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A35992	The compleat ambassador, or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu. Elizabeth of glorious memory comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France : together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho. Smith, and others : wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood, with many remarkable passages of state .../ faithfully collected by the truly Honourable Sir Dudly Digges, Knight ...	Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.; A. H.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1453; ESTC R22010	544,817	462

given unto de Foix which he did repute to be done unto himself for that it was done for his sake Secondarily he willed me to shew unto her that he was glad to understand by him and receive at so good restimony of the great affection that her Majestie beareth unto him and of the desire she had not onely to continue in good Amity with him but also to encrease the same Lastly he willed me to shew unto her that her answer touching the point of Religion is very hard and that therefore he trusteth that the Gentleman whom he is put in hope she will send over shall have authority to qualifie the same as also to treat of some other matters to be propounded that may tend to the encrease of further Amity which he above all things desireth who shall be unto him very welcome and that he will strive with her in honouring of such Ministers as shall come from her Majestie whereby the good will he hath to honour her may appear After he had ended in this behalf he desired me to recommend again unto her Majestie Moris Chamails the Brittain on whose behalf he had lately written and sent his Letters unto his Ambassador to be delivered unto her Majesty and that he hoped for his sake that the said party should receive redress and come to an end of his long suit whereby he might have more cause to yield like justice to her Majesties Subjects at such time as they shall have recourse unto him for the same In this behalf I understand that the Councel here have promised him that if by the Ambassadors means his cause shall receive no end that then he shall have a Letter of Mart given him I find him very importunate and one that maketh very lewd reports how that he hath been put in fear of his life and that therefore he dare not return to follow his suit I beseech your Lordship that by your means I may receive some order from her Majestie how to answer him I was sent unto by the Lord Admirall to desire your Lordship to be a mean unto her Majestie that whereas there was delivered unto his late brother the Cardinall a Bill signed with her Majesties hand for the receipt of certain Jewells engaged that it would please her Majestie for that the said Bill is onely signed and not sealed which being sent unto me they will deliver the other unsealed upon the receipt of the same This he willed me to shew you that he doth it rather to content the Queen of Navarre then that he thinketh the other bill insufficient who thinketh his said Brother to have used some negligence in this behalf Thus leaving further to trouble your Lordship at this present I most humbly take my leave At Blois the 23 of September 1571. Your Honour to command Fr. Walsingham To Fr Walsingham Esq the Q. Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIr you see that our Northern Planets have their influences to make changes as others in the Meridionall have howsoever Monsieur de Foix or the French Ambassador shall advertise of the cause now happened concerning the Duke of Norfolk this is the truth and so you may avow it The money was taken being by the Dukes commandment as he avoweth and confesseth received by Barker his man from the French Ambassador to have been sent to Banister the Dukes man dwelling about Shrewsbury to one Lowther and other of the Dukes servants secretly kept upon the West-borders and by him should have been sent to the Lord Harries and by him to Riddington There was in the Bag also Letters from the French Ambassador to Viraque in Cipher hereof Monsieur de Foix made mention before his departure and did think there was no other matter against the Duke which I would there had not but sith there was much other of great danger God is to be thanked that it is discovered as now it is There is found a long discourse about the D. sent from the Queen of Scots in Cipher to him the 7 of February last by which the said Q. layeth before the D. how she is Councelled from Spain to fly into Spain misliking utterly of the French by reason of the doubt of the Q. marriage with Anjou She doth also use hard words against the Queen Mother she doth also in this discourse conclude that she will make a semblance to the Spaniard of the liking of Don Iohn of Austria although she assureth the Duke of Norfolk of her countenance she moveth that Ridolf may be sent to Rome and to be directed wholly by the Duke of Norfolk with many moe things of such sort The Duke hath confessed the receipt of this from the Queen of Scots but denieth he was privie of Ridolfs going otherwise then that he was earnestly required by the Bishop of Ross to instruct him and write by him to the Duke of Alva to require aid of men and money for the Queens party in Scotland wherein he saith he did refuse to deal for the perill thereof He confessed that he had received four Letters from the Scotish Queen within this Twelve months and did answer them by Writing and all in Cyphering but his were only of Thanks and to move the Queen of Scots to depend only upon the Queens Majesty but herein the Duke can make none of us to credit him He saith also that before the sending of this money he helped the French Ambassador to