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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
Very Reverend and beloved si:r I have two of yours of which I ame at this present to retorne yow answer, the former of the 25th of August the later of the 8th of September [.] the reason why accordinge to my wonted coustome I fayled to advertise yow of the receipt of the former I hope yow have understood by one from m.r Nelson and the week followinge at our retorne I was soe full of busines by reason of his departure towardes England and of mr Colfords towardes Spayne that possibly I could not have commoditye to write; M:r Colford is gone with my permission but not without geveinge me souch caution as that his absence can [two words obscured] be preiudicial unto my busines but as I hope beneficial [.] he pretendeth to [two words obscured] spayne within fower monethes and is in hope at his retorne to geve us all satisfaction he haveinge obtayned a decree for the payment of his dept upon three next folowinge Indian fleetes and therfore doth hope to receave the third part upon the fleet which is now expected in the moneth of October next and of the other two parts to make sale unto the marchants of Genua who are accoustomed to deale in souch bargaines and thus much astouchinge my apologie and this busines and now to the particulers of your letters; of M:r flecher I heare nothinge as yet; the Prince Peretti is sayed to be retorned from England to Paris but not to have seane or saluted our kinge by reason he was in progres and himselfe remayned in England very private acquaintinge him selfe only or in especial with the spanishe Embassadors.
933 John Jackson. His letter to More of 11 September 1612 (NS ?) (AAW A XI, no. 147) described his arrival in Brussels.
934 Jackson had accompanied Pett to Zichem, a shrine near Louvain, AAW A XI, no. 147.
935 See Downshire MSS III, 354.Google Scholar
936 In June 1610 Birkhead recounted to More the cause of the dispute between Pett and Colford: Anthony Fletcher [see next note] had delivered the sum of £2,000 to Colford with, according to Colford, ‘condition of hazard to employ it in trafique for cloth to the kinges [Philip III's] use, and out of the profit therof to pay’ back both the capital and interest. Colford was evidently responsible to Pett for this money. But ‘now the kinge not painge him neither principall nor rent, he likewise is destitute of means to paie either, and neither can nor will’, AAW A IX, no. 43 (p. 117). Colford had apparently borrowed this money in order to supply clothing for Spanish troops in Flanders, and had not been paid for supplying it, Downshire MSS II, 57, 464Google Scholar. For the financial difficulties of Philip III's regime which led to Colford's problem, see Stradling, R.A., Europe and the Decline of Spain (1981), 33–42Google Scholar, esp. pp. 39–41 (for which reference I am very grateful to Albert Loomie). For Colford's attempt to secure payment by going to Spain, see Downshire MSS, III, 185–6, 261, 301, 313, 366Google Scholar, and passim, TV, passim; AAW A X, no. 161. Colford arrived in Paris on 15 September 1612 (NS) where Edmondes ‘made him very welcome in return for his courtesy at Brussels, and gave him a letter of recommendation to Sir J. Digby’, Downshire MSS III, 373Google Scholar. Pett noted in December 1612 that ‘mr Colford brake his righte arme in his Iournay to spayne but is now agayne well recovered and in good hope of well effectinge his busines’, AAW A XI, no. 234 (p. 675). By July 1613 Champney could tell More that Colford ‘shale have his money in the space of one yeare so that he wilbe att libertie then att least to doe us service in some other place thoughe for this present he dothe well there where he ys’, AAW A XII, no. 139 (p. 312), though ‘certayne newes’ that Colford had been paid in Spain reached Pett only in April 1616, AAW A XV, no. 61 (p. 161).
