heads 65 The Ambassador of France denies to be at the Coronation for two reasons 169 An Axiome of State That t is more honour to be last of a Superiour Order then first of an Inferiour 63 Agents from Barbary arrive in England 213 No Ambassador to have his charges defrayed except at conclusion of Peace Marriages or Baptismes 228 An Ambassador of a King to be brought in by an Earle at least ib. An Ambassador of a Duke to be brought in by a Baron ib. No Ambassador except a Kings to be met in the Kings Coach further off then Tower Wharfe ib. Abbot de la Seaglia Ambassador from Savoy 227 B. BOiscot the Arch-Dukes Ambassador discontented 3 Barbarigo the Venetian Ambassador dyes in England 37 Baron Donaw sent Ambassador from the Palsgrave 61 Ballompierre arrives in England refuseth the Kings dyet 188 Benica Agent for the Marquis of Baden 189 The businesse 'twixt the States and our East India Merchants concluded 117 Barham Downe the Rendezvous of the English Ladies to welcome the Queen 153 C. NIne Counts attended the Palsgrave to England 2 A clash 'twixt the Savoy Ambassador and him of Florence 15 A clash 'twixt Gondamar and the States Ambassador 22 The Complaint of the Venetian Ambassador about his Present 39 A clash 'twixt England and France about le Clere 57 Cadenet the French Favorits Brother sent Ambassador Extraordinary into England 67 A Caprichio of some French Lords 70 Cadenet the French Ambassador allowed two hundred pound per diem for his dyet 73 D. THe Duke of Lenox appointed to attend the Palsgrave 1 The Duke of York meets the Palsgrave 2 Donati the Venetian Ambassador recalled for misdemeanour 58 Sir Dudley Carltons cold reception in France 188 A difference 'twixt the Master of the Ceremonies and him of the Jewell-house about the delivery of Presents 194 The difference decided 195 Sir Dormer Cotton sent Ambassador to Persia 177 E. THe Earl of Somersets Marriage c. 12 Exception taken by the French Ambassador 28 Exceptions taken another time 64 The Earl of Arundels revenge of the French Ambassador 68 An Error in the Danish Ambassador 185 The Earl of Rutland sent to transport the Prince from Spain c. 129 The Earl of Dorset Justice in Eyre in the Dukes absence 214 F. THe first Complement 'twixt the Lady Elizabeth and the Palsgrave 2 The French Ambassador stands upon some puntilioes 12 The Florentine Ambassador plac'd beneath the lowest English Baron at Court 24 Foscarini tragically and wrongfully put to death 29 The first rise of the Duke of Buckingham 35 The French Ambassador much discontented 49 The French Lords discontented because they sate not at the Kings Table 71 Fifty pounds sent the Muscovian Ambassador by the Lords of the Councell to pay for his Sea provision 108 G. GOndamars first arrivall in England 12 Gavelone Agent for the Duke of Savoy 15 Gondamar precedes the French Ambassador at the Earl of Somersets Wedding 17 Gondamar casts an aspersion upon the Hollands Ambassador 20 A great clash 'twixt divers Ambassadors 66 The great clash 'twixt the Persian Ambassador and Sir Robert Shirley 174 F. CO Henry of Nassaw accompanies the Palsgrave to England 2 Sir Henry Manwaring recommended to the State of Venice by the King 50 Hamburgh Commissioners deemed to have Audidience of the Queen 183 I. INojosa the Spanish Ambassador clasheth with Don Diego Hurtado an Ambassador also extraordinary from Spain 126 Joachim made Ambassador leger from the States 160 K. KIng James his Apologie to the Arch-Dukes Ambassador 4 The King Knights six Holland Ambassadors at once without paying any sees 78 Kings James his Funerall 174 L. THe Lords make a Supper for the Lady Elizabeth 11 The Landgrave of Hessen comes to England 114 Sir Lewis Lewkner suspected to be of the Spanish faction â—38 The Lord Mayor of London to give place to no other but the King 237 M. THe manner of the Marriage of the Lady Elizabeth 10 Mareth the French Ambassador 53 Monsieur de la Chenay committed prisoner about Sir Walter Rawley 56 Monsieur de Tilliers the French Ambassador hath lodgings at Court but no dyet 165 Tilliers much discontented and his high language 163 The Marquis Pompeo Strozzi Ambassador from the Duke of Mantova 214 A maxime among Ambassadors 232 Meanes found to content the Dutch Ambassador 242 N. A Notable clash 'twixt the Persian Ambassador and Sir Robert Sherley the circumstances thereof 174 A notable high Memoriall the English Ambassador gave the King of Spaine 245 News brought in halfe an hour from Dover to Canterbury of the Queens arrivall 153 O. OSalinskie Ambassador Extraordinary from Poland 74 New Orders at Court touching the treatment of Forren Ambassadors 228 The new Orders practised first upon Ballompierre the French Ambassador 228 P. PResents to Ambassadors lessened 31 A rich Present sent by the Muscovit to the King 39 The Polish Ambassador receives 10000 l. of the King by way of loane 90 The Prince like to be drowned in Spaine 221 A Picture case delivered the Mantoüan Ambassador from the King without his Picture for a Present worth 500 l. 222 The Prince taxed by the Spanish Ambassadors 245 Q. QUadt an honourable person by the Prince of Transilvania 185 She excuseth her presence at the Coronation 169 The Queens arrivall in England and newes brought in half an hour from Dover to Canterbury by Mr. Terhit 153 R. AReformation of Presents given Ambassadors 31 Aremarkable passage for precedence hapned at Vervins 'twixt the French and Spanish Ambassadors 67 Rosdorf Ambassador for the King of Bohemia 197 Rosencrants the Danish Ambassador 180 Sir Robert Shirley laies his Turban at the Kings feet 137 Mr. Robert Tirhit rides in half an houre from Dover to Canterbury S. THe States Ambassador gives place to him of Savoy 32 The Spanish Ambassador countenanced more then the French 48 Six Commissioners in joynt Embassy from Holland Soubizes arrivall in England being Godfather to the last King in Scotland 111 T THe Turks Ambassadors Son touch'd by the King 58 The title of King denied by King James to the Palsgrave 62 The Tarrace at Whitehall falls under Gondamar when he had his first Audience for a match in Spain 63 Two Ambassadors of divers Princes lodged in one house 186 The Co. of Tremes sent to condole King Jame's death 146 U. THe Vicountesse of Effingham clasheth with the French Ambassadors Wife 9 The Venetian Ambassador gives place to the Bohemian 66 The Venetian Ambassador Knighted and the Sword given him 113 The Venetian Ambassador questions the giving of precedence to him of Denmark 207 W. Away found to please the Ambassador of Spain and France 36 A way found out another time to please them 64 A witty answer of the Transilvanian Ambassador 195 Sir Walter Ashtons complaint in the Court of Spaine against the Marquis of Inojosa and Don Carlos Coloma 244 Z. ZAmoiski Son to the Chancellor of Polands arrivall 25 FINIS
FINETTI PHILOXENIS SOM CHOICE OBSERVATIONS OF Sr. JOHN FINETT KNIGHT And Master of the CEREMONIES to the two last KINGS Touching the Reception and Precedence the Treatment and Audience the Puntillios and Contests of Forren AMBASSADORS IN ENGLAND Legati ligant Mundum LONDON Printed by T. R. for H. Twyford and G. Bedell and are to be Sold at their Shops in Vine-Court Middle Temple and the Middle Temple Gate 1656. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP Lord Vicount Lisle c. MY LORD I Know well for I know it by Experience that your Lordship hath been trained up from a Youth in matters of Embassyes and Legantine Affaires as wel when you attended my Lord your Father to Denmark and other States of Germany as many yeares after in the French Court Therefore the Dedicatory addresse of this new Peece will not be adjudged incongruous by any discerning Reader but very pertinent considering the quality of the subject which treats of transactions of that nature being the Manuall observations of that knowing Knight and well accomplish'd Courtier Sir John Finett vvho officiated so many yeares in Affaires of that kind Therefore this Peece goes indented vvith many signall Passages of the Reception and Treatments of the Conduct Audiences the Pretences and Precedencies vvith divers Contests and Puntilioes of State between forren Ambassadors Among other parts of Industry vvhich vvere knovvn to be in that Worthy Knight one vvas to couch in vvriting and keep an exact Diary of vvhat things had passed in his Province as Master of the Ceremonies according to the laudable Custome of the Italians and transmitted by them to the high and low Dutch Ministers of State vvith others Moreover these Observations go interwoven vvith divers Historicall Passages and those most faithfully related there being nothing taken here upon trust but all upon his own knovvledge being stil upon the place himself and an Actor in every thing as appeared by the Manuscript he left And thus much out of the conversation I had often vvith him I vvas desired to tell the World Lastly Besides the Motives before mentioned there vvent another Inducement to this Election vvhich vvas the high respects and Honour I professe your Lordship having discovered in you a true Sidneyan Soule vvhich by a peculiar Noble Genius is observed to be extraordinarily inclin'd to the Theory and Speculative part of Vertue as vvell as to the Practicall In vvhich opinion I rest My most Honoured Lord Your very humble and ever ready Servant JAMES HOWELL Holborn this 20. of April 1656. THE Chief Heads and Substance of the ensuing DISCOURSE 1. THe Arch-Dukes Ambassador discontented and the Kings Apologie for his satisfaction 2. The Braveries used at the Lady Elizabeths Wedding 3. Passages of Ambassadors about invitations to the Earl of Somersets Marriage 4. A clash betwixt the Savoy and Florence Ambassadors for precedence 5. Differences at a Mask betwixt the Spanish Ambassadors and the States 6. The Spanish Ambassador excepting against the States for sitting with him in the Kings presence 7. The Spanish Ambassador refusing to be at a Mask 8. The Venetian Ambassador discontented about his Present 9. Foure Ambassadors at a Readers Feast 10. Ambassadors invited to hunt with the King 11. Ambassadors invited to the Princes Creation 12. The rich present of Furres sent by the Emperour of Russia to the King 13. A clash betwixt the Spanish and French Ambassadors 14. Touching Sir Henry Manwayring 15. Exceptions taken by the French 16. The sitting of Ambassadors at a Mask with the King reform'd 17. Differences betwixt the French and Spanish Ambassadors reconcil'd 18. Of the flaunting Embassie of Monsieur Cadenet 19. Exceptions about placing 20. Six in joynt Ambassie at once from the States 21. The Russian Ambassadors puntillio for precedence 22. A great Embassie from the Emperour 23. Questions betwixt the Imperiall and Venetian Ambassadors concerning Titles and Visits the like with the French 24. The young Landgrave of Hessens entertainment 25. The States Ambassadors distasts 26. The Duke of Soubizes Negotiation 27. Exceptions taken by the Venetian Ambassadors 28. Exceptions of the States Ambassadors 29. The Prince his return from Spain 30. The French Ambassador gets ground of the Spanish 31. Difference betwixt the Spanish Ambassadors 32. Reasons for the Master of the Ceremonies to sit in the same Coach with the Ambassadors 33. A clash betwixt the French and Spanish Ambassador 34. Sir Robert Sherley Ambassador from Persia 35. Ambassadors extraordinary from France to treat of a Marriage 36. Death of King James and Solemnities of his Funerall 37. Complaint of the Venetian Ambassador 38. Reason of the Venetian Ambassador for Parity with Crownd heads 39. The King and Queens first interview at Dover 40. The Marquesse of Blamvillés contestations for formalities and his Lodging and Dyet at Court 41. His reason for not assisting at the Coronation 42. The great clash betwixt the Persian Ambassador and Sir Robert Sherley 43. The French cashier'd from Court 44. Difference betwixt the Master of the Ceremonies and Jewell house who is to carry Presents to Ambassadors 45. Bethlem Gabors Ambassadors 46. The Reformation of Ambassadors sitting in publick and eating with the King 47. The Danish Ambassadors complaint 48. The Mantovan Ambassadors Expostulations 49. A new Declaration touching the Treatment of Ambassadors and the value of their Presents abated 50. The Expostulations of the Duke of Savoyes Ambassador 51. Questions and Puntillioes betwixt Regall and Ducall Ambassadors 52. The Lord Majors refusing to give place to the King of Denmarks Ambassador 53. A clash betwixt the Ambassador of Savoy and the Duke of Buckingham because he gave Sanctuary to my Lady Purbeck 54. The States Ambassadors exceptions and complaints how satisfied 55. The notable Plot the Spanish Ambassadors had traced to destroy the Duke of Buckingham With divers other Signall Passages of State and matters of remark wherewith the Discourse is interwoven In page 250. for and machinations read a machination with other small mistakes which the judicious Reader will not stumble at Sir JOHN FINETS OBSERVATIONS Touching Forren Ambassadors c. THE Count Palatine of the Rhone coming to marry the Lady Elizabeth landed at Graves end on Friday night the sixteenth of October and had his first welcom brought him thither from the King by the Lord Haye with the attendance of Sir Lewes Lewkner Master of the Ceremonies and his second on Sunday following by the Duke of Lenox attended by many Lords Knights and Gentlemen the Kings Servants As he passed before the Tower in his Majesties Barges the discharge of the great Ordnance there served for a warning to the Earles of Shrewsbury Sussex Southampton and other Lords to waite on the Duke of Yorke to the Staires of White-Hall for his reception at his landing there and to conduct him to the presence of the King Queene Prince and Princesse in the Banqueting House where having made an humble reverence to his Majesty and passed his first Complement he addressed himselfe to
