Duke of Chastillherault over all They raise Forces against the Regent are Routed 139. A Couragious Answer from Queen Elizabeth to the French Ambassadour and the Audience adjourned 140. She sends a Ring to Marshal Montmorancy his wife 141. The Bishop of Rhemes Ambassador from France is offended that the doctrine of Rome is said to be contrary to Christs deducing consequently that his Mr. should be reputed no Christian and how that Speech was salved The Cardinal Chastillons Wife comes over 141 142. The Reason of the Cardinals coming into England Ships sent by the Queen to preserve the Bourdeaux Fleet. The Queen of Scots Case not defensible and the Consequence thereof 144. Matters about the Queen of Scots Chastillion highly commended 144 145. The Cause of the Queen of Scots to be heard here 146. Passages touching the differences between the King and the Prince of Conde Pag. 147. Matters against the Queen of Scots very bad 148. Sir Henry Norris claims the Lord Dacres Lands 149. Three manner of wayes proposed for ending the Scottish differences 150. Spanish Treasure stayed ibid. 151 156. The Parliament of Scotland declares the Queen of Scots privy to the murder of her Husband 152. D'Assonvill comes over Without Commission and desires Conference with the Spanish Ambassadour but denied 153. Hawkins his Return to Mounts Bay from the Indies with Treasure The Queen of Scots at Tetbury under the charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury 153. The French Ambassadors Currier searched and the Reason of it 154. The Prince of Conde slain in Battel against the King 157. The 13th of March had two great Effects 158. Differences in Scotland accorded 159. But not observed 160. Sir William Cecil laments the misfortune of France means made to accord with the Low Countries Scottish Nobility reconciled 61. Original Letters intercepted by persons of credit in the FrenchCourt of advertisement concerning the Queen of Scots and the Duke of Anjou Pag. 161. That the said Queen should transfer her title on the said Duke to learn more truth hereof and advertise with speed The Queens Ships far excel others 162. The Queen of Scots excuseth her Transaction with the Duke of Anjou 163 164. A Rebellion in the West-part of Ireland and the Spaniards aid feared 164. My Lord of Shrewsbury strucken with a Palsie and a Phrensie 165. The Parisians execute two Merchants whom the King had pardon'd The English Ambassador taxed for dealing with the Kings Rebels 166. The Earl of Desmond's great Rebellion in Ireland but dispersed 167 168. An Italian sent hither upon a Devilish attempt An Insurrection in Suffolk Queen Elizabeth desires to be rid of the Queen of Scots 169. The Queen offended at the Duke of Norfolk about his Marriage Sir William Cecil his good Friend therein my Lords of Arundel and Pembroke confined to their Lodgings about it and so is the Lord Lumley My Lord of Huntington joined with the Earl of Shrewsbury in the custody of the Scots Queen 172. The King of Spains designs with the Irish. Pag. 173. The grand Rebellion in the North and the pretences thereof and their numbers and names 174 175. A Report of the death of the Count Nassau the Northern Rebellion scattered and their Ring-leaders fled 176. Extracts of Letters out of the north The two Rebellious Earls in Liddesdale but flee from thence The Countess of Northumberland and her attendants robbed in Scotland The Earls flee with about 50. horse Westmerland changeth his coat of plate sword and travails like a Scottish borderer many others taken 177 178 The Regent of Scotland takes the Earl of Northumberland and others The Lord Fernhurst and Bucklugh aiders of them p. 178 The Murther of the Regent of Scotland at Lithgo by Hambleton of Bothwell Hall The Earl of Sussex his wise and noble carriage The Hambletons strongly suspected for the murder and why 179 180 The French Embassador makes 3 demands of the Queen in behalf of the Queen of Scots p. 181 Sir William Cecil names to the Queen Mr. Francis Walsingham and Mr. Henry Killigrew to succeed Sir Henry Norris in France p. 182 The Earl of Sussex goes again into Scotland The Bishop of Ross writes a Book in defence of the Queen of Scots and dangerous against Queen Elizabeth Pag. 183. The Earls of Worcester and Huntington made Knights of the Order p. 184 The Earl of Sussex and the Lord Hunsdon enter Scotland with fire and sword 50. Castles and 300 Villages burnt p. 184 185 The Lord Scroop Warden of the West Marshes makes great devastation in Scotland The Castle of Hume surrendred to the Lords of Sussex and Hunsdon and well fortified for the Queens service A great part of the Scotish borderers obediently adhere to their King and offer dependance upon the Queens Majesty The contrary part act rebelliously A great meeting of Lords on both sides at Edenburgh in Armes to try who shall have the authority p. 186 187 Simon Musgrage General of the horse routs the Lord Maxell is in some distress by him but is relieved by the Lord Scroop 's forces and the Maxwels and several other Lords escaped by flight Drumlangricks servants and tenants although pretended favorers of the King and Queen cruel to the English Dumfriese a Receptacle of English Rebels p. 187 188 The Queen of Scots desires cessation of Armes the Bishop of Ross plots against the Queen p. 189 Sir Henry Norris to be revoked and Mr. Walsingham to go in his place ibid. The Marshal of Berwick betray'd by the Bishop of St. Andrews and other Lords who under colour and treaty with him intended to have slain him he destroys the Hambletons Castles and houses Pag. 190. The Earl of Southampton for complyance with the Bishop of Ross is committed close prisoner to the Sheriff of London The fond Lord Morley withdraws to Lovain p. 191 The French King mediates for the Queen of Scots the Queen keeps some Castles in Scotland until her subjects of England should have satisfaction p. 191 192 Sir William Cecil and Sir Walter Mildmay are sent Commissioners to the Scotch Queen and they like not the message The Lord Coke to King James touching tryal of Duels out of England occasioned by putting to death of Doubty beyond the Seas by Sir Francis Drake that crime tryable only before the Constable and Marshal of England p. 193 194 H. THe History of the Reign of King Henry the 8th King Edward the 6th Queen Mary and part of Queen Eliz. p. 194 195 I. Exquisitely begun but left imprfect Two Copies of Letters from King James to the Lords touching abatement of his houshold charge and the means of redresse p. 198 199 From the King to the Lord Bacon in commendation of his book caled the Organon To Sir Thomas Coventry Atturney General commanding him to prepare a pardon of the whole sentence pronounc'd against my Lord Bacon p. 200 201 S. SIr Philip Sidney to the Queen diswading her from her marriage with Mounsieur most elegantly and judiciously penned p. 201 202 203 A most quaint Speech made by the Lord