him he should if he pleased have it that Evening which was performed after his returne to his Lodging by a private repaire to Court in Barge accompanied only with my Lord of Buckingham when he had the Kings Eare two hours together On Wednesday following being the third of January he was invited to dine with the King at Westminster where his Majestie comming thither by water stayed for him with much impatience Et pâ—ur cause above an hour the Antipaste having been already set upon the Table Being at last come and entring with all his company the higher House of Parliament wherein they dined they so filled the Roome disorderly stuffed before with an unruly intruding multitude as no Officer was able freely to dischage his Service till the King sat down to meate the Extraordinary at a convenient distance on his left hand and the Ordinary at the Tables end the Prince not there The French Noblemen of the best quality were conducted by the Duke of Lenox and the rest by my self to the Court of Requests where the greater number of them taking their places promiscuously at the Table and the Duke leaving them perhaps somewhat abruptly before he had seen five or six of the principall set down at the upper end These begun whisperingly to murmure amongst themselves as those that might seeme neglected to be left so alone without some persons of like quality to accompany them and to invite them to their sitting which I perceiving began to perswade them to what they came for and had prevailed with the Marquess de Money and one or two more of them till my Lord Chancellor Bacon the Lord Treasurer Montague and the Lord Privy Seale Earle of Worcester entring the Roome and passing by them to sit downe as they did altogether at the right hand of the Table without giving other countenance of respect then putting off their Hats or once inviting the French to sit down with them they took their Cloaks and with shews of much discontent departed the Roome to their Coaches whether I and two other Scottish Gentlemen followed them fast with our best perswasions for returne but not able to prevaile we left them Halfe an hour after I went as I had Order upon an invitation I had delivered the day before to the Ordinary French Ambassadors House for his Lady to come that Afternoone to a Dancing appointed at White-Hall but she in her womans haste to be at those Sports being gone thither before I came I there found all the Gentlemen mentioned sitting at Dinner To whom I saying merrily that I was sorry they should eate two Dinners in one day one of their excuses having been that they had dined already and neither of them in the Kings House one of them replied That respecting as they ought the honour of the King their Master and their own quality they would make me their Judge whether when they were left alone by the Duke of Lenox without any person of sort to accompany them at their sitting down to meate and that three Messieurs de robe longue as they with a French scorne termed the three great Officers mentioned who had their Gowns on came and sate themselves down at the upper end of the Table without scarce so much as saluting them they had not reason to leave as they did the Company To which I briefly Answered I was no Judge nor Homme de robe longue neither were those they termed so of inferiour rank to the greatest Lords of this Kingdome so leaving them and going down the Staires I there met the two Marquesses of Buckingham and Hamilton coming to the purpose that I did to conduct the Lady Ambassadrice and Madam elle de St. Luc her Neece to the Ball when giving these two Lords a touch of what had passed least the French might think perhaps they came purposely to them to excuse their Trayctment which had been too great an honour for them they passed with them some few Complements and letting fall a word or two to the former purpose the Lords and I with them returned to Court and finding the Ambassadrice and her Neece in my Lord of Buckinghams Lodging I waited on them there and to the Ball where the Countess of Buckinghams Mother placing her next beneath her Daughter the Marquess Note this manner of placing the Ambassadrice and the Exceptions taken and above her selfe there grew a new quarrell of Exceptions from the other Countesses particularly from the Countess of Dorset that she was set above them The two Ambassadors entring with the King the Extraordinary sate down at his left hand and next him there the Ordinary at his Majesties right hand sate the Prince The day of the Kings Feast the Count d'Alle Son to the Duke d'Angontesme and the Count de Rochford Son to the Duke de Monbason and two or three others absented themselves because they might not be admitted to sit at the Kings owne Table as they affirmed the Count d'Allies Father the Count d'Auvergne d'Angontesme had done they said at Queen Elizabeths when the Marshall de Biron was here in England The next day our English Cavalliers and the French ran at the King whereas the Prince wonne the Prize On Twelfeday following the Ambassador and his cheife followers were