&s;t cheere I coulde, he is going towardes Portingall, whether I haue written (as I am bounde) in his behalfe, as al&s;o in the behalfe of Secretarie <HI>Va&s;|&s;eur,</HI> his father the Lord of <HI>Valhuon,</HI> and the little enfant: At the lea&s;t I omitte no|thing for my part that I am able to doe. My niece the La. of <HI>A&s;hey</HI> writeth vnto me, that <HI>Vateuille</HI> hath exhibited a petiti|on to tho&s;e of the Chamber of accompts of <HI>Dole,</HI> and &s;ent another to the Exche|quer in the lowe Countreys, pretending a title to <HI>Ver&s;eiles,</HI> as the recompence of the late Lorde of <HI>Peleux</HI> the father (being one of the <HI>Emperors</HI> chamber) for al his &s;eruice together with the lo&s;&s;e of his goods in France for the Imperial maie|&s;ties &s;ake, as al&s;o for hauing his two
<PB REF="5"> &s;onnes &s;layne, together with the death of my &s;aide Nieces &s;econde father, who pe|ri&s;hed in y^e battaile of <HI>Graueling,</HI> be&s;ides &s;uche con&s;ideration as is to be had of the &s;eruice of y^e late L. of <HI>A&s;hey</HI> my nephew, together with his expe~ces in his ma&s;ters affayres This reque&s;t hathe &s;hee &s;ent vn|to you with the perticulers thereto ad|ioyned: heretofore you preuented my L. the prince, &s;ticke now therefore to it, that at this time <HI>Ver&s;eil</HI> may be hers, notwith|&s;tanding, pre&s;ently you can not obtayne the re&s;t of that whereto her demaund pre|te~deth. De&s;iring you to help her in what you well may.</P>
<P>I haue heretofore giuen you to vnder|&s;tande, y^t the king hath giuen Don <HI>Fran|cis</HI> y^e entry of <HI>A&s;pargo&s;&s;e de Lara</HI> whiche nowe is worth <HI>3500.</HI> crownes, and will hereafter be better. He hath had woorde therof &s;ent into Burgondy, but I know not whether they found him there. For &s;ome doe write that hee had altered his mind for comming hither, and that he was determined to goe to <HI>Fraunkfort</HI> to buy Hor&s;es, and &s;o to &s;erue in the warres in tho&s;e partes, but I wotte not whether
<PB REF="5"> this may cau&s;e him to take &s;ome other ad|uice. I had here this Ea&s;ter his brother and his people with me: I like him well, and hee profiteth in &s;tudie, I haue concei|ued a good hope of him, and he liketh his ma&s;ter, and his ma&s;ter him. A Burgo|gnion gentleman, named <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> of <HI>Thon</HI> goeth that way, and &s;hall take ac|quainta~ce of you: his purpo&s;e as I heare is to take charge of my &s;ayde nephew in &s;tead of the L. of <HI>Vauldrey.</HI> If you plea&s;e I pray you write vnto mee your opinion, whether you thinke it conuenient. The King is gone to meete with his &s;i&s;ter the Empre&s;&s;e at <HI>Almerin,</HI> and from thence are to goe to <HI>Lisbon,</HI> wee &s;hall &s;ee what will come of this enteruiewe.</P>
<P>Thus heartily commending mee to your good grace, I be&s;eech the creator to graunt you the accompli&s;hment of your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this <HI>25.</HI> of April. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your good brother and a&s;&s;ured friend, <HI>Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P>To my L. the prouo&s;t Morillon, great Archdeacon of Malines, my fellow brother and friende.</P>
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<SALUTE>SIr coun&s;ellor, </SALUTE>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the cou~|&s;ellor of A&s;|&s;onuill. The 25. of April. 1582.</NOTE>I haue receiued your letter of the 25. of Februarie, &amp; haue very willingly giuen audience vnto my Lord, the prelate of S. <HI>Va&s;tz.</HI> Hauing of|ten conferred together, he is departed in po&s;t towarde the king into Portingall.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;tie liketh verye well of the re&s;olution of the reconciled e&s;tates, and in mine opinion they haue laide a good foundation of change, in &s;aying that their earne&s;t reque&s;t to bee rid of &s;traungers was onely vpon &s;uche hope as the others mini&s;tred of framing the~ &s;elues to obedi|ence, if they were gone, &s;eeing that the re|&s;olution taken, and the &s;worn treaty, was the onely ground of di&s;charging them, as al&s;o that y^e others had &s;hewed great hope of accommodating them &s;elues to them, and returning to obedience after the &s;aid &s;traungers departure, which neuerthe|le&s;&s;e
<PB REF="6"> they haue not done, but do &s;til per&s;i&s;t in their ob&s;tinacie.</P>
<P>The Prince of Orenges death will alter many of their minds: And the duke of <HI>Alen&s;on</HI> hauing none of his own peo|ple about him, may perhappes repence that he euer came &s;o far. The right way were, if the inhabitants of <HI>Antwerpe</HI> for making their owne peace (con&s;idering that my Lorde the Prince doeth yet offer them all fauour, if they would but return and acknowledge them &s;elues) woulde deteyne him pri&s;oner, and deliuer him in|to his Maie&s;ties handes, to the ende hee might reward him as he de&s;erueth. I &s;oli|cite &s;o much as po&s;&s;ibly I may the &s;peedy &s;ending of men &amp; money, whiche I hope will bee done: the men do already march, and dealing for money goeth forwarde: I hope God will a&s;&s;i&s;t vs notwith&s;tan|ding, what&s;oeuer hindra~ces they procure vs. He is aboue all, and the redier he will be to helpe vs, if we helpe our &s;el|ues, as &s;urely for the finall wading tho|rowe &s;o many mi&s;eries, we mu&s;t. Con|cerning your perticular par&s;on, Secre|tarie <HI>Lalloo</HI> may very well te&s;tifie, that
<PB REF="7"> I haue done &s;o much as you can require. Al&s;o by Spani&s;he letters which I haue written to his Maie&s;tie with my owne hande. God graunt you may as I de&s;ire reape &s;ome fruite. And this I a&s;&s;ure you: My Lorde the Prince hath as ear|ne&s;tly commended you as is po&s;&s;ible.</P>
<P>Thus hartily commending me to your good remembraunce, I be&s;eech the crea|tor (&s;ir Coun&s;aylor) to graunt you your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 15. of Aprill. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your good Go&s;&s;ip and friende Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P>To my L. of A&s;&s;onuille coun&s;ellour, and one of his Maie&s;ties priuie coun&s;ell in the Lowe countreys.</P>
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<SALUTE>MAdam, </SALUTE>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Dut|ches of Par|ma the 27. of April. 1582. with his owne hande.</NOTE> I haue an&s;wered al your highnes letters that came to my hande, and doe very de&s;irou&s;ly attende newes from thence of your highne&s;&s;e perfect recouerie, to the ende, to be ea&s;ed of my care in y^t by the la&s;t I hearde that the goute had not yet per|fectly left you. God for his mercie &s;ende
<PB REF="7"> me &s;hortly good tydinges. The letters which lately we haue had out of England putteth vs in hope that wee be deliuered of the Prince of Orenge, &s;ith the 14. day after his hurt (as they write thence) there was no more hope of his life, and the Q. of Englande was duely aduertized from time to time of the &s;tate of his hurt. They &s;ay moreouer, that he hath been grieuou&s;|ly tormented as well with the payne of his wound, as al&s;o, with the payne that he hath bin put to, partly by &s;uch incitions, as the &s;urgions haue made to come to the bottom of the hurt, &amp; partly by cauteries of towe for &s;topping of the blood: which yet they could not atteyne. It is pitie hee died not long &s;ince, together with a great number of his faction, namely. <HI>S. Alde|gonde.</HI> His death wil bread great altera|tions as is mo&s;t like, &amp; we loke for news of what haue &s;ince happened, and what cour&s;e matters haue taken. We heare that the duke of <HI>Anieow</HI> hath &s;ent the P. <HI>Daulphin</HI> to the king of France for &s;uc|cour, we &s;hall &s;ee what will come of it. I wot not what breach of war we look for, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">th the <HI>D.</HI> of <HI>Anicow</HI> doth al by y^e know|ledge,
<PB REF="8"> con&s;ent and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his &s;aid brother, as al&s;o he helpeth the Queen his mother, who openly ioyneth with <HI>Don Antonie</HI> to make warre again&s;t vs. It is euident they woulde doe more if they could. But we can haue no helpe of our power, ney|ther knowe it, or con&s;ider in what &s;tate tho&s;e bee that doe on all &s;ides di&s;quiet vs, yea &s;o farre as by procuring the di&s;cente of the Turkes armie, who I &s;uppo&s;e ve|rily woulde come, in cace the Per&s;ian warre, which yet continueth, did not let him, as hauing lately on that &s;ide had an ouerthrow of his people, wherevpon, ac|cording to the la&s;t newes, <HI>Con&s;tantino|ple</HI> was much troubled, and the &s;ayde Turke hath &s;ent into his frontiers newe reliefe of two <HI>Sangiaques,</HI> with 4000. <HI>Iani&s;&s;aries,</HI> and 3000 <HI>Spachies,</HI> notwith|&s;tanding they giue out that they doe at|tende an emba&s;&s;adour out of Per&s;ia, who &s;houlde bring the conditions of peace, whiche I hope is but a voice to deceiue them, and that he hath to doe with a peo|ple that doe fight in running away.</P>
<P>My Lord of S. <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> went this way, and by po&s;te continueth his iourney to|warde
<PB REF="8"> the king, who is nowe at <HI>Almerin</HI> whether he went to meete the Empre&s;&s;e, and my Lorde the <HI>Archduke</HI> Cardinall is gone to receiue her vpon the confines of the kingdome. The &s;aide Abbot of S. <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> &s;eemeth a wary man, and &s;uche a one as can yeelde good accompte of the &s;tate of the Lowe Countreys. I enter|tayned him very well, and haue commen|ded him in the court, to the ende they may &s;o v&s;e him, that hee may returne well &s;a|ti&s;fied. I am well a&s;&s;ured that for his part he wil &s;ollicite the &s;ending of &s;ouldi|ers and money for the pay: whereabout I haue laboured the&s;e two monethes, cal|ling vpon it &s;o much as I might. And alreadie we haue worde from Sicill and Naples, that the power that &s;hould come thence, will marche very &s;hortly, &s;o to ioyne with Don <HI>Ferdinand</HI> of <HI>Tolete,</HI> who is yet in the Neapolitayn gallies at <HI>Calibry,</HI> while Don <HI>Ihon</HI> of <HI>Cardoa,</HI> at|tendeth conuenient tyme to pa&s;&s;e the gulfe: and in troth, he is very &s;lacke. So as the Countie <HI>Oliuares,</HI> who is in the &s;ame gallies, is not yet gotten to <HI>Rome,</HI> to the great preiudice of the affayres: not|with&s;tanding
<PB REF="9"> his Holine&s;&s;e hath already graunted the &s;ub&s;idy, which he hath &s;tai|ed the&s;e three yeeres full vnder colour of the ab&s;tinence of warre, which <HI>Iohn</HI> of <HI>Marliano</HI> had co~cluded with the Turke. I doe within the&s;e two dayes looke for the Prince <HI>Iohn Andrew Dorye,</HI> who returneth toward Italy with his Gal|leyes, and the Duke of <HI>O&s;&s;una</HI> goeth with him, who, as your highne&s;&s;e maye haue heard, goeth as <HI>Viceroy</HI> to <HI>Naples.</HI> His Maie&s;tie and all his blood thanked be God, are in good health, and we waite what re&s;olution they wil take after their Maie&s;ties haue beene together, who are to returne from <HI>Almarin</HI> to <HI>Li&s;bon,</HI> where (if I be not deceiued) the Kinge hath yet enough to do: for concerning iu|&s;tice, gouernment, trea&s;urie, and &s;uche like concerning &s;urety, I &s;ee nothing yet done to my lyking: be&s;ides that, I wote not how his Maie&s;tie can without daun|ger leaue the Realme of Portingale. Our Nauy is prouiding, but &s;lowly ac|cording to cu&s;tome, &s;o as if wa~t of monie had not hindred <HI>Don Anthony</HI> &amp; the Q. Mother of Fra~ce, they had by this pre|ue~ted
<PB REF="9"> vs. The feare of the Turkes army hath cau&s;ed the leuie of 6000. Almaines in <HI>Tirol,</HI> who are to take &s;hipping at <HI>Spe|tie:</HI> but if the Turks armie commeth not, yet &s;hall we not want place where to v&s;e them, if I may be beleeued. It is doubted whether the enterpri&s;e of <HI>Tercera</HI> &s;halbe executed this yeere, or whether they take any other order. God put into his Maie|&s;ties hart, that that may be for the be&s;t. It is &s;till &s;aid, that the Imperiall diet &s;halbe holde~ at <HI>Au&s;pburg,</HI> but I ca~not thinke it, it began vpon Sunday la&s;t, notwith&s;tan|ding the purport of y^e letters of conuoca|tion. I &s;uppo&s;e my L. the prince hath &s;ent out of the lowe Countreys &s;ome one to &s;upplie the place for the circuite of <HI>Bur|gondie:</HI> at the lea&s;t, I gaue knowledge of it at the Court a good while &s;ince, to the ende therevpon to write to him what was be&s;te, together with my opinion.</P>