Bacon then Sollicitor General at the arraignment of the Lord Sanquir as well in extenuation as aggravation of the murder of Turner 209 210 c. The Countess of Shrewsburies Case touching the Marriage of the Lady Arabella and her refusal to be examined therein 212 213. T. SIR Nicholas Throckmorton Ambassador in France to Q. Elizabeth touching a free passage for the Q of Scots through England into Scotland several Politick Reasons urged on both sides between him the Queen of Scots and the Queen-Mother of France 214 215 216 c. FINIS ERRATA PAge 72. line 16. for bnt read but. p. 89. l. 22. for Twilknam r. Twitnam p. 97 l. 3. for fortunas suas r. fortunae suae p. 116. l. 3. for Moleneux r. Molineux p. 120. in fine for name r. named p. 130. l. 9. for what r. with and l. 7. for not r. now p. 137. l. 12. for to r. to be p 165. l. 6. for there r. here p. 173. l. 9. or 10. for over r. fromus p. 182. l. 14. for inferrior r. inferior p. 208. l. 18. for Holladour r. Hollander and in the same line for le r. he p. 211. l. 21. for Luedia r. Suedia p. 224. l. 26. for Abeville r. Abbeville 27 E. 3. Cap. 1. 4 H. 4. Cap. 23. These that follow are but indigested Notes Entertainment above ordinary To know the cause thereof Her Majestie much mislikes of the Prince of Conde and Thadnur Lords of France The Lords of the Council do all they can to cover the same Her Majesty being a Prince her self is doubtful to give comfort to subjects Our Ambassador to comfort them nevertheless as occasion serves Expectation of the Queens marrying with the Archduke Charles In Scotland all quiet the Scotish Queen still in Loughlevin and in health Murray ruleth quietly as Regent Original lettere intercepted by persons of credit in the French ourt of Advertisement concerning the Q of Scots and Duke of Anjou That the said Scotish Queen should transfer her Title on the said Duke To learn more truth hereof and advertise with speed This precisely denyed by the other side To send a trusty person to Marcells 19. Febr. 1616. Note before this Statute Criminal Causes were often adjudged in Parliament
bounden Servant July 5. 1616. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney General to the Master of the Horse upon the sending of his Bill for Viscount sc. SIR I Send you the Bill for His Majesties Signature reformed according to His Majesties amendments both in the two places which I assure you were altered with great judgment and in the third place which His Majesty termed a question only But he is an idle body that thinketh His Majesty asketh an idle question and therefore His Majesties questions are to be answered by taking away the cause of the question and not by replying For the name His Majesties Will is a Law in those things and to speak the truth it is a well-sounding and noble name both here and abroad and being your proper name I will take it for a good sign that you shall give honour to your dignity and not your dignity to you Therefore I have made it Viscount Villiers and for your Barony I will keep it for an Earldom For though the other had been more orderly yet that is as usual and both alike good in Law For Ropers place I would have it by all means dispatched and therefore I marvaile it lingreth It were no good manners to take the business out of my Lord Treasurers hands and therefore I purpose to write to his Lordship if I hear not from him first by Mr. Deckome but if I hear of any delay you will give me leave especially since the King named me to deal with Sir Joseph Roper my self for neither I nor my Lord Treasurer can deserve any great thanks in this business of yours considering the King hath spoken to Sir Jo. Roper and he hath promised and besides the thing it self is so reasonable as it ought to be as soon done as said I am now gotten into the Countrey to my house where I have some little liberty to think of that I would think of and not of that which other men hourly break their head withal as it was at London Upon this you may conclude that most of my thoughts are to His Majesty and then you cannot be far off God ever keep you and prosper you I rest always Your true and most dutiful Servant The 5. of August one of the happiest dayes Sir Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers upon the sending his Pattent for Viscount Villiers to be Signed SIR I Have sent you now your Patent of Creation of Lord Bletchly of Bletchly and of Viscount Villiers Beltchly is your own and I liked the sound of the name better then Whaddon but the name will be hid for you will be called Viscount Villiers I have put them in a Patent after the manner of the Patent for Earls where Baronies are joyned but the chief reason was because I would avoid double prefaces which had not been fit nevertheless the Ceremony of Robing and otherwise must be double And now because I am in the Countrey I will send you some of my Countrey fruits which with me are good Meditations which when I am in the City are choked with business After that the King shall have watered your new Dignities with the bounty of the Lands which he intends you and that some other things concerning your Means which are now likewise in intention shall be setled upon you I do not see but you may think your private Fortunes established and therefore it is now time that you should refer your Actions to the good of your Sovereign and your Countrey It is the life of an Oxe or Beast alwayes to eat and never exercise but men are born and specially Christian men not to cramb in their Fortunes but to exercise their Vertues and yet the other hath been the unworthy and thanks be to God sometimes the unlucky humour of great Persons in our times Neither will your future Fortune be the further off for assure your self that Fortune is of a Womans nature and will sooner follow by sleighting than by too much wooing And in this dedication of your self to the Publick I recommend unto you principally that which I think was never done since I was born and which because it is not done hath bred almost a Wilderness and Solitude in the Kings Service which is That you countenance and encourage and advance able men in all kinds degrees and professions For in the time of the Cecils the Father and the Son able men were by design and of purpose suppressed and though of late choice goeth better both in Church and Commonwealth yet money and turn-serving and cunning canvasses and importunity prevaileth too much And in places of moment rather make able and honest men yours than advance those that are otherwise because they are yours As for cunning and corrupt men you must I know sometimes use them but keep them at a distance and let it appear rather that you make use of them than that they lead you Above all depend wholly next unto God upon the King and be ruled as hitherto you have been by His Instructions for that is best for your self For the Kings care and thoughts for you are according to the thoughts of a great King whereas your thoughts concerning your self are and ought to be according to the thoughts of a modest man But let me not weary you the sum is That you think Goodness the best part of Greatness and that you remember whence your rising comes and make return accordingly God keep you August 12. 