brought to Court by the Earle of Warwick to be present at a Maske he seated as before with the King the better sort of the other on a fourme behind the Lords the Lord Treasurer onely and the Marquesse of Hamilton sitting at the upper end of it and all the rest in a Box and in the best places of the Scaffolds on the right hand of his Majesty No other Ambassadors were at that time present or invited The Munday after the Viscount of Doncaster invited the Ambassador and all his company men of note to a Supper prepared and set forth with that State and cost as hath been seldome seene To it were also invited for honour to the Feast and Company the King the Prince and most of the great Lords and Ladies in Towne The Ambassador himselfe went by Coach from Denmark House to Essex House where the Supper was the rest by water in Barges At Supper the King seated at a Table placed crosse the Roome and raised two steps above the Floore had at his right hand with a convenient distance the Prince at his left hand the Ambassador Extraordinary and at the Tables end below the Ordinary At the upper end of another Table reaching from one end of the roome to the other sate on the right hand side the Lady Marquess of Buckingham beneath her a French Nobleman and beneath him the French Ambassadors Lady the rest sate a Lord and a Lady as they held out On the other side sate uppermost the Countesse of Warwick then a French Lord next the Lady of Doncaster so as the Countesse of Dorset thought the Ancienter Countesse whether by choyce because she would not sit immediatly beneath
Venice and of Savoy had been placed the Maske night before but were this night placed with their Country-men in the Gallery mentioned At a reading in the Middle-Temple held by Mr. Martin were invited to Dinner the former three Ambassadors Sir Noell â—aron and the States Ambassador also At the Tables end sate the Reader on his left hand on the Bench next the wall sate the French Ambassador beneath him on that side the Savoyard then the Earle of Worcester c. On the Readers right hand on a forme sate first the Venetian beneath him the States Ambassador next him the Lord Lysle c. It was observable that at this time the States Ambassador as appeares made no scruple of quitting the Precedence to that of the Duke of Savoye which they have fince questioned and still stand upon The Ambassador of Savoy comming to the King at New Market Note not the Kings March the second was by me fetcht and conducted in the Lord Chamberlaines Coach with foure Horses in company of the Lord Worceston Sir James Spence and Sir William Austroder from his Lodging two miles out of Towne there to the Presence Chamber where he attended till the Lord Chamberlain comming forth of the Kings withdrawing Chamber brought him to his Audience there This done the Ambassador requested me to moove the Prince for the honour to kisse his hand But it was objected that the demand should have been more seasonably made before the very instant of pretending to it Whereto the Ambassador replyed that he had no spare time for it between that of his Arrivall at Court and his immediate repaire to his Majesty which excuse admitted he was immediately introduced to his Highnesse in his owne Lodgings March the sixteenth I brought the States Ambassador to an Audience at Theobalds after he had attended a while at the Lord Fentons Lodgings and was called up to his Majesty in the privy Gallery A Messenger from Russia came to his Audience at White-Hall the three and twentieth of March who not being qualified with the title of Ambassador I onely with no Lord to receive him met him at the Court gate and brought him to the Councell Chamber he was after an houre and an halfes attendance there sent for by one of my Lord Chamberlains Gentlemen received in the stone Table Chamber by that Lord and in the next admitted to the Presence of his Majesty The foure and twentieth of March being the Kings day of comming to the â—rowne of England and that yeare Sunday a tilting then prepared for was put off till the day following That evening a question falling between his Majesty and some Lords whether some all or no Ambassadors were to be invited The Lord â—hamberlain askt me if I knew whether ever the Spanish Ambassador Sarmiento had been invited to that solemnity I said he had and upon search of my notes found that at the Earle of Somersets Marriage he the Arch-Dukes Ambassador and both their Ladies had been present at a tilting This President brought over-ruld his Majesty who seemed inclined otherwise to invite the French Venetian and Savoyard never before at any tilting and now not willingly called to this because of the troubles that those publique Ministers usually brought by their Puntillios at such incounters Sir Lewes Lewkner was sent the evening before to the French and the Venetian and I to that of Savoy The next day at two of the Clock he received the two first and I the latter at the stayre foote of the Tilt-yard Gallery and conducted them to the Chamber next that of ordinary Audiences where they all attending