send his Packet to Viracque in July We have also found his Cypher betwixt the Scotish Queen and him but all his writings are conveyed which he saith were by him burnt Now have we great cause to think that he was privy to the dangerous practise whereof we found Ridolph to have dealt in with the Duke of Alva in offering him that a Rebellion should be moved here this Summer if the Duke of Alva would assist it but of this the Duke will not be known But we do find more presently a smell that 258. Deep whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 28 at 740 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are at this time much perplexed herewith and secretly disposed to no good but there is waite laid upon them Now for Scotland the fourth of this moneth Huntley and Hamilton with others to the number of 300 secretly stole into Sterling in the night by Corruption of one Bell of Sterling who had a postern of a wall into the privy Garden they addressed themselves to the lodging of the Earle of Lennox the Regent Morton Glencarn Lord Rithill Mookgill and suddenly without any great resistance took them and was carrying them out of the Town with intent to have killed them but rescue came out of the Castle and so they were all saved but the Regent who was slain with a pistolet by one Calder who being taken confessed that Huntley and Lord Hamilton did so command him he is executed and so also is Bell that betrayed the Town the Regent lived 8 houres and died stoutly and godly The Earle

strange being we had heard before of the daily murdering of those of the Religion there in France not only at Paris and Orleans but also at Lyons and Roan and divers other places and Cities of that Realm all the which was done by the Kings appointment and commandment whereupon when we had heard what he could say unto us he heard us so reply at that time as we do think he found himself unable to satisfie us And nevertheless we told him that we would be further advised for our answer which he should have within three or four daies whereupon communicating his Negotiation with our Councel upon their French tongue An answer was made as appeareth by this here inclosed which is the copy of that we delivered to Nicasius to interpret in French to the said de la Mott as our ful answer resolution at that time with the which as Nicasius reporteth de la Mott seemed very well content and satisfied In the which yet you may perceive that divers things are left to be ascertained to us by you wherefore you shall do well with convenient speed to demand audience of the King and there to declare both to him and to the Queen mother what hath passed betwixt his Ambassador and us and upon the points we did at that time stand and you may say as touching any worthy punishment executed upon his own Subjects we have not to deal therein but if they have worthily suffered we are sorry for their evil doings But yet the King to destroy and utterly root out of his Realm all those of that Religion that we profess and to desire us in marriage for his brother must needs seem unto us at the first a thing very repugnant in it self especially having before confirmed that liberty to them of the Religion by an Edict of his perpetual and irrevocable Of the which to whom that liberty was granted if any were partakers of any evil conspiracies against him specially women and children who we do understand are not yet spared And therefore if that Religion of it self be so odious unto him that he thinks he must root out all the professers of it how should we think his brother a fit husband for us or how should we think that the love may grow continue and increase betwixt his brother and us which ought to be betwixt the husband and the wife You had in our former Letters unto you things that we required you to decypher by all means that you could especially whether the King himself be inclined and bent to all these cruelties and the rooting out of true Religion or whether he be but overruled to the which Article hitherto you have not answered and yet these things might give great light unto us how to direct our actions in the conferences and talks with his Ambassador and we would have you to be earnest with him in that matter of Strozzi praying him frankly and roundly what he meaneth with that great Army of Ships and men of War which hath been kept a long time close and undiscovered to what intent or to what place it should be bent You may say we have the more desire to know his meaning and dealing herein because that of lat● they of Strozzies Company there have spoiled divers of our Merchants some of their Artillery and Victuals other of their goods and Merchandizes as was accustomed betwixt the two Realms in times past the which kind of dealing is very much contrary to the amity and to such things as by his Ambassador is propounded unto us wherefore as we do go roundly and plainly to work with him to shew flatly that which we do think or doubt hereupon so we pray him with the same flatness and roundness to deal with us for that is the way to make continuance of amity and also increase and may induce us the sooner to come to a further resolution of such things as be required of us The Vidam of Chartres of whom we have great compassion is come into this Realm at whose humble and lamentable suit we have been content to write this Letter to my brother the French King in his favour which you shall deliver with as good words as you may to the French King and require his answer If this our Letter do chance to come to you in Paris or in the way coming from Paris towards England after you have obtained licence of the King to come away by favour of our Letters which we wrote unto him yet if you be not too far on the