1616. Sir Francis Bacon to the King about a Certificate of my Lord Coke's It may please Your Excellent Majesty I Send your Majesty inclosed my Lord Coke's answers I will not call them rescripts much less Oracles They are of his own hand and offered to me as they are in writing not required by me to have them set down in writing though I am glad of it for my own discharge I thought it my duty as soon as I received them instantly to send them to Your Majesty and forbear for the present to speak further of them I for my part though this Muscovia-weather be a little too hard for my constitution was ready to have waited upon Your Majesty this day all respects set aside but my Lord Treasurer in respect of the season and much other business was willing to save me I will onely conclude touching these Papers with a Text divided I cannot say Oportuit haec fieri but I may say Finis autem nondum God preserve Your Majesty Your Majesties most humble and devoted Subject and Servant Feb. 14. at 12. a Clock I humbly pray Your Majesty to keep the Papers safe A Letter to the King touching the Lord Chancellors place It may please Your most Excellent Majesty YOur worthy Chancellour I fear goeth his last day God hath hitherto used to weed out such Servants as grew not fit for Your Majesty but now he hath gathered to himself a true sage or salvia out of Your Garden But Your Majesties service must not be mortal
March 30. 1663. Let this Collection of Letters and other Discourses be Printed HENRY BENNET SCRINIA CECILIANA MYSTERIES OF State Government IN LETTERS Of the late Famous Lord Burghley And other Grand Ministers of STATE In the Reigns of Queen ELIZABETH and King JAMES Being a further Additional Supplement of the CABALA AS ALSO Many Remarkable Passages faithfully Revised and no where else Published With two exact Tables The one of the Letters The other of Things most Observable LONDON Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet 1663. The Stationers To the READER Courteous Reader ALthough it be a received Position That Merit is worthier than Fame yet duly considered they ought to be inseparable the one being the just Guerdon of the other Upon that account we have presumed to make Publick these ensuing Memorials or Letters being Monuments of some late Eminent Patriots and Hero's of this Nation Who whilst they were Actors in such grand Affairs as suited with their high Service under their Sovereigns were deservedly Dignified here and Renowned abroad The first of these Worthies being Sir William Cecil Lord Burghley who was an unparallel'd Minister of State And as we conceive of the longest continuance that any Prince then or ever since with such Success enjoyed a person alwayes peaceable and moderate free from Covetousness or Ambition in the course of his Service rather willing to endure the Burthen than desiring the fruition of Honour or Profit profound in Judgment assisted with great Experience and therefore worthily celebrated both here and abroad as Pater Patriae and an indefatigable Votary to the Crown And for the matters and designs in the Letters themselves we shall be silent hoping the Fame of the person will be motive sufficient for you to purchase this Jewel Concerning the Times they were wheeled about with new and great Revolutions and Divisions not only at Home but also in France Scotland the Low Countries and generally in most of the other Kingdoms and States abroad Forâs Pugnae intus Timores Conspiracies Invasions and Insurrections amongst our selves War Devastations and Massacres amongst our Neighbours for the most part shadowed with the Vaile of Religion many Princes of the Blood and persons of great Authority being sacrificed on either part turbulent Times and of great mutations proper to try the Ability and Fidelity of a State Atlas wherein with what Wisdom he acquitted himself is referred to you to determine The next is Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Ambassador in France for Queen Elizabeth in the Infancy of her Reign we have nothing here of his remains but only his Letter to Her Majesty touching a free passage for the Queen of Scots through England wherein you will find variety of Politick Reasons pressed on each part with smart Judgment In the third place is Sir Philip Sidney that choice Darling of the Muses whom we suppose you will freely grant to have been Tam Marti quam Mercurio in whom England Netherland the Heavens and the Arts the Souldiers and the World did emulate a share here we have only a dissuasive Letter to the Queen touching Her Marriage with Mounsieur of France fortified with many pressing and effectual Reasons against that match and penned with a Politick and Ingenuous Stile And in the last place we present you with some Pieces of the inimitable Viscount St. Alban some in the Reign of the late glorious Queen and others in the Halcyon dayes of the late King James never before to our best knowledge made Publick deck't with many grateful Flowers of Philosophy History and Policy the Fall of the Earl of Somerset and the immediate Advance of the Duke of Buckingham with many other passages of moment and here you may observe the memorials of other worthy persons although the Title point only at Sir William Cecil for we conceive it not imaginable That such experienced and sure Masters of Knowledge would employ their thoughts in any thing sleight or superficial However we dare not assume that boldness as to write Encomiasticks of such great Personages that Right we suppose is much better performed by more quaint Pens already Lunae Radiis non maturescit Botrus And their Names and Honour still live in fresh memory Here you may safely turn Necromancer and consult with the dead or rather with the living for such Monuments as these survive Marble Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori These are not like Augustus his two infamous Daughters or his unworthy Nephew Posthumus Agrippa Impostumes as he termed them that broke from him but pure and legitimate Issue of the nobler part which is with care exposed to publick View for the better accomodation of those that have been pleased to purchase the two former Volumes of the like Nature and Quality Temple-gate June 18. 1663. G. B. T. C. A TABLE of the LETTERS contained in this COLLECTION B. SIR Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Burghley Pag. 1. Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Burghley p. 2. Sir Francis Bacon in recommendation of his Service to the Earl of Northumberland a few dayes before Queen Elizabeths death p. 4. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Robert Kempe upon the death of Queen Elizabeth p. 5. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. David Foules in Scotland upon the entrance of His Majesties Reign ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon presenting his Discourse touching the Plantation of Ireland p. 6. Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Chancellor touching the History of Britain p. 7. Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon the sending unto him a beginning of a History of His Majesties time p. 9. Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Salisbury upon sending him one of his Books of Advancement of Learning ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the same occasion of sending his Book of Advancement of Learning p. 10. A Letter of the like Argument to the Lord Chancellor ibid. Sir Francis Bacon of like Argument to the Earl of Northampton with Request to present the Book to His Majesty p. 11. Sir Francis Bacon his Letter of Request to Dr. Plafer to Translate the Book of Advancement of Learning into Latine ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Thomas Bodley upon sending him his Book of the Advancement of Learning p. 13. Sir Francis Bacon to the Bishop of Ely upon sending his Writing intituled Cogitata visa ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Thomas Bodley after he had imparted to him a Writing intituled Cogitata visa p. 14. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew upon sending him part of Instauratio Magna p. 15. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew touching Instauratio Magna p. 16. A Letter to Mr. Matthew upon sending his Book De Sapientia Veterum p. 17. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Savill ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to the King touching the Sollicitors place p. 18. Sir Francis Bacon to the King his Suit to succeed in the
subscribed his name who seemeth very importune to have answer because he may be entertained and if he be the party of whom you writ about a moneth past surely as I did advertise you the Queens Majesty will in no wise hear of any such offers which she thinketh are but chargeable without fruit although I had earnestly moved her Majesty to have adventured some small piece of money upon such a man therefore I see no remedy but to pay him as well as may be with goods words And thus I wish you better to fare then I did at the writing here Your assured loving friend W. Cecil To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR BY yours of the 23. of the last moneth for answer of mine of the 13. of the same I finde that you have very diligently and circumspectly travailled in the great dangerous matter to satisfie the Queens Majesty whereof you gave before that intelligence and though I perceive that you can come to no more understanding therein for further satisfaction of her Majesty yet she is very well satisfied with your diligence and care and so hath specially willed me to give you knowledge of her allowance of your doings therein Methinketh the parties which tell you such pieces of tales if the whole were true might as well tell you the whole as such obscure parts which if they do not you might well alleadge them to be but devices to breed unquietness and suspition and as I wrote before unto you they might be tempted with offer of rewards that the troth of the matter might be disclosed The Queens Majesty as I am informed for presently I am not at the Court by reason of my sickness meaneth to have the matter between the Queen of Scots and her subjects heard in this Realm and compounded as I think with a certain manner of restitution of the Queen and that limited with certain conditions which how they shall be afterwards performed wise men may doubt the Queen of Scots her self at length seemeth content to commit the order of this cause to her Majesty wherein if her Majesty 's own interest should not be provided for the world might think great want in her self which I trust she will regard I am willed by her Majesty to require you to continue your diligence in inquisition what preparations are meant or intended in that Country to sent into Scotland and as you shall finde any to give speedy knowledge thereof as I know you would do if you were not thus advertised There is coming out of Spain a new person to be Resident Ambassador here who is a Commendatory of an Order in whom I wish no worse conditions then I have found in this man for maintenance of amity Our whole expectation as yours there is resteth upon the event and success of these matters in the Low Countries which as they shall fall out so are like to produce consequences to the greater part of Christendom and therefore I beseech God it may please him to direct them to his honor and quietness if it may be of his universal Church here in earth and so I end being occasioned to use the hand of another my self being very unable to write and fully wearied with inditing thus much Fare you heartily well from my house in Cheston the 3. of August 1568. Sir This bearer Mr. Hudleston acknowledgeth himself so much be-holden to you as he is desirous to return thither to spend his time where he may shew himself thankful to you and to that end hath requested me to write to you by him he hath required to be accepted into my service but I think him worthy of some better Master and my self am overburthened with numbers or else I would gladly have accepted him Yours assured W. Cecil SIR MY late sickness hath been cause of my rare writing and I am sorry to hear of your lack of health which I trust you have ere this time recovered Your letters sent by the Frenchman of Southwark came one day only before Cockborne who came also safely with your letters on Saturday last I have made the Queens Majesty privy to both your letters and as to the unhappy news of Flanders we had the same worse reported by the Spanish Ambassador here then yours did there who hath made a triumphant story thereof as far uncredible as any in Amadis de Gaule for in the fighting continually one whole day there were on Lodowicks part slain and devoured 8000. and on the other part but eight so every one of them killed ten hundred I understand that within these three days we shall have the report more reasonable for I also hear that the greater number of the men slain were of the Dukes part which I wish to be true is in words content to commit Dover A but yet x doth not omit to stir new troubles in v. Touching the whereof you have often writ order is taken to deal with Paris and surely me-thinks still since the informers will not be known of the particulars in more certainty that these things are intended to bring us into their play but yet no diligence is to be omitted I think the Duke of Norfolk my Lord of Sussex and Sir Walter Mildmay shall be Commissioners to treat in the North betwixt the Queen