quit the Precedence to any but to Kings Ambassadors and to the Venetians so as if the Sovoy Ambassador should be there he must be absent and so he was but on the day of Tilting the Ambassador of Bohemia and the Venetian both appearing the Savoyard came not though he had that very morning by his promise assured his Presence together with the other two Wherupon the Venetian having already taken his place at the lower end of the Tilt-yard as had also the Bohemian grew to be much unsatisfied and suspicious This taking the hand of the Venetian who gave it him without question that the Savoyard might have cuningly insinuated himselfe into some place neerer the King either with the French Ambassador who perhaps he said might repent himselfe of the refusall he had made and accept of the place first appointed or with the Spanish though that in regard of their then not best Correspondence were much unlikely In either of which Cases the Ambassador of Savoy should to his scorne get the Precedence being so scated with the preceding Ambassadors against which if it were so he must he said protest by his immediate departure but the Savoyard as I have said not coming nor intending it as after appeared laid the fault of his default upon an instant opportunity even then he said offered to him by the French Ambassador of writing by an express of his that day to be dispatched though the true cause of his absence were imagined to be that he was not yet resolved as having no order for it to quit the Precedence to the Bohemian as to a Kings Ambassador in regard as he was Ambassador to the Prince Palatine he had disputed it so as he drove forth the day in feare and doubt till I that night resolved him as I promised him I would by a Letter from my Lord Chamberlains direction that he had that day received no wrong at all by any cuning or indirect carriage of the Savoy Ambassador for any advantage taken by his placing The Axiome before delivered by the Venetian Ambassador that the first place of an inferiour degree Nota. is worse then the last of a superiour was judged upon discourse I had with some of understanding in those Affaires to be of valew in a distinct Company but might be otherwise in a Joynt Assembly as at the conclusion of the Peace at Vervins where the French and Spanish meeting and contending for precedence viz. who should sit at the right hand of the Popes Legat an Expedient was found of sending into France for the Popes Nuntio residing there who scated at the right hand of the said Legat the Legat himselfe sitting at the Tables end the French Ambassador being offered the choyce of the next place he took that at the Legats left hand leaving the second at the right hand to the Spanish who taking it perswaded himselfe to have the better of it sed de hoc quaere December 1620. The French King comming so neer England as Callays and being newly returned thence towards Paris sent hither for his Ambassador Extraordinary the Marquess de Cadenet one of the Mareschalls of France and brother to that Kings Favorite the Duke de Luines He with an Attendance of between fifty and sixty persons of title and mark and of above three hundred others had passed the seas to Dover before any order for his Extraordinary reception was fully resolved on at London so as the Master of the Ceremonies being sent thither scarcely in time to receive him he passed his time there four or five dayes for the better ordering of his occasions After passing on towards London the Earle of Arrundell accompanied with the Lord of Hunsdon and divers Gentlemen of his Majesties Privy Chamber in about twenty Barges went from London the 28. of December and that night visited him in his Majesties name at his Lodging in Gravesend where the Ambassador not meeting his Lordship till he came to the Staire Head of his Chamber door and at his parting accompanning him no further no more then did the ordinary Ambassador the Count de Tillieurs who had been frownd upon by the Marquess for not meeting him sooner then at Gravesend The Earle of Arrundell was much displeased with it as with a neglect of his quality so as the next day in some part to right himself he desired the Master of the Ceremonies to go to the Ambassador and tell him that in regard his Trayne was great and his Lodging little he would not be troublesome to him there but would meet him in the Street and thence accompanie him to his imbarking So he did and on the way incountered another cause of exception in that the Ordinary Ambassador did not so much as offer him the hand my Lord pretending a kind of right to it The most of Opinions are That the Ambassador Ordinary should have of the place he took at the least to have it offered him in the presence of the Extraordinary but of this Quaere Arriveing at Denmark House ordained for the Ambassadors Aboade the Earle landing with him at the Garden Staires and accompanying him not further then to the foot of the first Staire ascending to the Privy Lodgings took his leave and saying there were Gentlemen there that should shew him his Lodging left him This bred much discourse and was with the other reserved proceeding of both the Ambassadors at Gravesend soone conveied to the knowledge of his Majesty who sensible more of the cause given by the Ambassadors then of the measure returned by the Earle of Arrundell stormed much at it till Sir Thomas Edmonds Comptrouller of the Kings House being sent the same night from his Majestie with some formalization to that purpose The Ambassador was said the next day to have made his excuse to my Lord of Arrundell that his indisposition in his Journey and at the time when he came to receive him was a cause that he met him no sooner nor accompanied him no further whereupon the difference was for that time accommodated After one dayes rest the King sent to the Ambassador for conduction to his already assigned Audience the Lord Marquess of Buckingham accompanied with the Earls of Dorset and Warwick four or five Barons and about twenty Gentlemen in the Kings and sixty other Coaches so many appointed but the number was soone increased to above one hundred he passed with his Traine from Denmarke House to Westminster the King there meeting him by Barge from White-Hall and staying his Entrance in the higher House of Parliament where he gave him and with him the Ordinary Ambassador a gracious Audience Besides the higher House of Parliament the Court of Requests and the Painted Chamber the way of his passage were all adorned with rich hangings of Tapistry At the end of his Audience intimating to the King that the haste of his return would make him bold to press his Majesty for another speedy Access His Majesty told
Pages in the Lord Chamberlaines and in the two other the rest He was received at Tower-Wharrfe by the Earle of Warwick accompanied with the Lord Cromwell and sundry of his Majesties Servants And in the Kings and seven or eight Coaches was conducted to his Lodging in Crutchet Fryers ordained for him and defrayed as was also his diet at a certaine rate agreed upon per diem without attendance of any of the Kings Servants His landing at Gravesend and his so speedy repaire to London was a cause that the Lord mentioned met him no sooner The next day being Sunday and his Majesty desirous for three or four dayes to leave the Town his Publike Audience was assigned and given him at White-Hall with the Conduct of the Earle of Essex and the like number of Gentlemen and Coaches as before where in the Presence there he presented Letters with a long Elegant Oration in Latine to his Majesty The Tuesday following he was accompanied to his Audience of the Prince at Saint Jameses by the Lord Danvers the Master of the Ceremonies and my selfe with other Gentlemen The 24. of March the day of the Kings comming to the Crowne having been invited to a Tylting of the Prince and other Knights he was fetcht thither in the Kings Coach by Sir Lewes Lewkner but before he came the French Venetian and Savoy Ambassadors were seated in their and his appointed stand hung and covered with Tapistrie over the Gate or Porters Lodge entring into the Tiltyard on the right hand of his Majestie These three other I was sent for to conduct from where they all dined together at the French Ambassadors Sir Edward Sackvill having been appointed to conduct the Venetian but he was parted from home before Sir Edward came thither The French Ambassador at his entrance into the Stand casting his Eyes about him and asking which was the better place that on the right hand as of Custome or the other on the left as of Respect and nearest to the King The Venetian Ambassador forwardest with his Answer said where ever the French Kings Ambassador sits there will be the best place To which the French Ambassador making no reply This may resolve which is the upper end of a Table in the midst of a roome when the best man sits at the end of it though the placing of the Chimney may perhaps and doth sometimes as here in England alter it but sitting down uppermost on the left hand from the Kings right the other two sate by him in their Order till the Polonian comming they made him roome to take as he did the second place The Tylting ended and not before they had all of them a Salutation given them by the King from the place where he sate so parted without further Ceremony then with my recommendation The six Commissioners of the States and the Ambassador Ordinary Sir Noell Caron with the Secretary of their Commission were conducted by Sir Edward Cceill to the Chamber next the Gate at the lower end of the Tyltyard and there with his company saw the Tylting These Commissioners about the beginning of Aprill demanded a finall Audience and dispatch from his Majesty and had for Answer that the Sunday following his Majesty was pleased they should dine with him and then take their leaves but soone after a disinvitation was brought by the Lord Kelley with this excuse That his Majesty having since received the news of the King of Spaines death and intending that day as the most fit to assume his habite of mourning supposing that this and Feasting would not accord so if they would be pleased to stay their Journey till the time of mourning should be expired which would be at Saint Georges Day about a fortnight after they should have a day assigned them for the honour of eating with his Majesty In the mean time their demanded Audience should be given them on Sunday in the afternoon which accepted of and the other excused with the reason of their pressing haste to be at home they came then to Court in his Majesties Coach perhaps too high for their qualification of Deputies as by the place of their last Audience they might seeme to be taken for no more introduced by the Earle of Kelley to his Majesties presence in the Chamber of private Audiences there took their leaves and received all sixe of them the Order of Knight-hood Upon which grew a question from some of the Kings Servants interessed concerning payment of their fees accounting from each of them to receive forty foure pound sixteen shillings these being demanded by one Mr. Agher their Collectour and at the first not refused by them to be paid the next day when they came to take their leaves of the Lord Chamberlain a doubt being made of the duenesse of their payment in regard they were publique Ministers and a resolution asked of his Lordship he absolutely affirmed to their Secretary there present that it was unfit they should pay any Fees and that if they were againe demanded they should use his name for their discharge of payment yet notwithstanding this Signification from his Lordship the Collector ceased not to solicite in the name of the Gentlemen Ushers and others protesting against the Lord Chamberlains power to give away or withhold their rights till finally at their departure April 14. they left behind them this Order upon the importunity of the Collector and my interposition that if his Majesty should be pleased himselfe to say to the Lord Chamberlain or to the Officer that challenged the Fees that they should not be paid they had no reason to loose the honour of his Majesties free favour but if otherwise his Majesty should say they ought to be paid that the Ambassador Ordinary Sir Noell Caron should ingage himselfe as he did to me the same day by his promise for their payment I understood after from my Lord Chamberlain that his Majesty signified his pleasure to him From that time to the yeare 1635 none such have paid that those Fees should not be paid as being not properly to be exacted from Ministers of Forren Princes or such as should have any Ordinary relation to them The Commissioners went hence the fourteenth of Aprill to their Shipping at Gravesend in one of his Majesties Barges and were followed the next day in an other by the Baron of Donow Ambassador for the King of Bohemia he also having about the same time had his dismission and that day mine and some other Gentlemens company to their imbarking before Tilbury The States Commissioners were presented as I was informed with 3000 ounces of gilt Plate equally divided amongst them and their Secretary Constantine Huggins with a Chayne of Gold 45 l. valew The King of Bohemias Ambassador had assigned him for his present 1160 ounces of guilt Plate but this being not then presented but with assurance to be sent after him he two or three years after returned hither to recover it and did
Majesty in the same place together with the French and other Kings Ambassadors as also with the Spanish till that Question fell between him and Sir Noell Caron but the intention in truth was that they should not then be invited at least to be ranked in publick as they pretended it to be their due al par delle Teste Coronate and reasons were framed to keep them off from discontent as well as from their apparence there but they might seem not of the Substantiallest As first that the States having given their assistance to the Rochellers against the French King the presence of their Ministers would be distastfull and in a manner incompatible codem loco tempore honore with that Kings Ambassadors but this proved not exclusion the French intended to make no such having as he said to me no order for it neither had the pretended distasts for the States former assistance yet passed he said so far as to publick notice and exception from the King his Master Another exclusion was obtruded upon their pretence of Precedence to the Duke of Savoys Ambassador but no such Ambassador being now in England there wanted ground for that exclusion also Arsennes Stavencts and Basse The last was against their number that they could not all there be conveniently seated together with his Majesty with the other Ambassadors invited but this Bar they removed by their answer that if they might have the honour of an Invitation there should be but one of them present to receive it esteeming that a sufficient honour to the rest absent In a word when neither these reasons nor others would serve to still their Exceptions against their not being invited they were referred to adventure of content or not content and so were not at all invited Onely a dozen of their followers had places assigned them over the Lord Chamberlains Box at the entrance into the Banquetting House from the Princes Galleries Monsieur de' Arsennes Son and their Secretary Sr. Constantine Huggins were placed on the fourme beneath the Lords The French Ambassador that night and the Venetian supped with the Duke of Lenox and entered the Roome with the King both seated there on his left hand the French even with him and the Venetian somewhat more forward The Negotiation of the States Ambassadors with our East-Indian Merchants being brought in appearance to a finall conclusion the Master of the Ceremonies onely without any Titular Person was sent for them with the Kings Coach January the one and twentieth to take their leaves of his Majesty but a new difference in the interim occuring they were sent to at two of the Clock the instant of their setting forth and were stayed their Journey which appointed for the Fryday following they had againe the Kings Coach with the Master of the Ceremonies and one other sent for them and entring White-Hall by the Parke and Tiltyatd Gallery they attended his Majesties time he being then ill at ease in the Chamber of Ordinary Audience next that of the Stone Table whereinto after an houre they were called by Mr. Secretary Conway and being there with the Commissioners for that businesse upon point of signing their generall agreement a new question arose from the Merchants with exception against the validity of their caution which