<P>Your highne&s;&s;e may haue heard howe it hath plea&s;ed his Maie&s;tie to nominate to the Bi&s;hoppricke of <HI>Turney Moril|lon,</HI> Prouo&s;t of <HI>Ayre.</HI> Al&s;o that I haue graunted to di&s;charge my &s;elfe of the
<PB REF="10"> Archbi&s;hopricke of <HI>Malines,</HI> as that I can not be there re&s;ident, nominating thereto M. Iohn of <HI>Auchin,</HI> deane of S. <HI>Gaule</HI> my officiall, who vnder the &s;aide prouo&s;t of <HI>Morillon</HI> hath gouerned the &s;ayd Archbi&s;hopricke many yeeres. The fauour which it plea&s;ed your highnes to extend toward the &s;aid <HI>Morillon</HI> in te&s;ti|fiyng &s;o wel of him to his Maie&s;tie, for y^e which I mo&s;t humbly and hartily thanke you, together with the commendation of my &s;ayde Lorde Prince haue bin a good helpe to him herein, and certaynely I hope that of y^e choy&s;e which his Maie&s;tie haue made of the&s;e two per&s;ons, hee &s;hall be well &s;erued, and that when your high|ne&s;&s;e &s;hall knowe the &s;aide deane, your &s;elfe will bee of the &s;ame opinion. It is aboue fifteene yeeres &s;ince I fir&s;t &s;ued to his Maie&s;tie to di&s;charge mee of the &s;aid Church of <HI>Mallines,</HI> which as your high|ne&s;&s;e knoweth I accepted full euill a|gain&s;t my will. For I &s;ufficiently did fore&s;ee what woulde en&s;ue, as that by my ab&s;ence his Maie&s;tie coulde not reape the fruites whereto he pretended by vniting the Abbaies vnto the By&s;hoprickes, whi|che
<PB REF="10"> he did, to the end, the Bi&s;hops might haue &s;ome ouer&s;ight in dealing with the &s;tates of Brabant, for with&s;tanding the prince of Orenge, and other of his facti|on, that troubled the affayres: and the bet|ter to trayne the Abbots, who beeing a|bu&s;ed by the &s;aide Prince of Orenge, haue giuen him opportunitie to hurt both them &s;elues and the re&s;t. As for Iohn of <HI>Sermillan,</HI> in who&s;e behalfe your high|ne&s;&s;e haue written, concerning the Abey of <HI>Dane</HI> in your letter, dated the 17. of Februarie, I haue alreadie written to Prouo&s;t <HI>Foncq,</HI> who hath returned me an an&s;were that it is alreadie be&s;to|wed, I wote not on whom, without ma|king his Maie&s;tie priuie thereto, whiche he imputeth to the Coun&s;aylor of <HI>A&s;&s;on|uille,</HI> &s;o that if it be be&s;towed, ther is no more to &s;ay. I &s;ee no other matter at this time woorth the troubling of your highne&s;&s;e, then you vnder&s;tande by my former.</P>
<P>Finally, mo&s;t humbly and heartilye commending me to your highne&s;&s;e good grace, I be&s;eech the creator, to &s;ende you a good, and long life.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill,</HI> <DATE>this 27. of Aprill. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your highne&s;&s;e mo&s;te humble and bounden &s;eruant. Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P>To my Lady, to her highne&s;&s;e owne handes.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t noble and mo&s;t excellent Lorde, right honourable.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To y^e prince of Parma.</NOTE><HI>I</HI> Haue an&s;wered all your excellencies letters, and &s;ince the blowe giuen to the Prince of Orenge here haue commen none of your newes. By Englande wee haue perticularly hearde the whole &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e of his hurt, in that this Queenes a|gences remaining in <HI>Antwerpe,</HI> haue bin diligent in giuing daily notice of all that haue been incident to his hurt: and (as we haue there learned) he liued for the &s;pace of 14. dayes after the blowe in vehement torments, by rea&s;on as well of the griefe of his wounde, as al&s;o by the Anatomie
<PB REF="11"> which the Surgeons made by inci&s;ions, as if it had been in dead fle&s;h, for the &s;ear|ching thereof, and &s;eeking to helpe it: al|&s;o by mole&s;ting him with fierye Caute|ries, endeuoring to &s;top the vaine, which they coulde not bring to pa&s;&s;e: farther, that the 14. day he was in &s;uch ca&s;e, as euen his owne familiars were pa&s;t hope of life. There is no &s;peech in what &s;tate the affaires of <HI>Antwerpe</HI> remayned all the while, &s;auing that <HI>Alencon</HI> oft vi&s;ited him, and that he made a &s;hort will. It can not po&s;&s;ibly be, but that this happe will breede great alterations. God graunt it be to our benefite.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;tie tru&s;teth, that your excel|lencie will withou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> fayle helpe by all means po&s;&s;ible to procure &s;ome good ef|fect, by v&s;ing &s;uch meanes (as you were determined) with the inhabitants of <HI>Ant|werpe</HI> and other townes, offering vnto them (notwith&s;tanding what&s;oeuer their former committed offences) all pardon and curte&s;ie, in ca&s;e they will reclayme them&s;elues: as al&s;o that you will not omitte what &s;o euer occa&s;ion, to bee
<PB REF="12"> dooyng &s;omewhat with &s;uche &s;mall force as you haue, if opportunitie may &s;erue. All &s;ending of &s;peedy &s;uccour is dayly called vpon, and alreadie out of <HI>Naples, Sicilie,</HI> and <HI>Millan.</HI> We heare that men bee prouiding, farther, that the Hor&s;emen that were at <HI>Naples</HI> &s;houlde pre&s;ently march to <HI>Millan.</HI> The regi|ment of don <HI>Ferdinando</HI> of <HI>Tolete</HI> (whi|che as I write vnto you &s;hall not go with the other troupe, but rather <HI>Peter</HI> of <HI>Paz</HI>) was yet at <HI>Colibre</HI> the 20. of this moneth, through the vnrea&s;onable flack|ne&s;&s;e of Don <HI>Iohn</HI> of <HI>Cardoua,</HI> who &s;ee|keth to &s;ayle &s;o &s;ure. The proui&s;ion of 40000. crowns appointed for victualing in <HI>Sauoy,</HI> are alreadie in the handes of <HI>Sanctius</HI> of <HI>Padilia.</HI> Al&s;o for feare of the turki&s;h armie, there are 6000. Almaines leuied, and &s;hall take &s;hipping at <HI>Spetie:</HI> which (this feare pa&s;t) may &s;erue &s;ome o|ther where, to whiche ende, there are 76000. crownes already &s;ent. I doe by al meanes po&s;&s;ible, call vpon the proui&s;i|on of coyne, as I haue already written, which as I hope will be with profite.</P>
<P><HI>Don Antony,</HI> being openly a&s;&s;i&s;ted
<PB REF="12"> by the Q. mother, threatneth to departe towarde the coa&s;t of Portingall, and the~ce to the Ile of <HI>Terecra,</HI> and the <HI>Indi|es,</HI> in the beginning of May. Our armie is prouiding more &s;lowly then I coulde wi&s;he. I haue alreadie twi&s;e written to his Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>And I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe, your excel|lencie &s;hall &s;hortely haue aun&s;were.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Al this writ|ten in Cy|phres. Cyphres.</NOTE> I woulde it were alreadie done, and might no longer hange in &s;u&s;pence, and haue be&s;ought his Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>The emba&s;&s;adour <HI>Iohn Babti&s;ta,</HI> af|firmeth that <HI>Orendge</HI> remayned the 14. day pa&s;t hope of life. Others that come by &s;ea, thinke him alreadie dead. The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">aide <HI>Iohn Babti&s;ta,</HI> &s;aith moreouer, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he prince Daulphine was gone to the French Court, there to &s;ollicite the bro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">her to &s;ende ayde: yea and that with hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">peeches I wot not wherefore: for I am <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">f that opinion, that <HI>Alen&s;on</HI> doeth no|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ing but what the mother and brother <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ill. I be&s;eech your excellencie, for a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">yding the &s;poyle of the Countrey of
<PB REF="13">
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<PB REF="13">
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<PB REF="14"> <HI>Burgondy,</HI> to cau&s;e the Infanterie and Hor&s;emen that are leuied in the&s;e Coun|treys, to march with all &s;peede that may be towards Flanders, otherwi&s;e they wil &s;poyle all. Be&s;ides, if the French &s;houlde come, they will &s;erue as &s;ouldiers v&s;e to doe in their owne hou&s;es, and therefore I am &s;till of that minde, that for the &s;afe|tie of that countrey, 2000. Switzers were very requi&s;ite, who beeing retey|ned, vntill the power that is to pa&s;&s;e ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Italy</HI> be come, might then be friendly di&s;mi&s;&s;ed with full payment, to the ende, &s;till to haue them readye as neede might require. And therefore con&s;idering the harme that tho&s;e of the countrey do com|mit, this way woulde be the cheaper.</P>
<P>The Prince <HI>Iohn Andrew Dory</HI> is not yet arriued here, but I looke for him within three or foure dayes at the far|the&s;t.</P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>O&s;&s;una,</HI> is yet a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Pegnafiel:</HI> It is enough that we may &s;ay that hee is onwarde of his way: fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> certaynely hee will make ha&s;ts: for i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> hee tarrie long, I am per&s;waded tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="14"> the Prince <HI>Dorie</HI> will not &s;tay for him, whereby hee maye remayne in <HI>Bar|celone</HI> longer then willinglye hee woulde.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;tie is at <HI>Almerine,</HI> where the mo&s;te Noble Empre&s;&s;e is to arriue the fir&s;te day of May, or peraduenture &s;ooner.</P>
<P>Wee &s;hall &s;ee what greate matters will en&s;ue after this enteruiewe of the brother and &s;i&s;ter. Farther, if I bee not deceyued, there is yet enough to doe in Portingalle before his Maie&s;tie can departe, in cace he will leaue all things in &s;afetie: for that in trothe, there is muche le&s;&s;e done then I coulde well wi&s;he, as well concerning Iu&s;tice, and P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">llicie, as any other taking of or|der in the affayres.</P>
<P>His holynes hath graunted the &s;ub|&s;idie towarde the mainteynaunce of the Gallies. Al&s;o there is newes fre&s;hely come from <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> importing that the Turke hath lately receyued &s;ome newe &s;oyle aboute the borders of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> wherevpon <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> was
<PB REF="15"> in &s;ome care or heauine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>They ha&s;ten the fea&s;t of the circum|ci&s;ion of the &s;onne, to the ende, to gather &s;ome coin which wanted. And the Turke hath &s;ent a &s;upply of 4000. <HI>Iani&s;&s;ares,</HI> and 3000. <HI>Spachles:</HI> be&s;ides that he hath made two of his <HI>Sangiaques</HI> to marche with their power. For that many feared lea&s;t the &s;peeche ray&s;ed, that the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> &s;ought for peace or truce, is but di&s;&s;imu|lacion. So as wee hope, that notwith|&s;tanding the French &s;oliclting, the Tur|ki&s;h armie yet it wil not come otherwi&s;e that it well be very &s;mall: but thereof we haue as yet no certaintie.</P>
<P>Your excellencie may haue heard of the peace concluded betweene the <HI>Pola|que</HI> and the <HI>Mu&s;couite</HI> for 10. yeeres. Al&s;o from <HI>Armue,</HI> we haue by land heard good newes, that the Portingales haue there ouerthrowen many people of tho&s;e quarters which purpo&s;ed to haue hurt them, and that they remayned in his Ma|ie&s;ties obedience.</P>
<P>The Abbot of S. <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> hath been heere: I haue procured him good enter|tainement:
<PB REF="15"> hee proceedeth on his iourney in po&s;t, and &s;eemeth to bee a meete and &s;eruiceable per&s;on. I haue prouided him of what &s;o euer I haue thought might turne to his good entertaynement and cheri&s;hing, &amp; haue not omitted to breake my mind to him concerning my opinion in matters, to the ende he might the bet|ter deale. I thinke certainely, that be|&s;ides the letters which your excellencie haue receyued of <HI>Don Guillen</HI> of Saint <HI>Clement,</HI> you haue al&s;o had letters out of Portingall, touching y^e affaires of the Imperiall diet, wherein I referre my &s;elfe, as hauing afore written my opinion at large.</P>
<P>God keepe and pre&s;erue your excel|lencie, graunting you good &s;ucce&s;&s;e in all your endeuors and enterpri&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 26. of Apryll. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE> Vnderneath was written.
<SIGNED><HI>Of your excellencie. The mo&s;t affectionate &s;eruant. Ant.