of Scots and her subjects And so I end Yours assuredly W. Cecil Dunstable 10. August 1568. To the Right Honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight her Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR THe sufficiency of the bringer hereof is such as I need not to write any thing to you by him of importance to whom any thing may be well committed He can best tell you upon what occasion the Queens Majesty sendeth this Message to the French King at this time which because it is long and of great importance the Queens Majesty would have you first translate it into French and well digest it with your self so as you may very perfectly and readily express it in such sort as it is conceived And I think if you would in the translating thereof distribute it into sundry members by way of Articles you should the better carry it in your minde making thereby an account with your self of the better delivery thereof and you shall do well to let some such as favor the intention of the Queens Message to see the Copy of the letter whereby they may per-case being called to give advice to the King further the cause to the benefit of them of the Religion This day I received your letters of the date of the 20. of this moneth by Glover who of late time dwelt in Roan whom I take to be a good honest person but of the matter of the Jewels whereof you wrote upon his report I my self know no certainty As for the occurrents of Scotland you shall understand that where the Queens Majesty hath determined with the Queen of Scots to hear the whole matter
which you wrote unto the Queens Majesty touching the speech that was uttered unto you by the King there concerning the Cardinal Chastillon for that as I wrote unto you the same letter by casualty was burned before it was thoroughly read and perused and hitherto I have not heard your answer to the same We have been here of late much occupied in the conference with the Commissioners of Scotland wherein there hath been eight or nine several Sessions the sum of the matter is this the Queens party began at York to accuse the Regent and his party whereunto they made their answer and defence after which the Queens party by replication maintained their accusation and then the conference there stayed whereupon the Regent being here with the Queens Majesty vehemently charged was driven for his defence to disclose a full Fardel of the naughty matter tending to convince the Queen as devisor of the murther and the Earl of Bothwell her Executor and now tâ—e Queens party finding the burthen so great refuse to make any answer and press that their Mistriss may come in person to answer the matter her self before the Queens Majesty which is thought not sit to be granted untill the great Blots of the marriage with her husband the murtherer and the evident charges by letters of her own to be the deviser of the murther be somewhat razed out or recovered for that as the matters are exhibited against her it is far unseemly for any Prince or chaste ears to be annoyed with the silthy noise thereof and yet as being a Commissioner I must and will sorbear to pronounce anything herein certainly although as a private person I cannot but with horror and trembling think thereof In your letters of the 25. you recommended unto me a cause of your own between you and one Brabrook wherein you write that one Tettersall your Atturney should have informed me but herein I have not a good while now dealt withall but whensoever any shall I shall be glad to shew you my friendship to my power sic de caeteris I am sorry to understand of the sickness of your Son Mr. William Norris and therefore I would be glad to hear from you of his recovery for indeed I do heartily like him and his condition I have also dealt with my Lord of Norfolks grace in your matter for your right to the Lord Dacres Lands wherein his Grace at the Council-table openly promised his favor I pray you Sir commend me to my good Lady your wife if there be any good Charte of France made since Mr. Oliver Trunkets impression having no date I would be glad to have one to behold therein the particular voyages and passages of these contrary powers And so I end Yours as your own W. Cecil Hampton-Court 14. Decemb. 1568. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambessador resident in France SIR THis bearer your servant came hither the last of December with your letters of the 25. and 26. of the same wherein he used good diligence and for the contents thereof her Majesty is very well satisfied with the diligence of your advertising being before by reason of contrarious reports in great suspence what to think for this French Ambassdor now being here useth an ordinary manner to write unto her Majesty in a certain general sort of the news of that Country as favorably as he may on the Kings behalf as reason is he should but yet not without danger of discrediting himself by reporting untruths As I conjecture by your advertisements it is likely that God hath already permitted some great effect to be wrought about this Christmas time by some Battail stricken betwixt the two Armies and howsoever it is I do not doubt but you will advertise and therein the will of God is to be obeyed with thanks or with patience as it pleaseth him to give his grace or to chastise By your letters also it appeared that the Prince of Orange at the writing thereof was still in the French Kings Dominions and yet the common report at the same time was that he was departed towards Germany whereof the Duke of Alva's friends in the Low Countries began to make some triumph The matter of the Queen of Scots remains in these termes upon the accusation produced by her Commissioners against the Earl of Murray they have for their defence shewed so much matter to charge her with the procuring of the murther of her husband as thereupon motion is made on her behalf for covering of her honor to have some appointment betwixt her and her subjects which is communed of secretly by two or three manner of wayes that is to say That she should affirm her resignation of her Crown to her Son as it hath been made and live here in England Or else her self and her Son to joyn in Title and the Earl of Murray to remain Regent Or thirdly her self to remain in Title Queen and to live here in England secluded and the Earl of Murray to continue Regent which matters have so many pikes as the venture is great to take hold of any one of them nevertheless in the mean time outwardly she offereth to prove her self innocent so she may be permitted to come to the Queens presence and answer for her self which is thought to be the more earnestly required because it is also thought assured it will be denyed and now what is like to grow to be the end thereof surely I cannot well guess for as for my self I finde my insufficiency to wade so deep and the violence of the stream so great as without good company assisting in Council I dare not venture to make any passage and so wishing you and my Lady and yours a fortunate good year I end Here is a stay made of certain treasure that came out of Spain to pass into Flanders which we take to be Merchants and not the Kings as is alleadged if it shall prove Merchants we may be bolder to take the use of it upon good Bonds for an interest Yours assuredly W. Cecil Jan. 3. 