way or very near the sea-coast we would you should return in Poste or otherwise to the Court to have a direct answer of these Letters except that great and unfeigned danger of your self do move you to keep on your journey In which case you shall commit the doing of this message and receiving of answer to your Secretary whom you shall leave behind so that he be a man able to do this charge Given at Reading the 28 of September 1572. in the fourteenth year of our Reigne T. Smith The Ambassadors Message in three Points THat the King was of necessity for safeguard of his own life forced to cause such execution to be done upon the Admiral and his complices as was done for that he and they had conspired the death of the King of which matter the King was very well able to make a verification and that her Majesty should shortly see by the process of the Admiral now in making and that nothing was meant by the King against the cause of Religion That the King was most earnestly disposed to keep the League That he desired to have the marriage of his brother of Alanzon to proceed and to that end the Queen mother was content to come into the Realm with her son at such place and with such numbers as her Majesty here should allow Answers To the first That although the killing of the Admiral and the rest might probably move her Majestie to think ill thereof and to be right sorry that the King should suffer such an act to be done without order of justice yet her Majestie being advertised from the King that he was forced thereunto for safety of his own life and that thereof her Majestie should see good proof by such a process thereof to be sent to her Majestie as should verifie the same her Majestie is content to suspend her judgement against the King untill by the process she may see the truth and by the Kings further proceedings hereafter for continuance of his Edict for tolleration of Religion she may perceive what to judge of his intention for the cause of Religion To the second her Majestie thanketh the King for his so earnest an offer to continue the amity according to the late League made and doth again assure the King of her mind to keep it for her part so as howsoever the King shall by his deeds shew his affection therein her Majestie will

inconvenience hapned as also to assure him of her Majesties disposition to continue the amity upon such certain informations as I could gather here of the manner of the Kings proceedings in this late accident and finding him to avow aswel by speech as by the continuance of most extreme severity towards those of the Religion that the said accident proceeded of himself though her Majestie is otherwise informed by the Ambassador I thought therefore good both towards him and his mother according to the direction of your Honours letters to use such speeches as the time of my repair to the Court which was the one and twentieth of this moneth would permit I was first brought unto Q. Mother to whom I shewed that her Maj. willed me to say That she was not a little stonished and perplexed upon the hearing of the late miserable and most lamentable accident in such sort as she knew neither what to say or judge of the matter seeing those murthered without pity and compassion without regard had either of age or sex without ordinary form of justice who upon the assurance of the Kings word laying all suspicion aside did misdoubt nothing less then that which hapned unto them who thought their lives then in most safety when by proof it appeared they were in most danger How these things may pass and the King receive no touch and blemish in honour is a thing which the Queen my Mistris saith she chiefly feareth besides she hath willed me to say unto you That she doth not a little marvel that you being a Prince of that judgement you are and so well experimented in matters of Government knowing the passions and factions that reign in your State could be induced so easily to yield to an execution not to be allowed in all mens judgement in any sort or Commonwealth as the parties to be executed before due examination had of such informations as in reason it appeareth were given against them for as easily might the said persons hav● been arrested as slain And so being arrested afterwards have been produced before the ordin●ry justice to have received being found guilty punishment according to their demerits otherwise being found innocent to have been restored both to honour and liberty which kind of proceeding might have saved the blood of many an innocent which now through the fury and rage of the people was shed and the King had remained justified in honour She desireth your Majestie to interpret this her plain speech in good part as proceeding from one that wisheth well both to the King and you and cannot therefore but condole and bewail this accide●t whereon dependeth both your honour and the repose of your Estate notwithstanding she hopeth that the King will yield justification of this fact as he shall remain justified of God and the world To this she answered That she nothing marvelled that the Queen my Mistris was astonished with the accident for that the execution was performed with a great deal more cruelty then was intended by the King who saith she is no Tyrant nor was easie to be induced to do that which he did had he not been provoked thereto by the apparent danger which he saw growing both to himself and to me his Mother and his Brethren if present execution had not been done which shall well appear by the process which my son meaneth to send unto the Queen your Mistris And whereas the Queen your Mistris doth seem to marvel that I should be easily induced to yield to any execution a kind of speech that somewhat toucheth me to