<PB REF="16"> Cardinall of Granuelle.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P>To the mo&s;t noble and excellent Lord my right honourable L. the Prince of Parma, gouernour and captaine generall for his Maie&s;tie in the lowe Cou~treys, of Flau~ders &amp; Burgundy.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Mar|qui&s;e of Rou+baisthe 16. of April. 1582.</NOTE>MY L. the Prelate of S. <HI>Va&s;tz,</HI> who arriued here this day, deliuered me your letter of the 19. of February. I haue already by &s;undry my L. the P. writings to his Maie&s;tie, heard of the holy re&s;olu|tion taken by y^e e&s;tates. Al&s;o that at your &s;olliciting &amp; by y^e whiche &s;o fitly you pro|pounded, together with your endeuors &s;o wel acco~modated, what you by my L. and my L. pre&s;ident, w^t others of your &s;etting on worke, haue bin done. The inhabita~ts of <HI>Artoi&s;e</HI> haue trode the path to the re&s;t, wherof may redounde great benefite to al the countrey, for y^e relleuing the~ at length out of &s;o many mi&s;eries. &amp; you &s;hal before the&s;e letters come to your ha~ds, haue no|tice of his maie&s;ties liking of y^e &s;aid re&s;o|lution, together w^t tho&s;e y^t haue traueyled therin: a&s;&s;uring you y^t I haue not, nor doe not omit any meanes in ha&s;tening your
<PB REF="16"> &s;uccour &amp; furniture of coyne. And be&s;ides the 400000 crownes mentioned in your letter, there is meanes made for 300000 more. I haue done my endeuour to pro|cure the &s;etting downe of an a&s;&s;ured mo|nethly &s;umme, whiche &s;houlde not bee &s;lacked: but there is more to do in finding the meanes, then in wi&s;hing the doing of it. It is &s;til in hand, but I dare not put you in any a&s;&s;ured hope before I &s;ee the de|ui&s;e in a better forwardne&s;&s;e: at the lea&s;t, I a&s;&s;ure you, there is no want in mee, and well I may &s;ay, that I do all that I may.</P>
<P>As for &s;uch &s;ouldiers as appeare at the mou&s;tre, &amp; ordinarily in following their ba~ners, or whe~ they come to ha~dy blows, are ab&s;ent&punc; that is an ordinarie di&s;ea&s;e, e&s;pecially among &s;uche &s;ouldiers, as are in their owne countreys. I dare &s;ay the faule is not in you, and what &s;oeuer com|meth to your notice, you would willing|ly redre&s;&s;e: for be&s;ides the re&s;pect y^t ought to be had to the ma&s;ters &s;eruice, by &s;uche meanes you venture your owne par&s;on, together with other captaines in great daunger. For weening to haue your nu~|ber of enrouled &s;ouldiers, for want there|of
<PB REF="17"> you are the weaker before your enimie, which may procure &s;uch daunger as you may ea&s;ily comprehende.</P>
<P>I neuer &s;awe the &s;aide Prouo&s;t of S. <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> before: but hauing conferred with him, be&s;ides the te&s;timonie w^t his works already doe giue, he &s;eemeth in my opini|on, a very &s;eruiceable per&s;on. He &s;hal pro|c&eacute;ede on his iourney to his Maie&s;tie, where hee &s;hall finde part of that he hath in charge in a good forwardne&s;&s;e, by meanes of &s;uch diligence as haue been v|&s;ed. I am to thanke you for &s;uch curteous offers, as it plea&s;eth you by your letter to make vnto mee: and for my part, for re|quitall thereof, you &s;hall alwayes finde mee ready, and willing to do for you (as occa&s;ion &s;hall &s;erue) what&s;oeuer I may.</P>
<P>Finally, mo&s;t hartily commending mee to your good grace, I be&s;eeche the Creator, my L. to graunt you the accom|pli&s;hment of your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 16. of Aprill. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Wholy ready to do you &s;eruice.
<PB REF="17"> Ant. cardinall of Granuelle.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To my L. my L. Marqui&s;e of Roubais, Gouernour of Artoys and He&s;din.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<P>MY Lorde the Prelate of Saint <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> hath deliuered your letter of the la&s;t &s;aue one of February.<NOTE PLACE="marg">To the L. of Montigny.</NOTE> In troth &s;uch are your de&s;ertes, in that you haue &s;o nobly imployed your &s;elfe in his Ma|ie&s;ties &s;eruice, that your &s;elfe neede not to &s;peake thereof, as being a thing mani|fe&s;t, whereof his Maie&s;tie is &s;ufficiently enfourmed, a&s;&s;uring you that notwith|&s;tanding it was needle&s;&s;e: yet I failed not to put him in minde vpon euery occa&s;ion. And I perceiue he liketh you well, and e&s;teemeth of your valiancie, and of that you haue vppon euery opportunitie that haue been offered, &s;o nobly and &s;o often employed your owne per&s;on with &s;uche manhood and honour: whereby I hope that his &s;aide Maie&s;tie will omitte no oc|ca&s;ion, to let you vnder&s;tande what ac|coumpt hee maketh of you: al&s;o what cur+te&s;ie
<PB REF="18"> you are to hope for of his greatne&s;&s;e and liberalty. As for the charges of Flan|ders, I perceiue not that his Maie&s;tie doeth yet goe about to take any re&s;olu|tion: be&s;ides you know (&s;ir) in what &s;tate Flanders matters doe yet &s;tande, howe|beit I hope that if you haue not yet heard of it, you &s;hall &s;hortly by my Lorde the prince vnder&s;tande, that he is carefull in employing you honourably. And I can a&s;&s;ure you, that the good will whiche I haue perceiued in his Maie&s;tie towarde you is &s;uch, that in my opinion, you can not wi&s;he it better. I am heere as you knowe farre from him, at the lea&s;t twelue dayes iourneys off, and therefore can doe nothing but by letters, which can not al|wayes watch their times &s;o as tho&s;e that are pre&s;ent had neede to renewe the con|tents of the letters, and I hope that my Lorde pre&s;ident <HI>Foncq,</HI> who nowe is there, through who&s;e handes al&s;o the af|fayres of the lowe Countreys doe pa&s;&s;e, &amp; who in my opinion liketh you wel, wil not faile to do what&s;oeuer to your behoof hee may po&s;&s;ible, as al&s;o I a&s;&s;ure you, that for my part what &s;o euer in me lieth,
<PB REF="18"> you &s;halbe remembred with all good and a&s;&s;ured affection. Wherevpon for an end hereof. I commende mee to your good grace, be&s;eeching the Creator, to graunt you the accompli&s;hment of your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this <HI>16.</HI> of April. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your perfect friend to do you &s;eruice. <HI>Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To my Lord the Lorde of Monti|gnye.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIr,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the L. of Capres.</NOTE> the Lord of S. <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> arriuinge heere in good helth this pre&s;ent daye, gaue me cau&s;e of great contentation, in that by him I vnder&s;tood perticularlye, be&s;ides what before I knewe, the ende|uors which your &s;elf together with other Lordes haue v&s;ed for the common wealth of the countrey, vpholding the religion, and his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, wherein in troth, your de&s;ert is great: and I doe e|&s;pecially wi&s;he that his Maie&s;tie may ef|fectually
<PB REF="19"> (as occa&s;ion may &s;erue) declare how well he liketh thereof. For my part, I will not fayle, but willingly te&s;tifie vn|to his Maie&s;tie, and &s;o farre rehear&s;e the &s;ame alwayes as time may &s;erue, to the ende my endeuors may one day yeelde &s;uch fruits as may turne to your full con|tentation, wherein you &s;hall alwayes find me readie, as al&s;o in what&s;o euer els I may, to doe you plea&s;ure and &s;eruice.</P>
<P>Finally, mo&s;t heartily commending my &s;elfe vnto your good grace, I be&s;eech the creator, graunt to you the acco~pli&s;hment of your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 16. of Aprill, 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your good friende to v&s;e. Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To my L. my Lorde the Earle of Hen|ninlietart, L. of Capres.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="19">
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY Lorde of <HI>Gongnies,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the L. of Gongnies.</NOTE> the Prelate of Saint <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> hath deliuered mee your letter, dated the 22. of Februarie.</P>
<P>The goodwill and loue which heretofore I haue offered vnto you, is not onely not dimini&s;hed: but rather dayly encr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;eth, vnder&s;tanding the duty, w^t in what you may, you do v&s;e toward y^e vpholding of religion, &amp; his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice: as al&s;o by rea&s;on of &s;uch good will, as you haue borne towarde me, and doe nowe againe offer. Neyther haue I omitted often to te&s;tifie your de&s;ertes, and &s;till will be rea|die vpon all occa&s;ions to renew the &s;ame, and will &s;ende vnto my Lord the prouo&s;t <HI>Foncq</HI> your reque&s;t, to the ende he may make report thereof to his Maie&s;tie, into who&s;e handes, the &s;ame which you procu|red to bee exhibited, whereof this y^t nowe you &s;ende mee, is the copie, may by this time be deliuered: de&s;iring him to put his Maie&s;tie in minde of my former &s;uite which willingly I will renewe, earne&s;t|ly wi&s;hing him to take &s;uch order therin, as may be to your full contentation.</P>
<P>Thus mo&s;t hartily commending my &s;elf to your good reme~bra~ce, I be&s;ech the Creator,
<PB REF="20"> to graunt you your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 16. of Aprill, 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your good friende, Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To my L. the L. of Gongnies.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY L. tre&s;orer generall,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To Tre&s;orer Stercke.</NOTE> y^e prelate of S. <HI>Va&s;tz,</HI> ariuing here this day, haue among others deliuered me your letters, bearing date the 15. of Februarie: by the contents whereof I gladly vnder&s;toode that his Maie&s;ties grant, &s;igned with his owne hande for confirming you in your e&s;tate, was made to your liking. The te|&s;timonie of your loyall &s;eruice is due vn|to your woorkes, in that continually you haue &s;o well employed your &s;elfe: &amp; I am very glad that your age and di&s;po&s;ition can beare it, &s;o well to tende dayly to the ma&s;ters affaires, which (con&s;idering in what &s;tate they nowe remayne) doe neede &s;ome great a&s;&s;i&s;tance. I heartily thanke you for your offer, which at the reque&s;t of my L. the prouo&s;t of <HI>Ayre</HI> you made to a&s;&s;i&s;t my pretence, for the payment of my wages and pentions, that haue &s;o many
<PB REF="20"> yeeres bin due: and I perceiue you know that I haue great rea&s;on, and that I haue borne my &s;elfe mode&s;tly in v&s;ing no im|portunacie: notwith&s;tanding, I haue &s;o long &s;tayed. But the lo&s;&s;es which on all &s;ides I haue &s;u&s;teined, together with my expences in my iourneys for our ma&s;ters &s;eruice, as al&s;o my &s;eruing purely, and w^t out intere&s;t, do nowe force mee to be ear|ne&s;t. By the &s;aid prouo&s;t of <HI>Ayres</HI> letters I vnder&s;tand, that by your good furthe|raunce the matter draweth to &s;ome ende, that at the lea&s;te I may bee relieued with &s;ome good portion, eyther in <HI>Burgondy</HI> or els where, for the w^c I heartily thanke you: as al&s;o of the a&s;&s;uraunce that you make mee of your good will, toge|ther with my Lords your felow brethren in my behalf, wherby I am greatly bou~d to employ my &s;elfe for the whole compa+ny, e&s;pecially for you in what&s;oeuer oc|ca&s;ion may graunt me opportunitie.</P>
<P>The re&s;olution of the e&s;tates hath bin great, and of great importaunce: as that whereof the whole countrey I hope &s;hal reap co~moditie, his Maie&s;tie being re&s;ol|ued to accept of this good wil, &amp; to &s;ende aide
<PB REF="21"> for the a&s;&s;uraunce of the &s;aid Countreys again&s;t the French, &s;o to procure the re&s;t and quiet which after &s;o many mi&s;chiefes were thereto, more then nece&s;&s;arie.</P>
<P>Thus mo&s;t heartily co~mending my &s;elf to your good remembraunce, I be&s;eeche the Creator, my L. <HI>Tre&s;orer</HI> to graunt you your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 16. of Apryll. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured and olde friende. Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To my L. Stercke, high Tre&s;orer of his Maie&s;ties recepts in the Low coun|treys.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the L. of Billy.</NOTE> I haue receiued your let|ters of the la&s;t of Februarie, whi|che my L. of S. <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> deliuered mee at his comming hether, from whence hee is nowe departed vpon his iourney. I was glad to &s;ee him, and wee haue often con|ferred together. The re&s;olution that hee