1568. SIR I Heartily thank you for the last letters of the first of this moneth wherein you did well deliver us from some perplexity being by the French Ambassador here otherwise advertised to the advantage of the Cardinalists his letters are dated the 30 of December from the King and I marvel to perceive by your letters that the skirmish should be the 23. and the advise should not come to you before the 28. for thereby it seemeth the Camp should be so far off as in four or five days tidings could not come but this I think may be said that evil news are brought to that Court slowly at the least they are uttered slowly Of this accident of Arrest you shall be by her Majesties letters fully advertised at the signing whereof her Majesty said that she would have sent a Gentle-man expresly to the King but she considered that being sent
which you gave both to my Lord of Leicester and me of the secret cause of the Kings going to Metz seemeth to be of such importance as it is found very needful to provide with speed some remedy and so we here for our part will do our best as serve which you may consider considering the and therefore I pray you attempt all the means you can to advise all parts that shall take the harm I have no more to write to you meaning to expect within three or four days somewhat from you and then I will write by one of your Footmen and so I take my leave The French Ambassador hath been informed of the stay of our Ships at Rhoan and on Thursday last my Lords of the Council sent Mr. Hampton to him to move him that they might be released within 15. days or else we must do the like his answer was that he would do his best and he trusted they should be imputing the cause to our sufferance of the Prince of Conde his party on the Sea to make Portsale in our Havens which surely is not by us permitted and therefore for his satisfaction we did yesterday write letters to all Officers of Ports to prohibit utterly the vent of any Commodities brought in by such men and besides this the Ambassador hath required that you would be earnest with the King for the release of our Ships which we told him was not neglected by you and so I doubt not but you do your best therein This day the Ambassador sent his Secretary unto me to complain that the Currier of Callis carrying his Packet from hence should be searched and certain Packets of letters taken from him which I told him was true and the cause thereof such as we had more reason to complain thereof then he For true it is that the said Currier having but one small Packet of the French Ambassadors under pretence thereof had carryed with him two great Fardels of letters of the Merchants of the Low Countries who were here Arrested with their goods a matter also whereof the said Ambassador was forewarned and so is the matter to be proved by the letters of the said strangers which I at present have in my custody and so the Post was permitted freely to depart with all mańner of letters which he had of the said Ambassador And so I pray you to make answer therein as you shall see cause for so is the truth and no otherwise Yours assuredly W. Cecil Hampton-Court Jan. 30. 1568. To the Right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR OF late I have received three several letters from you the first of the 11. the second of the 13. and the last of the 15. of February although that of the 13 of February was written to be in January but I am sure to be mistaken By the first it appeared that you could not obtain of Mounsieur Morviller the names of any Ships or Merchants of that party which were stayed here although they pretended the stay of ours at Rhoan to be for that cause In the same letter you make mention of two dis-courtesies or as I may rather say injuries done unto you the one by taking Rogers your servant the other by imprisoning the Physician to my Lady your wife of which two matters you may see by the answer made to the French Ambassador I have made mention The second letter of the 13. which was brought to me by this bearer containeth matter of burthening you by the Queen Mother for solliciting the Queens Majesty to take some enterprize for Callis or Rochel wherein I think your wisdom sufficient to satisfie your self what to think for if you had so done as I know not that you have it were not unlike but they there would invent and set abroach for their advantage the like matter if the circumstances were theirs as they be ours And where you are charged with conveyance of the Rebels letters as they call them in your Packets I think the same and the former part are fed with one humor which is that though you do not in this sort yet they surely would so do in the like wherefore I wish you to be no ways troubled herewith but as the end of the verse is Contra audentior ito and yet to hold this rule to be a Minister of good amity betwixt the Princes usque ad aras that is as far forth as it be not against the honor of God and the safety of the Queen our Sovereign By your letter of the 15. which was written after you had closed up the Packet brought by this bearer you advertised me of the news which you had of Monsieur Gengez and of the joyning together of the Prince of Orange and the Duke Pipantine whereof saving your advertisements otherwise we hear nothing but rather the contrary being spred so by the French Ambassador here with affirmations of great credit In the latter end of your letter of the 13. it appeareth you had not then sent away the Queens Majesties letters to the King of Spain whereof I am very sorry for her majesty maketh an assured account that they had been in Spain by this time which I see you did not because the Spanish Ambassador was not at Court but at Paris for remedy whereof all speed possible would be used to send them by a special man to the Ambassador at Paris with some excuse to him of sending the same so late You shall understand that Monsieur D' Assenleville who came onely from the Duke of Alva hath been here of long time hovering to have had access to the Queen as an Ambassador which her Majesty would not allow of nor would so much prejudice her self in respect of the unkinde usage of the Duke of Alva and yet nevertheless allowed unto him as much conference as he would with her Council to whom although he did open as we think the sum of his negotiation yet he pretended to have somewhat more to her Majesty if he might have audience of her which otherwise he said he could open to no body As to that which he opened to the Council which was a request to have the money released and the Arrest set at liberty It was answered That the money belonged to Merchants and that he could not deny but added that it was meant to have been lent unto the Duke of Alva in the Low Countries and so as they termed it designed to the Kings use as to the restitution of the money and putting the Arrest at liberty she would neither deny nor grant the same to him considering he lacked authority to make sufficient contract thereupon but when the King himself should send one sufficiently authorized both to understand and to redress the injuries done by the Duke of Alva to her Majesties subjects it should well appear that the King should be reasonably satisfied on her Majesties behalf and amity and peace