lasting til late at night Mr. Secretary in the mean time passing often between them and the King they had a dismission for the next dayes Audience of his Majesty to which the Earle of Warwick had appointment to conduct them his Lordship having said in the hearing of some of the Lords who after told it to the Lord Chamberlain that it was fit some person of honourable Title not Sir Lewes Lewkner onely should be sent to their Lodgings to accompany them to Court at their last Audience which my Lord Chamberlain excusing as forgotten by him having not been put in mind of it he said by Sir Lewes it was against the next day provided for when the Earle of Warwick accordingly attended with two or three other Noblemen and divers Gentlemen of the Kings Servants in eight or nine Coaches besides the kings brought them to Court where passing through the Guard Chamber and Presence into the Councell Chamber on the late Queens side they there rested till the Lords Commissioners for their businesse came to them and after an hours expence in discourse about some remaining rubs It was finally agreed on and the Lord together with the Ambassador having signed to the accord their Lordships leaving them repaired to the King and after them followed the Ambassadors through the late Queens Lodgings into the Privy Gallery where entring the Kings withdrawing Chamber they there took their leaves the three Ambassadors with Sir Noell Caron first and after the other inferiour Commissioners strangers for that business Monsieur Stavenets was there Knighted and two other having been knighted before viz. Monsieur de Arsennes by the King of France and Monsieur Basse by the King of Sweden The next day being to take leaue of the Prince they had sent for their conduct Sir Robert Car Gentleman of his Highnesse Bed-Chamber with the Kings and Prince's Coaches entring by the Privy Garden Gate at White-Hall and thence by the further end of the long Stone Gallery into the Prince his Lodgings where in his Chamber of presence he gave them their Audience and farewell thence they went to visite and take leave of the Marquess of Buckingham and so home The first of February after they had spent here the full time of fourteen moneths in Negotiating and had had of the King and Councell above sixty Audiences they went in Coaches of their own without the Kings to Tower Wharffe and there imbarked in hyred and borrowed Barges to their Ships which laid not far off and were purposely sent to transport them This default of the Kings Coach and Barge at their parting ever woont at that time to serve Ambassadors proceeded from the Master of the Ceremonies who should have been my Lord Chamberlains Remembrancer for I acquainted his Lordship after with the omission and I had for answer that he knew not of the certaine time of their departure which the Master of the Ceremonies might and ought to have observed if he had not learned overmuch to some others particular satisfaction The Spanish Ambassador or been over partiall c. At ten in the morning when they were all ready to depart the Present from his Majesty was not come which for that slackness they were upon point of leaving behind them but the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Henry Mildmay even then in tempore arriving and personally presenting it as he said his Majesty had particularly cōmanded him though that might seem to have been said ad captandum they received for each of the three Commissionershares five hundred ounces of faire gilt plate and to their Secretary Sir Constantine Huggins a Chaine of Gold of a hundred markes more by twenty pound
then he had the other time of his being here bestowed on him which my Lord Chamberlaine told me he himselfe had caused to be so increased done as a Cast he said of his Office to a person worth They gave at the instant of their parting no gratuities to any that I could heare of excepting to the Master of the Jewell-House who discovered no great satisfaction in matter or manner to that purpose only they had set down in a lyst the names of such as they intended should be gratified after their departure as they signified to Sir Lewes Lewkener and to my selfe who three dayes after received from the hand of Sir Noell Carone comming personally in all their names to my House a purse and in it fifty peeces 50. pound Monsieur de Boiscot Ambassador Extraordinary from the Arch-Duke Arriving at London Who had been here before Ordinary Ambassador An. 1612. while the King was at Theobalds in his way to New-Market and setting forth from London in Company of the Spanish Ambassador Don Carlos de Coloma to come for their Audience of his Majesty On Sunday the 23 of February lay at Ware the first night the next at Royston the third at Cambridge where in Trinity Colledge the Masters Lodgings were taken up for them and the Kings Officers of his House appointed to serve them being defrayed there and all the way out and home by his Majestie but not before nor after in London The Wednesday following they were fetcht by the Lord Walden with three or four Gentlemen the Kings servants in the Kings Coach and others appointed for their Journey to New-Market where streight entering the Court for their repose in the Princes Lodgings his Highness being then gone for Spaine they were introduced by the Earle of Arrundel meeting them at the Presence then to the Privy-Chamber door through it and the withdrawing Chamber into the Kings Bed-chamber where all other but the Agent of the Archdutches Monsieur Van Mall who attended him there were excluded they had an hours Audience of his Majesty and returned that night to Cambridge The next day passing their time in sight of severall Colledges and of the Schooles where at a Congregation purposely called they were admitted Masters of Arts and heard after that a disputation in Phylosophy they the next morning parted thence to Audely-end and entertained there that night by the Lord Walden in absence of his Father the Earle of Suffolk they the next day came to London 1623 In May. I received his Majesties command to attend the Earle of Rutland appointed Admirall Generall of the Fleete sent for Spaine to transport the Prince and the Infanta to England with order and Instructions that as soone as his Lordship should be come to Saint Andera our Port assigned I should carry to the Prince wheresoever he should then be abiding in Spaine the news of the Ships Arrivall for his and the Infantas Service Sir Thomas Somerset Son to the Earle of Worcester had obtained the like imployment from his Majesty after I had received mine which I stirring in as being a derogation from my Service his Majesty was pleased to resolve it with this signification That he had sent Sir Thomas Somerset as a Person of more eminent quality for the more honour of the imployment and me as his Ordinary Servant and Officer of the Ceremonies for my more neere and usefull attendance on it Imbarqued and my Cabine markt for me in the Admirall of the Fleet the Prince Royall I kept on the same course with the Generall from the Downes to Portshmouth to Waymouth to Plimmouth and thence to Spaine with the slow motion that the winds lent us in above three moneths time from our first falling to the Downes till upon the eleaventh of September we entred the Port of Saint Andera in Biscay where meeting an assurance that the Prince was already come within a day or two's Journey of that Port with intention to imbarke himselfe and company being till then out of hope of our Ships so opportune an Arrivall in the two Ships of Sir Francis Stewart and Captaine Love that had lyen there for his Highnesse Service long before our coming though there were some discourse about the fitnesse or not of Sir Thomas Somersets and my going to meete the Prince before we should heare he were come into the Town of Saint Anderas my reasons and resolution with them for discharge of the Service which we were sent for viz. to carry the news as soon as we should come to Spaine of the Fleets readiness there prevailed and he and I rowed immediatly to shoare whence ryding that night over the mountaines in most darke and Tempestuous weather we met his Highnesse about six leagues up within Land early the next morning when besides the Joy his Highnesse received at our incounter and the Fleets Arrivall a news that he said made him looke upon me when I told it as on one that had the face of an Angell the Duke of Buckingham when I after met him and told him the like to express his content kissed me and drawing from his finger a Diamond of above an hundred pounds valew gave it me for a present As soon as his Highnesse was come to Saint Andera he committed to my charge and attendance an Ambassador Extraordinary Don Dicgo Hurtado de Mendoza and honourable Person of that House one that I had known and received honours from in Spaine nine yeares before when I was sent thither with a present from his Majesty and was now sent by that King to waite on the Prince to England and to bring back an account of his sase Arrivall there He was quartered and I with him in Sir Francis Stewarts Ship the Saint George out of which I accompanied him one day in the Port of Saint Andera and another at Sea to his Audiences of the Prince aboard his Ship and a third time in the Castle of the Isle of Silley wherein the Windes in our returne had forced us The third day of the Prince his stay for wind at Saint Anderas in which Town his Lodging was prepared though he lay every night on Shipboard upon an occasion offered of a storme that took him the first Evening when having been aboard and the Spanish Lords also that had accompanied him from Court he intended to returne on shoare in a Barge but was with hazard of drowning to himselfe and all with him driven to lye for that night in one of the other Ships which they happily recovered he made a Dinner for the Grands and the rest of quality in the great Cabbyne of the Ship called the Prince where at his own Table placed cross at one end of the roome sate himself the Spanish Ambassador mentioned our Kings Ambassadors Sir Walter Ashton the Cardinal de Capata and the Conde de Gondemar all the other Tituladoes and persons of quality being placed at another Table set long wayes no man but I Sir
Conway with the cause of my comming and the address I had from my Lord Chamberlaine to him too for my further Government so the 27. of January I was sent to Saxham with the Kings Coach only and five Gentlemen the Kings Servants and parting thence the next morning early in obedience of a Command sent Post to me thither from my Lord Duke after midnight That the King having assigned the Audience for the afternoone would have me bring the Ambassador by ten in the forenoon we came with three Coaches besides the Kings to Court where conducting him immediatly up to the Princes Privy Chamber which in absence of his Highness was purposely hung for honour to the Ambassador he was fetcht thence by the Earle of Anglesey through the Privy Chamber and the Withdrawing-Chamber where the Duke met him into the Kings Bedchamber There having made his two first respects of Approach with his Turbant on his whole habite being Persian at the third he took it off and laid it at the Kings feete and made his Speech of Entrance kneeling till the King willing him to arise and cover he did and presenting his Letters of Credence written in the Persian Language and un-understood for want of an Interpreter no where then to be found in England After this having gratious words and countenances from his Majesty he returned accompanied as he came to the Prince his Lodgings where Master Secretary Conway repairing to him intertained him an hour with discourse concerning the Propositions of his Negotiatiation which he had a little before delivered to him and the Duke in Writing and so returned to Saxham Immediatly upon this Ambassadors Arrivall at Court I acquainted the Duke with his intention to lay his Turbant at the Kings feet though he said he had kept it alwayes on in the Presence of the Emperour and the King of Spaine and thereby made way for his Majesties Allowance of his covering which was otherwise doubted would not have been permitted in regard of his naturall Subjection though in his former imployment into England when he wore his owne Countrey Habite he had been after some question about it allowed to cover in the Kings Presence From the same King The 12. of February he came to London with my attendance in company of his Sister Crofts and others met between Tottenham and Newington with six Coaches whereof one with foure Horses and hired by me at the Kings charge by my Lord Chamberlains permission for that day onely his Lordship saying he had yet no order for it from his Majesty The 14. of February having received an assignation for his Audience of the Prince at Saint Jameses his Highnes Coach and two Horses being commanded to be ready there at twelve of the clock I found there the Earle of Arund Son to the Lord Marquess Hamilton and Gentleman of the Prince his Bed-Chamber with six or seaven more of his Highness Servants that had received Order for his conduction to his presence We went thence to the Ambassadors Lodgings in Fleet-street and there meeting the Lord North and some Gentlemen of his Kindred we brought him to the Prince his Presence Chamber at Saint Jameses where his Hignesse standing ready to receive him the Ambassador entered performing all his reverences with his Turbant on bowing himselfe low at his second reverence and touching the ground with his right hand and then his head when come neere the Prince who stood uncovered he fell on his knee but instantly raised by his Highnesse he fell to the Complementall part and from that to the earnest of his errand which offered to the Prince's consideration in writing he retyred as he entered and returned to his home with the conduction mentioned The five and twentieth of February Mr. Secretary Conway wrote me a Letter to come to speake with me for the Kings Service which obeyed he told me the Duke of Buckingham and he had received notice of two Ambassadors landed at Gravesend from the States of the United Provinces This was when Sir Lewes Lewkner was had in Jealousie for his affection to the Spanish Ambassadors and that they had made choyce of me to be sent thither to receive them I told him after humble thanks for the honour my Lord Duke and his Honour intended me in that imployment that I must in the duty of my place receive my charges from the Lord Chamberlain and that I thought the Master of the Ceremonies had or would have the discharge of that Service committed to him He replied he thought he would rather attend the Spanish Ambassadors then the Dutch and for my Lord Chamberlaine he said he had sought him for that purpose but not finding him he desired me to acquaint him with the Dukes and his choyce of me which when I accordingly imparted to his Lordship he told me that Sir Lewes had been with him that afternoon and received his Directions to go presantly to Gravesend with the Kings Barge to bring them to London The next morning my Lord Wentworth sent me word that he was made choice of to receive them at their landing at the Tower and desired my company with other Gentlemens thither whence he conducted them being two Joynt Commissioners Monsieur d'Arsennes that had been here not long before and Monsieur Jaachimi one of the States Generall of Zealand with the attendance of half a score Coaches half a dozen of the Kings Servants and as many Commanders of the Low Countries whereof Generall Veere was one to their Lodging in Lumberstreet The Sunday following 29. of February the Lord Cavendish had order to bring them to their Audience of his Majesty with him went the Lord de la Ware and other Gentlemen whereof my self one though Sir Lewes had charge of the Service being come to the Ambassadors Lodging we found so many Coaches sent and brought thither to do them service and honour as our whole number all with four horses was thirty Having rested themselves a while in the Councell-Chamber they were introduced to the Kings Presence in his withdrawing Chamber by the back way that leads from the Councell Chamber to the Privie Galleries and not in the Presence Chamber the ordinary place of Audience for Ambassadors Extraordinary quod nota The next day having received an Assignation for an Audience of the Prince and the Lord Compton son to the Earle of Northampton being appointed to conduct him to it at Saint Jameses I went thither about one of the clock with intention only to be present at it when hearing that Sir Lewes Lewkner was not likely to be there for his service I upon request of the Lord Carew Chamberlaine to his Highness attended it accompanying the Lord Compton who had with him two of the Princes Coaches beyond Custome and two of the Lords and on the way in Cheapside meeting them the Ambassadors not expecting as they said a person of honour should be sent for them they there shifted Coaches came to Saint