be done before due examination had of the informations I being as she saith so well acquainted with factions reigning in this State You may tell her that present mischief cannot abide delayed remedies for saith she we were informed by persons not to be suspected as drawn by passion or faction being rather tied to the Admiral both by Religion and Amity yet moved in conscience to prefer their Prince before any private person for that those of the Religion had they not been prevented at the time that they were had seized within two hours after one of the gates of our Pallace of the Louvre and so consequently our persons which enterprize to have been executed was agreed the same afternoon that the Admiral was hurt And that they had some such meaning it may be gathered for that the Count of Montgomery the same morning that this enterprize should have been executed with a Troop of Horse stayed a good while at Pre de Clerces to attend what the other should do within Hereupon I took occasion to say unto her That although I had no Commission to reply yet I hoped her Majestie would give me leave to say somewhat in the justifying of the said Count of Mongomery for that heretofore it pleased her to bear with the liberty of my speech And so I shewed her that Friday at night after the Admiral was hurt between nine and ten of the clock the said Count came unto my lodging and amongst other communication he said That as he and those of the Religion had just occasion to be right sorry for the Admirals hurt so had they no less cause to rejoyce to see the King so careful as well for the curing of the Admiral as also for the searching out of the party that hurt him No small argument saith he of the Kings sincerity which kind of speech seemed to be void of all conspiracy and miscontentment And touching his being au Pre de Clerces I told her that an English Gentleman who was lodged not far from the said Count went unto him that morning that the execution was done in my name desiring him to send me word what stirr there was in the Town His answer was That true it was some stirr was in the Town and the King had taken so good order therein as all was appeased and that he had placed such guards about the Admirals house as he was in safety This answer Madam said I shewed that his intention in staying A● pre de Clerces was void of any evil meaning And as for his Troop as I learn it was under forty horse of the which all was unarmed and of them four only had Pistols which sheweth plainly that he was very slenderly appointed for the execution of any Enterprise To this her only answer was That she thought not the Count so guilty as the rest And further she shewed me that sithence his departure he had written to the King her son as well Letters for his justification as also of submission In the end she willed me to desire her Majestie to content her self with such relation as should be made with their Ambassador there touching their proceedings here as the King her son and she did rest satisfied with such relations as were made of her proceedings in like cases there by her Ministers here And so making great protestation of the Kings and her earnest desire for

entertainment as shall be ministred unto you But if it shall happen the King or Queen Mother or any such person to go further with you and to feel you with words in any of the points hereafter mentioned we think it honourable for you not to shew your self ignorant of our mind therein nor how things have proceeded heretofore in those matters and how they stand at this present And therefore we have thought good to inform you in those points whereupon it is most likely they will make some mentioning and questioning with you to know our further resolution and mind therein that as in all other matters likely to be moved unto you you shall do well first to confer with our Ambassador there by whom you shall understand how things have gone hitherto And for this time you may say besides all other things whereof they be already fully advertised of our mind we think it now reason that the matter of Religion be first esclared for because that there in his Realm there hath been made great alteration in that point since the late communication thereof and therefore it is now reason that we should the more carefully provide that the difference therein should breed no disturbance disquietness or doubt in ours And as the said King hath held a stiff hand to maintain onely one Religion in his Realm although he with open Edicts did profess the protection of two and the defence of them both indifferently so it behoveth us rather who did maintain but one onely in our Realm and never yielded to the other by any Edict or Protection or favour now at this time not to change our course but to profess all one thing which we have done sith we came to our Crown and to suffer no permission or winking at of any other Religion then that which we and our Realm hath always held and maintained and by Gods grace intend always to do and so much the rather we have cause to require it at this present time because that in the dealing with Mon. D'Anjo● in the treatie with Mon. De Foix matters were made more easie and temperate to the which we did the rather incline when it should come to the knitting up that Sir Tho Smith now our Secretary was sent then such things were required as never before were expected as open Mass a Church a Chappel proper and all such solemnity of other ceremonies and abuses which our Realm and policie cannot suffer whereupon necessitie was for us clearly and plainlie to break off and least the same inconvenience should follow or that protracting of time should be thought but a dissembled entertainment of other cause then we have in