<PB REF="21"> bringeth from the e&s;tates, de&s;erueth that he bee very welcome, e&s;pecially, for that hee hath &s;o honourablie behaued him&s;elfe therein, as al&s;o in reconciling the e&s;tates of the Wallon Prouinces. In truth he is a meete man, and I am glad that I haue founde him affectionate towarde you. Of your good will towarde mee, I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe by rea&s;on of &s;uch offers as both by mouth and letters you haue often made mee. And your &s;elfe may be &s;ure to finde me alwayes corre&s;pondent in like de&s;ire, to employ my &s;elfe in what &s;oeuer concerneth you, which certaynely, both willingly and fauourablie I do per|fourme in what I may.</P>
<P>Wherefore heartily commending me to your good grace, I be&s;eeche the Crea|tor to graunt you your de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 15. of Aprill. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your perfect good friende. Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<PB REF="22">
<P>To my L. the L. of Billy. &amp;c.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD> Letters of A. Dennetiers.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY Lorde,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the L. of Ra&s;&s;enghie~.</NOTE> I lately receiued the let|ters whiche it plea&s;ed your Lorde|&s;hip to write vnto mee by the L. of Saint <HI>Va&s;tz,</HI> who was mo&s;t honourably recei|ued and fea&s;ted by the mo&s;t noble, my L. of <HI>Granuelle,</HI> and as I vnder&s;tand, &s;hal &s;o bee al&s;o by my L. <HI>Foncq</HI> at <HI>Lisborne,</HI> where he is already arriued, and was like &s;peedily to be di&s;patched, hauing &s;uch an ho&s;t, had not his di&s;patch by rea&s;on of the enteruiewe betweene the K. and the Em|pre&s;&s;e, (who was gone to &s;ee her at <HI>Alme|rin</HI> whether &s;hee came to meete him) bin &s;tayed. I haue and &s;till will willingly do my L. of <HI>Vendegies</HI> all plea&s;ure I may, for be&s;ides his de&s;erts, and vertuous qua|lities, there is in vs a certaine kinde of conformitie, which maketh mee to loue, reuerence, and honor him, reioycing and congratulating with your Lorde&s;hip, for &s;uch a Lorde and friend, &amp; &s;uch a nephew, of who~ I hope of much in time to come, concerning the admini&s;tration of y^e com|mon wealth &amp; benefite of our countrey. I woulde to God we had many &s;uch.</P>
<P>We can come to no ende with the wi|dowe,
<PB REF="22"> who is a fooli&s;h woman, and hath euill coun&s;eile, I hope neuerthele&s;&s;e that time and friendes may mollifie her, and teach her to knowe her wrong. In the meane time my Lord of <HI>Secry</HI> waxeth &s;o liuely and practi&s;e in the language and knowledge of &s;pani&s;h affaires, that his empri&s;onment will not onely bee not vn|profitable to him, but al&s;o mo&s;t profitable. As likewi&s;e to the afore&s;aid L. of <HI>Vende|gies,</HI> who hath dayly dealings with proc|tors and atturneys, learning the phra&s;e &amp; maner to proceede. Of this mi&s;happe wil redounde this benefite, that they &s;hall haue learned the &s;peeche and cu&s;tomes of the kingdome.</P>
<P>It is &s;uppo&s;ed, that his Maie&s;ties &s;oiour|ning at <HI>Lisbone</HI> is very fit for y^e reducing of the Hollenders &amp; Zeala~ders, who haue learned &amp; vnder&s;tood what y^e K. our M. is. Al&s;o that herewithal the P. of Ore~ges death, w^t is thought certayne, may breede great alteratio~: God graunt we may wel v&s;e this opportunitie. I &s;uppo&s;e that will be when the French is better known: al&s;o that vntil then we &s;hal haue enough to do and more then euer. For a good &amp; firme
<PB REF="23"> peace, a &s;trong war is nece&s;&s;arie. The v|niforme re&s;olution of y^e Wallon prouin|ces was hard very acceptablie, god grau~t it may be well v&s;ed, otherwi&s;e I am in y^e &s;ame feare with your Lord&s;hip. Where|vpon I dare &s;ay his Maie&s;tie will v&s;e both wi&s;edome and di&s;cretion.</P>
<P>Your L. doeth greatly binde mee in &s;hewing &s;o great fauour towarde me, my kin&s;men and friendes. I hope God will giue me grace to de&s;erue it toward your Lord&s;hippe and yours, according to my &s;mall habilitie, in what&s;oeuer I may vn|der&s;tande requi&s;ite to your honor, welth, and &s;eruice. A &s;uppo&s;e that &s;ome of my yeeres pentions, in title of a Lorde of the priuie coun&s;ell, are yet behinde. I am to craue your Lord&s;hips fauour in the pay|ment thereof, towarde the reliefe of my mother, and other our wantes which are great, by rea&s;on of the great lo&s;&s;es whi|che in our goods wee haue &s;u&s;teyned du|ring the&s;e warres. If your Lorde&s;hip woulde do mee this fauour, to wi&s;he mee &s;ome meanes how to be recompen&s;ed, I thinke his Maie&s;tie woulde haue &s;ome regarde of my &s;eruices and lo&s;&s;es. The Admiralles &s;onne of <HI>Ca&s;tile,</HI> was lately
<PB REF="23"> by <HI>Alcaldes</HI> and <HI>Aguacilles</HI> ledde pri&s;o|ner to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Alameda,</HI> as guiltie of the death of a gentleman, named <HI>Gut|tieres,</HI> who was &s;layne by three or foure vnknowne <HI>Rebocados,</HI> of whome there haue been &s;ome Gentlemen and others founde in <HI>Arragon,</HI> and brought hither, who being here racked, the &s;aid Admiral and other great per&s;ons haue founde them &s;elues grieued, alleadging that it is again&s;t their priuiledges, and as I vnder|&s;tande, there haue bin a plaintiue reque&s;t exhibited to his Maie&s;tie: wherevpon is great di&s;cour&s;ing. I am glad to heare of the recouerie of <HI>Lens</HI> out of y^e Frenches handes: for if his lea&s;ure had &s;erued, that he might haue fortified it, it might haue done muche mi&s;chiefe all ouer the flatte Countreye, and bred great harme before it had been recouered.</P>
<P>Thus my L. mo&s;t humbly commen|ding me to your L. good grace, I be&s;eech the Creator to grant you the accompli&s;h|ment of your mo&s;t noble and vertuous de&s;ires.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this 19. of Apryll. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<PB REF="24">
<SIGNED><HI>Of your &s;aid Lord&s;hip, the mo&s;t hum|ble and affectionate &s;eruaunt. <HI>A. Dennetieres.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To my L. my L. the Baron of Ra&s;&s;eng|hien, of the coun&s;ell of E&s;tate, and chiefe of the Catholik K. of Spaines recepts in his lowe Countreys.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Letters of the Abbot of Saint Va&s;tz.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY Lorde,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To coun&s;el|ler Richar|dot.</NOTE> I &s;uppo&s;e you haue recei|ued the letters I writte vnto you by the way: Nowe that I am at my Lo. the Cardinalles, who hath lodged me at his hou&s;e, and doeth mee all honor po&s;&s;ible, granting me priuate audience &s;o ofte~ as I de&s;ire it, I haue not forgotte~ to report your vertues and de&s;erts. Wherein I a&s;|&s;ure you, he hath taken &s;uch a liking, that &s;hortly you &s;hall &s;ee the effectes, and that <HI>cum faenore</HI> that &s;hal be re&s;tored you, whi|che by others enuie hath bin taken away.</P>
<P>The re&s;t is not to be referred to paper: only I pray you think that your affaires are at a good &s;tay, whereunto I will bee
<PB REF="24"> &s;till a&s;&s;i&s;tant, &amp; will not cea&s;e <HI>ni&s;ire plane confecta.</HI> We depart to morrowe toward <HI>Lisbone,</HI> from whence you &s;hall heare of our newes. My Lo. of <HI>Morillon</HI> is nomi|nated to the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Turney,</HI> and the Deane of S. <HI>Gudule</HI> to the Archbi|&s;hopricke of <HI>Malines,</HI> as one in who&s;e be|halfe my L. hath re&s;igned. One of <HI>Mor|becques</HI> childre~ is here in pri&s;on, for kill+ling his ho&s;te peeui&s;hly. The L. of <HI>Go|micourt</HI> returneth with one habite, a|thou&s;and crowns and coun&s;ell for y^e war.</P>
<P>No more, but I pray you haue a care of our hou&s;houlde affayres, and &s;o be&s;ee|ching God to continue you his fauour. I do w^t al my heart co~mend me to yours.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this <HI>26.</HI> of Apryll. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your perpetuall obedient friend. Iohn Abbot of Saint Va&s;tz.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P>To my L. my L. of Richardot, pre&s;ident of Artoys, and of his Maie&s;ties pri|uie coun&s;ell. <HI>Arras</HI></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Letters of Peter Aldobrandine.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My mo&s;t noble Lady,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<PB REF="25">
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Dut|che&s;&s;e of Parma.</NOTE>THe 2. of this pre&s;ent, I wrot to your highne&s;&s;e of my occurrences, and I receiued yours of the 22. of Februarie, foure dayes &s;ince, which as your &s;elf may imagine, bred my great contentation, as thereby vnder&s;tanding howe after your great trouble with goutes and feuers, you nowe finde your &s;elfe &s;o ea&s;ed, as we &s;hortly hope that the Lorde God hath re|&s;tored you to your former health, whiche I haue, and dayly doe be&s;eeche his diuine Maie&s;tie to graunt you. I doe likewi&s;e vnder&s;tande of your highne&s;&s;e determi|nation, wholy to obey his Maie&s;tie, con|cerning your aboode for a time in the&s;e quarters: which vndoubtedly both is and will be greatly to his Maie&s;ties liking: as pre&s;uppo&s;ing that your highnes per&s;o~ and &s;hadow in the&s;e Countreys, may yet bring foorth and woorke verye great and good effectes, for that he woulde that on the one &s;ide my Lorde the prince &s;houlde forceably compell &s;uche as remayne ob|&s;tinate: and on the other &s;ide, y^t your high|ne&s;&s;e &s;houlde &s;tand with your armes open and as it were an vmpire, to ende all controuer&s;ies towardes &s;uch as woulde
<PB REF="25"> haue recour&s;e to the gate of mercy: as al|&s;o to tho&s;e that cannot be per&s;waded and beleeue that the way of great and migh|tie force, is the &s;ame wherewith the&s;e countreys &s;houlde be reduced to due obe|dience. Ye&s;terday I had great talke with the Lorde <HI>Don Iohn <ABBR EXPAN="Idiaquez">Idiaqz</ABBR>,</HI> and than|ked him for &s;uch paynes, as I knowe hee had taken, to the ende, your highne&s;&s;e might at his Maie&s;ties hande, obtayne &s;uch &s;ati&s;faction, as the zeale wherewith you haue, and &s;till doe &s;erue him doth de|&s;erue, and be&s;ought him to per&s;i&s;t, e&s;peci|ally to procure y^e reuoking of your high|ne&s;&s;e, out of this exile with his fauour and good liking. Wherevpon I digre&s;&s;ed in opening &s;undrye purpo&s;es concerning your highne&s;&s;e entent. Hereunto he made me an&s;were, that his Maie&s;tie was &s;uf|ficiently per&s;waded, how greatly he was bounde vnto you. Al&s;o that he neuer dou|ted of your readine&s;&s;e to fulfill willingly what&s;oeuer his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, who al&s;o will not omitte all due con&s;iderati|ons of your highne&s;&s;e &s;eruice and quali|tie. Farther, that it is nece&s;&s;arie you &s;hould attend the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of this &s;pringe,
<PB REF="26"> that afterward he may the better re&s;olue him&s;elfe: he promi&s;ed me al&s;o y^t he would not omit any conuenient time or place, &s;o earne&s;tly to deale w^t his Maie&s;tie, as your highnes may tru&s;t vnto him. For my part I will &s;lacke no time or opportunitie, to the ende, to keepe the &s;aid L. well di&s;po|&s;ed &amp; affected: who be&s;ids his great good will to your highnes, is al&s;o in great cre|dite &amp; authoritie with his Maie&s;tie, &amp; is glad to &s;ee me, &amp; doeth by all meanes fa|uour me: neither would he &s;uffer mee as yet to moue his Maie&s;tie, as I haue been about to doe: but willed mee to conforme my &s;elfe to that your highne&s;&s;e writ vnto him, for that he &s;aith his Maie&s;tie coulde not yet peru&s;e your letters, &s;o that it were good he &s;hould fir&s;t &s;ee them, &amp; then when time &s;erued to &s;peake, he would giue me warning. So as I wil wholy fulfil what &s;o euer the &s;aid L. &s;hall commaunde mee, who al&s;o hath promi&s;ed to procure often letters to your highnes. To be briefe, to graunt you &s;uch amends as your deuotio~ to his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice doth de&s;erue.</P>