Audiences which was made to none but to Emperours and Kings Ambassadors Also that the same quantity of Wine viz. so many Tonns was allowed them here in England free of Impost as was allowed to Kings Ambassadors with a difference of a less quantity to those of inferiour Princes And that he had at the Funerall sent to him from his Majesty the like quantity of Blacks as was sent to the French Ambassador All which and more were Arguments he said of their unquestioned Parity with Crownd Heads He told me further that in Spaine not long before the Emperours Ambassador endeavoring the abatement of the respects given them there made a request to the King that he would alter the Pragmatick of giving the Title of Illustrissimo to the Venetian which the Venetian Ambassador having notice of made it known to the French Ambassador there Resident and intreated him to acquaint therewith the King his Master which he did and had answer returned from the King that if the Title of Illustrissimo given the Emperours and his Ambassadors were to be changed for that of Excellentissimo he should in his name demand that the like alteration might be made for the Venetian otherwise that the already received and used Title of Illustrissimo should be continued answerable to the present Pragmatick as it hath been ever since without change given in Spaine to the Ambassadors of the State of Venice as to all other Kings Ambassadors without difference The 31. of May 1625. Madam Maria Henrietta second Daughter to Henry the Fourth King of France and the then affianced Wife of King Charles being upon her Journey for England his Majesty prepared for her incounter and Reception went by water to Gravesend thence by Post and Coach to Canterbury A day or two before the Master of the Ceremonies had order for the Provision and sending down of thirty two Coaches to serve her Majestie and the Duke de Chevereuxe imployed then Ambassador Extraordinary from that King for his Presence at the Solemziation and finall ratification or consummation of the Marriage The Coaches mentioned to be taken up for the Service were defrayed by the King but Carts and Post-Horses brought in by Warrant sent abroad to the Countrey were to be immediatly paid for at prizes usuall by such as should have use of them The confusion was extraordinary for want of orderly directions in almost all things but especially in the distrbiution of Coaches Carts and Horses he that first laid hand on them possessing them though unworthy when others of far better qualitie and more modest were not at all or ill accommodated His Majesty entering Canterbury was received by the Mayor who had borrowed the Recorder Master Henry Finches mouth for a wellcomming Speech delivered with much Elegancy was lodg'd at the Lord Wootons House parcell of the demolisht Abby of Saint Augustine The great Lords and their Ladies that attended him from London which were Arrundell Excester Devonshire Saint Johns Andever Dacre de la Ware Mordant Wentworth Harvey and others were quartered severally in the City and had their Randezvous for Diet of his Majesties providing at the Bishops Pallace The third day following his Majesty leaving the married Lords and Ladies at Canterbury went to Dover for view and directions of what was fitting for the Queens accommodation about which and in expectation of the newes of her approach he there spent the time from Thursday to Tuesday when Master Robert Tyrrwhit servant to his Majesty returned from France whether he had been purposely sent with the newes of her departure from Amiens and her intention to be on Wednesday at Bolloigne which made the King upon assurance that the Queen Mother indisposed in her health would not come thither with her daughter alter the resolution he had of passing the Seas and the next day returned to Canterbury with the reason of giving to the Queen some time of refreshing after her Sea-distempers before he would see her But on Thursday the Kings Fleet not able for the winds opposition to recover Bulloigne and left for the same cause on Fryday and two dayes after on Munday the 12. of May about nine of the clock the reports of Canons from the French coast and the wind then come faire made us presume of her Majesty then shipping as it did after assure us of her landing at seven in the Evening passing out of her Boat on shore by an artificiall moveable Bridge framed for that use only The newes of her arriveall was by Master Tirwhit within half an hour and six minuits carried to the King at Canterbury Her Majesty rather ill at ease then sick after her Sea motions was carried from the shore to the Town in a Litter there received Wellcome and presented by the the Mayor she went in Coach up to the Castle and had there the next day her best and happiest Reception from the King come that morning from Canterbury May 13. Their Majesties dining that day together the King after dinner gave Audience to the Duke de Chevereux the Duke of Buckingham with my Service introducing him to the Presence Chamber of the Queen whence the King honourd him after his Audience with his company to his Majesties own Presence Chamber for a sight and wellcome of the faire Dutches de Chevercux After this their Majesties set forth for Canterbury and within two or three miles of it on Barrham Down were attended for their meeting and reception by the Lords and Ladies mentioned these latter presenting themselves from a fitting distance where the Queen stood to her Majesty each in their ranke with three low reverences kissing her hand and her Majesty them for their greater honour That night their Majesties supt and slept together Sic consummatū est The next day they removed to Cobham neer Rochester and from thence and Gravesend they came with the lowd wellcome of great Ordinance from the Ships on the Thames and from the Tower to London May 16. Their landing was at the Privy Staires of Whitehall where in the Sheild Gallery stood on each side ranged those Ladies of quality and beauty that had not yet seen the Queen and there they had from her particular respects of satisfaction The Duke de Chevereux and his Lady were lodged at Somerset House and had the next day a Visit sent them from his Majesty by the Earle of Arrundell with two or three Lords with divers Gentlemen attending who after conducted him to his publick Audience of his Majesty in the Presence Chamber Thence he was upon passage to the Queene for the like but word being brought that she was not well at ease he was remitted to another time and returned to his Lodging with the company of the Count de Tremes and the Marquess de Fiat with him joynt Commissioners The next day being that of the Overture of Parliament his Majesty to avoid the danger of the Plague then growing strong by the concourse of people went
March ten moneths after when begining their voyage the two differing Ambassadors in severall Ships they all three dyed on the way and with them the quarrell and inquirie after it The Venetian Ambassador Seignior Pesaro called home somewhat sooner then other Ambassadors of that States formerly had been parted hence to Gravesend without other attendance then those of his Family having sent me after I had taken my last leave of him a Gold Chaine of five ounces weight and the like of little more valew to the Master of the Ceremonies He had no sooner passed the Seas but here arrived by the way of the low Countryes two Gentlement sent Extraordinary Ambassadors from Venice the one Seignior Coraro who had resided here Ordinary about fourteen yeares before and Seignior Contareni they Landed at Gravesend seasonably for observation of the new order resolved on by his Majesty that no Ambassador should be met and received further off then there and were thence conducted by Sir Lewes Lewkner c. to their Landing at Tower-wharffe where they were welcom'd by the Earle of Dorset accompanâ—ed by the Lord Herbert Castle Island and other Gentlemen my selfe one not as an Officer or listed for it but Voluntary with the Kings Coach and seventeen other not one of them taken up at the Kings charge as had been accustomed but borrowed of Noblemen to avoid the charge of the Master of the Ceremonies professed to the Lord Chamberlain he would not undergo without assurance of better re-imboursment of his money then he had met with and were brought to their Lodgings in Aldersgate-street at the Lord Peters House defrayed there by the King with all their attendance of allmost an hundred Persons their Diet compounded for by Philipp Verzellini an Italian who had lived long in England at 40 l. per diem not comprehending the charge of the Houses Furniture being all the Kings and waited on by his Majestyes Officers and Servants whereof twelve of the Guard gave their dayly attendance The five and twentieth of June Sunday they were fetched to their publick Audience at Greenwich by the Earle of Carliel from their House in the Kings Coach and other to Tower Wharffe and thence by Barges introduced by the way of the great Gate Hall and Guard-chamber to the Presence where his Majesty standing under the State to receive them Seignior Carara spake first breifly delivering their credence when the other setling himselfe as to begin a more formall set speech his Majesty looking about for one to interpret the Master of the Ceremonies being retyred out of sight not over forward to do Offices of his Office to that State I being called to by the Lord Chamberlain made a repetition of the cheife heads and some of the Ambassadors long Oration to the King and after of his Majesties breife replye which done they returned accompanied as before to London The Sunday following they had a second Audience in private by the way of the Patke through the Privy-galleries to the Withdrawing-chamber there fetcht to it from their home by the Earle of Holland an honour not formerly afforded any Ambassador to have an Earles conduct from their House to a private Audience to which customarily none was to bring them from home but the Master of the Ceremonies though their Ambassage were Extraordinary and if ordinary he to have received them no further off then at their descent from their Coach at the Court Gate or foot of the Stayres next the Parke But this honour was done them by the Kings especiall pleasure and command as I was told it might or may be hereafter of trouble by the consequence when other over-punctuall Ministers of that State may perhaps challenge the like from president The second of July the Lord Conway Secretary of State sent word to my Lord Chamberlain then somewhat indisposed of the arrivall of two Commissioners from Hamborough who were styled by their followers whom they sent before with their Letters of credence Lords Ambassadors Their Letters being opened in the Lord Chamberlains sight Mr. Secretaries and mine the Commissioners were therein thus named Spectabilem Doctissimum virum Dominum Luntzman Syndicum c. Spectabilem virum Dominum Brand Senatorem c. Ablegavimus which words made me question the right and reception they seemed to pretend to of Ambassadors so far as communicating my reasons with my Lord Chamberlain and receiving his opinion that Ablegavimus was no more then we have deputed as our Ministers I was sent back to my Lord Conway and by him when also ill at ease with their concurring opinions to the King who approving them left me to follow my Lord Chamberlains directions according to which I that night wellcomed them at their Lodgings at Crouchet Fryars in name of his Majesty and let them know his pleasure for their Audience the next day at one of the clock to which I fetched them in the Lord Chamberlains coach onely least the use of the Kings might have seemed to raise their respects to the title they seemed to affect but upon better advise refused of Ambassadors they were received of his Majesty in his Withdrawing-chamber where one of them having made a formall harange containing besides complement of condoleing and congratulating a complaint against his Majesties Ships lying at the mouth of the Ebb and hindering their free Traffique and an humble request of his leave to transport through his Seas without molestation Corne Powder Copper and Cordage to France and Italy their Merchants entering caution to their Senat that they should not transport any to Spaine then our Enemy his Majesty entered answered them by my interpretation that he would gladly continue with them the friendly correspondence held by his deceased Father and did not nor would interrupt them either at the mouth of their River or else-where at Sea for any quarrell he had to them or any way to hinder their Traffique but only keep them from Trading with the King of Spaine his Enemy which by Law of Nations and in justice he might and would do To which purpose they should further repaire to his Councell to whom he would give Order for their access to Negotiate so dismissed they returned and I with them to their Lodgings The sixth of July an Ambassador Extraordinary Paul Rozenerantz sent from the King of Denmark arriveing at Gravesend Then but a Baron and no Privy Councellor was there received by Sir Lewes Lewkner two dayes after at Tower-wharffe by the Lord Willoughby Lord High Chamberlaine of England and by him brought to his Lodging in Lumbard-Street where he had his Diet defrayed by his Majesty at eighteen pound per diem His attendance of the Kings Servants consisted only of a Gentleman Usher daily Waiter a Sewer and two others without any of the Guard daily to attent him His own Trayne passed not in all a dozen persons The day after his Arriveall he sent to know his Majesties pleasure for his Audience which