937 After his ordination in December 1610, Anthony Fletcher's inclination towards SJ (which he entered in late 1612/early 1613, CRS 74, 171) did nothing for his credit at Cowdray where he had formerly served the Browne family. Birkhead told More in November 1612 ‘I am sorie mr fletcher is in his way home: he will fynd great difficultie heare of a place. I could wishe he provided himselfe in the Low Countrie for a tyme’, AAW A XI, no. 201 (p. 577). Fletcher carried with him a demand direct from Pope Paul V that the seculars must settle their quarrels with the religious, AAW A XII, no. 68. This was not well taken. Champney reported to More that on Fletcher's arrival back in England he ‘presented to his owld lord [Anthony Maria Browne, second Viscount Montague] a crucifix from his Ho and would gladly have hadd entrance and entertaynement but was refused’, AAW A XII, no. 72 (p. 154).
938 Brother of Andrea Peretti, Cardinal Montalto, McClure, , 378Google Scholar; AAW A XI, no. 138. In August 1609 Champney had suggested to Smith that Montalto should be petitioned for financial assistance for the proposed writers' college in Paris, AAW A VIII, no. 142.
939 Richard Broughton reported to More on 26 October 1612 that Peretti, who ‘came onelie they say to see the Cuntry’, visited the Clink and ‘talked with Mr Pres. [Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB]. I pray God he relate trulie the state of thinges as they stand wtth us’, AAW A XI, no. 190 (p. 551). Champney said that Peretti ‘was with mr. preston att masse in the Clink’, AAW A XI, no. 180 (p. 525). As he returned from England through Brussels Peretti was honourably received by the archduke, AAW A XI, no. 208.
940 Thomas Sackville.
941 Thomas Worthington.
912 John (Augustine) Bradshaw OSB.
943 Bradshaw wrote to More on 4 October 1612 (NS) that he had been away visiting OSB houses in Brittany and Lorraine (St Lawrence's at Dieulouard, where there was bitter conflict among English Benedictines over the ownership of the property, see Lunn, , EB, 96–8Google Scholar). Now he has been ordered back to Spain. This is the result of whispering by his enemies (particularly Roland (Thomas) Preston), AAW A XI, no. 177. For Bradshaw's deposition on 29 September 1612 (NS) from his posts of vicar general and prior of St Gregory's, Douai, and replacement by John (Leander) Jones OSB, see Lunn, , EB, 99.Google Scholar
944 Identity uncertain.
945 On 31 July 1612 (NS) George Russell reported to William Trumbull from Louvain that news was brought from England that thirty priests imprisoned in Newgate were ‘all like to be poisoned in their salades at supper, which grew upon this that the archbishop of Canterb. did solicit the king to rid the land of as many as were in present hold’, but James had refused, Downshire MSS III, 341Google Scholar. Cf. Letter 30.
946 See Letters 28, 33.
947 Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB.
948 Prince Henry.
949 The proposal for a match with the sister of the grand duke of Tuscany had in fact already ground to a halt by the end of July 1612, because of opposition at the court in London and at Rome, CSPV 1610–13, pp. ix–x, 431Google Scholar, and passim; Strong, ‘England and Italy: The Marriage of Henry Prince of Wales’, 70–3. Cf. Downshire MSS III, 338.Google Scholar
950 Pedro de Zúñiga.
951 According to the Venetians, Zúñiga's embassy had not been a success, CSPV 1610–13, 427, 431, 433Google Scholar. For Robert Pett's very different view, see Letter 36.
952 Frederick V, Elector Palatine deferred his arrival, partly because of the death of Philip Lewis, Count of Hanau, but also to wait until the Spanish ambassador had departed, CSPV 1610–13, 433.Google Scholar
