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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 21, Part 1, 1586-1588. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.
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April 1588
| 1588 April 11. | Richard Hakluyt to Burghley. |
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| Within eight or ten days after my return from England to Paris, the Earl of Westmoreland sent a French servant of his twice secretly to ask me to go to speak with him. After informing the Lord Ambassador I went to know his will, whom I found very desirous to understand your lordship's answer concerning his suit to her Majesty. I told him how forward I had found your lordship to move her to become his gracious mistress, and that if I had not been so suddenly dispatched, and when your lordship was so leisureless that you could not write to Sir Edward, you might probably have given him an answer. Where upon he earnestly requested me to write to beseech you to vouchsafe to let him hear from you as soon as opportunity and your leisure permitted. | |
| He then showed me his desire to do some special piece of service, and told me that Morgan, that arch-traitor was newly come again to Paris about some bad practice; adding that if he might have hope of her Majesty's favour (whom he humbly besought to consider his youth and ignorance of the world when he was drawn into his heinous offence) he would hazard his person to prove his sincere affection to her Majesty and his country. | |
| He told me further that the Lord Maxwell, who had been in Spain a great part of last year, was secretly gone down to the Duke of Parma, accompanied only with the Scot (fn. 1) that betrayed 'Lyer' [Lierre] in Brabant; and added that he had good means to understand the practices of Spain by one Higginton, an English priest in this town, to whom Sir Francis Englefield often writes matters of importance, which he would reveal to me or such as your lordship should appoint. He also told me that Mendoza not being able to read himself the letters sent him by his master, by reason of the great decay of his sight, has to use a young man to read them with whom he has acquaintance, and hopes to draw matters of weight from him. He assured me that the Lisbon fleet would not stir until the beginning of May, if it went forth at all. "It was he that gave first notice of the late coming from Rome to 'Rems' of Holte and Creswel, two English jesuits.—Paris, 11th April, 1588. | |
| Would hold himself pleasured if his lordship would bestow the wardship of young Clynton of Herefordshire on his cousin Wigmore. | |
| Holograph. Add. Endd. 2 pp. [S.P. Dom. Addenda, Eliz. XXX., 96.] | |
| April. | Anthony Bacon to Walsingham. |
| Has received so many kindnesses from M. de Cehors, without having seen him, that he cannot lose this opportunity of pleasing him by begging favour for Powel and Jonas Meredith of Wales, prisoners only for religion. Prays for their enlargement.— | |
| Add. Endd. "April, 1588." 1 p. [Ibid. 100.] | |