come presently along with the Hambourgh Commissioners to the Queen as I had been first appointed In obedience whereof I presently taking Boat with them and landing at the Common-Court Staires we were there met by two of her Majesties Gentlemen-Ushers of her Presence Chamber and by them told that we should not repaire to any place of repose which I had assigned in the Chappell Closet on the Queens side because her Majesty was already staying for them in her Privy Galleries whether going by the passage of the Privy Staires they there had their access the Queen standing at one side of the Gallery amonst the Ladies This succeeded the Eve of the day July 31. that the French were removed from about the person of her Majesty the Kings Order to me ut supra relating to that important business The 13. of August The Ambassador of Denmark went in the Kings Coach his two Coaches defrayed by his Majestie attending to an Audience at None-such in the Privy Chamber there all but the Lords of the Privy Councell excluded he was fetcht to it from his Chamber of Repose such being the Kings pleasure though more then usuall at a private Audience by the Earle of Dorset The 23. of August An Ambassador Ordinary from Venice by name Alanso Coutarim having resided with the States of the United Provinces arrived at Gravesend where he was received by the Master of the Ceremonies was welcomed from the King at his Landing at Tower-Wharffe by the Lord Willoughby Then but a Baron Lord High Chamberlaine of England and by him conducted to his House at Charter-House where intreated to stay Supper an invitation which upon so short warning savoured more of good Fellowship then Courtship his Lordship and those with him had an Royall intertainment The 13. of September The King having received at Theobalds the unhappy news of an Overthrow given the King of Denmark by the Count of Tilly Generall for the Emperor came to London and that morning sent for the Ambassador of Denmark to come to him after Dinner and received him at Denmark-House the Queen then there in the Privy Chamber introduced by Sir George Goring Vice-Chamberlaine to her Majestie and fetcht from the Lord Carews Lodging by the Queens Gentleman-Usher The 21. of September A Messenger formerly sent by the same Ambassador to the King his Master being returned he demanded and had an Audience of his Majesty in the Presence at Hampton Court without reposing any where though the Chappell had been assigned for it That night he returned to London he was pleased to excuse my attendance further then to my House in his way at Twittenham where he had taken me up to his Coach in his passage to his Audience of his Majesty He had demanded this access to his Majesty two or three dayes before by the King his Masters Agent Ma. Belaw but whether it had not been more properly carried to have gone immediatly to Court and there in person to have by the Lord Chamberlaine demanded an immediate Audience considering the neer relation between his Master and the King and the consequence of the newes then brought him of his Masters defeate was by some and may be with reason made a Quere The 22. of September as I was at Supper with the Ambassador of Denmarke one came to me with this message That Monsieur Quadt an Honourable Gentleman sent Ambassador from the Prince of Transilvania Bethlem Gabor being that day arrived here had address by Letters both from the Prince his Master and from the King of Bohemia to Monsieur Rosberf residing here for the affaires of that King but understanding that Monsieur Rosberf was out of Town and my selfe one of the Kings Masters of Seremonies to be there he desired my advise and furtherance for his proceeding I answered the Messenger that my way must be by the Lord Chamberlaine for his to his Majesty and that to that purpose I would repaire presently to his Lordships approbation of my Opinion that Monsieur Rosdrose returne to whom the Ambassador had such a particular address it was unfit and needless to give notice of him to his Majesty I went to him though without Commission and complied with him the next morning where receiving his allowance with thanks for my course taken and advise to stay the returning of Rosdrofe I wrote to this Gentleman how I had procecded and sent my Letter by his Servant In the meane time his Majesty having notice of the Ambassadors arriveall signified his pleasure by my Lord Chamberlaine to Master Rosdrose then returned and to me that the correspondence between the Ambassador and themselves considered and answerable to the proposition made by us two Two Ambassadors Arriving at different times lodged and defrayed in one House and at one Table from themselves the Prince of Transilvanians Ambassador and the King of Denmarks should be lodg'd together in the same house and dieted at the same Table with addition of ten pound per diem to the others eighteen pound The traine of the latet consisting but of four persons and that he should be admitted to his Andience the Tuesday following which was performed accordingly I accompanying to Hampton Court with the service of only two hired Coaches each with four horses He had allowed him by the Lord Chamberlaine one Coach with four horses daily to attend his service but for his Majesties profit and with the Ambassadors likeing I brought it to an attendance at such times only as he should be pleased the Evening before to command it In the mean time I doubting that some of those respects ordinarily given to Ambassadors at their first Audiences might be omitted whereof but that he himfelfe professed to affect privacie it was one not to have a Titular person appointed to accompany him thence to the Court I sent a Groome of the Chamber early that morning to order what my Lord Chamberlaine had left unordered and to have some Nobleman to meete and receive him there at his descent out of his Coach This being incharged to the Lord Compton he received no sooner then at the second Gate and there turning up the great staires through the great Hall and Guard-chamber the King was already under the State in the Privy-chamber expecting him which by suddainnesse of his approach so danted him as though he passed through well with his Latine Oration he forgot to present his Letters of Credence and was forced after his parting from his Majesty to send them back to him with excuse of his Servants absence whom he feyned to have had them about him when he being so suddainly without stay any where introduced and his Secretary left in the Press behind him could not come at them opportunely to deliver them All the time of his Audience he never covered being not invited to it by his Majesty who likewise stood all that time uncovered After he had finished his Oration and that his Majesty by me had given him a breife
judged it not so proper to give them one before their Audience of his Majesty they should be pleased to thinke and resolve of a time for the Latter which if they would demand for that day or the next he doubted not but they should have it the rather because his Majesty was to returne from whence he came but the day before to Theobalds and would not be againe at London till Thursday following That in the meane time their first Audience being past they might Negotiate with the Commissioners appointed for the further prosecution of their businesse This message received I interposed what I thought might be expected by them or be thought fit for the stile of their reception viz. whether to be brought to the Kings Presence by a Nobleman and to have the use of his Majesties coach c. as had been allowed to other of their Country qualified Ambassador To this it was answered by my Lord Carelton Vice-chamberlain that he then knew the Minister new come to be qualified no otherwise then for a deputy though a joynct Commissioner with the other and that he could not nor he thought would expect other Treatment then under that Title with this intimation I repaired to them and after delivery of my message with a touch to he last purpose I had for answer their desire of an Audience the next day which they had of his Majesty in the great Gallery of Somerset House the twelth of March by ten in the morning the Queen being then in her House retyred or not yet risen After Dinner my Lord Duke came to their House the Lord wimbletons to visit them while I that day dined with them I had the newes brought me of the Death of Sir Lewes Lewkner by which in right of his Majesties grant of Reversion by his Letters Patents I became sole Master of the Ceremonies The thirteenth of March the Ambassador of the States had without his Associate the Deputy a private Audience of his Majesty in his Withdrawing-chamber whether I conducted him by the way of the Parke and the Privy-Galleries this being the first time of the States resident Ambassadours accesse to his Majestie by that way they having been allwayes till then accustomed to have their Audiences and accesses given them by the back-stayres without introduction or attendance of the Master or assistant Master of the Ceremonies which was at that time altered with the Kings better service and more convenience for avoydance of Surprises and also to that Ambassadors great honour not unaffected by him in that particular when his silent and private accesses given him before by the back-stayres and other obscurer passages might and did seeme to some an undervaluing of his publique quality and in this of the State he represented though others would have had it understood for a particular respect of his Majesty given to him as a Domestique which yet while his Audiences were never granted nor accesse given him but when at his request it was moved for by a Groome of the Bedd-chamber or by one of the two principall Secretaries it would hardly be so interpreted and so he himselfe expressed to me to conceive of it when upon my introducing him by that new way of the Privy Gallery he fell to discourse with me about it 1627. The Ambassador of Denmark Paule Rosenkrantz having negotiated with the King of France by the space of five Moneths or more returned for England and Landed at Dover in a Holland man of War when he had already written and obtained a grant of for one of the Kings Ships to transport him March the nine and twentieth 1627 the next day he came to London before his Lodging was fitted or order given for it To which purpose for excuse I compleyed with him from the Lord Chamberlain that he would be pleased to have patience for his ill accommodation till the Officers of the Ward-robe might set up his Bedd and directions be given for his Service and attendance as before this performed the next day he began again upon the Kings diet and charge having of his Train by list two and twenty persons Sunday the first of Aprill he had Audience assigned him both from the King and Queen To the first I conducted him without company of a Lord or other then his own followers this being not publick though the first Audience after his return from the Court gate by the Staire that ascends to the Sone-table chamber the way accustomed through the Park and Tiltyard Gallery being restrained by the King pleasure for his more privacy there and reposing himselfe in the next Roome to that Chamber was called forth to his Majesty in his Withdrawing-chamber and had there his Audience After passing through the Councell-chamber over the Terras by the lower end of the Guard-chamber to the Chappell Closet on the Kings side he was met at the Presence doore by Sir George Goring the Queens Vice-chamberlain and brought to her Presence in her Privy-chamber He was censured of too much forwardnesse instantly after he had performed his respects to cover which though he might pretend to have done in right of the King his Master as his representant yet towards a Lady and a Queen to have forborne till he had been by her twice or thrice invited to it or rather not to have covered at all since he would forfeit no place nor pretention by it had been no derogation Before he came to the Presence of the King I asked him if he desired his Gentlemen should kiss his Majesties hands he answered in no sort because quoth he I would not have notice taken of my new train as if I were a new come Ambassadour and for their kissing of the Kings hand they may do it at my departure This passed for a reason against the honour they might have had but was not moved for of kissing the hand of the King remitting it to some other opportunity which was offered the Sunday following Aprill the eighth when the Ambassador having a day before upon signification of his Masters pleasure for his returne demanded Audience for his leave taking of both their Majesties he was fetched from his Lodging in Lumbard-street by the Earle of Barkshire in correspondence of the Earle of Northampton that had accompanied him to his first Audience at Wansted with the company of halfe a dozen Gentlemen of the Privy-chamber c. The Sunday seavennight after this his last Audience my Lord Chamberlain having delivered to my hands a Jewell being a Picture case set with faire Diamonds and the Kings Picture in it to about 800 l. valew but to the Kings cost of 1200 l. it being sould to his Majesty for this use at that rate which his Lordship told me before he had destined to my carriage in observation of the course before established concerning the right pretended to by the Master of the Ceremonies for carriage of Jewells as the Master of the Jewell house doth of Plate to be
