with him besides the testimonie with his works already doe giue he seemeth in my opinion a very seruiceable person He shal procéede on his iourney to his Maiestie where hee shall finde part of that he hath in charge in a good forwardnesse by meanes of such diligence as haue been vsed I am to thanke you for such curteous offers as it pleaseth you by your letter to make vnto mee and for my part for requitall thereof you shall alwayes finde mee ready and willing to do for you as occasion shall serue whatsoeuer I may Finally most hartily commending mee to your good grace I beseeche the Creator my L. to graunt you the accomplishment of your desires From Madrill this 16. of Aprill 1582. Wholy ready to do you seruice Ant. cardinall of Granuelle The superscription was To my L. my L. Marquise of Roubais Gouernour of Artoys and Hesdin MY Lorde the Prelate of Saint Vastz hath deliuered your letter of the last saue one of February To the L. of Montigny In troth such are your desertes in that you haue so nobly imployed your selfe in his Maiesties seruice that your selfe neede not to speake thereof as being a thing manifest whereof his Maiestie is sufficiently enfourmed assuring you that notwithstanding it was needlesse yet I failed not to put him in minde vpon euery occasion And I perceiue he liketh you well and esteemeth of your valiancie and of that you haue vppon euery opportunitie that haue been offered so nobly and so often employed your owne person with suche manhood and honour whereby I hope that his saide Maiestie will omitte no occasion to let you vnderstande what accoumpt hee maketh of you also what curtesie you are to hope for of his greatnesse and liberalty As for the charges of Flanders I perceiue not that his Maiestie doeth yet goe about to take any resolution besides you know sir in what state Flanders matters doe yet stande howebeit I hope that if you haue not yet heard of it you shall shortly by my Lorde the prince vnderstande that he is carefull in employing you honourably And I can assure you that the good will whiche I haue perceiued in his Maiestie towarde you is such that in my opinion you can not wishe it better I am heere as you knowe farre from him at the least twelue dayes iourneys off and therefore can doe nothing but by letters which can not alwayes watch their times so as those that are present had neede to renewe the contents of the letters and I hope that my Lorde president Foncq who nowe is there through whose handes also the affayres of the lowe Countreys doe passe who in my opinion liketh you wel wil not faile to do whatsoeuer to your behoof hee may possible as also I assure you that for my part what so euer in me lieth you shal be remembred with all good and assured affection Wherevpon for an end hereof I commende mee to your good grace beseeching the Creator to graunt you the accomplishment of your desires From Madrill this 16. of April 1582. Your perfect friend to do you seruice Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle The superscription was To my Lord the Lorde of Montignye SIr To the L. of Capres the Lord of S. Vastz arriuinge heere in good helth this present daye gaue me cause of great contentation in that by him I vnderstood perticularlye besides what before I knewe the endeuors which your self together with other Lordes haue vsed for the common wealth of the countrey vpholding the religion and his Maiesties seruice wherein in troth your desert is great and I doe especially wishe that his Maiestie may effectually as occasion may serue declare how well he liketh thereof For my part I will not fayle but willingly testifie vnto his Maiestie and so farre rehearse the same alwayes as time may serue to the ende my endeuors may one day yeelde such fruits as may turne to your full contentation wherein you shall alwayes find me readie as also in whatso euer els I may to doe you pleasure and seruice Finally most heartily commending my selfe vnto your good grace I beseech the creator graunt to you the accoÌ„plishment of your desires From Madrill this 16. of Aprill 1582. Your good friende to vse Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle The superscription was To my L. my Lorde the Earle of Henninlietart L. of Capres MY Lorde of Gongnies To the L. of Gongnies the Prelate of Saint Vastz hath deliuered mee your letter dated the 22. of Februarie The goodwill and loue which heretofore I haue offered vnto you is not onely not diminished but rather dayly encrâ—â—seth vnderstanding the duty with in what you may you do vse toward the vpholding of religion his Maiesties seruice as also by reason of such good will as you haue borne towarde me and doe nowe againe offer Neyther haue I omitted often to testifie your desertes and still will be readie vpon all occasions to renew the same and will sende vnto my Lord the prouost Foncq your request to the ende he may make report thereof to his Maiestie into whose handes the same which you procured to bee exhibited whereof this that nowe you sende mee is the copie may