now recovered and was indeed judged so to have done by the three Lords mentioned when dineing with the Bride he had the honour of the Princesse Company and Supping of both their Majesties neither of these having fallne to the Spanish Ambassador at the Marriage of the Earle of Sommerset The 5. of January 1614. The Earl of Sommerset then Lord Chamberlain notwithstanding he understood how the yeare before the Spanish and Arch-Dukes Ambassadors had been invited to the Marriage of him the Earle of Sommerset and not the French nor the Venetian for the reasons elsewhere appeareing gave me directions to invite the Spanish and the Venetian not usually coupled ut supra to a Maske of Gentlemen set forth at the charge of his Majesty and to come at an houre about six in the Evening to a Supper that should be prepared for them in the Councel Chamber They both with one question of what Ambassadors would be there and my assurance that I understood of none besides themselves as indeed then I did not accepted the Invitation and came the next day at the time appointed A little before Supper the Spanish Ambassador taking me aside desired me to deale freely with him to tel him whether Sir Noell Caron the States Ambassador were invited and if invited what place was intended him whether in publique neere his Majesty or in private in some Corner of the Roome I answered that I knew then and not before that he was invited and would be there But in which of those conditions publique or private I could not resolve him Hereupon he requested me immediately to go to my Lord Chamberlain for clearing of this doubt wherewith acquainting his Lordship and he his Majesty I returned with this assurance That Sir Noell Caron was invited and should be placed within the Barres neare the King as Ambassadors used to be To this he made his replye desiring me to convey it to the Lord Chamberlaine that if Sir Noell Caron should be togeather with him at Supper or in any other place then in the Kings presence he would use him with all the respects of civility but in so honourable a place as that where the sacred persons of the King Queene and Prince were to be present he should never with patience see the Representant of his Masters Vassalls and Rebells so he called them hold an equall ranck with him That it was directly against his Instructions to concurr with him in any publique Act as an Ambassador and that therefore it would be better for him as he intended with the favour of his Majesty to retire himselfe betimes without noise then to be forced as he must to discharge his duty by publique exception and protestation against the presence of him Sir Noell Caron to the disturbance of so royall an Assembly and whereupon I told him as from my Lord Chamberlain that his Lordship was informed his predecessor Don Alonso de Velasco had stood upon no such Puntillio when Sir Noell Caron had at another time been invited as now and sate as it was now determined he should he said he was most assured there never had been such a concurrence so as returning from him with this answer I fortuned to deliver it in the hearing of my Lord Treasurer and received from his Lordship an assurance that upon his knowledge and in his sight his predecessor Don Alonso de Velasco had indured without any exception the placing of the States Ambassador at the left hand of the King while he Don Alonso sate on the right But this neither would satisfie him nor hold him from affirming that not to contradict he said my Lord Treasurer who yet might forget or mistake in some circumstances he would ingage his head to be cut off if there ever had been any such placing which being againe reported by me to my Lords Chamberlain and Treasurer they both went to the King and debating the businesse with his Majesty first in presence of sundry of the Bedd-Chamber and after more in private with halfe a dozen of other Lords my Lord Treasurer my Lord Chamberlain my Lord of Worcester and I to attend them were sent to him into the Councell Chamber and there intreating first the Venetian Ambassador to pardon them if they did awhile leave him alone taking onely the Ambassadors Interpreter and my selfe with them into a little Roome there by my Lord Treasurer delivered the Kings mind to this purpose That his Majesty having invited him to the Maske with a mind to give him all content was sorry that this question should grow to disturbe it That his Majesty went upon grounds of former presidents of the like concurrence in the time of the Ambassadors predecessors and that the had for witnesses of it besides his owne memorie the Queene the Prince and sundry of the Lords who affirmed they had seene it That his Majesty having heretofore intertained Sir Noell Caron in that manner and now invited him as an Ambassador he left it to his consideration what injury he should do to abate of his accustomed respects towards him That whereas the Ambassador affirmed it was formally his Instructions not to concurr with him in any publique Act his Majesty wondred that his predecessor should not have the like Instructions or having had such should forget or neglect to stand upon it that if he had any such his Majesty requested him that reserving other matter which he in no sort desired that he should communicate besides that purpose he might have a sght of it for his fuller satisfaction To this the Ambassador replyed with many acknowledgments of the honour his Majesty had done him c. That first the witnesses his Majesty had produced were so substantiall as should he with his owne eyes have seene the contrary he should not have trusted them in opposition of their Testimony That if it should be known to the King his Master that Don Alonso had committed such errour it would be enough to make