and the Arch-Dutches had already by way of prevention sent to his Master persons of eminent condition to condole and congratulate who had been lodged in his Masters Court Viz. After that of Monsieur de Bassampierre and defrayed as he was most assured that any Ambassador should be whom the king of England should please to send in return of his imployment to the Duke his Master howsoever it had been his fortune to be made a second President for that course of not defraying newly taken in this Court and to be observed hereafter answerable to the intimation he had received by my mouth from his Majesty Which as it was he said a liberty that such great kings might take in their degrees of Eminency above other inferiour Princes as the king of France had likewise already began and continued yet for his Majesty to establish an Order and after to break it especially while he himself should be here a Witness and a Sufferer in it could not but be to him of so hard digestion as that though he did but now discourse of it with me in private hoping and beleiving that no such measure should be offered to him yet he must if offered for the Duke his Masters honour formalize himself against it and give account of it With these words and reasons I acquainted his Majesty at Aldershot and brought him such satisfaction with them as having regard to the Ambassadors content and to the consequence of his own Order established for no more defraying His Majesty gave me in charge with the best dexterity that I could apply to let the Ambassador understand his resolution taken to that purpose In obedience hereof I the twentieth of August returning to London conferred first with one Mr. Wollsin his Majesties sworn Servant Though imployd here in some businesses for the King of Denmark let him know his Majesties resolution no more to defray Ambassadors and intreated him to go before to Gravesend for the more civill conveyance of the Kings pleasure to that purpose least if I should directly and in plain termes acquit my self of my charge imposed it might have had the rellish of an Exclusion or Exception of their persons from Honours formerly received by other Ambassadors That night taking a barge for my passage I went to them to Gravesend Their names were Tomson and Brah. and only letting them know I had been at Court with the account of their Arrivall and for knowledge of his Majesties pleasure about their Reception not so much as touching the point of their not being defrayed for the reason mentioned I concluded that I was there by the King my Masters command to receive and obey theirs for assistance of any of their followers that they should be pleased to imploy to take up their Lodgings and to perform other Services for their Accommodation So without other answer question or exception from them that might bewray distast from such Innovation I took leave and returned to London where Mr. Wollfin I and a Servant of the Ambassadors conferring with one Paul Foure an entertainer of strangers and dwelling in Lumhard Street at what rate he would provide them their Dyet and Lodging he with a Mechanick consideration of the plunge they were like to be put to being disappointed of their first expectation to be defrayed made unreasonable demands as of twelve pounds for eight Masters and six Servants per diem till sending to Gravesend to the Ambassadors for their resolution they agreed for six pounds per diem So after the preparation of the Kings and two other Barges leaving a Light-horsman to be taken up for their Baggage at Gravesend and of the Kings Coach with the Venetians the States Ambassadors and three Lords Coaches to attend their landing at Tower wharfe I travelled a whole day up and down in London and Westminster to finde a Lord fitting for their conduct from Gravesend But the Service refused or exculed by all for want of Authority from the Lord Chamberlain then with the King in Progress I at last prevailed with the Lord Ershin Son to the Earl of Marre to undertake it and fetch them thence with the attendance of half a score Gentlemen the Kings Servants to their landing and lodging ut supra In observation of the new Order established That no Ambassador should be met further off then Gravesend and there but by the Master of the Ceremonies only for their first welcome They should not have had a Noble man to meet them neerer then Gâ—eenwich or till their landing at Tower wharff But the intimation made against their being defrayed as before being new and harsh this course was thought fit as for that time to be taken somewhat to sweeten the other The twenty fourth of August these Ambassadors much pressing their Audience of his Majesty I sent my Oshcer about it to the Court then at Aldershot and had for answer That wheras the Ambassador of the Duke of Mantova desired to have his parting Audience as soon as might be though it were he said in answer of the Kings objection of the unfitness of the place he then was in under a Tree which should be to him he said a Palace and he esteemed himself as a Prince by such a favour His Majesty resolved they should have their Audiences both in one day the Tuesday following as Oatelands where there should be a Dinner provided for them and two Noblemen with two of the Kings Coaches for their severall conditions To this purpose I having a Blanck Letter sent me from my Lord Chamberlain to superscribe and present whatsoever Noble-man I should think fitting for the company of the Ambassadors of Denmark and being left to my adventure without a Letter for the choice of another to accompany the Montavan I subscribed my blanck Letter to the Earle of Murray of Scotland obtained his assent and prevailed so by intreaty with the Lord Morley as our Journey was appointed for the day when two daies before came to me a Letter from my Lord Chamberlain intimating That wheras the Queen was to come to Oatlands at the time assigned for the Ambassadors Audience there and that therefore the king would not alter his determined remove from Aldershot to Oaking That if the Ambassadors particularly those of Denmark should persist in their desire of a speedy Audience otherwise then the king wisht they should who would willingly have remitted them till Sunday following for their more solemn Reception at London They must not expect an entertainment with a Dinner in a place where nothing good was to be had c. But should have all of them together their Audiences at Oaking on Tuesday In observation of which direction I repaired to them salved up all as dexterously as I could and having the kings coach with the Earl of Murreys and for his companion the Earle of Galloway for attendance of those of Denmark And my Lord Morly with a coach of the Queens in place of the
said Report there remain'd no other means then the examination of some of his Councell of State and principall Subjects which was put in execution accordingly causing them to be put to their Oathes in his own presence and commanding that such Interrogations and questions should be propounded unto them that were most pertinent to the accusation so that not the least part particle or circumstance remain'd which was not exactly examined and canvas'd And he found in the Duke and the rest who were examined a most clear and sincere innocency touching the impeachments and imputations wherewith your Majesties Ambassadors had charged them This being done he returned to make new instances unto the said Ambassadors that they would not prefer the discovery of the names of the Conspirators to the security of his Royall person to the truth and honour of themselves and to the hazzard of an opinion to be held the Authors and betrayers of a plot of so much malice sedition and danger but the sayd Ambassadors continued still in a knotty kind of obstinacy resolving to conceale the names of the Conspirators notwithstanding that he gave them Audience afterwards wherein the Marquis of Inojosa took his leave But a few dayes after they desired new Audience pretending they had something to say that concerned the publick good and conduced to the entire restitution of the Palatinate and thereby to the conservation and confirmation of the friendship with your Majesty But having suspended some few dayes to give them Audience thinking that being thereby better advised they would think on better courses and discover the Authors of so pernicious a Plot and having since made many instances to that effect and attended the successe of so long patience he sent his Secretary Sir Edward Conway and Sir Francis Cotington Secretary to the Prince commanding them that they should signifie unto the sayd Ambassadors that he desired nothing more then a continuance of the freindship betwixt the two Crowns therefore if they had any thing to say they should communicate it unto the sayd Secretaries as persons of great trust which he imployed therefore expresly to that end and if they made any difficulty of this also then they might choose amongst his Councill of State those whom they liked best and he would command that they should presently repaire unto them and if this also should seeme inconvenient they might send him what they had to say in a Letter by whom they thought fittest and he would receive it with his own hands But the Ambassadors misbehaving themselves and not conforming to any thing that was thus propounded the sayd Secretaries according to the instructions which they had received told them that they being the Authors of an Information so dangerous and seditious had made themselves incapable to treat further with the King their Master and were it not for the respect he bore to the Catholick King his dear and beloved Brother their Master and that they were in quality of Ambassadors to such a Majesty he would and could by the Law of Nations and the right of his owne Royall Justice proceed against them with such severity as their offence deserved but for the reasons aforesayd he would leave the reparation to the Justice of their owne King of whom he would demand and require it In conformity to what hath been sayd the sayd Ambassador of the King of Great Brittaine saith That the King his Master hath commanded him to demand refaction and satisfaction of your Majesty against the sayd Marquis de Inojosa and Don Carlos Coloma making your Majesty the Judge of the great scandall and enormous offence which they have committed against him and against publick right expecting justice from your Majesty in the demonstrations and chastisement that your Majesty shall inflict upon them which in regard of the manner of proceeding with your Majesty and out of your Majesties owne integrity and goodnesse ought to be expected Furthermore the sayd Ambassador saith That the King his Master hath commanded him to assure your Majesty that hitherto he hath not intermingled the correspondence and friendship hee holds with your Majesty with the faults and offences of your Ministers but leaves them and restraines them to their owne persons and that he still perseveres with your Majesty in the true and ancient freindship and brotherhood as formerly to which purpose hee is ready to give a hearing to any thing that shall be reasonable and give answer thereunto therefore when it shall please your Majesty to imploy any Ambassador thither he will afford them all good entertainment and receive them with that love which is fitting For conclusion the sayd Ambassador humbly beseecheth your Majesty that you would be pleased to observe and weigh well the care and tendernesse wherewith the King his Master hath proceeded towards your Majesties Ambassadors not obliging them to any precipitate resolutions but allowing them time enough to prove and give light of that which they had spoken And besides by opening them many wayes besides whereby they might have complyed with their Orders if they had any such which course if they had taken they might well have given satisfaction to the King his Master and moderated the so grounded opinion of their ill proceedings against the Peace together with the good intelligence and correspondence 'twixt the two Crownes Such was the complaint or charge rather which was exhibited by our Ambassador in Spain against Inojosa and Coloma for their misdemeanours in England which fill'd that Court full of dark whispers for the present and the World expected that the said Ambassadors should receive some punishment or at least some mark of disgrace at their return but matters growing daily worse and worse betwixt the two Crownes they were rather rewarded then reprehended Inojosa being promoted to be Governour of Milan and Coloma received additions of employment and honours in Flanders But the Civilities of England at that time towards the said Ambassadors was much cryed up abroad that notwithstanding so pernicious and machinations to discompose the whole English Court and demolish Buckingham yet were they permitted to depart peaceably and though they had no Kings Ship to transport them yet Sir Lewis Leukner was sent to conduct them to the Sea side for prevention of any affront or outrage that might have been offered them AN ABSTRACT Of the Signallst Passages that go to the Composure of this DISCOURSE A Pernicious plot of the Spanish Ambassadors to destroy the Duke of Buckingham fol. 243 The arrivall of the Palsgrave in England with the particular of his Train 1 The Ambassadors of France and Venice stand upon their Puntilioes 9 The arrivall of a Russian Ambassador c. 24 An Ambassador with the Chancellor of Muscovy sent to England 38 An Ambassador extraordinary from Sweden arrives 41 An affront offered the Swedish Ambassador 42 Another affront offerred the Swedish Ambassador 45 An Ambassador come from Turkie 57 The Ambassador of Venice ranked alwayes among Crowned
Devonshire with the Lord Bruse and others in twenty five Coaches attending his Majesty he rested himselfe in the Councell Chamber and there entring the Presence was at the doore receiued by the Lord Chamberlain there presented by his Predecessor Seignior Landi he spake breifely and departed Having visited his Predecessor the Saturday before and after at the same time himselfe something unseasonably perhaps before he had had his Audience Seignior Landi seemed to complaine as of a neglect cast upon his Successor that he had not yet received a wellcome from his Majesty by some person of Title as had been he said the Custome of proceeding towards all his Predecessours Wherewith I acquainted my Lord Chamberlain brought for an answer from his Lordship that he understood not but that the Complement of wellcoming Ambassadors from the King upon their Arrivall had been-onely used at such times as their Audience was excused for having been deferred for reason of some instant pressing affaires of his Majesty but that for this time the interim would be so small between his Arrivall and his Audience as that the visit would hardly be given or at the least would be excusable if omitted which answer passed for currant both with him and the other as he professed to me when I first visited him after his Audience onely he desired that my Lord Chamberlain would but intimate his reason to him personally when he would next see him that he might receive the more honour from his own Testimony as he did after to his satisfaction His Predecessour next day after his Audience took leave of his Majesty accompanied to it at Greenwich by the Lord North And also the girdle and hang er when he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and had the day after according to Custome the Sword wherewith he was Knighted sent to him from his Majesty and two or three dayes after an addition to his Armes in memory of his imployment hither June the thirteenth the Russian Ambassador being upon his departure after I had the day before assured my Lord Chamberlain whereof he doubted that Ambassadors from those parts had usually at their parting as at their first Arrivall some person of Title to accompany them to their imbarking I went in my Lord Chamberlains name as for his Majesties Service to the Lord Stanhop who accepted of it we went together the next day in the Kings Coach to the Ambassadors House and thence with five other to the Tower Wharffe where his Lordship leaving the Ambassador This entred the Kings Barge his followers in an other and with the Company of Sir John Merrick Alderman Hammersley and other Merchants we came to Gravesend Lodged at the Christopher were there Feasted that night by the Muscovy Company and the next morning making use of the Kings Barge to carry us to their Ships riding foure miles off at Tilbery he there imbarkt and we returned that night to London The 24. of June The Venetian Ambassador Ordinary Seignieur Girolomo Lando parted from London without the Master of the Ceremonies attendance to Gravesend his Company spared them as not of use or Custome for an Ordinary at departure neither had he the Kings Barge appointed for his Transport whereat the chiefe Barge-Master Warner respecting