she is a Queen allied and friended as is known and I tell you also that my heart is not inferiour to hers so as an equal respect would be had betwixt us on both parts but I will not contend in comparisons first you know quoth she that the accord was made in the late King my Lord and Husbands time by whom as reason was I was commanded and Governed and for such delays as were then in his time used in the said ratification I am not to be charged since his Death my Interest failing in the Realm of France I left to be advised by the Councel of France and they left me also to mine own Councel indeed quoth she my Unkles being as you know of the affaires of this Realm do not think meet to advise me in my Affairs neither do my Subjects nor the Queen your Mistriss think meet that I should be advised by them but rather by the Councel of my own Realm here are none of them nor none such â—s is thought meet that I should be Counselled by the matter is great it toucheth both them and me and in so great a matter it were meet to use the advice of the wisest of them I do not think it meet in so great a matter to take the Counsel of private and unexpert persons and such as the Queen your Mistriss knoweth be not most acceptable to such of my Subjects as she would have me be advised by I have quoth she often times told you that as soon as I had their advices I would send the Queen your Mistriss such an answer as should be reasonable I am about to haste me home as fast as I may to the intent the matter might be answered and now the Queen your Mistriss will in no wise suffer neither me to pass home nor him that I sent into my Realm so as Mounsieur l' Ambassadour quoth she it seemeth the Queen your Mistriss will be the cause why in this manner she is not satisfied or else she will not be satisfied but liketh to make this matter a quarrel still betwixt us whereof she is the Author The Queen your Mistriss saith that I am young she might well say that I were as foolish as young if I would in the State and Countrey that I am in proceed to such a matter of my self without any Counsel for that which was done by the King my late Lord and husband must not be taken to be my act so as neither in Honour nor in conscience I am bound as you say I am to perform all that was by my Lord and Husband commanded to do and yet quoth she I will say truly unto you and as God favours me I did never mean otherwise unto her than becometh me to my good Sister and Cosin nor meant her no more harm than to my self God forgive them which have otherwise perswaded her if there be any such what is the matter pray you Mounsieur l' Ambassadour quoth she that doth so offend the Queen your Mistriss to make her thus evil-affected to me I never did her wrong neither in Deed nor Speech it should the less grieve me if I had deserved otherwise than well and though the World may be of divers judgments of us and our doings one to another do well know God that is in Heaven can and will be a true Judge both of our doings and meanings I answered Madam I have declared unto you my Charge commanded by the Queen my Mistriss and have no more to say to you on her behalf but to know your Answer for the Ratification of the Treaty The Queen answered I have aforetime shewed you and do now tell you again that it is not meet for to proceed in this matter without the advice of the Nobles and States of mine own Realm which I can by no means have until I come amongst them You know quoth she as well as I there is none come hither since the death of the King my late Husband and Lord but such as are either come for their private business or such as dare not tarry in Scotland but I pray you Mounsieur l' Ambassadour quoth she tell me how riseth this strange affection in the Queen your Mistriss towards me I desire to know it to the intent I may reform my self if I have failed I answered Madam I have by the Commandment of the Queen my Mistriss declared unto you the cause of her miscontentation already But seeing you so desirous to hear how you may be charged with any deserving as one that speaketh of mine own minde without instruction I will be so bold Madam by way of discourse to tell you As soon as the Queen my Mistriss after the death of her sister came to the Crown of England you bore the Armes of England diversly quartered with your own and used in your Countrey notoriously the style and title of the Queen my Mistriss which was never by you put in ure in Queen Maries time And if any thing can be more prejudicial to a Prince than to usurp the tide and interest belonging to them Madam I do refer it to your own judgment you see such as be noted usurpers of other folks States cannot patiently be born withal for such doings much more the Queen my Mistress hath cause to be grieved considering her undoubted and lawful interest with the offer of such injury Mounsieur l'Ambassadour said she I was then under the commandment of King Henry my Father and of the King my Lord and husband and whatsoever was done then by their order and Commandments the same was in like manner continued until both their deaths since which time you know I neither bore the Armes nor used the title of England Me thinks quoth she these my doings might ascertain the Queen your Mistriss that that which was done before was done by commandment of them that had the power over me and also in reason she ought to be satisfied seeing I order my doings as I tell you it were no great dishonour to the Queen my Cosen your Mistriss though I a Queen also did bear the Armes of England for I am sure some inferior to me and that be not on every side so well apparenâ—ed as I am do bear the Armes of England You cannot deny quoth she but that my Grandmother was the King her Fathers sister and I trow the eldest sister he had I do assure you Mounsieur l'Ambassadour and do speak unto you truly as I think I never meant nor thought matter against the Queen my Cousin Indeed quoth she I know what I am and would be loth either to do others wrong or suffer too much wrong to my self and now that I have told you my minde plainly I pray behave your self betwixt us like a good Minister whose part is to make things betwixt Princes rather better than worse and so I took my leave of the said Queen for that time The same day after this my Audience
