Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...warning already, and withal I did present them a welcome letter from the King, wherein his Majesty doth assure them (against all unjust imaginations, wherewith certain idle censurers of princes' actions do fill the air) of the continuance of his constant amity, never violated on his part, and of his care to maintain the common interest which runneth between his Majesty and this Republic, and with the confederates of both, wheresoever he shall dispose of the Prince his dear son, be it in Spayne or elsewhere. This was the substance of his royal letters.1 Before 1 go hence I shall acquaint your Lordship farther with my course. And wheresoever I shall be, there is Your faithful poor friend to serve you, Henry Wottoh. My Lord, It would be against a great many of duties if I should leave these layunc (where I have been towards those that might most command my pen as silent as the very fishes) without a few lines unto her Majesty s: therefore they shall come with the nest ordinary, humbly now beseeching your Lordship to prepare for them a gentle passage unto her most sweet and gracious hand. 396. To Sir Dudley Cakleton. S. P. Yen., holograph. A mock election of a Pope at Rome; diplomatic punctilios. Venice, the 4th of August, stil. loci, 16i!3. My Vehy Good Lord, As yet Ptipain nan habemus, save one whom the pala/rfnieri of the cardinals have made among themselves, while their masters are shut up; whom on St. James his day they chose by secret scrutiny, according to the reformation of Gregory XV, and so put him in a seat, and after they had carried him into St. Peter's Church caii-lando Tc Dcum, they would have made him sit (as the fashion is) before the Sacrament at the high altar, but being resisted by the sacristaiw, they carried him to an...