till his Majesty and the Queen passed that way they were taken along with them to the tilting They were seated thus the French on the left hand of the King with his back to the side of the Balconie window and somewhat sidelong from the Queen that being held the best place after the Princes place on the Kings right hand beneath whom sate the Venetian both their backs to the Balcony and the Savoyard on the other side beneath the French Ambassador St. Georges Feast being come the French Ambassador without notice given to him or from him of his comming to Court for sight of the solemnity was present onely with Sir George … eere a Gentleman usher of the privie Chamber in the Closet of the Chappell for sight of the Procession both without Sir Lewes Lewkners or my attendance as his prepaire to Court was without our knowledge About the middle of the Kings dinner Mr. Secretary Winwood meeting me wisht me to accompany him where he was all alone in the Closet and to bring him to see the King and the Knights at dinner This I performed and conducted him to the Banqueting House where placing himselfe at the left hand of his Majesty dining he entertained discourse with him about an houre and after upon my intimation of the fitnesse of it he descended to the side Table and saluted the Prince and Knights of the order passing along before them and thence returning by the privy Galleries took Coach in the Parke to go to his Lodgings His omission of not making knowne to the King or his Lord Chamberlain as other Ambassadors had been accustomed his desire to see the Feast might have brought him to some inconvenience worse then loosing his dinner which the Spanish Ambassador had the year before as this might also have had at the Lord Chamberlains Table June 21. The King invited by the Earle of Exeter to hunt and dine at Wimbleton as was also the French Ambassador killed a brace of Staggs before he came to the house There I demanded when it would be his Majesties pleasure to give accesse to the Ambassador whom he had not yet seen there It was assigned him for after dinner The Ambassador dined with the Lords and Ladies at a Table placed in the midst of a faire Roome he seated in a Chaire at the upper end at his right hand the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Mountgomery the Lady Elizabeth Hatton the Lady Resse c. At his left the Lady of Exeter the Lady Ann. Tuffton the Marquesse de l'Isle Unckle to the Duke of Retz newly come into England and to that Feast in company of the French Ambassador the Lord Haye Then entered into favour Sir George Villars and others After dinner the Ambassador going to see the house he attended in the Gallery the Kings coming and had there an houres entertainment of discourse with his Majesty The Spanish Ambassador being invited to hunt with his Majesty in Theobalds Parke went thither early Don Diego Sarmiento and after hunting dined with his Majesty in the Privy Chamber The King seated as alwaies in the midst of the Table the Ambassador on his lest hand at the end his Son Don Antonio his Gentlemen and Servants had their dinner provided them in the Councell Chamber where Sir Patrick Murray my selfe and some other of the Kings
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
and for the Ambassadors more easie digestion of the new order established to that frugall purpose He had at Dinner the Service of the Kings Officers and Guard and the company besides of the Earle of Cleaveland of the Lord de la Ware and of seaven or eight Gentlemen the Kings Servants I immediatly after dinner repairing to the King for knowledge of his pleasure for the instant of his Audience was by his Majesty called apart and asked whether he must not invite him to cover I excusing my my definite resolution answered that I had by discourse already drawn from him that at his Audience of the French King then sick in Bed he had been called by him to his Bed-side and made to sit downe and cover But replyed the King I know that the King of Spain doth not allow the Duke of Mantova's Ambassador to be covered in his presence Sir quoth I That may be an effect of the supercilious and affected greatnesse of that King beyond others in conformity whereof I am told by this Ambassador that while he was at Paris neither of the two Spanish Ministers Ordinary nor Extraordinary vouchsafed him a visite and that he in returne thereof never looked after them Well replyed his Majesty then I know what to doe bring him to me with that his Majesty entring the Presence Chamber stayed there under the State the Ambassadors comming and the discharge of his complement which was briefe onely expressing the respects of his Master in the account he had command to give his Majesty of his Assumption to his Principality by the death of his Brother How much the Duke his Master honored the King what honour he himselfe had by that imployment c. The King before he spake having made him an invitation which he took to cover This finished he returned to his Chamber the Earle of Cleaveland reconducting him thither but refusing