him loose his head That it was true that in his generall instructions received from the hand of the King his Master it was not intended but that upon his Arrivall in England finding in what condition of respect Sir Noell Caron was held here he wrote particularly to the King for his pleasure about his manner of carriage towards Sir Noell Caron in case he should be put to it upon any incounter of Negotiation or otherwise whereunto he had received by letter from his Majesty his will intimating That in concurrence of ordinary civill respects he should use him with courtesy but in no case admit concurrence with him in or to any publique Act and that his Majesty should be an eye witnesse of the letter at his pleasure The Venetian who remaind in the meane time in the Councell Chamber having been by the Spanish Ambassador before the Lords entrance made acquainted with the difference like to grow had affirmed to him That he could himselfe remember that when Don
desired his acquaintarve and good Correspondence and was sorrey that any thing should hinder it but if it should please him to honour him with a viset he could not exceed the Title which other Ministers of the King his Master had used and so left it to his consideration whether he would or not visit him To a Serjeants Feast at the Middle-Temple the French Ambassador had been invited in the first place and after the Spanish which known to this and interpreted in the sence it ought he excused his Presence with some businesse that he doubted might at that time be brought him from his Majesty The French Ambassador came and with him the Venetian and the States Ambassador who disappointed of the company they were promised of the Master of the Ceremonies I met them there and after dinner brought them to their Coaches The Marquess de la Inojosa who came hither Extraordinary Ambassador long before Don Diego Mendoza doubting that this would challenge precedence as being the last and freshest person of imployment from the King his Master according to the received rule of Ambassadors come the last and of March first wrought by all the cuning meanes he could to lessen his esteem as by entertaining him under pretence of his Allye being of his family and name into the same House with him abating thereby the splendour he should have received if Lodged elsewhere and at the Kings charge as it had been offered and by styling him in his Letters sent to him on his way from Portsmouth thus a Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Ambassador Extraordinary de sa Majestate circa la persona del Principe Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Ambassador Extraordinary of his Majesty about the person of the Prince All this would not keep Don Hurtado from his pretence which to some appeared to be cleared by his sitting as he did always at the head of the Table in the Marquises House which yet to others seemed but to make him a guest and that place therefore in that right â—nly given him nor from professing as I heard him often that it was his right to preceed and would do so wheresoever he should meet him abroad and in publick not respecting the reasons alleadged for the Marquis that he was Consejero de Estado Vizroy of Navarr and had the Marriage Negotiation c. Don Diego de Mexia Governor of the Castle of Antwerpe Generall of the Ordnance to the Archdutchess and her Ambassador Extraordinary to his Majesty arrived here Novemb. 5. followed by many brave Gentlemen Tituladoes and Souldiers he was received at Gravesend by the Lord of Bellfast late Lord Deputy of Ireland and by him conducted to his Lodging the same with the three Spanish Extraordinaries whether he came on foote after his landing at the Savoy whilst the Kings and Noblemens Coaches sent from Court to receive him at Denmarke-House had a Countermand to take him in at the Tower but the Tyde falling faire otherwise then was supposed to give him safe passage under the Bridge they missed him and returned as is mentioned Don Hurtado de Mendosa after a moneths stay for his Audience during the Kings absence from London received a Message from my Lord Chamberlaine by Sir Lewes Lewkner and by me That since he had had so long a patience in attendance of his Audience here at London his Majesty would not adde further trouble to it but come himselfe hither to give it him So the 13. of November the King being come to Town the day before the Earle of Rutland who had in his Fleet brought him out of Spaine was made choice of for his conduction to Court The Lord attending at Bedford-House where he Lodged the repaire thither of the Gentlemen of the Kings Privy Chamber listed for the Service a Messenger from his Lordship brought them word to White-Hall as they stood expecting his comming thither that there were three Coaches attending them at the Court-Gate to carry them to the Earl of Rutlands House This Message so much displeased them it being in their Opinion an irregular course for them to go to his House when the Custome said they had ever been for the Lords wheresoever sent to take them along with him to White-Hall as some of them refused to go at all others went thither in those sent Coaches and attended his Lordship with the Lord Windsor the Lord Scroope and Sir Thomas Somerset to the Ambassadors at Exeter House followed by twenty Coaches and thence to White-Hall With the Ambassador to present him to his Majesty came the first sent Ambassador Extraordinary Don Carlos the other the Marquiss de lainojosa excusing that part more due and fit as was judged for his discharge with regard to the Question of Precedence mentioned After his Audience of the King the Lord Viscount of Andever being there ready to conduct him to the Prince brought him by the way of the Stone Gallery