that Business 28. 29. 30 31 32 33 c. His advice to Sir George Villiers concorning Ireland wherein three Propositions are acutely scan'd 1. Touching the Recusant Magistrates of Towns there 2. About roducing the Number of the Council from Fifty to twenty 3. That a means may be found to re-enforce the Army by 500. or 1000. men without increase of Charge 67 68 69. From him to the Duke when he first became a Favourite with somo directions or his demeanor in that eminent place ranked into eight material Heads with an ample and quaint gloss upon each of them most elegantly pen'd 43 44. Again to him upon sending his Pattent for Viscount Villiers with several Avisoes and incidently a Censure of the Cecils the Father and the Son Pag. 70 71. Sends the King a Certificate from the Lord Coke 72. Sends to the King an Essay of History of His Majesties time 9. Desires the History of Brittain may be written for three Observations 7 8. Sixty four years old in Age and three years and five months in misery desires neither means place nor imployment but a total remission of the sentence of the Upper House by the example of Sir John Bennet 81. To the King touching the Plantation of Ireland as formerly of the Union as being Brother thereunto 6. To the Earl of Salisbury touching his Book of the advancement of Learning saying He is but like a Bell-ringer to awake better spirits 9 10. Several Letters to great Personages in sending unto them his Book of advancement of Learning and the presenting of it to the King 10 11. To Dr. Plafer touching the Translating of it into Latine with many excellent Reasons to that Inducement 11 12. To Sir Thomas Bodley upon sending the same Book 13. To divers Friends upon sending unto them some other of his Books 13. 14 15 16. To Mr. Savil touching the Education of Youth and the improving the Intellectual Powers Pag. 17. A Factious Book stiling the Queen Misera Faemina the addition of the Popes Bull. 21. The business of the Commendams and the carriage of the Judges therein related to the King 76 77. Three Examples of great Calamity Demosthenes Cicero and Seneca A Discourse concerning his own Books 78 79 80. A learned and ample Discourse touching a Digest to be made of the Laws of England from 82. to 86. To the Earl of Devonshire a Letter Apologetical touching a common fame as if he had been false or ungrateful to the Earl of Essex something long but exquisitely pen'd from 87. to 104. A discourse touching Helps for the Intellectual Powers by Sir Fran. Bacoa Faber quisque fortunae suae an insolent saying except it be interpreted as an hortative to correct slâ—th and not as it soundeth an high imagination for any man to fathom all Accidents Faber quisque Ingenii sui more true and more profitable Divers manner of instances in Improvements not only in the body of man but in his mind and spirit and therein not only in his Appetite and Affection but in his Powers of Wit and Reason The Will most manageable and admitteth most Medicines for Cure The first is Religion 2. Opinion and Apprehension 3. Example 4. When one affection is corrected by another And lastly a Confirmation of all by custom and habit Five Rules for exercises Pag. 97 98 99 100 Sir Francis Bacon to the King modestly Apologetical intimating his former services and his present low condition after the sentence pronounced against him by the Lords Implores the King that he that hath born a bag may not in his age be forc'd to bear aWallet nor he that desired to live to study may not be driven to study to live 101 102 103 104 C. CEcil Sir William to Sir Henry Norris Ambassadour in France about his Entertainment there being Extraordinary and what the Reason should be Sha'ne Oneal sues to be received into the Queens favour 105 106. Taxes Mounsieur de Foix for breach of promise in not delivering Lestrille The News of the death of the King of Scots and the manner of it Earl Bothwell suspected 107 108. Callice demanded to be restored to the Queen according to the Treaty of Cambray More of the business of the murder of the King of Scots words which touch't that Queen but fit to be supprest Pag. 109 111. If Callice be not delivered 50000 l. is to be forfeited 110. Matters in Flanders go hard against the Protestants 111. Those of the Order of France if life or honour be touched to be tried by Kings and others of the same Order ibid. Marriage of the Queen of Scots to Bothwell the prime of the Nobility against it 112. The French Kings Letter touching Callice ill resented by the Queen The Queen of Scots married the 15th of May. 113. Bothwell prosecuted for the murder defended by the Queen and the Hambletons the Queen under restraint Sha'ne Oneal slain in Ireland by certain Scots 114. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton sent into Scotland to Negotiate a Pacification The two Factions of the Hambletons and Lenox's 115. The Prince of Scotland Crowned at Sterling the 29th of July 116. Queen Elizabeth offended with the Scotch Lords Murray like to be made Regent Advice to Sir Henry Norris touching his Expences 117. Murray made Regent my Lord of Sussex with the Emperour all Judges Officers c. At Antwerp compelled to attest the Catholick Faith 118. Bothwell reported to be taken at Sea 119 120. Dunbar rendred to the Regent the Keeper thereof adjudged to a new Punishment Pag. 120. Expectation of Marriage between the Queen and the Archduke Charles 121. Troubles in France between the Prince of Conde and the King 121 122. The Queen of Scots noted by the Parliament there to be privy to the murder of her husband 123. The Earl of Desmond and his brother in the Tower 125. Fishermen of Diepe taken at Rye with unlawful Nets 126. The Popes Ministers preferre the State of their corrupt Church before the Weal of any Kingdom 128. The Earl of Sussex his return The Prince of Orange his Son to be sent into Spain and doubted Egmond and Horn must follow ibid. Emanuel Tremelius sent into England by the Elector Palatine The Prince of Orange refuseth to be judged by the Duke of Alva The Hambletons continue their Faction The death of Sir Ambrose Cave 129. Beaton sent from Scotland into France for 1000. Harquebusiers Money and Ordnance 131. Devilish practice against the Queen The Scots Queen removed to Bolton Castle her demands of the Queen denied 133. The Queen of Scots submits her Cause to be heard and determined in England 134 135 136 c. What preparations in France intended for Scotland Great expectation of the success of matters in the Low Countries Pag. 137. Unhappy but incredible News out of Flanders The Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Sussex and Sir Walter Mildmay Commissioners in the North about the Queen of Scots business 138. She makes Arguile and Huntley Lieutenants and the