to pass further with him in the Kings coach on any part of the way he was to goe as not suiting his Lordship said with his quality of which opinion was my Lord Chamberlain producing for example Monsieur de Bassampierre who had the use he said of the Kings coach to his first Audience from London to Hampton Court but that dismissed there he returned in his own coach to London and had not the Earles company back that brought him thither The like both for Lord and coach was here observed and the Ambassador left to proceed on his way with his own coaches and company towards the Queen then remaining at Wellingbourn to drink those waters We went that night to Ammersham there in conference I acquainted him with something touching the Kings question to me of his covering which question he said he hoped his Majesty did not move as making doubt of his Masters right in those points of respect but to see how I could resolve him because said he it is well known to all that he goeth not lesse in respects given him by all Kings and Princes then the great Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Savoy whose Ambassadors cover and so doth said he the Duke his Masters Ambassadors in Presence of the Pope the Emperour and the King of France of all whose Ministers when they are imployed to him he taketh the hand in his own House and elsewhere he onely giving them visits at their Lodgings sed in hoc Quaere From Ammersham we went through Alesbury to Stony-Stratford to dinner and to Bed to Northampton Thence I instantly dispatcht my Officer with Letters to the Queens Vice-Chamberlain Sir Geoge Goring and to the Earle of Carliel to procure an Audience the next day To which the Earle returned answer by Letter the Vice-Chamberlain being absent and assured me of the Queens especiall content for the Ambassadors arrivall there and that she would give him an Audience and a dinner the next day at Wellingbourn seven miles from Northampton from which he was fetched by the Lord Percy and foure of her Majesties Gentlemen of the best quality in two of her Coaches and one Lords was entertained at dinner by the Earle of Carliel in his Lodgings but at the Queens charge without the accustomed Court confusion unavoidable where the Kings Servants especially those of the Guard give their attendance and waited on onely by the Kings Servants and accompanied by the Countesse of Oxford and three of the Queenes Maides of honour After dinner he was conducted by the Lord Percy in other two of the Queens Coaches for the more honour by that Variety to the place where her Majesties Tent was planted neere the Wells and was there at the Tent doore met and introduced by the Earle of Carliel to her Majestyes Presence her musickke with voices disposed in an inner Roome of intent of entertaining him at his enterance had there a most gratious Audience delivered his Letters and complement in words little different from those he had used to the King and having taken his leave but after making a short returne with excuse of his desire to hear the Musick which he did for almost halfe an hours space in company of her Majesty both of them all the while standing he with exceeding satisfaction for so much honour received returned reconducted by the Lord Percy in the same coaches to Northampton The next day we went to Dinner to Stony Stratford to Bed to Dunstable and the sixteenth of August to London where at the instant of our Arrivall we were told of two Ambassadors Commissioners come from the King of Denmarke to his Majesty This made the Ambassador answerable to some discourse passed between him and me to that purpose fall to question me in what manner I thought should be their Treatment whether with or without defraying to which I returning no direct answer as holding it unfit for me definitly to resolve what would be his Majesties pleasure he put me in mind of what I had told him to that purpose at his first comming viz. That the King would no more defray Ambassadors Dyet Lodging or coaches having begun already with Monsieur de Bassampierre Now added he if the Ambassadors of Denmarke or the Duke of Savoys voiced to be on the way comming hither to whom he said he held himselfe being the Duke of Mantovan's Representant equall in all conditions should receive those respects beyond him he could not but in his Masters behalfe resent it who not to reckon it he said as a merit and to challenge from thence the Kings better respects had sent to his Majesty a person himself of as eminent quality he might he said boldly without arrogancy say it as any of his Court to give his Majesty an account of the late Dukes death and of the Assumption of this now living to his Principality without regard what the Spaniard thought or would think or do against it before he had ever heard or looked to hear from England for complement of condoling or congratulating Wheras the Emperor the king of France
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
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
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