mine you may say that we pray the King and Queen Mother to cause first this point of Religion to be clearlie esclared and opened that upon that we may more clearly judge what is to be done of us to the proceeding any further of that matter of marriage And you may say more that it is that point that we have thus long attended that our Ambassador there Resident should have certified us from their Majesties so that before we have answer from them of these points by reason we cannot proceed to go any further in this matter in which heretofore we have not been answered and the answer thereof lieth in their hands As concerning the demands that such as of late were fled hither sithence these late troubles that we should rather admonish them or command them to avoid the Realm as Rebels to the French King our brother You may say that we do understand of no Rebellion that ever they were privy ●nto and can perceive nothing but that they are well affectionated to their Prince but when such common murthering and slaughter was made generally throughout France of those who professed the same Religion that it was natural for every man to fly for his own defence and for the safetie of his life and it is the priviledge of all Realms to receive such woful and miserable persons as do fly to it onely for defence of their lives And for their return the chiefest of them have been spoken unto and they make their answer that the same rage of their enemies which made them first to fly hither doth still continue the cause of their tarrying here for as they then did kill with fury and as it may appear the greatest number of those that were killed without the commandment or avow of the King so it is most like they would execute still their malice if the persons were there against whom it was then and is yet inflamed notwithstanding any letters declaratory or other prohibition by the King as it is manifest and notorious that very many have been publiquely and are almost daily slain and murthered in France that be of their Religion sith these contrary Edicts were published and cryed by sound of trumpet And therefore until they may see that the quiet of the Realm be better established the fury of the people and the bloody murtherers appeased they will live here and obey the Kings Edicts They think themselves unsure there and prayed us of our mercy to have compassion of their miserie And if so be the King you may say would suffer them to enjoy their revenues whether they remained here or went into any other Countrey you may say that we suppose they would be as faithful subjects to him as any other in his Realm for other we espie none in them And if we can perceive at any time that they were otherwise minded or should attempt any thing for the disquietness of his person or Realm you may say we will not suffer them to remain within our Realm And as for the Commerce and Traffique of our Merchants there was nor is in us any difficultie why not thereby as by all other waies the Amitie and League should not in all points be perfected But such things have sith that time happened in that Realm that even to this day our Merchants be in horrour and fear to meddle therein especially to go much within the Land sith such libertie is given or suffered into the hands of the popular to kill or murther whom they could without punition therefore or justice nevertheless we are in hope that in time the King will peovide that he shall be better obeyed and that his sword of justice shall rule and not the unbounded lust of the populer to the which no wise man or careful of his life will hazard himself we could not but as a good Princess and mother of the Commonwealth bear with our Subjects in this fear so probable Nevertheless we shall give order that our Secretarie and others who do favour the cause shall be joyned in Commission to treat with his Ambassador here and as shortlie as time will serve and as our Merchants do by little and little get more boldness to traffique there and no part of that which was begun for the more streighter

Amitie betwixt us and our Realmes be left unperfect and unaccomplished on our behalf For Scotland you may say that Monsieur de Crocque ' s going away so soon wherefore we were very sorry because he tarried not until the peace was concluded we suffered our servant Henry Killegrew to sollicite the conclusion of peace And although there appeared great likelihood from time to time to follow of an universal peace and very reasonable conditions offered yet they of the Castle as appeareth not minding to have any peace would not agree to them wherefore as it appeareth they are like again to have civil Wars a thing most displeasant to us being their next Neighbours and for our part we think they have misused both him our good brother and us the King to imploy Monsieur de Crocque and us the Marshal of Berwi●k first and now Henry Killegrew whereas it appeareth they meant nothing less then agreement especially two or three of them in the Castle who have offered unto them all humanitie their lands livings and offices and whatsoever could be reasaonably desired yet will not condescend for common quiet to acknowledge their King and to deliver him that hold having as good offered them for their own suerty which in common peace should seem needless so that for ought that can appear unto us we think it not fit that we or our good brother should suffer such outrage at their hands or our two travels being Princes to be had in so little reguard besides that we have kept in our hands the Castle of Hume at our charge being to us no profit or commoditie but that we desire to bridle both the parties to come to an accord For being by the League bounden to deliver it but any of the Scotish