to his Highness Quarter where after a gratious reception in his Presence Chamber the Ambassador returned as before accompanied to his Lodging The Earle of Kelley well attended with many Gentlemen and Coaches went from White-Hall the 15. of November to fetch the Archdutchess Ambassador from Excester-House supplied there with hired Coaches so many as made the whole number of them at the least fifty After his rest a while in the Councell Chamber disposing the Lackeyes and inferiour sort of Followers to come behinde that their Masters might have the easier and fairer access to his Majesty whereof the Spanish Ambassadors Gentlemen for want of that Order failed the day before he had Audience of his Majesty and thence wnet streight to one assigned him of the Prince he was accompanied to these Audiences by the Marquess de la Inojosa and Don Carlos de Coloma in the same Coach neither of these two questioning Precedence as the Marquess had done of Mendosa who told me the Evening after that that question was resolved by Letters which he had that very day received from the King his Master to his advantage which was ended but feighned as appeared soone after For Sunday the 16. of November Don Hurtado de Mendoza hastening his dispatch had assigned and given him his second and last Audience which my Lord Chamberlaine the day before told me was to be given him in his Majestes withdrawing Chamber by the way of the Park and Privy Gallery as private whereupon I was bold to put his Lordship in mind that that being the last sight he was then like to have of his Majesty it would be expected that according to Custome he should have some Nobleman sent to conduct him which his Lordship apprehending as fit My Lord of Kneighton Captaine of the Guard was appointed for it and with a President Extraordinary and irregular but for his respect to the Ambassador whom it seemed he desired particularly to honour or for the more resplendent attendance of his own person as Captaine of that Band he brought along
immediate access without further Ceremony his Majesty being to returne the next day early to Hunting so the Ambassador repairing to Court at six in the Evening with reception of the President of the Houshold at the foot of the staires and of the Chamberlain at the top he was introduced to his Majestie in his withdrawing Chamber all his Followers remaining in the Presence The King upon assurance of the Plagues beginning to lessen at London and in other places neer about removed to Windsor and Hampton-Court and leaving the Queen some few dayes at Salisbury the Ambassador being upon his departure to follow his Majesty I let him understand that according to our Custome he was not to have his Post-horses defrayed though all the rest had been so hitherto when almost at the instant I received a Letter from the Earle of Carliel to whom in absence of my Lord Chamberlaine I had written for a formall resolution to that purpose signifying his Majesties pleasure that he should be defrayed for his Post-horses also as he had been for his Coaches and Carriages but with a protestation injoyned to be made by me as from his Majesty to the Ambassador as it formallv was when I delivered my message that he should be the last who should receive that Treatment and that he should have also his lodging provided in Court at Hampton which favour of his Majesty he at least in appearance accepted of most thankfully This Letter mentioned was written to me from the Earle of Carlile which siginification of his Majesties pleasure appearing in it for discharge of the Ambassadors Post-horses upon an account I had given that Lord at the instant of his departure with the King what words of resentment had falne from the Ambassador after I had told him of our Custome here as before in these formall termes and with passion answerable He had well observed he said how he had been intreated here since his comming in a different manner from other of his Nation and quality that Monsieur de Fiat and Monsieur de Villiaviller were not persons to stand with him in comparison otherwise then as they were his Masters Ambassadors yet had they received better respects then he That the world knew well enough what his condition and person was neer the person of his Master Monsieur le prmier being the first Gentleman of his Chamber and lodged alwayes for divers years next him in Court though he were now denied lodging in the Court of England where others had been allowed it especially in a time that the contagion of the Plague might be a motive to lodge him rather there then elsewhere with danger to his person whereas others as the Duke of de Chevereux though being a Prince he named him not as an equall instance and besides him Monsieur Villiaviller and Monsieur de Fiat had had their lodgings markt for them at Hampton Court That the Earle of Carliel though he had lodgings ordained for him at Saint Germaines in the Chancellors House the best of the Town and neer the Court would not be contented till he had his lodging Chamber and Anti-chamber in the Kings own House and had been treated for some eighteen moneths in manner as the world knew yet that he an Ambassador who for ought he knew was not to stay two moneths here was refused respects and treatment answerable in many things That he saw well enough what had been put upon him from time to time whereof but for doing so ill an Office as to raise difference or debate between the two Kingdomes which would be an ill Servants and Subjects part especially in times of our Warrs with Spain he would have shewed himself sensible He was after reâ—uted the maine boutefou of our Warre with France and would have returned the provision of diet that the King gave him which he thankt God he had meanes of his own