by this time be deliuered desiring him to put his Maiestie in minde of my former suite which willingly I will renewe earnestly wishing him to take such order therin as may be to your full contentation Thus most hartily commending my self to your good remeÌ„braÌ„ce I besech the Creator to graunt you your desires From Madrill this 16. of Aprill 1582. Your good friende Ant. Cardinall of Granuelle The superscription was To my L. the L. of Gongnies MY L. tresorer generall To Tresorer Stercke the prelate of S. Vastz ariuing here this day haue among others deliuered me your letters bearing date the 15. of Februarie by the contents whereof I gladly vnderstoode that his Maiesties grant signed with his owne hande for confirming you in your estate was made to your liking The testimonie of your loyall seruice is due vnto your woorkes in that continually you haue so well employed your selfe I am very glad that your age and disposition can beare it so well to tende dayly to the masters affaires which considering in what state they nowe remayne doe neede some great assistance I heartily thanke you for your offer which at the request of my L. the prouost of Ayre you made to assist my pretence for the payment of my wages and pentions that haue so many yeeres bin due and I perceiue you know that I haue great reason and that I haue borne my selfe modestly in vsing no importunacie notwithstanding I haue so long stayed But the losses which on all sides I haue susteined together with my expences in my iourneys for our masters seruice as also my seruing purely and with out interest do nowe force mee to be earnest By the said prouost of Ayres letters I vnderstand that by your good furtheraunce the matter
at my Lo. the Cardinalles who hath lodged me at his house and doeth mee all honor possible granting me priuate audience so oftē as I desire it I haue not forgottē to report your vertues and deserts Wherein I assure you he hath taken such a liking that shortly you shall see the effectes and that cum faenore that shal be restored you whiche by others enuie hath bin taken away The rest is not to be referred to paper only I pray you think that your affaires are at a good stay whereunto I will bee still assistant will not cease nisire plane confecta We depart to morrowe toward Lisbone from whence you shall heare of our newes My Lo. of Morillon is nominated to the Bishopricke of Turney and the Deane of S. Gudule to the Archbishopricke of Malines as one in whose behalfe my L. hath resigned One of Morbecques childrē is here in prison for killling his hoste peeuishly The L. of Gomicourt returneth with one habite athousand crowns and counsell for the war No more but I pray you haue a care of our houshoulde affayres and so beseeching God to continue you his fauour I do with al my heart cōmend me to yours From Madrill this 26. of Apryll 1582. Your perpetuall obedient friend Iohn Abbot of Saint Vastz The superscription was To my L. my L. of Richardot president of Artoys and of his Maiesties priuie counsell Arras Letters of Peter Aldobrandine My most noble Lady To the Dutchesse of Parma THe 2. of this present I wrot to your highnesse of my occurrences and I receiued yours of the 22. of Februarie foure dayes since which as your self may imagine bred my great contentation as thereby vnderstanding howe after your great trouble with goutes and feuers you nowe finde your selfe so eased as we shortly hope that the Lorde God hath restored you to your former health whiche I haue and dayly doe beseeche his diuine Maiestie to graunt you I doe likewise vnderstande of your highnesse determination wholy to obey his Maiestie concerning your aboode for a time in these quarters which vndoubtedly both is and will be greatly to his Maiesties liking as presupposing that your highnes persō and shadow in these Countreys may yet bring foorth and woorke verye great and good effectes for that he woulde that on the one side my Lorde the prince shoulde forceably compell suche as remayne obstinate and on the other side that your highnesse shoulde stand with your armes open and as it were an vmpire to ende all controuersies towardes such as woulde haue recourse to the gate of mercy as also to those that cannot be perswaded and beleeue that the way of great and mightie force is the same wherewith these countreys shoulde be reduced to due obedience Yesterday I had great talke with the Lorde Don Iohn Idiaqz Idiaquez and thanked him for such paynes as I knowe hee had taken to the ende your highnesse might at his Maiesties hande obtayne such satisfaction as the zeale wherewith you haue and still doe serue him doth deserue and besought him to persist especially to procure the reuoking of your highnesse out of this exile with his fauour and good liking Wherevpon I digressed in opening sundrye purposes concerning your highnesse entent Hereunto he made me answere that his Maiestie was sufficiently perswaded how greatly he was bounde vnto you Also that he neuer douted of your readinesse to fulfill willingly whatsoeuer