<P>I haue a&s;&s;i&s;ted <HI>Nicelly</HI> in what&s;oeuer I thought conuenient for the &s;eruice of the
<PB REF="26"> hou&s;e: and if he had not bin here, he might haue bin in the bryers, and therefore may certifie you in what credit eue~ your high|nes &s;hadow is here. But perticularly co~|cerning the Ca&s;tle, I haue not &s;poke~ one worde, but am ready to perfourme what|&s;oeuer you &s;hal appoint &amp; command me.</P>
<P>The knight <HI>Blondo</HI> writeth to me that concerning the kings reuenew, he ende|uoreth not yet to v&s;e any farther dilige~ce vntil the L. <HI>Duke,</HI> nameth the per&s;ons y^t &s;hall bye the landes, &amp; then all nece&s;&s;ary conueiances &s;halbe di&s;patched, when we al&s;o mu&s;t take heed y^e you be a&s;&s;ured con|cerning the title to <HI>Nouara.</HI> Becau&s;e that at <HI>Madrill,</HI> there haue bin perticular dea|ling touching the enhauncing and aug|mentation of your highnes priuiledges, &amp; that there it is to be di&s;patched: <HI>Sama|niego</HI> hath perticular care of y^e bu&s;ines, &amp; I haue here procured a con&s;ultation to be &s;ent to <HI>Madrill,</HI> which is in the handes of his Maie&s;tie, <HI>Bourbon,</HI> &amp; <HI>La Po&s;ta,</HI> and as <HI>Matthewe Va&s;ques</HI> promi&s;eth me &s;halbe &s;ent to morrow: and withall, this bu&s;ines may be fini&s;hed &amp; ended, which is not of &s;uch importaunce as to put it in accompt
<PB REF="27"> of rewarde, howebeit, I will bee &s;till &s;o adui&s;ed, that if I heare anything, I may knowe howe to an&s;were.</P>
<P>Earle <HI>Claudes</HI> &s;onnes haue pre&s;en|ted a remembraunce to the coun&s;ayle of I|taly, demaunding the &s;ame that their fa|ther required, touching the goods confi&s;|cate by the death of Captayne <HI>Camillus,</HI> and I &s;uppo&s;e they &s;hall haue the &s;ame an&s;were their father had, namely, to goe to the <HI>Duke.</HI> And as occa&s;ion fall out, I will not omitte anie endeuours. Cardi|nall <HI>Farnc&s;ius</HI> corriuales doe all they may: and I thinke his Maie&s;tie, <HI>Granuel,</HI> and <HI>Don Iohn <ABBR EXPAN="Idiaquez">Idiaqz</ABBR></HI> &s;ufficiently aun|&s;wered, who toulde me that they goe a|bout to remedie it. Farther, ye&s;terday the &s;aide <HI>Don Iohn</HI> willed mee to bee of good cheere: for his Maie&s;tie had his no|ble Lord&s;hippe in &s;uch reputation, as the &s;eruice which this hole familie had, and &s;till doeth vnto his Maie&s;tie did de&s;erue, but all valiant par&s;ons haue Corriuales. So long as I remayne heere, I will ne|uer de&s;i&s;t as well in this, as in all other matters, but conforme my &s;elf wholly to your highne&s;&s;e will, neyther will I omit
<PB REF="27"> any diligence or endeuour, to the ende you may haue &s;uch &s;ati&s;faction, as by rea|&s;on you are to hope for of the goodne&s;&s;e of this great king, who God be pray&s;ed is in better health then euer he was: and in his determinations, v&s;eth &s;uch &s;ecrecy and aduice, as no man can well enter to knowe any thing, before it plea&s;e him to publi&s;he it.</P>
<P>The common opinion is, that in a|nye wi&s;e hee will in September returne to <HI>Madrill,</HI> as being both in <HI>Ca&s;tile</HI> and <HI>Arragon</HI> greatly de&s;ired. And ye&s;terday the &s;aide Lorde <HI>Don Iohn</HI> toulde mee, that the mo&s;t noble <HI>Empre&s;&s;e</HI> did verye well like the Mona&s;terie <HI>des Dechau|&s;es</HI> at <HI>Madrill,</HI> and that her Maie&s;tie doth yet minde to come thither, howebeit, that &s;uch is the loue and re&s;pecte &s;hee beareth to her &s;aide brother, that it is thought that at his being heere, &s;hee will fulfill his Maie&s;ties will, who wi&s;heth to leaue her the gouernment of the kingdome, toge|ther with the &s;ame. I will aduerti&s;e your highne&s;&s;e of what &s;o euer &s;hall dayly hap|pen. The French doe threaten to enter this kingdome with <HI>Don Anthony,</HI> who
<PB REF="28"> truly is here as it were adored of the ba&s;e co~munaltie, &amp; it is &s;ayd that in Brittaine, there is a great army ready. Al&s;o in as much as they ca~not beate any places but what lyeth between <HI>Duore</HI> &amp; <HI>Mignio,</HI> his Maie&s;tie &s;endeth towarde the Citie of <HI>Porto</HI> the <HI>Prior Don Hernando</HI> with 10000. footmen and 800. hor&s;e, with whom he &s;hall keepe that Countrie. In this Citie there is a &s;ufficient garri&s;on. Al&s;o at <HI>Settubar</HI> a regiment of <HI>Almains;</HI> and y^e re&s;t of the fortre&s;&s;es hereabout are &s;ufficie~tly prouided. His Maie&s;ties &s;houl|ders are charged with greate expen&s;es. Al&s;o it may be the &s;hadow is bigger the~ the daunger, which is encrea&s;ed by him that endeuoured to hinder the &s;ending of any power of importa~ce into tho&s;e parts, as being but a &s;mall friend to our Prin|ces glory, and an vtter enemy to the pro|uiding of y^e remedy for y^e affaires of tho&s;e parts which haue by him beene lo&s;t and &s;ubuerted: &s;o as without farther &s;peeche your highnes doe well vnder&s;tande mee.</P>
<P>Howebeit as <HI>Don Iohn</HI> toulde mee, although his Maie&s;tie be to prouide for
<PB REF="28"> diuers Countries: yet is he re&s;olued to take order for greate proui&s;ion of coyne for the affaires of tho&s;e Countries, ney|ther will hee that the &s;ayde a&s;&s;ignation be imployed any other where. I am not &s;ure of the iu&s;t &s;umme, but I vnder&s;tande it will bee at the lea&s;t 2. millions of gold yeerely. The mo&s;t part of the &s;aide coine the <HI>Fouquers</HI> &s;hall prouide monethly at <HI>Collen.</HI> In <HI>Italy</HI> there is order taken for 4. or 5000. <HI>Italians,</HI> a fewe hor&s;emen, and 2. Regiments of <HI>Spaniardes,</HI> who all &s;hall marche thitherwardes. And in as much as I perceiued all this proui&s;ion to proceede but &s;lowely, and e&s;peciall that of coyne, (that is the principall) by the coun&s;ayle of <HI>Don Iohn,</HI> I determined to exhibite a briefe to his Maie&s;tie, the tenor of the copie whereof is here inclo&s;ed, the which together with other diligence v&s;ed coulde not but bring forth good effectes.</P>
<P>I haue &s;ent a copie thereof to Cardi|nall <HI>Granuelle,</HI> who liketh it very well, and &s;endeth mee woorde that for his part hee hath and &s;till doeth all that hee may, in what &s;o euer is needefull to be
<PB REF="29"> broght to pa&s;&s;e: &amp; I haue put him in mind that if that which was begunne to be pro|pounded, be put in execution, all will goe well forwarde, and that there is no other &s;ure way to reuoke your highne&s;&s;e out of this exile. I will procure earne&s;t warre in tho&s;e partes: for in &s;o doing, wee &s;hall &s;oone &s;ee tho&s;e peoples minde: likewi&s;e to what purpo&s;e your highne&s;&s;e &s;taye in tho&s;e countreys, may &s;erue. I haue and will v&s;e for County <HI>Man&s;&s;elt</HI> vpon all occa&s;ions as well with his M. as w^t his &s;eruauntes, all meanes po&s;&s;ible: and the Lorde <HI>Don Iohn</HI> &s;heweth mee that his Maie&s;tie doth ofte~ write y^t he &s;hal be con|tinewed. Al&s;o to &s;eeke &s;ome meanes to content and &s;ati&s;fie the &s;aide Lorde, as well becau&s;e he de&s;erueth it, as al&s;o for ea&s;ing your highne&s;&s;e minde: which is all that at this time I can &s;ay, mo&s;t hum|bly ki&s;&s;ing your highne&s;&s;e mo&s;te noble handes. And I pray God graunt you all &s;upreme felicitie.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Lisbone,</HI> <DATE>this 8. of Aprill. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><PB REF="29"><HI>Your highnes mo&s;t humble &s;eruant <HI>Peter Aldobrandine.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To the mo&s;t noble Lady, my Lady. &amp;c.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letters">
<HEAD>Letters of Peter I&s;unca.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t noble &s;ir.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BE&s;eeching God this pre&s;ent may come to your Lo. and finde you in &s;uch health as I be&s;eech &amp; wi&s;h you.<NOTE PLACE="marg">To Ia&s;per of Anna&s;tro.</NOTE></P>
<P>By the la&s;t ordinarie I writ to your Lorde&s;hippe of my occurrences. In the&s;e I will rehear&s;e the &s;ub&s;taunce thereof, &s;o farre as I can remember (for I keepe no copies of my writings) as al&s;o what el&s;e &s;hall come in my minde. For not being as then a&s;&s;ured of the princes death, I nowe &s;peake otherwi&s;e, then then I did, and although at that time I was earne&s;t with you to come &s;peedily hither, &s;o to get you from among tho&s;e bea&s;tes feete. Al&s;o that thervpon I writ you a perticu|lar, which in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity you &s;houlde
<PB REF="30"> &s;hewe to the prince, yet nowe I &s;ay, that by a letter which my father writt me the 23. of this moneth, his minde is, that your Lorde&s;hip come not pre&s;ently, vntill that the heate of <HI>Orenges</HI> death bee cooled, for that hee doubteth lea&s;t they haue layd your way, and &s;o you &s;hould haue greater labour &amp; payne to pa&s;&s;e them, then to re|mayne vnder the princes protection. Al|&s;o in re&s;pecte of &s;o &s;mall a&s;&s;uraunce, I thinke it meet (for preuenting what may happen) that you &s;ende me a proxie to re|couer of his Maie&s;tie that which he hath promi&s;ed you for this &s;eruice, with a &s;e|uerall note vnder your hande, in what maner you will that this quantitie bee employed and diuided: pre&s;cribing there|in howe muche you alowe mee for my paynes. For although my father a&s;|&s;ured mee of more then the thirde part, and that I was then content therewith: yet nowe I &s;ay, in con&s;ideration of &s;uche great depts as the Marchaunts doe pub|li&s;he, that your Lord&s;hip oweth, I will bee content with the fourth part: but if you be otherwi&s;e minded, you know that my father is a partie, which notwith&s;tan|ding
<PB REF="30"> I will procure him to be content w^t what I thinke good, &amp; therfore I be&s;eech you &s;et it &s;o down in your perticular note &amp; in&s;truction, to the ende wee may con|clude vppon that whiche concerneth this matter. For that is the way to deale for &s;ati&s;fiyng my father, be&s;ides that, &s;o your &s;elfe may be plea&s;ed, and he wil not faile in what&s;oeuer occurre~ce may happe~ about his Maie&s;tie. In the meane time, I pray God pre&s;erue you in &s;uch health as I do de&s;ire. I likewi&s;e put your Lord&s;hip in minde in the &s;aid in&s;truction, to make perticular mention, that you would haue before the high alter in the Church of the town or village, of whe~ce he was, a tombe built of &s;tone, in &s;uche forme &amp; maner, as you or I &s;hold appoint for y^e &s;laier of him. It were al&s;o good in my opinio~, to build a perpetuall chantry of 2. chapleyns. Al|&s;o to buy for the yong mans father &amp; mo|ther, or his nere&s;t kin&s;man 3. or 400. duc|kets of rent for them ioyntly to enioy: &amp; that they and their &s;ucce&s;&s;ors might bee Lordes of the &s;ayde chantrie and tombe, &amp;c.</P>
<PB REF="31">
<P>Now I &s;ay the Chamber hath procured to learne of my Father who the yong man was, and of whence, therefore if they &s;houlde al&s;o require to &s;ee the demon&s;tra|tion, that your Lorde&s;hip maketh of your affayres, it were meete you declared at large, and di&s;cretely what&s;oeuer concer|neth the &s;ame. I &s;aid al&s;o that (if you coulde) you &s;houlde procure the perfecte picture of the &s;aide young man to be &s;ent hither, which your Lorde&s;hip may ea&s;ely doe con&s;idering the good nature where|with it hath plea&s;ed God to endue you: and &s;o you &s;houlde &s;ati&s;fie manie that are de&s;irous to knowe him. My cou&s;in <HI>Peter</HI> gaue mee warning that your Lord&s;hips creditors determined to mole&s;t my Lady your mother, purpo&s;ing to take away her goods for your debt. Al&s;o y^t he had writ|ten vnto her, to &s;ende &s;ome docket where|by to auoide this trouble, and &s;o inconti|nently I gaue my father notice, wi&s;hing him with all &s;peede to get forth two &s;ce|dules, which for this purpo&s;e, as al&s;o for preferring you before all the creditors of <HI>Peter Martinez</HI> of <HI>Arbalu,</HI> he had craued of his Maie&s;tie in your name: and that