if we should have delivered it to any of the adverse party though the peace had followed we know not how to compel them to render the same to the natural Lord thereof to whom we most desired to render the same although he had smally deserved that kindness at our hands if we had delivered it to him before we doubted there should have bin occasion to make him hold out more obstinately from the Agreement and Peace who as it appeareth is too much obstinate without it And as we have divers times by our Ambassador there and writing declared to them that assoon as they were come to a full Agreement and Peace within themselves we would most willingly render the same Castle and the Territory thereof to the said Lord Hu●● So you may say that our good brother shall well perceive that if yet they will grow to common peace within themselves the Castle of Hume shall be streight restored to the Lord Hume as it hath been often declared both to him and them before And if he and the rest will not come to Peace and Accord peradventure we shall deliver it as we may well do unto them of that Nation out of whose hands the Lord Hume shall have enough to do to get it which is nothing in our default which desires them most earnestly to have them at quiet and peace within themselves and to be ruled by justice so should our Subjects near adjoyning to them be in more rest and have better justice upon the Out-laws and Thieves who do offer daily injury to our Subjects without redress because of the civil troubles And if any mention be made unto you of the Scotish Queen either for her life or for her deliverance that you should be a mean to us for her You shall answer that her attempts be known to have been such both towards us and our Realm as you cannot gladly hear her spoken of and that you could not think your self a good Subject if once you should open your lips for her and therefore you shall require that they will no more speak to you of her nor of any such matters Given at our Mannour of Hampton Court the eleventh of January 1572. in the one and twentieth year of our Reign Thomas Smith I think it shall not be against the Queens Majestie to offer that if Hume Castle shall be delivered to the Kings party that there shall be assurance given to restore it to the Lord Hume when he shall recognize the King as heretofore he did William Burleigh To the Right Honourable Francis Walsingham Esq Ambassador Resident for her Majestie in France MR. Walsingham I have received your Letters sent by Williams I perceive it is hard to recover a Rider but to pay too dearly for him I will stay therefore till better occasion shall serve and do heartily thank you for your good remembrance and travel therein I wrote of late to you which Letter I hope be come safely to your hands the rather for that I write somewhat openly for want of a ready cypher for these causes I have since considered more of the person and the matter and surely I can no way perswade my self that the cause you should stay for is any way sincerely meant there but rather a meer practise to entertain us here and to discover of the other side what may be under the hope that by that means many may be drawn unto for no other way but this have they left to beguil the world especially us and those they seek to destroy seek narrowly and deeply into it and in the mean time consider how slightly the great post haste matter was slipt off that our ship tarried so long for what was it else but a plain work to hold us with such a sudden amazed chance the same in their opinion we should believe their case to be as dangerous as they would make it Weigh also the pretty escape of the disguised attempt of the party that seemed to be in so great peril who can believe other then that it was a made matter to continue a belief whom they think they have inchaunted at their wills Let us examine also the instruments what they be those of the most arrantest sort of Papists those here never counted setled or informed in Religion Besides the process of the doings over both sides doth shew no good end towards but even a stratagem it will prove in my opinion and therefore I am the more careful that we may so espy it and so use it as it may return upon their own necks For my own part I promise you I did suspect it the first time of his opening of the matter for truth will seek no angles Truly he was fain to seek all his brains to make any matter worthy of credit for these suspicions were found even at the first he was divers in his tales his Letters delivered assuredlie were counterfeit and so was driven in the end to confess in a manner albeit in a sort they were after confirmed there from you to his better credit for first he avowed they were all the parties own hands Next he said after the Letters were compared with others of the parties

communicated the things unto her Majestie because it passed the bounds of my function here which is onelie to advertise Notwithstanding seeing the same is not used with that secresie as is fit I will avoid hereafter to offend Touching the Counts being acquainted with the matter of secrecie your Lordship shall understand that the partie that made me acquainted withal delivered me certain Letters sent from the place you wot of which I caused my men to deliver unto him by the which he came to the knowledge of the matter Now to come to your Lordships latter letter I see great cause to confer the likelihood of my letters of the four and twentieth of the last for that there is great hope conceived here that by large offers they have lately made to such Towns as hold out they will grow to a composition which in the end will be neither good for themselves nor for us howsoever the Ambassador there speaketh by the absence