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Venice: July 1602

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Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 9, 1592-1603. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

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July 1602

July 7. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 1086. Agostino Nani, Venetian Ambassador in Constantinople, to the Doge and Senate.
An Englishman has come to Constantinople by sea to report on the issue of the English fleet against Spain.
Dalle Vigne di Pera, 7th July 1602.
[Italian.]
July 17. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 1087. Simon Contarini, Venetian Ambassador in Spain, to the Doge and Senate.
The remains of Don Juan d'Aquila's troops are back in Lisbon from Ireland.
Valladolid, 17th July 1602.
[Italian.]
July 17. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 1088. Simon Contarini, Venetian Ambassador in Spain, to the Doge and Senate.
Some English galleons have landed troops at Algarve and attempted to capture the castle, but were repulsed.
Valladolid, 17th July 1602.
[Italian.]
July 27. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives. 1089. Francesco Vendramin, Venetian Ambassador in Rome, to the Doge and Senate.
The English Catholics who came here to complain of the Jesuit Fathers who were inducing their penitents to promise support to the King of Spain in the event of the Queen's death, will leave immediately. They will depart very ill satisfied, for representations have been made to his Holiness to persuade him that all this is merely a ruse of the Queen of England; and he has given orders that nothing is to be done to change the present condition of religion in England.
Rome, 27th July 1602.
[Italian.]