<PB REF="31"> wee will procure to bee done, notwith|&s;tanding the king &s;eeketh to delay for a fewe dayes the ouerplus of &s;uche gratifi|cation as he oweth you. Whereupon, as al&s;o concerning other articles, pre&s;e~t|ly vppon tydinges of <HI>Orenges</HI> death I wrote a letter, the copie whereof I &s;ente to your Lord&s;hippe, and doe hope that you haue receaued it. For default wher|of I wil &s;e~d another, to y^e end you may &s;ee w^t what goodwil and &s;eruice I haue &amp; do employ my &s;elfe in your &s;eruice: not that I deale any whitt of my owne intere&s;t, but only of your Lord&s;hippe and of your hou&s;e, vntill I haue by Gods helpe brought and &s;et the~ cleare. I writ like|wi&s;e in my la&s;t, that becau&s;e it had been capitulated, I &s;ay, by woordes concluded with the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> that the billes of 80000. &s;houlde bee di&s;patched in my name, it were good for the accompli&s;h|ing thereof, that the &s;ayde In&s;truction which I require were &s;ent me, to y^e end I might worde by worde, accompli&s;h it ac|cording as your lord&s;hip &s;hould appoint.</P>
<P>And I &s;aide vnto <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> that it was requi&s;ite to haue <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> the
<PB REF="32"> order that <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> had ob&s;erued,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This writte~ in Cyphers.</NOTE> and hee <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> in the &s;ame, vntill wee vnder&s;toode howe they had taken <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> in the e&s;tates <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> and other parties: and I immediatly aduer|tized my father that it could not be, as ha|uing &s;hewed <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> the letter which <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> writte to him and to &s;undry other, the diuers copies di&s;agreeing, together with that which <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> writ to <HI>Peter Lopes,</HI> are di&s;per&s;ed in this court, but all might be excu&s;ed if there were any order taken.</P>
<P>Howebeit pre&s;uppo&s;e the afore&s;aide &s;o to bee, yet I writte to my father that if it plea&s;ed <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> to publi&s;he mee to haue been the partie that had giuen the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> I woulde with all my heart to do him &s;eruice do it: but I knowe not what re&s;olution they will take.</P>
<P>This I thought good to imparte vnto you, that you might vnder&s;tande it, There is a naughtie man in this Towne, who with exce&s;&s;iue libertie in my ab&s;ence, hath medled in your Lord|&s;hips affaires. E&s;pecially one day a|mong the re&s;t, in the pre&s;ence of Ladye
<PB REF="32"> <HI>Frauncis</HI> of <HI>Aratia</HI> who is heere, who al&s;o (as &s;hee is not troubled with the pippe) paide him home agayne pre&s;ently: in &s;uche wi&s;e, as they had gone together by the eares, had not one of the Kinges Secretaries wiues, in who&s;e pre&s;ence this argument begunne, &s;tepped betweene them. All was about Orenges death, &amp;c. And the &s;ame ho|ne&s;t man toulde a verye friende of myne but ye&s;terday, that hee knewe by &s;ome of credite, that <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> was in the di&s;grace of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> for certaine cau&s;es whiche there were not to bee &s;po|ken of, of him and his affayres: whiche when hee coulde not beare: he &s;ayde,</P>
<P>By the habitte of Saint <HI>Peter</HI> and S. <HI>Paule,</HI> if I coulde catche him, hee &s;houlde pay mee.</P>
<P>This likewi&s;e I thought good to cer|tifie your Lo. to the ende, If this bee a|mi&s;&s;e, wee might deale warily with this man. But if it bee otherwi&s;e, and wee may knowe that this wretche hath inuen|ted it, as he hath done other things, al&s;o that you be &s;ure, that neither by word nor
<PB REF="33"> writing you haue not &s;aide any thing a|gayn&s;t the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> then that you con&s;ider whether it were good that you writ one letter vnto him, al&s;o that y^e prince writ him another, to certifie him y^e you are his faithfull &s;eruaunt: and there|in your Lo. may &s;ay, that this hath bin publi&s;hed and giuen out, by rea&s;on of &s;ome di&s;plea&s;ure conceaued again&s;t <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> natiue of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> for that is the cau&s;e why I tell you this wretches name, and no other: for now it is no time to make enemies, e&s;pecially if heerein this man hath reported the trueth.</P>
<P>Sende me woorde whether you made any Bargaine with the Man&s;leyer: For this wretch here &s;aith, that he was a cut|lers &s;onne of <HI>Bilbao,</HI> and that hee will cau&s;e his father to repayre to the king, for the rewarde which his Maie&s;tie by his la&s;t edict offered to him that &s;houlde &s;tay <HI>Orenge.</HI> In ca&s;e he &s;hould haue au|dience, they might bring our pretence in que&s;tion. This is the cau&s;e why I &s;peak: but if your Lo. woulde pre&s;ently let me vnder&s;tand, who or of whence this young man was, wee woulde enter acquain|taunce
<PB REF="33"> with his father and mother, or his nighe&s;t kindred, and &s;o compounde with them that they &s;houlde not di&s;turbe or hinder your Lo. rewarde. And ad|mitte they can not haue it, yet will they &s;till trouble vs. For although the king woulde not doe as I &s;ay, yet might hee commaunde your Lord&s;hippe to giue the youngmans father, or neere&s;t kin&s;man, part of that belongeth to you. Your Lord|&s;hippe mu&s;t therefore well con&s;ider here|of: and &s;ende me worde of your minde, to the ende, by good coun&s;ayle, we may or|der this matter, which is of &s;o great im|portance.</P>
<P>By rea&s;on of the plea&s;ure that the reue|rent father <HI>Peter of Olaue</HI> hath done in helping me in &s;o fitte a time vnto 200. crownes, I tru&s;t God willing, this day &s;euennight to depart homeward toward my hou&s;e, where your wor&s;hippe may write to mee and commaunde mee. Al&s;o, if your habilitie coulde beare it, to helpe mee as I haue reque&s;ted, with 500. Duc|kets, toward y^e reparations of my hou&s;e, your wor&s;hippe might greatly binde me to your &s;eruice: but if you doe it not, I
<PB REF="34"> will impute it to your want.</P>
<P>Thus commending my &s;elfe to Sir <HI>Olaue,</HI> I wil ad no more, but that I &s;end this by meanes of the Lorde emba&s;&s;ador <HI>Iohn Babti&s;ta Ta&s;&s;us,</HI> whom I be&s;eeche carefully to &s;end it to Sir <HI>Olaue.</HI> I al|&s;o pray your wor&s;hip, to let me vnder&s;ta~d of your receipt hereof, who&s;e noble par|&s;on and e&s;tate, our Lorde God keepe and pre&s;erue as I de&s;ire.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this la&s;t of Apryll. 1582.</DATE></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To the noble L. Ia&s;per of Anna&s;tro, my L. &amp;c. at Turney.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE>NOble Lorde,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the gene+rall payma|&s;ter of the P. of Parma his armie.</NOTE> I haue receiued your letter, dated the 18. of Februarie. which notwith&s;tanding, it lay aboue two moneths by the way, yet came in &s;o good time, that together with y^e &s;upply of 200. crownes w^c you &s;ent me there w^t, I hope godwilling w^tin the&s;e 8. daies to go home to my hou&s;e, where God willing you &s;hal alwayes finde mee readye at your com|maunde,
<PB REF="34"> as al&s;o hereafter where euer I bee, euen to the death. And becau&s;e you haue, and &s;till do deale &s;o earne&s;tly in my affaires, notwith&s;ta~ding, you haue a&s;&s;ig|ned the&s;e 200. crownes, together with the other 300. vppon <HI>Hierome</HI> of <HI>Sala|manca,</HI> I will deliuer them to whom&s;oe|uer you &s;hall appoint as &s;peedily and di|ligently as rea&s;on requireth, for I will &s;lacke no longer then vntill the fir&s;t op|portunitie.</P>
<P>Concerning the e&s;tate of <HI>Arcauty</HI> his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. I a&s;&s;ure you (as peraduenture you haue hearde) although he lay at <HI>Paris</HI> vnder the name of his Maie&s;ties factor, yet had his highne&s;&s;e taken expre&s;&s;e order that no money &s;hould come to his hands: but be altogether deliuered to <HI>I&s;uard Ca|pello,</HI> and after to <HI>Elias</HI> and <HI>Simon Cal|uia,</HI> which was pre&s;ently perfourmed in &s;uch wi&s;e as <HI>Arcauty</HI> was not bounde to any accompt of mony by him receiued. But he tooke order in his great di&s;compt of 36300. crownes. whereof he had gi|ue~ bils of exchange vnto &s;uch marchants as he had dealt w^t, notwith&s;tanding, there came neuer a peny into his handes, as I
<PB REF="35"> &s;aid, but to <HI>Capello</HI> &amp; <HI>Caluia,</HI> w^t neuerthe|les was very indi&s;cretly done of his high|ne&s;&s;e in re&s;pect of <HI>Arcauty:</HI> for it was a very ab&s;urde matter, to deliuer letters of exchange for that money that neuer came to his handes, although it fell out well.</P>
<P>And if after giuing vp of that accompt, hee had gone home to his owne hou&s;e, as he purpo&s;ed when he came hither, he had not bin at that point that nowe he is at.</P>
<P>But he &s;tayed in this Court almo&s;t <HI>2.</HI> yeeres, onely to cleare him &s;elfe of the theft of <HI>28000.</HI> crownes, which he &s;aieth <HI>Alphon&s;e Curiel</HI> hath committed, from his Maie&s;tie, ari&s;ing of two Commi&s;|&s;ions of <HI>55000.</HI> crownes: for when hee had here receiued them out of the Cheft with thre keys, he di&s;bour&s;ed not there a|boue <HI>22000.</HI> So that when the factor, who is <HI>Curiels</HI> kin&s;man, or at the lea&s;te his very friende, came to be chiefe of the Coun&s;ell of acompts in Flaunders, he did &s;o informe him, as well by worde of mouth, as al&s;o by certayne the writinges of <HI>I&s;uarde Capell, Arcautyes</HI> enemie, that he made him beleeue, that <HI>Arcauty</HI> ought the &s;aide <HI>28000</HI> crownes, &s;o that
<PB REF="35"> thus w^tout farther a do, they haue brought him to that e&s;tate he is now in. But the receauer is &s;caped out of theyr hands, as he who gat the licenciat <HI>chumacero</HI> his maie&s;ties coun&s;ayler, who is the vi&s;iter of the coun&s;ell of <HI>Demaynes</HI> &amp; other the Kinge his officers to be the iudge of his cau&s;e: but when the factor and his com|mi&s;&s;ioners perceiued that all they went about, was &s;mally to the purpo&s;e, they woulde not directly charge the &s;ayd <HI>Ar|cauty,</HI> but did, and &s;till do greatly mole&s;t him. Howebeit, it is &s;ayde that <HI>Chuma|cero</HI> will &s;oone ende this matter, and that the affection of the&s;e Iudges will &s;oone be &s;pied. Of whom the one is <HI>Al|fons Carner,</HI> who hath playde him the wor&s;t tricke of frind&s;hippe that any man coulde: as if him &s;elfe had liued <HI>&s;ine cri|mine.</HI> In this e&s;tate doe the receiuers affayres now &s;tande.</P>
<P>Where you de&s;ire to knowe whether bringing in&s;tructions from the generall receiuers, hee might bouldly come to giue vp his accomptes: I &s;ay he may, &s;o that the &s;aide in&s;tructions bee effectuall: al&s;o that there bee &s;et downe both the re|cepts
<PB REF="36"> and di&s;bour&s;ings of the mony. By this meanes, together with bringing mo|ney for your expences, you may ea&s;ely &s;toppe that gappe: for the King alloweth neyther wages nor any other thing vnto the Lo. of <HI>Vnceta,</HI> who &s;tayeth here about giuing vppe of <HI>Lexaldi</HI> the receiuers ac|compts and his owne, yea it is &s;aide he will not giue him &s;o much as a loafe of breade. I am therefore of opinion, that if you coulde get your accompt to be pa&s;|&s;ed there, you &s;hould &s;aue much, both mo|ney and labour: but if not, bee of good cheare, for by the meanes afore&s;ayde you &s;hall giue the phi&s;ition a figge. Father, &s;o &s;oone as God will giue mee leaue to gette to <HI>Victoria,</HI> I will immediatly &s;ende you your predece&s;&s;ors relation, as curious and braue as you coulde wi&s;he, for vntill then I can not for the cau&s;es that aforetime I haue &s;hewed you. I am very glad of that you write concerning <HI>Bernarde</HI> of <HI>I&s;unca,</HI> as al&s;o the La. Ma|ry his &s;i&s;ter will be, to whom I haue &s;ent the copie of your letter: for &s;hee loueth him deerely. God giue him that I wi&s;he him.</P>
<PB REF="36">