of some from hence I cannot be able to discover any more touching the Scotish affairs then alreadie I have done And now that the Court removeth I am cut off from all means to have any great intelligence either for that matter or others especially for that I shall be constrained for lack of abilitie to remain here still being unfurnished of all means to follow the Court And then seeing my remaining here shall be unprofitable unto her Majestie and to my undoing I hope her Majestie will no longer defer my revocation which I doubt not your Lordship will further as much as you may And so leaving c. To Sir Thomas Smith SIr after the closing up of my other Letters I received yours of the nine and twentieth of Ianuary Touching the contents of the same I will not fail upon the next convenient occasion to deal with her Majestie here concerning the Scotish matters though I be not provoked by them because I am directed so to do Notwithstanding in my poor opinion as I mean here to say nothing but to do somewhat that may tend to the continuance of the troubles there until such time as ther own things being settled at home they proceed in prosecuting their other practises so were it not amiss for her Majestie to use like silence and to provide to withstand their malice but herein I am to do as I am commanded The Scotish Ambassador is advertised by the ship late arrived out of Scotland into Flanders how that Iames Cancald is arrived at a place if I do not mistake it called Aberdeny in the Earl of Huntleys Countrey to which place Viracque who latelie departed from hence is appointed to repair The Lord Levingston desireth most earnestly to have a passport to pass through England for that he is wearie of this Countrey and would fain be at home He promiseth to communicate to her Majestie at his arrival at the Court such things as she shall not repent the granting of the same And if s●e shall have any doubt of him he will be content to remain their Prisoner for mine own opinion I think it not amiss to grant it him for that I learn by some of credit that he communicateth his secrets to that he misliketh their doings here and the pretended enterprize towards our Island as one that tendeth to the overthrow of Religion and the ruine both of England and Scotland I have promised by the next to give him a resolute answer and therefore I beseech you to put her Majesty in mind of the same Now to come to mine own particular I had well hoped my stay here should not have been so long protracted and that my miserable case should have been otherwise weighed especially seeing my state here should breed but a hinderance to my self and no benefit to her Majesty For now the Court removeth from hence I shall be driven to remain here and not to follow the same for lack of ability having neither furniture money nor credit I beseech you Sir therefore to lay my case before her Majesty who I hope will so graciously consider the same as I shall be presently relieved and others receive no discouragement to accept like service And so leaving further to trouble your Honor at this present I most humbly take my leave At Paris the sixth of February 1572. To the right Honorable Francis Walsingham Esq the Queens Majesties Ambassadour in France SIR I have received your Letters of the 20 of this moneth with the ticket after your accustomed manner concerning and was on Friday last with the party on whom you made mention to be from he spake with Glasco and Davison with him I see there was a great mistaking of our doings for by Davisons writing of a ship sent to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imagining that Hall 3. had a meaning to provoke Glasco●9 ●9 to come hither whereupon this last Gentleman came to enquire of Hall some assurance if should so do to enquire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This you must think must needs appear very strange Whereupon before Davison I did declare that all that was done came of him with earnest and lamentable requests to have Glasco preserved because he said that had gotten such knowledge of the same as the same would tend to the ruine of and so the party that now was sent is departed well certified of the truth but not satisfied of his request It is good to deal warily herein for some cause to mistrust that Davison and all his partners do nothing herein without knowledge of and therefore it is in such sort herein ordered as there can be no advantage taken I trust And so also you may look to your doings as I see you are disposed by the occasion of the fond handling that you see I am much perplexed with the dishonor done to my Lord of Worcester her Majesties Ambassador on the seas before Bulloign Wherefore by his own report I know you shall know the truth better then I yet do know I could wish my self a meet person for the service upon the seas to avenge it I have received your French lying book which might trouble me if my life had merited such vile and spitefull poisoned speech but I trust God will suffer the good to think of me as I have deserved I have imparted to the French Ambassador my misliking of this lewd Book in that it hath been translated by a man of note in that Court and he sheweth himself to procure the suppression of it What he will or can do herein I know not After the writing of the former part hereof your later Letters of the 24 were brought to me by which you advertise of the like likely Councell there intended for the appeasing of those inward troubles in that Realm and of the pretended favours to be shewed to them of the religion in odium t●rtii according to which devises hath already been begun here by this Ambassador with the French King here and such is his vehemency of speech and fair offers as he