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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67123	Letters of Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.; Bacon, Edmund, Sir.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3644; ESTC R25222	47,004	174

where he surprized three Towns with the Petarde the first time as one writeth from Venice that ever that pestilent invention had been put in practice beyond the Alpes The cause of this attempt was for that the Cardinal Gonzaga now Duke of Mantua had yielded to send home the Dowager Infanta to the Duke of Savoy her Father but would retain her only child a daughter of two years in whose right the said Duke of Savoy pretendeth colourably enough to the foresaid whole Marquisat and clearly to all the moveables left by the late Duke of Mantua her Father who died intestat Into which point of Law there entered besides some jealousie of State being unfit for respects that would have falln easily into the apprehension of duller Princes than the Italian to leave a childe out of the custody of her Mother in his that was to gain by the death of it yet am I of opinion who have a little contemplated the Duke of Savoys complexion that nothing moved him more in this business than the threatnings of the French Queen who had before commanded Didiguires to fall into the said Dukes estates by way of diversion if he should meddle with the least Village in the Monserrato which feminine menacement did no doubt incite him to do it out of the impatience of scorn And withall he built silently upon a ground which could not well fail him That the King of Spain would never suffer the French Souldiers to taste any more of the Grapes and Melons of Lombardie because L'apetit vient en mangeant which the issue of the businesses hath proved true for the Governor of Milan having raised a tumultuary army of horse and foot did with it only keep things in stay from farther progress on both sides till the agreement was made between the Duke of Mantua himself in person and the Prince of Piedmont within the Town of Milan The accord is advertised the King from Venice and Paris The conditions will be better known at the arrival of Gabaleoni and then likewise we shall see the bottom of this errand which hath been hitherto nothing but a general proposition of a match between the same Lady that was formerly offered and our Prince now living which the Ambassador hath touched so tenderly as if he went to manage his Masters credit Upon the whole matter I cannot conceive though he seemeth to let fall some phrases of haste that he will be gone yet this fortnight or three weeks till when I languish And so let me end all my letters ever resting Your faithfullest poor friend and servant HENRY WOTTON May 21 1613. Sir IN my last I told you that the Ambassador of Savoy was to meet the Queen at Windsor which pains she hath spared him by her own coming yesternight to Greenwich where I think she will settle her self a day or two before she admit him Now seeing the time of the Commencement at Cambridge so near as it is being able to determine of this Ambassadors departure within that space I have resolved to take those Philosophical exercises in my way to you hoping in the mean time to see Albertus admitted by oath to a Clarkship of the Council or at least to the next vacancy for he is now strong enough again to swear Sir Robert Mansfeld and Mr. Whitlock were on Saturday last called to a very honourable hearing in the Queens Presence Chamber at White-Hall before the Lords of the Council with intervention of my Lord Cook the Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer and Master of the Roles the Lord chief Justice being kept at home with some infirmitie There the Attorny and Sollicitor first undertook Mr. Whitlock and the Recorder as the Kings Sergeant Sir Robert Mansfeld charging the one as a Counsellor the other as a questioner in matter of the Kings prerogative and Soveraignty upon occasion of a Commission intended for a research into the administration of the Admiralty against which the said Sir Robert Mansfeld being himself so principal an officer therein had sought some provision of advice and This was the sum of the charge which was diversly amplified Whitlock in his answer spake more confusedly than was expected from a Lawyer and the Knight more temperately than wa●… expected from a Souldier There was likewise some difference noted not only in the manner but in the substance between them For Whitlock ended his speech with an absolute confession of his own offence and with a promise of employing himself hereafter in defence of the Kings prerogative Sir Robert Mansfeld on the other side laboured to distinguish between the error of his acts and the integrity of his zeal and affection towards the King his Master protesting he should hold it the greatest glory under Heaven to die at his feet and that no man living should go before him if there were occasion to advance his dominions with some other such Martial strains which became him well The conclusion of his speech had somewhat of the Courtier beseeching the Lords if the restraint he had indured were not in their judgements a sufficient punishment of his error that then they would continue it as long as it should please them and add unto it any other affliction of pain or shame whatsoever provided that afterwards he might be restored again into his Majesties favour and their good opinions To tell you what they all severally said that day were to rob from the liberty of our discourse when we shall meet In this they generally agreed both Counsellors and Judges to represent the humiliation of both the Prisoners unto the King in lieu of innocency and to intercede for his gratious pardon Which was done and accordingly the next day they were inlarged upon a submission under writing This is the end of that business at which were present as many as the room could contain and men of the best quality whom the King was desirous to satisfie not only about the point in hand but in some other things that were occasionally awaked which I likewise reserve to our private freedom The Kings Officers are returned from my Lady Elizabeth whom they left at Goltzheime the last of May where His Majesties expence did cease This place was chosen for her consignment in stead of Bacherach suspected of contagion She was at Andernach feasted by the Elector of Cullen at Confluence or Cobolentz as they call it by the other of Trier and at Mentz by the third of those Ecclesiastick Potentates very Royally and kindly and which was less expected very handsomly The Count Maurice and his Brother with troops of Horse and a guard of Foot accompanyed her to Cullen and entred themselves into that City with her I need not tell you that though themselves were within the Horse and most of the Foot were without the walls Which is here by the wiser sort of Interpreters thought as hazardous an act as either of them both had done in the heat of War and indeed no way