his Interest murmured as at a course unusuall and with wrong to the Ambassadors quality But herein he was mistaken the use being as hath bin said otherwise The Thursday before his parting on the Monday when it was not known but that he would be gone the Saturday he had received not one word to the purpose of his Present when it should be brought him Inso much as glancing in discourse with me at the affront as he called it like to be put upon him in his particular but in the generall upon his Republick Meaning Sir Lewes Lewkener who could never relish that States Ministers as Troppo steretti dimano not unlike to proceed he said from some ill affected to it I wrote to my Lord Chamberlaine about it and his Lordship with some passion recommending the consideration of it to the Lord Treasurer Order was given and the business effected after the proportion as my Lord Chamberlaine told me of 1200. ounces of gilt plate being two hundred more then were given his Predecessor Forscareni as with more respect to his better merit and to his nobler fashion of carriage here towards persons of all conditions beyond any or most of his Predecessors After the young Prince Landsgrave of Hessen had made about three moueths stay in England in which time he made a posting Journey to see Scotland he went in Coach with my company to Windsor there to take leave of his Majesty the sixth of July but could not have his Audience being remitted with reason of his Majesties then pressing affaires till Tuesday when after the Sermon whereat he was present entring with my conduction by the door of the Terras Staires into the Presence I received command to bring him through the Princes Lodgings into a Back-withdrawing Roome there behinde the Kings Privy Lodgings whence the King comming to him he with his two Assistants Councellors to his Father Master Klingelbuck and Master Zoble had his Audience and Farewell of the King and of the Prince also in the same place Thence he returned to London and the sixth of July imbarqued for Gravesend whether I accompanied him though without Order or without use of the Kings Barge or other respect of Extraordinary Honour by Present or the like only I moving the Lord Admirall the Marquis of Buckingham for a Ship of his Majesty to transport him in regard of some hazard to his person not unlikely to come from the Dunkerkers if they should light on him at Sea he being then in the States pay Commander of a Company he had assigned him a Lesser of two Ships then riding in the Downes 24 pouud which by directions of Sir William Saint Johns Vice-Admirall was to take him in at Dover A Mask to be presented by the Prince the Marquis of Buckingham and other Gentlemen on Twelfnight 1622. was for that day and a second remitted till Sunday the ninth of January principally with regard to his Majestes indisposition but as some thought not without expectation that the States Ambassadors would first be gone to avoide the distaste that might be taken from their not Invitation whereto it seemed his Majesty for some Spanish respect as was thought had no great affection But they staying their business with the Merchants about composing the East-Indian differences being not yet concluded divers underhand passages and discourses for and against the sight of the Maske were carried to and fro as much as might be to content them and not displease others For first they had an offer made them to have a Boxe appointed them apart and by themselves only which they absolutely refused Ambassadors Ordinarie before having had said they the honour to sit with his
William Crosts one of his Highness Gentlemen and such as must necessarily attend the service being allowed Entrance The wind comming faire of Oct. His Highness parted from Saint Andrews and the fifth of October having in the mean time touched at Silley and passed some foule weather he came before Portsmouth where he and the Duke of Buckingham immediatly landed The Ambassador Mendoza held it his duty immediatly to follow them so went on shoare and I with him though somewhat over-late that he might there personally congratulate his Highness safe Arrivall when his Highness in his haste to Court rode out at one gate before we could land and enter the other There lodging the Ambassador by the Mayors Billetting we passed three nights before we could be provided in that troublesome time of so many mens landing with Coaches Carts and Horses for his proceeding to London To which purpose sending a Warrant which I had before proviseonally gotten at Sea with the Duke of Buckinghams hand to it to Sir Daniell Norton a Justice of Peace in Hampshire he sent in three Carts whereof we imployed but two and sufficient number of Sadle Horses and his own Coach and four Horses with which and with the Prince his left purposely by his Highnesse for that Service we set forward to London the eighteenth of October went that night to Petersfield twelve miles and the next day to Gilfford twenty miles where the Ambassador being met halfe a mile from the Towne by one of the Viscountess of Annundales Gentlemen her Lord waiting then on the King in his place of Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber with an Invitation to Lodge at her House it was accepted The Master of the Ceremonies with three or foure Gentlemen came that night to us having brought with them three or foure hyred Coaches and one with six mules sent the Ambassador Extraordinary by the Marquess de la Inojosa who sometime before arrived in England The next day the Marquess mentioned and the other Ambassador Extraordinary Don Carlos de Coloma met us Answerable to an assignation given by Sir Lewes Lewkner about foure miles from London with halfe a dosen more coaches Then the Ambassadors quitting their own Coach and entring the Princes were all arrived in the Evening at Excester House their appointed Lodging where Lodged also with them Don Hurtado de Mendoza out of his own and the other Ambassadors election after offer had been made him both for his Lodging and defraying at his Majesties charge but was excused by the Marquess de la Inojosa with saying he should be his guest while he remained in England so much I signified the next Morning to Don Diego from my Lord Chamberlain with intimation further that if he found himselfe not Lodged or treated to his mind he should have other provisions elsewhere adding that his Majesty and particularly the Prince had given my Lord Chamberlain an especiall charge to do him honour in all things and to procure him his full Satisfaction To this offer he replyed with many thanks but with refusall saying the Marquess was his kinsman and with him he would quarter and defray himselfe the furniture and Hangings of his Chamber supplyed him from the King being he said an honour sufficient for him There he remained and at three dayes end I was sent to him from my Lord Chamberlain to know his desire for his Audience and to let him know withall that if he had aessicted a speedy dispatch his Lordship would write to the King for it that going from London the Wednesday and coming that day or the next to Royston he might the next day after have his Audience the King having dessigned his remove from thence on Saturday to Fincham-brook a place that afforded no commodity for his reception or otherwise if he were not prest by his Affaires he might be pleased to respite his Journey to the King till his Majesty should returne to Theobalds where he would not be till a Fortnight after This latter offer he made choyce of as of the most proper allowance of time to provide himselfe of Liveries c. for his followers of which he came unprovided In the meane within foure or five dayes of his Arrivall at London his Lordship willed me to know of him if he would be pleased to receive visit from him and other Noblemen that owed and would discharge their respects which offer he thankfully accepted of and received on the next day from his Lordship and the Earle of Arrundell coming to him both together The thirteenth of October the Marquess de la Inojosa and Don Carlos de Coloma set forth towards Royston to congratulate the Prince his returne not yet seen by them his Highnesse remaining yet with the King but being on their way as far as Buntingford they there met a message from Mr. Secretary Conway in name of his Majesty either that they should be pleased to come presently to his Majesties Presence and from that to the Princes and returne that night to Buntingford Royston being a place the messenger said as he was willed of ill reception or to stay at Buntingford that night and have their Audience the next day and so returne This choice seemed somewhat round and of hard digestion to the Marquesse and passed not without Exception comparatively against the much different Treatment of the French Ambassador the weeke before who had he said both supped and Lodged in Court at Royston though this his Treatment was suddain as was his coming thither by Post with onely two Gentlemen congratulate the Prince at his Arrivall who prevended by the same Ambassadors Servant with a congratulation at his Landing at Durham House Stayres in name of his Master and having assured him he should be the first Ambassador he would give access to his Highnesse was immediately after sent to from the Spanish Ambassador to the same congratulating purpose The wind comming now about for France but he refused his demanded Audience with excuse of his hast of repaire to the King his Father In conclusion the Marquess went to Royston and had so good respects out wardly at least from his Majesty and the Prince as he in countenance made shew of good satisfaction but c. About a week after Don Hurtado de Mendoza his Arrivall I dined with the Venetian Ambassador Seig. Valeresso he upon notice taken of my former acquaintance with the other desired me to let him know after he had first told me how he had sent a Gentleman to the Marquess de la Inojâ—sa with a congratulatory visit and that for the title given the Marquess of Excellenza he had returned his thanks in the third Person onely that he was his humble Servant and desired to perform personally all due Complements but that he had found a doore shut which hindred him of Enterance so hoped he would pardon him and to that purpose To this I brought him answer from the Marquess that he had heard of his worth
both which would be he said a Solecisme in point of visits not approveable amongst Ambassadors especially while one of them was in health and might therefore visit him without the others company This may appea e to be an acknowledgment of precedence from the Venetian which seemed questioned For mine own betterinstruction to the purpose of this Puntillio I went instantly first to the Venetian Ambassador and found him to have forborne that complement expecting the first discharge of it to come from the Danish and that as they should lead he would follow From him I went to the other of Denmark and found him that was in health not excuseing the forbearance of his visits by his Collegues sicknesse but plainly affirming the observation of it to be improper as from the King of Denmarkes Ambassador to a Duke of Savoys Besides that he could plead he said that he and his Collegue having taken their publick leaves of the King their visits of an Ambassador later come were not to be expected To this I replyed with a President I had learned from the relation of an experienced Statesman Her Joachimi Ambassad or for the States how the King of Frances Ambassador at the time that the States of the united Provinces were first acknowledged free and Soveraigne being at Disseldrop and come thither before the States Commissioners Arrivall about a Treaty expected to receive from thâ—m the first visiit as from Representants of an inferiour condition but they standing upon their pretended rights of Ambassadors last come to be first to be visited refused to visit first till at last the French Kings Ambassador the businesse he had in mannage necessitating him to it gave the first visit but this was no prevailing allegation for the Ambassador of Denmark From them I went to the Ambassador of the States and found him not expecting to have those of Denmark for his leaders but onely hindred by a Catharre which past he said he meant to visite the Savoyard and so he did the next day At that time when I purposely cast out some words tending to the question of precedence between the States and the Duke of Savoyes Ambassador the States said he wondered that any man would make that question when it had been adjudged the due of his State by the King of France in particular c. The next day being that of the Lord Majors Annuall Feast and the Ambassador of Savoy desirous to see his Lordship passe through Cheapside he having received no Invitation to the Feast with other Ambassadors perhaps because of his so fresh Arrivall or else to avoid the inconveniency of question likely to grow from precedence between him and the States Ambassador and the Ambassadors of Denmark not looking after it with consideration of their leave already taken of his Majestie I was requested by the said Savoy Ambassador to inquire somewhat further of the Ambassadors of Denmarks reasons and resolution for not visiting him which I did immediately repairing to him Monsteur Tompson where he had taken his stand in Cheapeside for sight of the shew Sconosciato and plainly received it for his resolution that neither he nor his Collegue had any intention to visit him first as having no example of the like done at any time by either the King their Masters Ambassadors or by any other Kings to the Ambassador of the Duke of Savoy and when I after met the Venetian at the Feast wherto he and the States Ambassador were invited I understood the like of his mind and expectation for example to be given him by the Ambassador of Denmark as pretending to doe nothing he said but should be al par delle teste Coronate with which insatisfaction I returned to him of Savoy who could not make good his pretence by any President or example but rather he had one against himselfe which the Venetian Ambassador was said to have suggested to the Ambassador of Denmarke for his forbearance of the French Ambassador the Marquesse de Bleinville who would not give the first visit to the Savoyard when they were both here together in England the Ambassador of France standing upon it that in regard of the honour of so neere allyance as the Duke of Savoy had with so great a King as his Master he ought to give him the first respect as being most due to him But this reason the Ambassador of Savoy retorred to his owne purpose as that therefore the French Kings Ambassador ought first to visit him for the more honour to the King his Masters Sister and with no disparagement to himselfe in regard of the not questionable difference of their rancks But in the end all or the cheife blame of the Savoy Ambassadors want of visit lighted on the Venetian so that of Savoy charged him as on him that having committed a former errour he said not to have visited the Duke of Mantovas Ambassador while he was here from the same reason of difference stood upon by him of Denmark cared not to commit another and a greater errour though he and all the Ministers of that Republick that should negotiate with his Master might be sure by way of retribution as he threatned to suffer for it The consideration of inconveniences which might in likelyhood accrue to the common cause from such ill correspondence amongst Ambassadors our freinds made me the next day after the Lord Mayors Feast to addresse my selfe to the Earle of Carliel as to a person of the most experience in Ambassages for his judgement in these differences this was that the Ambassadors of Denmark and that of Venice were in the wrong and that for Presidents if they stood upon them he himselfe would furnish them with one of his owne having himselfe as he affirmed when he was Ambassador Extraordinary in France given the first visit to the selfe same Ambassador of Savoy Arriving there after him and had observed that the Popes Nuntio and all other Ambassadors then there had done the like yet that for the better information of his owne judgement he would he said instantly goe and so did to the King for his who together with the Lord Steward Earle of Pembrok the Lord Chamberlain and other Lords there present in his Majesties Withdrawing-chamber were all of opinion that the Ambassadors of Denmark were over punctuall and as the King himselfe said so much too blame for standing upon such nice points in a time that required rather care and study to get freinds then for lack of performing complements hazard the losse of any as were they his Ambassadours and should doe so he would chide them well for it The substance hereof I conveyed to the Ambassadors understanding but it would not move them While these Puntillio's were in agitation a Play on all Saints day being appointed at Court to begin Christmas with I was told the day before by the Venerian when he visited me at my House that he was invited to the sight of it and