his Maiesties pleasure who also will not omitte all due considerations of your highnesse seruice and qualitie Farther that it is necessarie you should attend the successe of this springe that afterward he may the better resolue himselfe he promised me also that he would not omit any conuenient time or place so earnestly to deale with his Maiestie as your highnes may trust vnto him For my part I will slacke no time or opportunitie to the ende to keepe the said L. well disposed affected who besids his great good will to your highnes is also in great credite authoritie with his Maiestie is glad to see me doeth by all meanes fauour me neither would he suffer mee as yet to moue his Maiestie as I haue been about to doe but willed mee to conforme my selfe to that your highnesse writ vnto him for that he saith his Maiestie coulde not yet peruse your letters so that it were good he should first see them then when time serued to speake he would giue me warning So as I wil wholy fulfil what so euer the said L. shall commaunde mee who also hath promised to procure often letters to your highnes To be briefe to graunt you such amends as your deuotiō to his Maiesties seruice doth deserue I haue assisted Nicelly in whatsoeuer I thought conuenient for the seruice of the house and if he had not bin here he might haue bin in the bryers and therefore may certifie you in what credit euē your highnes shadow is here But perticularly cōcerning the Castle I haue not spokē one worde but am ready to perfourme whatsoeuer you shal appoint command me The knight Blondo writeth to me that concerning the kings reuenew he endeuoreth not yet to vse any farther diligēce vntil the L. Duke nameth the persons that shall bye the landes then all necessary conueiances shal be dispatched when we also must take heed the you be assured concerning the title to Nouara Because that at Madrill there haue bin perticular dealing touching the enhauncing and augmentation of your highnes priuiledges that there it is to be dispatched Samaniego hath perticular care of the busines I haue here procured a consultation to be sent to Madrill which is in the handes of his Maiestie Bourbon La Posta and as Matthewe Vasques promiseth me shal be sent to morrow and withall this busines may be finished ended which is not of such importaunce as to put it in accompt of rewarde howebeit I will bee still so aduised that if I heare anything I may knowe howe to answere Earle Claudes sonnes haue presented a remembraunce to the counsayle of Italy demaunding the same that their father required touching the goods confiscate by the death of Captayne Camillus and I suppose they shall haue the same answere their father had namely to goe to the Duke And as occasion fall out I will not omitte anie endeuours Cardinall Farncsius corriuales doe all they may and I thinke his Maiestie Granuel and Don Iohn Idiaqz Idiaquez sufficiently aunswered who toulde me that they goe about to remedie it Farther yesterday the saide Don Iohn willed mee to bee of good cheere for his Maiestie had his noble Lordshippe in such reputation as the seruice which this hole familie had and still doeth vnto his Maiestie did deserue but all valiant parsons haue Corriuales So long as I remayne heere I will neuer desist as well in this as in all other matters but conforme my self wholly to your highnesse will neyther will I omit any diligence
is said that within these few dayes the great Chapleyne of Portingall was in hande with him in the behalfe of the Realme And hat although his Maiestie did them great honor in bringing his sister to gouerne them yet should they greatly complayne of his departure sithe nowe he knewe both the estate qualitie and gouernours of the kingdome But the K. vnderstanding whereat the Chapleyne leueled made him this answere My sister knowing mee to haue heere so great affayres woulde not but come to see mee Thus the Chapleyn could not vnderstande his purpose so great is his Maiesties discretion A while since one Antony Guttierez heyre to 6000. crownes rente in this towne was slayne by night and therefore a neere kinsman of the Admirall of Leon was caryed to prison They fet him out of the Church and the prouostes of the court comming hither apprehended him whether by right or wrong and tormented him brauely euen to the vnknitting of his ioyntes which the Admirall is grieued at and complayneth of the officers of Iustice in that the Gentleman being his kinsman and of suche calling they had racked him and therefore vsed great woordes agaynst the president of Castille wherevpon his Maiestie commaunded to take him prisoner so as he is prisoner in his owne house and his eldest sonne the Earle of Melgar is caried to prison to Alameda in the countie of Varaias because as the speech goeth hee is thought author of this murder The Marquize of Pennafiell heire to the Duke of Ossuna Viceroy of Naples comming hither a while since with a woman who was saide to be his louer they haue taken away the woman committed him as prisoner to his owne