<P>At his comming, I pray you &s;alute him from me, and will him to doe that he toulde me. Al&s;o that Lady Mary and her &s;onne were in good health the <HI>20.</HI> of this pre&s;ent. I heare &s;o much of the child, that notwith&s;tanding euery man affirmeth it, yet I can not beleeue it. God pre&s;erue him to his &s;eruice. Amen. The proui+der the <HI>23.</HI> of this moneth, was in &s;uche health as my &s;elfe &s;tande in neede of, and laboureth &s;till to re&s;igne his office vnto me: but he ca~not compa&s;&s;e it. He wil god|willing, tarry &s;till at home: &s;ome &s;ay his Maie&s;tie will &s;ende him into the Lowe Countreys with the &s;ouldiers that &s;hall goe thither, to be their generall commi&s;|&s;arie: but I knowe he will not take it vp|on him, vnle&s;&s;e he helpe me to the other: al&s;o that in ca&s;e I haue it, hee will not re|fu&s;e any thing. But make not me author hereof. In the &s;ayde letters of the <HI>23.</HI> it is &s;ayde, that his Maie&s;tie departed the <HI>19.</HI> out of <HI>Lisbone,</HI> to meete his &s;i&s;ter the Empre&s;&s;e. Al&s;o that hee returneth the tenth of May, wholy to receiue her.</P>
<P>Al&s;o that the great Prior is in the fielde,
<PB REF="37"> with whome there &s;hall ioyne <HI>8000. Ca|&s;tilian</HI> &s;ouldiers, <HI>4000. Almaynes,</HI> and <HI>800.</HI> Hor&s;es of the garde of <HI>Ca&s;tile,</HI> and that with that campe hee &s;hall goe to vi|&s;ite all the houldes and countreys bee|tweene <HI>Oporto</HI> and <HI>Bayon</HI> in <HI>Callice.</HI></P>
<P>The cau&s;e is &s;ayde to bee for that <HI>Don Anthony</HI> is in Fraunce, furni&s;hing him &s;elfe to come vpon vs, but I can not thinke that. But his Maie&s;tie will &s;toppe him, and &s;o hee may make a fayre hande with the&s;e people. If hee were heere, though it &s;eeme vnpo&s;&s;ible, yet manye woulde be very glad. From <HI>Guipu&s;coa</HI> there came to him <HI>18.</HI> &s;hippes gallantly furni&s;hed with aboue <HI>1500.</HI> Marriners, I wot not what to &s;ay of it: and althogh here were a voice of late that when the Empre&s;&s;e was comen into Portingale his maie&s;ty would goe to <HI>Ca&s;tile,</HI> yee now is there no more &s;peache: where|upon wee may gather that vntil he &s;eeth the end of this frenche dealing, hee will not out of this realme. It is &s;aid that within the&s;e few dayes the great Chap|leyne of Portingall was in hande with him in the behalfe of the Realme. And
<PB REF="37"> hat although his Maie&s;tie did them great honor in bringing his &s;i&s;ter to go|uerne them, yet &s;hould they greatly com|playne of his departure, &s;ithe nowe he knewe both the e&s;tate, qualitie and go|uernours of the kingdome. But the K. vnder&s;tanding whereat the Chapleyne leueled, made him this an&s;were. My &s;i&s;ter knowing mee to haue heere &s;o great af|fayres, woulde not but come to &s;ee mee.</P>
<P>Thus the Chapleyn could not vnder|&s;tande his purpo&s;e: &s;o great is his Ma|ie&s;ties di&s;cretion.</P>
<P>A while &s;ince, one <HI>Antony Guttierez,</HI> heyre to <HI>6000.</HI> crownes rente in this towne, was &s;layne by night, and there|fore a neere kin&s;man of the <HI>Admirall</HI> of <HI>Leon,</HI> was caryed to pri&s;on. They fet him out of the Church, and the prouo&s;tes of the court (comming hither) apprehended him, whether by right or wrong, and tor|mented him brauely, euen to the vnknit|ting of his ioyntes: which the <HI>Admirall</HI> is grieued at, and complayneth of the of|ficers of Iu&s;tice, in that the Gentleman being his kin&s;man and of &s;uche calling, they had racked him, and therefore v&s;ed
<PB REF="38"> great woordes agayn&s;t the pre&s;ident of <HI>Ca&s;tille:</HI> wherevpon his Maie&s;tie com|maunded to take him pri&s;oner, &s;o as he is pri&s;oner in his owne hou&s;e, and his elde&s;t &s;onne, the Earle of <HI>Melgar</HI> is caried to pri&s;on to <HI>Alameda,</HI> in the countie of <HI>Va|raias,</HI> becau&s;e (as the &s;peech goeth) hee is thought author of this murder.</P>
<P>The <HI>Marquize</HI> of <HI>Pennafiell,</HI> heire to the Duke of <HI>O&s;&s;una Viceroy</HI> of <HI>Naples,</HI> comming hither a while &s;ince with a wo|man, who was &s;aide to be his louer, they haue taken away the woman, &amp; commit|ted him as pri&s;oner to his owne hou&s;e.</P>
<P>Thus the&s;e three Lords remayne in the &s;tate of meane Gentlemen. Al&s;o by rea&s;o~ of &s;ome folly committed in the Mona&s;te|rie of the <HI>Dechau&s;&s;es,</HI> whiche is in this towne, about the holy weeke &s;hall bee a twelue moneth. The Earle of <HI>Ca&s;tanne|da, Don Lewes</HI> of <HI>Cordoua,</HI> who ought to be the Duke of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> and <HI>Marquize</HI> of <HI>Comarez: Don Anthony Manricqz</HI> &s;onne of <HI>Don Iohn Manricqz: Don Pe|ter Vanegas</HI> and others, are bani&s;hed the court. <HI>Don Henry Mendoza,</HI> brother to the <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>Infantado</HI> is likewi&s;e bani|&s;hed
<PB REF="38"> for another trifle: be&s;ides for the for|mer matter of the <HI>Dechau&s;&s;es,</HI> the prince of <HI>A&s;coli</HI> was almo&s;t a whole yere in ex|ile. Thus may you &s;ee what K. <HI>Philip</HI> can do, euen in his ab&s;ence. God pre&s;erue him. I haue no &s;ati&s;faction in that which perticularly toucheth <HI>Anna&s;tro</HI> for his a&s;&s;uraunce, only that you keepe him there with you. Which God graunt it be &s;o. Who pre&s;erue you in &s;uch &s;tate as I doe de&s;ire.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this la&s;t of Apryl. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Noble Lo. B. L. M. A. V. M. Your &s;eruaunt. <HI>I&s;unca.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was. </HEAD>
<P> To the noble L. Peter of Olaue, my ve|ry good L. High tre&s;orer of the hap|pie armie, which the Catholike Ma|ie&s;tie maintayneth in his e&s;tate of Flaunders. &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>At Turnay.</HI></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="39">
<HEAD>&para; Letters of Frauncis <HI>Guillam.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t noble L. &s;ith the copie of my former writing vnto you is here|vnto adioyned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">To y^e prince of Parma.</NOTE> I will certifie you onely of what haue &s;ince happened me. The Abbot of Saint <HI>Va&s;tz</HI> arriuing here the 16. of this pre&s;ent, did deliuer mee that which your highne&s;&s;e writte mee the <HI>27.</HI> of Februarie. Al&s;o whiles very earne&s;tly wee wayted for newes from your high|ne&s;&s;e, there arriued ye&s;terday a po&s;t here, by whom I receiued the letters which it plea&s;ed you to &s;ende the <HI>16.</HI> of this mo|neth, whereunto I will make a &s;hort an|&s;were, becau&s;e the po&s;te of <HI>Italy</HI> by whom I alwayes write, is this day to be di&s;pat|ched. <HI>Cardinall Granuelle</HI> entertay|ned the &s;ayde Abbot at his hou&s;e: where|in I a&s;&s;i&s;ted him vntill hee departed to|warde his Maie&s;tie, whiche was the <HI>20.</HI> of this moneth. I &s;hewed him what your highne&s;&s;e writte vnto mee: al&s;o howe he &s;houlde behaue him &s;elfe: wherein I will not there fayle him. I de&s;ired him to let me vnder&s;tand if there were any thing
<PB REF="39"> wherein I might do him any plea&s;ure. I writ al&s;o to <HI>D. Iohn</HI> of <HI>Idiaxz</HI> how eare|ne&s;tly he had trauayled to bring y^e e&s;tates to this re&s;olutio~ y^t they haue taken. Al&s;o that it were good y^t his maie&s;tie lett him vnder&s;tand that your highnes informed him of the whole, with what &s;o euer els I thought meete. Concerning the re|turne of the &s;ouldiers that are departed out of the&s;e e&s;tates, al&s;o of the <HI>Italians</HI> that are to goe with them, I can &s;ay no|thing: onely I was glad to vnder&s;tand that his Maie&s;tie hath nominated &s;uche Captaynes ouer them to guide them, as your highne&s;&s;e doeth &s;o well like of, and as is meete for his Royall &s;eruice, and I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe, hee will &s;o deale in your highne&s;&s;e behalfe, by rea&s;on of the great loue he beareth you.</P>
<P>That which now me &s;eemeth the be&s;t, is the furniture of coyne, and &s;urely if I coulde doe anye more then put him in minde thereof, your highne&s;&s;e &s;hould not de&s;ire it more. But I haue done that, and doe it &s;till, yea and dayly will vpon euery opportunitie, con&s;idering howe euident it is, that your highne&s;&s;e can doe nothing
<PB REF="40"> without that &s;ub&s;taunce. Vpon which occa&s;ion, together with that I &s;ayde be|fore, <HI>Maldonado</HI> &s;hall come and &s;erue your highne&s;&s;e. <HI>Don Iohn</HI> of <HI>Idiacq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> hath an&s;wered my letters, the copy wher|of I haue &s;ent herevnto adioyned. I haue put both of them in minde, and will ad|uerti&s;e your highnes of their re&s;olution. The Cardinall &s;hewed mee howe de&s;i|rous hee was of this re&s;olution: Al&s;o howe often hee had propounded it, wil|ling mee to doe the like. I &s;uppo&s;e that the ordinarie proui&s;ion that is to bee made, dependeth vndoubtedly vpon the pre&s;ident of the Tre&s;urie: for I haue tal|ked with him, and he maketh mee no an|&s;were to the purpo&s;e. But &s;ith this is ordered by the way of e&s;tate, it is no mar|uell.</P>
<P>Of <HI>Madams</HI> health and recouerie, all wee your highnes &s;eruauntes are ve|rye glad, and rea&s;on. The contrarye whereof we doe feele, in that the French haue opportunitie to try that they do, and to bring all into triall, but I hope in God that in the ende, by meanes of &s;uch order and foreca&s;t as your highne&s;&s;e will in all
<PB REF="40"> places v&s;e, they &s;hall reape no fruite of their purpo&s;es.</P>
<P>We haue of late dayes greatly wi&s;h|ed for letters from your highne&s;&s;e, to re|&s;olue the doubt conceiued of the death of <HI>Orenge,</HI> the newes being here &s;o diuers, as well from <HI>Paris</HI> as <HI>Antwerpe.</HI> All wi&s;e men thinke him dead, and &s;o we are to beleeue, although it be &s;trange, y^t your highne&s;&s;e cannot fully verifie it. There came newes from <HI>Lisbone</HI> that hee was in extremities, and here it was &s;ayde that he was dead: But his fautors had concea|led it a fewe dayes, whyle they tooke or|der in their owne affayres.</P>
<P>I will write vnto <HI>Vela&s;ques</HI> of <HI>Mina|ya,</HI> who is of his Maie&s;ties chamber, con|cerning the good you haue done him, and doe &s;till wi&s;he to doe, neyther can it bee but many will like well of it, that your highnes are &s;o willing to fauour &amp; plea|&s;ure his Maie&s;ties &s;eruauntes, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are &s;o neere his royall per&s;on.</P>
<P>I doe infinitely thanke your highnes for the plea&s;ure it plea&s;ed your highne&s;&s;e to &s;hewe mee, in thanking his Maie&s;tie, and honouring his &s;eruantes. The great
<PB REF="41"> good will you beare mee, together with what&s;oeuer I am or may bee, I will con|fe&s;&s;e to depende of hour highnes, and will wholy employ my &s;elf, euen to the death, in your &s;eruice. I hope by your fauou|rable a&s;&s;i&s;taunce at all times, I &s;hall bee able to doe it, and I pray God I may re|quite it.</P>
<P>The liberty and commoditie that your highne&s;&s;e haue giuen mee to di&s;tribute a|mong &s;undry per&s;ons, to the yeerely va|lue of two or three hundred crownes, as my &s;elfe &s;hall thinke good, was verye comformable to your highne&s;&s;e mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> noble &s;eruice. I thanke you for this fa|uour, and will beware of exceeding far|ther then neede &s;hall require: and all that I may re&s;erue in this expence I wil, as one that herein doe not pretende to a|ny other then your highne&s;&s;e &s;eruice.</P>
<P>Certaynely it &s;hall bee to make demon|&s;tratio~ of that which your highnes meant to haue done with <HI>Foncq, Lallo,</HI> and <HI>Se|ba&s;tian</HI> of <HI>Santoyo.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>Francis</HI> of <HI>Humaras</HI> behalfe I wil v&s;e all dilige~ce, as your highnes haue commaunded, towarde tho&s;e officers that
<PB REF="41"> receiue letters in his commendation. Truely hee de&s;erueth all the fauour that you &s;hewe him, and it were meet his Ma|ie&s;tie &s;hould re&s;olue vpon that he preten|deth. Hee is heere, and hauing &s;hewed him your highnes de&s;ire to do him good, al&s;o that you wi&s;hed his &s;eruice, to the rude, in the campe as al&s;o in all other oc|ca&s;ions, to haue the better opportunitie to gratifie him, hee is fully re&s;olued to come and &s;erue your highne&s;&s;e, for he ta|keth him &s;elfe as earne&s;t a &s;eruaunte to your highnes as any other, and not re|&s;pecting any pretences or benefites that heere hee might reape, and a&s;&s;uring him &s;elf of &s;uch fauour, as your highnes haue and will &s;hewe him: hee mindeth to take order to depart with the fir&s;t Gallies. He had neede leaue &s;ome proui&s;ion of money with his mother, but for that, and any o|ther thing needefull for his iourney, hee will &s;eeke the be&s;t remedy hee may. It may plea&s;e your highnes to write to <HI>don Sanctius</HI> of <HI>Padilla,</HI> &s;o to accomodate him thitherward, that he may pa&s;&s;e with tho&s;e that &s;hall &s;et fir&s;t forwarde: al&s;o to whom|&s;oeuer &s;hall haue charge of him, to v&s;e