to a Supper by the Countess of Denbigh as was the Savoy Ambassador at the same time by the Earle of Carliel understanding thus much I did to prevent all inconveniences that might happen by any suddain incounter let fall a word or two in hearing of the Savoy Ambassador for his knowledge of it who answerably took his course in such sort as that after the Venetian was before the Kings comming into the Hall entered there leading the Countesse of Denbigh and seating himselfe uppermost at the end of the Lords seat towards the Kings right hand next above the Lady mentioned the Ambassador of Savoy entered with the King passing promiscously amongst the Lords and as I had before prepared the Dutches of Buckingham were seated next above her the other great Ladies the Lord of Carliel sitting next above the Ambassador but sidewayes upon another seate on the Kings left hand neit er of these Ambassadors so much as looking one towards another much lesse saluting either entering or parting that of Savoy going our as he entered after the King leaving the Dutches and the other of Venice after those were gone following with the Countesse Whiles one of the Ambassadours of Denmarke Monsieur Tompson attended the recovery of the others sicknesse Monsieur Brabe and both of them the payment of a thousand pounds promised them by way of defalcation but after intimated to them by me from the King to be intended as a guift to them in lieu of their not having been defrayed he sent my Lord Major word Sir Hugh Hammersley that he would dine with him and bring with him three or foure of his Gentlemenâ— his Lordship returned an acceptation both by the Ambassadors messenger and by a Servant of his own but when I hearing of it had let him know by Master Wolfin his Masters Agent that if he were not informed already touching the manner of his personall Treatment for the place he should do well to inquire whether the Lord Major would give him precedence which he had never yet given to any person of whatsoever quality under the King the Ambassador changed his mind made his excuses of an unexpected businesse and onely sent his Gentlemen with whom I sending my Officer to accompany them and to sound what he could of my Lord Majors disposition for the place in case the Ambassador himself had come to him he made a plain profession which I also after received from himselfe That he meant to maintain the Lord Majors Right and ancient Custome of preceding all men within the City but the King himself So as without this prevention of mine there might have followed perhaps some scandall or difference to the insatisfaction of the Ambassador and the trouble of the Lord Major not without subject of discourse for other Ambassadors c. These 2 Ambassadors being at length possessed of their long unpaid thousand pounds which should have been presented them as had been intimated in lieu of their not having been defrayded and not by way of defalcation as they demanded it and it was carried They prepared for their departure and the day before sent their Secretary to the Ambassador of Savoy with a complement of their offer of service c. which he the next day returning by one of his Gentlemen it was all the correspondence which during their abode here had passed between them The two and twentieth of December having the seruice of the Kings Coach and two other hired by themselves to their imbarquing at Tower-wharff they went thence in the Kings Barge with one more I accompanying them to Gravesend where they presenred me with a Purse and fifty peeces and were there left by me to the guidance of my Officer Walter Briscoe to their shipping at Dover On the way to Gravesend I fell in discourse purposely with Monsieur Tompson concerning their not visiting the Duke of Savoys Ambassador and found by his Ejaculations that they repented them of their puntillioes professing to me That if they had at first understood that the King and since the Duke who had made a visit to them five or six daies before their departure on no other errand then touching that visit would have taken such notice of it they would have dispensed with their own reasons for want of examples and have made a visit to him but as that now so were their departure would have been unseasonable so they had left it to the hazard of whatsoever inconvenience might follow I replyed they might have discovered by my diligent endeavours the affection of his Majesty to have had that Complement performed as requisite for entertainment of the correspondence between their King and that Prince and others in times that needed it but that having no formall command from his Majesty to meddle in it I had reason to be so reserved as I had been At last I pressed him to acquaint me with the truth of what was held I said at Court that the Venetian had been the first moving cause of their not discharging that visit with the reasons mentioned before But Monsieur Tompson protested to me that he was charged wrongfully having been rather he said a perswader of them by Sir Francis Biondi sent to them by the Venetian to that purpose with assurance that they beginning the Complement he would not fail to second them then that he had ever used one word to disswade them With this acknowledgment I after acquainted the Savoy Ambassador and had for answer That it was now too late for them to amend the faults they had made he having he said given account of their proceedings to the Duke his Master and was for himself he said resolved that if they should make a return as they intended to England he would never he said receive any visit from them though they should with acknowledgment of their error make offer of it The two Commissioners from Saley in Barbary Mehemets Bensayd Hamet Naxuaez having obtained Letters from the King to their State with grant and for setling of a correspondence between us and them and to Sydi-Hamet-Laynshi a Saint as they termed him much reverenced amongst them for his holiness and descent from a Race of qualified Saints and of great power for force of Horse to be levied at his pleasure They went hence the twelfth of November to Dover there to embarque in a Ship fraughted for Barbary and to be conveyed till within a daies fail of their Port by the Fleet for Turkie then bound thither His Majesty having defrayed them for the time of their abode here at forty shillings per diem Dyet and Lodging presented each of them after they had taken their leaves in the privie Gallery with a Gold Chain of a hundred pounds value they presented me at their parting with thirty peeces In time of Christmas the Viscountess of Purbeck having for execution of a sentence pronounced against her in the high Commission Court her house beset by a Serjeant at Armes with other
hand of the other though next the kennell as they sometimes crossing the street incountered followed by no other of their Servants then such as to the number of seven or eight did set hand to their Traines marching all the way bare-headed onely the Count de Tremes had walking and talking along with him but somewhat sidewayes before him his Secretary also bare-headed Immediately before them went none but my selfe covered and before me the Mareshall of the Ceremonies my under Officer uncovered and so jealous were they of the least shaddow of any mans incroaching upon their rights as they would not suffer any other to be neere the Bishop of Canterbury either behind or on either side of him then his Page that carried his Traine and one that walkt at his left hand now and then to ease and support him being aged and infirme When in this manner we were come to Westminster Church and had entered the Quire the Ambassadors at the upper end of it upon the enterance towards the Herse made a stand till the King come thither and withdrawing himselfe towards the right hand to give way for the placing of the Body that he might after seate himselfe in his chaire during the Sermon they passed a short complement with his Majesty and from him went round about the Herse to the North doore neere it and then passing without side of the Quire they issued out of the East doore of the Church to take Barge at the Parliament Stayres and thence to their home At this time the Venetian Ambassador who having had his Blacks sent him from the King in the same full proportion for quality and goodnes of cloath as were sent to the two French Ambassadors should have been an assistant at the solemnity was absent upon this occasion Howsoever the Blacks that had been sent him in due time before might seem to serve for an Invitation as Sir Lewes Lewkner pleaded after in defence of the accusation brought against him by the said Ambassador He made complaint that the Lord Chamberlain having given directions to the Master of the Ceremonies to invite all the Ambassadors the two French Ambassadors had been formally and personally invited by him and not he the Venetian except he said in transitu as he once met him upon the Staires in the French Ambassadors House where he Sir Lewes having said something tending to the purpose of his Invitation he was answered by the Ambassador faro quel che mi dira intimating as the Ambassador said after that he expecting a formall Invitation with some instructions how to behave himselfe in the solemnity should have been presented him in his owne House and not so slightly a one in an others but Sir Lewes not comming thither to him at all and both the French Ambassadors visiting him and propounding to him as to one interessed in their cause their difficulties and the exceptions they had made to the place and manner of their March affirming that upon the termes offered them they would not assist at the Funerall was a cause that he neither made his preparations for the time nor inquired further after it especially when on the day of the Solemnity he received towards Noone a message from the Mr. by the Mareshall of the Ceremonies which was one of his maine formalities and challenges against the Master that he discharged not that Office in his own Person that the two Ambassadors had now fully considered of all and were absolutly resolved not to assist at the Funerall This was the Tenour of the message as Sir Lewes Lewkner affirmed he sent it and as the messenger swore he delivered it but the Ambassador affirmed it was delivered to him thus viz. That the King and Councell were now resolved that no Ambassador should Assist at the Solemnity whereupon he having been before invited to dine with the Dutches of Richmond there to be Spectatour onely of the Solemnity passing by went thither as giving over all thought of being an Actor in it affirming that the wrong he had received proceeded chiefly from the Master of the Ceremonies notwithstanding that when he sent the message he sent word with all that he was gone home sick who should have punctually he said both before and at the instant of the French Ambassadors change of resolution given him notice of it he the Master of the Ceremonies and not they being oblig'd he said by Office to those respects For this his particular sufferance and wrong done him in these neglects and omissions which he pretended highly to concerne not onely his own Person in point of honour but his Republick also in reason of State since it challenged all Rights and Honours equal with Crowned Heads he first formalized himselfe against the two Ambassadors but with little remedie other then with their excuse of suddaine change of mind and with affirmation that they had acquainted the Master of the Ceremonies with it who they thought would not have failed to let him know of it and the next day demanded and had Audience of his Majesty to which I introduced him for complaint against Sir Lewes Lewkner who excusing himselfe with sicknesse c. the Marshall of the Ceremonies bore for that present all the punishment and was for some daies laid up in the Marshalseys for mistaking as was laid to his charge his message This brought forth Sir Lewes Lewkners restraint a while after But the Venetian Ambassador not so satisfied sent an express to Venice with the account of all the proceedings Many were of opinion and the Venetian Ambassador said as much to me that the French Ambassadors so suddaine change of mind or at least their semblence of it proceeded cheifly from the Marquess de Fyat of purpose to exclude the Venetian that he might not by his Presence be a dis-lustre to him in his march while the last come Extraordinary taking his place in the midst as was his right with his badge and Ensigne of Order one would be more conspicuous and he the less when a third Person the Venetian should be added to their number and march as he would in even ranck with them Others affirmed that it proceeded from the stomach of Monsieur de Tremes who would not brooke and so some said he profest that a Minister of a Republick should in so publick a Solemnity march in the same ranck with the Minister of so great a Monarch as the most Christian King his Master This Ambassador of Venice upon occasion of discourse I had with him three or foure dayes after concerning his Princes pretence to all Rights and Marks of honour given to Kings affirmed that their Ambassadors having had allwayes their seats in Capella given them at Rome and their Audiences Nella sala Regale there and not Nella sala Ducale al per delle teste Coronate and the like honour done them in the Court of France by making for them a full Guard in Armes when they came to their first