953 Henry, Prince of Nassau.
954 CSPV 1610–13, 392.Google Scholar
955 See Letter 31.
956 Cowdray.
957 Anthony Maria Browne, second Viscount Montague.
958 As early as mid-June 1611 Birkhead had written to More that Edward Weston was planning to leave the country and that ‘I feare he is not for us’, AAW A X, no. 71 (p. 189). Champney noted in October 1612 ‘some say he wilbe Iesuit’, AAW A XI, no. 180 (p. 525). While Birkhead thought well of Weston's anti-Preston polemical tract, Iuris Pontificii Sanctuarium, AAW A XII, no. 110, Robert Pett thought Weston's ‘good parts’ were ‘placed in a bad subject that wanteth both witt and iudgment how to use and dispose them’, and that the preface of his book was an exercise in flattering Cardinal Borghese. As for the substance, there is ‘nether method nor matter of worth in yt but souch as I feare will not only redounde to his one discredite and disgrace’ but others of his ‘cote and profession’ as well, for he had given ‘soe great advantages’ to Preston, AAW A XII, no. 98 (p. 215). Benjamin Norton did not think much of it either, but noted that the Jesuits thought well of it, AAW A XII, no. 126. See Allison, ‘Richard Smith's Gallican Backers’, part I, 353–4.
959 John Mush died on 22 November 1612 (rather than in 1613, Bellenger, , English and Welsh Seminary Priests, 90Google Scholar; or in 1617, Anstr. I, 241), AAW A XI, no. 225.
960 For the appointment of a bishop.
961 Luigi D'Este, the second son of Cesare, Duke of Modena, visited England during the summer, CSPV 1610–13, 367, 384.Google Scholar
962 Antonio Foscarini noted that Princess Elizabeth had presented Luigi D'Este with ‘two beautiful mules’, CSPV 1610–13, 384.Google Scholar
963 Christopher Isham.
964 John Mayney was involved in a dispute about money with Thomas Owen SJ, rector of the English College in Rome. In December 1611 Thomas Poulton had reproved Mayney for his hostile letters to Owen and for his ‘uniust taxing’ of SJ, AAW A X, no. 158 (p. 437). Birkhead reported to More on 9 May 1612 that the quarrel between Mayney and Owen had been resolved, AAW A XI, no. 74. But Mayney was soon involved in another financial dispute with Anthony Hoskins SJ. An attempt at arbitration failed (William Trumbull negotiated for Mayney), AAW A XI, nos 208, 234. Hoskins's evidence against Mayney was judged sufficient, and he obtained ‘sentence and execution agaynst mr Mayney’ who ‘was arested and for some tyme committed and soe compelled to pay the mony and this was some 3 dayes before Christmas [1612]’, AAW A XI, no. 234 (p. 675). In January 1615 Mayney was rumoured to have renounced Catholicism, AAW A XIV, no. 9.
965 Pett wrote to More on 6 October 1612 (NS) that he had been sent for by Thomas Sackville to come to Mechlin where they had ‘much conference’. Sackville then gave him some business to transact at Cologne (where Pett had previously studied divinity and where Sackville acted as patron to the Capuchins), AAW A XI, no. 182 (p. 529); Belvederi, , 288.Google Scholar
966 Pett had written to More on 21 July 1612 (NS) that Gray, who had just returned from Rome, AAW A XI, no. 106, was in Brussels to ‘procuer permission for the erectinge of a Cloyster of Englishe franciscans haveinge obteyned the graunt of a convent at dunkirke with two or three Guardians handes for the furtheringe of the affayer, yet thos here at Bruxells would not subscrib to his petition’; he stayed at ‘a publike In and not at his one Cloister and beinge knowen to carie mony about him contrarie to his rule he was advertised that the Guardian here would call him to accounte for yt wherupon he spedily departed the towne’, AAW A XI, no. 124 (p. 338). He told More further on 1 September 1612 (NS) that ‘father Greyes preferment’ was offensive to all English and Scottish Franciscans, and that Gray had written that More was ‘much his enemy as alsoe the Irishe of his order’. He was claiming that ‘he hath great favor with the duches of florence and that her hyghtnes hath promised him that yf she cannot procuer him a convent in England she will at the lest procuer yt soe neare England as may be’. Pett suspected this was all an underhand effort ‘to affront’ William Stanney OFM the Franciscan superior in England, AAW A XI, no. 142 (p. 393). For Gray's return to England, see Letters 40, 47.