house Thus these three Lords remayne in the state of meane Gentlemen Also by reasō of some folly committed in the Monasterie of the Dechausses whiche is in this towne about the holy weeke shall bee a twelue moneth The Earle of Castanneda Don Lewes of Cordoua who ought to be the Duke of _____ and Marquize of Comarez Don Anthony Manricqz sonne of Don Iohn Manricqz Don Peter Vanegas and others are banished the court Don Henry Mendoza brother to the Duke of Infantado is likewise banished for another trifle besides for the former matter of the Dechausses the prince of Ascoli was almost a whole yere in exile Thus may you see what K. Philip can do euen in his absence God preserue him I haue no satisfaction in that which perticularly toucheth Annastro for his assuraunce only that you keepe him there with you Which God graunt it be so Who preserue you in such state as I doe desire From Madrill this last of Apryl 1582. Noble Lo. B. L. M. A. V. M. Your seruaunt Isunca The superscription was To the noble L. Peter of Olaue my very good L. High tresorer of the happie armie which the Catholike Maiestie maintayneth in his estate of Flaunders c. At Turnay ¶ Letters of Frauncis Guillam MOst noble L. sith the copie of my former writing vnto you is herevnto adioyned To the prince of Parma I will certifie you onely of what haue since happened me The Abbot of Saint Vastz arriuing here the 16. of this present did deliuer mee that which your highnesse writte mee the 27. of Februarie Also whiles very earnestly wee wayted for newes from your highnesse there arriued yesterday a post here by whom I receiued the letters which it pleased you to sende the 16. of this moneth whereunto I will make a short answere because the poste of Italy by whom I alwayes write is this day to be dispatched Cardinall Granuelle entertayned the sayde Abbot at his house wherein I assisted him vntill hee departed towarde his Maiestie whiche was the 20. of this moneth I shewed him what your highnesse writte vnto mee also howe he shoulde behaue him selfe wherein I will not there fayle him I desired him to let me vnderstand if there were any thing wherein I might do him any pleasure I writ also to D. Iohn of Idiaxz how earenestly he had trauayled to bring the estates to this resolutiō that they haue taken Also that it were good that his maiestie lett him vnderstand that your highnes informed him of the whole with what so euer els I thought meete Concerning the returne of the souldiers that are departed out of these estates also of the Italians that are to goe with them I can say nothing onely I was glad to vnderstand that his Maiestie hath nominated suche Captaynes ouer them to guide them as your highnesse doeth so well like of and as is meete for his Royall seruice and I assure my selfe hee will so deale in your highnesse behalfe by reason of the great loue he beareth you That which now me seemeth the best is the furniture of coyne and surely if I coulde doe anye more then put him in minde thereof your highnesse should not desire it more But I haue done that and doe it still yea and dayly will vpon euery opportunitie considering howe euident it is that your highnesse can doe nothing without that substaunce Vpon which occasion together with that I sayde before Maldonado shall come and serue your highnesse Don Iohn of Idiacq◠hath answered my letters the copy wherof I haue sent herevnto adioyned I haue put both of them in minde and will aduertise your highnes of their resolution The Cardinall shewed mee howe desirous hee was of this resolution Also howe often hee had propounded it willing mee to doe the like I suppose that the ordinarie prouision that is to bee made dependeth vndoubtedly vpon the president of the Tresurie for I haue talked with him and he maketh mee no answere to the purpose But sith this is ordered by the way of estate it is no maruell Of Madams health and recouerie all wee your highnes seruauntes are verye glad and reason The contrarye whereof we doe feele in that the French haue opportunitie to try that they do and to bring all into triall but I hope in God that in the ende by meanes of such order and forecast as your highnesse will in all places vse they shall reape no fruite of their purposes We haue of late dayes greatly wished for letters from your highnesse to resolue the doubt conceiued of the death of Orenge the newes being here so diuers as well from Paris as Antwerpe All wise men thinke him dead and so we are to beleeue although it be strange that your highnesse cannot fully verifie it There came newes from Lisbone that hee was in extremities and here it was sayde that he was dead But his fautors had concealed it a fewe dayes whyle they tooke order in their owne affayres I will write vnto Velasques of Minaya who is of his Maiesties chamber concerning the good you haue done him and doe still wishe to doe neyther can it bee but many will like well of it that your highnes are so willing to fauour pleasure his Maiesties seruauntes especially such as are so neere his royall