meritorious work, was set at liberty, came over, and spoke to Duffield about it, but was taken up on suspicion, and after long imprisonment, confessed all this villainy, and that the Spanish Ambassador had promised him a great reward, and said the enterprise had cost the King [of Spain] 100,000 crowns within a few years. 88. List of the prisoners remaining in the Tower and Gatehouse, with the allowances made for them [almost obliterated]. 89. "Answer made to A. B. [Alex. de la Torio], touching certain propositions propounded by him in the name of certain honourable personages from whom he is sent," viz., that the Queen thanks them. for their care to preserve her against the designs of Spain, and approves de la Torio, but refuses to open a communication with the Court of Rome, considering their practices against her person in the time of Pope Gregory the last. Also, a decree was made against her last year in the consistory at Rome, as appears by letters intercepted from Count Olivarez, to the King of Spain. Would have thought, but for her estimation of these honourable personages, that they were trying to lull her into security. Cautions them against the ambition of the King of Spain, who is seeking to dissolve the monarchy of France. [2 pages.] 90. Part of a treatise against Popery and the Spaniards, containing the conclusion of chapter 7, against the Popes; chap. 8. "Of the Spaniards and Kings of Spain, and their hostile proceedings against the Queen, and the people of England, with an answer to the 8th encounter"; and part of chap. 9, being "A conclusion directed to the Lords of Her Majesty's Council, containing an answer to N.D. his petition, which he intendeth to offer to their honours." [Seemingly a reply to a defence of Spain and Philip II., by Noddy, an Englishman, in opposition to Sir Fras. Hastings; it alludes to Lopez's conspiracy, and the confessions of York and Williams. 24 pages.] 91. Discourse, showing the reasons why the King of Spain desires to invade England, and the dangers that would result from waiting for an invasion, or making a defensive war; proposing as a remedy the invasion of Spain by England, and the extinction of her maritime commerce; by a soldier who lately travelled to Spain and Portugal. With a dedicatory epistle to the Queen. [17 pages.] Notes addressed by Wm. Fleetwood to William Lord Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports; headed "Certain notes declaring Admiral jurisdiction, taken out of the Queen's Majesty's letters patent granted unto the Lord Admiral of England for the time being, as taken out of certain statutes confirming the same. With a declaration when the Civil law or Common law of the realm is to be used in any Admiral Court for the trial of such matters as be there to be heard or determined. The authors which I use to prove any matter be sometime the Bible and other doctors writing upon the same; sometime the Civil law; sometime the Common law, and most of all, positive laws, made for the confirmation of Admiral jurisdiction." [Domestic, Charles I., Vol. CCVIII., pp. 1-287.] brothers and sisters of, 468. John, 468. Richard, 468. Robert, 468. Thos., merchant, 175. Wm., 136, 180, 468, 494. Dr. or Cardinal William, 14, 15, 32, ............................ ................... .................., chaplain of, 53. letters of, 28, 291, Alsopp, John, commission against, 128. Alum, 368, 431. works, 338, 339. ALVA, DUKE OF (FERDINAND Alvarez), 462. Alvey, Hen., 24. Alye, Edw., letter of, 420. Alysam, Wm., 389. Ambassadors, 47, 84 (2), 96, 230 (2), 238, rewards to, 559. Amber, 272, 447, 461, 463. America, 163, 376. Amiens, 65. Amough forest, lease of the herbage of, 523. ordnance sent to, 547. .., papers at, 50 (2), 51, 59. ships of, 43, 284, 299, 307, 394, 471. ......................., sugar refining houses at, 361. Anabaptists, 75, 276. Ancona, 224. Ancottes, Alex., 179. Andalusia, 519. ..........................................., servant of, 69, 440. wife and children of, 65, 69, 87, 94, 102. 552. Andreas, Dr., letter to, 466. other documents of, 429, 430. Anonymous persons, letters from, to :— Comyn, Jas., 478. Corby, Gerard, 35. Harington, Chas., 368. "His Highness," 241. Hunsdon, Lord?, 238. Robinson, Rob., 335, 466. letters to, from :- Anon., 571, 572. Brewer, Nich., 153. Segrave, Hen., 368. Tamworth, John, 144. Weston, John, 99. Ansley, vicarage of, 146. ANSPACH, MARQUIS OF (GEORGE FREDERIC Louisa,) 94. Phil., 269. daughter of, (Donna Antwerp, 34, 35, 39, 42, 169, 228, 232, 243, Admiral of, 216. Castle, 72. letters dated from, 175, 217, 320, 434, merchants of, 228, 298, 439, 440. ordnance from or to, 412, 487. places in, 207, 415, 429, 458. ........., port of, 472. residents in, 162, 207, 211, 216, 228, ......................., ships at, 87. Anwell, Rich., protection for, 142. Apprenticeship, indenture of, 367. Apsome, Devon, resident' at, 143. Aquaviva, Cardinal Octavius Claudius, General 518. Aquila, Bishop, Spanish ambassador, 462. Archbishops, 162, 370; see also York and ........., assessment on, 340, 433. |