<PB REF="42"> him as your highne&s;&s;e &s;eruaunt, and ac|cording to his profe&s;&s;ion: for his good|will to &s;erue your highne&s;&s;e doeth de|&s;erue it.</P>
<P>I heare that <HI>Don Bernardino</HI> of <HI>Mendoza</HI> who is in England, hath writ|ten to his Maie&s;tie, and complaineth that your highne&s;&s;e doe keepe no corre&s;pon|dence with him, as that &s;ince Augu&s;t la&s;t, when you writ of the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of <HI>Turnay,</HI> he hath not had any letters fro~ you, not|with&s;tanding hee hath &s;ente you &s;undrye po&s;tes. I graunt many are lo&s;t, neuer|thele&s;&s;e among &s;o many &s;ome &s;houlde come &s;afe. I thought good to certifie your highnes hereof, becau&s;e many think it &s;trange there &s;hould bee &s;o &s;mall fami|liaritie. Our Lord pre&s;erue your high|ne&s;&s;e noble per&s;on, with the encrea&s;e of long life, and &s;uch honor as all your &s;er|uaunts do de&s;ire and &s;tand in neede of.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Madrill</HI> <DATE>this <HI>30.</HI> of Apryll. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Mo&s;t noble Lorde, your higne&s;&s;e
<PB REF="42"> humble &s;eruaunte who &s;aluteth you. <HI>Frauncis Guillamas.</HI></HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> To the mo&s;t noble Lorde, the prince of Parma. &amp;c. my verye good Lorde.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letters">
<HEAD><HI>The&s;e two letters en&s;uing,</HI> which were &s;ent from the Ile of <HI>Tercera, being come to our handes,</HI> wee woulde not defraude the reader thereof.</HEAD>
<HEADNOTE>
<P>The copie of the letters which the K. of Ca&s;tile writ vnto Ciprian of Figuei|redo Va&s;concellos, by Ia&s;per Ho|mem, who came to the towne of Praya the 7. of March. 1582.</P>
</HEADNOTE>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>D. Cyprian</HI> of <HI>Figueiredo,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> I the K. doe &s;alute you, &s;tedfa&s;tly beleeuing that you will perfourme what euer you are bounde vnto for my &s;eruice, and the
<PB REF="43"> benefite of this Ile, as al&s;o of any thing perticularly touching your &s;elfe, I thought good to commende vnto you that tru&s;t which I repo&s;e in you, al&s;o to write vnto you, that behauing your &s;elfe, (as I will beleeue you will) I will not onely forgiue all former offences, but al|&s;o &s;hall be glad to recompence the &s;eruice that herein I hope for of you, to the ende, the great domage of this Ile, and the in|habitauntes thereof, proceeding of &s;uche preparatiues of &s;ouldiers, &s;hippes, and munition as I haue commaunded to prouide, as the bringer of this my letter may more at large declare vnto you, may be &s;tayed and excu&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Written at <HI>Lisbone</HI> <DATE>the <HI>14.</HI> of De|cember. <HI>1582.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>The King.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P> By the king. To D. Cyprian of Fignei|redo.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
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<PB REF="43">
<P>THis letter together with another from <HI>Don Chi&s;topher</HI> of <HI>Moura,</HI> and two from <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> of <HI>Aguiar,</HI> go|uernour of the Ile of S. <HI>Michel</HI> for <HI>Ca|&s;tille,</HI> and one from <HI>Don Peter,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ca&s;tille,</HI> the &s;aide <HI>Cyprian</HI> of <HI>Figueiredo</HI> woulde not open, but &s;ent them from the Towne of <HI>Praya</HI> with others to <HI>Don Michel de Silua,</HI> Earle of <HI>Torres Vedras</HI> to the Citie of <HI>Angera,</HI> who like|wi&s;e woulde not open them: and there|vpon the &s;ayde <HI>Cyprian</HI> of <HI>Figueiredo,</HI> referred them to the earle, who at his in|&s;taunce, they both being together, did finally breake them vp: and then hee de&s;i|red him, to &s;end them to the kings Maie|&s;tie. <HI>Don Antonio.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The an&s;were to the former letter which Ciprian of Figueiredo Va&s;concellos, gouernor of the Iles to the v&s;e of K. Don Anthony &s;ent, to the K. of Ca|&s;tille, which the Earle of Torres Ve|dras &s;ealed, when he had peru&s;ed the~ and &s;o &s;ent them by the way of Saint Michels Ile.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>I</HI> Haue peru&s;ed your Maie&s;ties letter which you &s;ent mee by <HI>Ia&s;per Home~:</HI> wherein you &s;ay you cannot but think that I will fulfill what euer I am bound vnto for your &s;eruice, the benefite of this Ile, and perticularly for mine owne per|&s;on: woulde to God your maie&s;tie knew howe greatly your &s;elfe are bound to the mo&s;t noble Infant <HI>Don Lewes,</HI> who with his &s;ubiectes, alwaies a&s;&s;i&s;ted your father the <HI>Emperoure</HI> in his warres, the~ would you not attempte any thing agayn&s;t the Crowne of <HI>Portingall,</HI> to the preiudice of his &s;onne king <HI>Anthony,</HI> &amp; &s;o grieuou&s;ly offende our L. God, in the de&s;truction of our honor, life, &amp; goodes, which you haue procured: neyther woulde I, or any the re&s;t of the <HI>Portingales,</HI> his true &s;ubiects, refu&s;e to &s;erue you as a Chri&s;tian King, and &s;uch a one as the <HI>Portingales</HI> nation haue euer borne great goodwil vnto. For as well in re&s;pect of the &s;ayde duetie, as al&s;o by rea&s;on of your kindred with the K. of <HI>Portingall,</HI> it becommeth not you to de&s;ire that I &s;hould &s;erue you as your va&s;&s;all, neyther will my duety beare that I &s;houlde &s;erue you as your &s;ubiect.</P>
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<P>This Ile together with the inhabi|tauntes thereof belong to king <HI>Antho|ny,</HI> to whome they are &s;worne as to their king and naturall Lord, and that as well in his right of &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, and free election of the people of this kngdome, as al&s;o for that the citie &amp; chamber of <HI>Lisbone</HI> writt downe certayne rea&s;ons, together with his right thereto, which I cannot thinke but your Maie&s;tie haue notice of.</P>
<P>Farther, although there were no other cau&s;e but y^e only electio~ of y^e people of this Realme, who for default of kings, are by their decrees and ordinances to chu&s;e o|thers: yet was it inough, that your Maie|&s;tie entred the lande with an armie, the controuer&s;ie not being decided: for had your title bin neuer &s;o good, yet had you thereby vtterly lo&s;t it. But I tru&s;t in god the whole will returne to &s;uch pa&s;&s;e, as your Maie&s;tie for the enioying thereof, will not damne your own &s;oule, but that it will in the ende fall agayne into the right Lords dominion, notwith&s;tanding, he be now di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed thereof. Your Ma|ie&s;tie mu&s;t not think me pa&s;t &s;hame, but a man damnified. And I would to GOD
<PB REF="45"> that all kings had in their coun&s;els free men, deuoyde of ambition, &s;o &s;houlde not our R. <HI>Don Anthony,</HI> haue fallen into that e&s;tate, whereto great trea&s;ons haue ca&s;t him headlong, neither your Maie&s;tie into the great danger of the lo&s;&s;e of your &s;elfe, and &s;ubuer&s;ion of all Chri&s;tiandom: be&s;ides, if you be at the day of iudgement to giue accompt of the honors, deathes, &amp; pillages of &s;o many men, and of their li|bertie, you can not &s;ufficiently repent &amp; make amendes for that is already pa&s;&s;ed. If your maie&s;tie woulde but thinke vpon y^e houre of your death, together with the euils that then will offer them &s;elues to your view, and remember that you are e|uerla&s;tingly to &s;uffer the paynes whiche you haue inflicted vpon the <HI>Portingalls</HI> perceiuing then howe neere the lo&s;&s;e of all is vnto you; Oh! howe woulde you turne a&s;ide from all that is pa&s;t: for at y^t time it will bee before your eyes. Howe much better had it bin for you, quietly to haue remained in your own realme, to &s;ee your va&s;&s;als in peace, your &s;elfe beloued of all Chri&s;tians, and obeyed of all your &s;ubiectes! for in re&s;pect of that you haue
<PB REF="45"> done in <HI>Portingall,</HI> not onely all Chri&s;ti|an kings and princes, but al&s;o the very barbarous nations do mortally hate you.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider howe many Innocents you haue w^t your weapons murdered: thinke vpo~ the raui&s;hments of &s;o many widows and maydes, bournings and lamentati|ons, as do cry to God for vengeaunce agin&s;t you. Remember how many wiues ar e &s;eparated from ther hu&s;bands through forced adulteries: how many Churches are profaned, and religion di&s;|honored: al&s;o into what &s;lauerie you haue reduced the inhabitants of <HI>Portingal,</HI> for that of all this, and of more which you haue cau&s;ed, you &s;hall giue accompt be|fore God, who will call you thereto with rigorous iu&s;tice, as that the whole hath been perpetrated in a realme which God hath loued aboue all others in the world. That which the inhabita~ts of this afflic|ted realme doe endure, is &s;ufficient to let you know, that they which are out of this bondage and heauie yoke, do couet rather freely to dye in the warres, then to fall in|to &s;uch &s;lauery: neither will I otherwi&s;e coun&s;ell the inhabitants of this Ile, lea&s;t
<PB REF="46"> I &s;houlde both damne my &s;oule, and my honor &s;hould fall into le&s;&s;e reputation the~ nowe it is in. For thereof I make &s;uche accoumpt, as I had rather lo&s;e all liues that it were po&s;&s;ible to enioy, then not to continue loyall to any king to whome I am &s;worne. For to die well is perpetuall honor, for the pre&s;eruation wherof, I had rather per&s;euer in loyalty, then feare the preparatiues of people, &s;hippes, and mu|nition, wherewith your Maie&s;tie doeth threaten me: for I haue &s;uch a confidence in God, that hee will fight for vs &amp; our &s;hips. The &s;ea &amp; hauens of this Ilande, together with the foretre&s;&s;es, walles, and trenches are ready for the munition: yea, and many pittes opened, whereinto to ca&s;t tho&s;e people y^t &s;hall come to &s;eeke vs, who are not to haue any pardon, by rea|&s;on of &s;uch mi&s;chiefe as proceedeth of for|giuing them. Your Maie&s;tie are not to blame me: for I haue &s;worne to R. <HI>Anto|ny</HI> to defende this crowne for my K. and L. And the like I woulde haue done for for you, in ca&s;e I had been &s;worne there|to, though not with &s;o good a will. For it is enough that he is king of <HI>Portingall.</HI></P>
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<P>But if I &s;houlde through mi&s;happe fal aliue into your bondage, &amp; for doing my duty, you &s;hould put me to death, neither the remembrance of my loyalty, neither the fame of your crueltie and vniu&s;tice would euer peri&s;h. I &s;erue not <HI>Don An|thony</HI> for any benefite, notwith&s;tanding, I may obtayne more of him then of any other K. But my loyalty con&s;i&s;teth in ful|filling my duety, which cau&s;eth that &s;uch rewardes as by other then the K. of <HI>Por|tingall</HI> are promi&s;ed, can no whit mooue mee. For beyond my duety, there is no|thing that can change my honor and loy|tie, which I do more e&s;teeme then all the kingdomes in the worlde, whiche is the &s;ame that enuegleth manie Gentlemen.</P>
<P>Our Lorde God guide your Maie&s;tie to your kingdome, and re&s;tore <HI>Portin|gall</HI> to her right king and lord <HI>Don An|thony,</HI> as all true and loyall Portingals doe wi&s;he.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>From this noble Citie of <HI>Angera,</HI> in Ie&s;us Chri&s;tes. <HI>Ile of Tercera.</HI></SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The &s;uper&s;cription was.</HEAD>
<P><HI>To the K. of Ca&s;tille from the gouer|nour of the A&s;&s;orian Iles.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Imprinted at London</HI> at the three Cranes in the <HI>Vintree, by Thomas Daw|&s;on,</HI> for Thomas Charde.</P>
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