besides that he had from the King his Master to allow himself in a plentifull measure and that what regard and treatment he had here he knew how and was in place about his Master able at one time or other to repay That further for that one particular of Post-Horses one or 200. crowns more or less was a poore thing in his consideration which to be defrayed or not defrayed was nothing to him in his own person but as he represented the person of the King his Master he was bound to take and give notice of it These and other the like Stommachous Speeches he let fall in my hearing which reported by me to my Lord of Carliel and by him to the King brought forth the Letter and with it the allowance specified The day before his departure when I presumed that his Majesties Officers had or would defray the Lodgings taken up and made use of for his Followers I found the Harbengers all departed and no Order left for their discharge In which regard for the Kings honour and avoidance of clamour from so many poor men as had furnished them with Beds and Chambers I sent for all their names caused them to come before the Green Cloth and there promised them my best endeavous with my Lord Chamberlaine and after procured of his Lordship a Warrant for twenty two pound to be paid them out of the Treasury of the Chamber for their respective satisfaction but when to be paid viderit tempus Saturday the 28. of October after Dinner when all being ready we all supposed the Ambassador would instantly depart he called me into his Chamber and imparted to me with request of my Secresie his designe to stay behind pour se purger as he profest to purge himselfe but whether of the humours of the Marquess de Bleinvill or of Monsieur l'Ambassadure taking the opportunity of the Queens stay behind the King for his more freedom of access to her Majesty I know not there he stayed intreating me to proceed with the grosse of his Traine retaining with him two or three Gentlemen and the Kings coach and assuring me he would follow on Monday Not to contradict him in his course designed I without reply or excuse parted that day with his Steward and followers in five coaches followed by seaven carts for his Baggage and forty foure sadle Horses and comming that night to Andever we had word brought us thither that the carriage with his Plate was not that day come forth of Salisbury a knavish carter when he see us all parted taking advantage and stealing away with his carriage before it came to loading so as leaving the Marshall of the Ceremonies behind to attend that charge we went on that night to Hart-ford Bridge then resting all Sunday more for the Frenches Satisfaction in attendance of their Lords Plate not yet come then for the duty they would have paid the day by rest though they had their Mass in the Inn but first with request of myapprobation for the fitness or unfitness of it in regard of
Councell Chamber he had his dinner provided at his Majesties charge in the Lord Chamberlaines Lodgings therby and conducted thence in the time of his Majesties dinner to the Banquetting House he stood at his right hand intertaining discourse with him all the later part of his Majesties dinner About the beginning of July arrived at London a Young Nobleman of Poland Son to the great Zomoiski the famous Chancellour of that Kingdome he demanded accesse to his Majesty by a Germane one Ryder that then lived in England who speaking in hearing of Sir William Button Assistant of the Ceremonies as if the Master of the Ceremonies had been in great fault to have neglected to presse his desire of presenting his Service to the King was reprooved by Sir William Button for so rashly condemning the Master of the Ceremonies then imployd into Kent to meete and receive the new come French Ordinary Ambassador asking him if Zomoiski were a Prince Soveraigne or an extraordinany Ambassador that he should challenge that respect of a King not to be seene at the pleasure and time of every stranger But this difference quietted with the forward Germanes strikeing saile he had an Audience appointed and given him two dayes after in the Kings withdrawing Chamber The second or third day following the same Zâ—moiski sent to the Master of the Ceremonies to let him know of an invitation he had received from the King by a letter written to him in his Majesties name from Mr. John Murray of the Bedd-Chamber to hunt with his Majesty at Theobalds and asked by his Messenger the Master of the Ceremonies opinion and Counsell touching his intention to be present at Court the next Sunday as his letter intimated at the Audience for that day assigned of the new French Ambassador and touching his manner of carriage at it Answer was returned him by Sir Lewes Lewkner that he would not take upon him to resolve or advise a man of his quality especially having himselfe received no direction from the Lord Chamberlain to the purpose of his Invitation so left him doubtfull but not enough to hinder his repaire notwithstanding to Court on Sunday after dinner though too late to come to the Ambassadors Audience Who that day the second of July had it at Theobalds setcht in the Morning from his House at Charter-House by the Lord Walden appointed with Sir Lewes Lewkner Mons. de Mareth my selfe and halfe a score Gentlemen to accompany him thither whither he had for his transport one of the Kings Coaches and three others at the charge of his Majesty besides two or three of his owne providing Arriving at one of the clock he was brought to rest himselfe in the Councell Chamber and at two was called thence by the Master of the Ceremonies and conducted by the Lord Walden to his Audience in the Presence Chamber where the King standing under the State the Ambassador marcht towards him his owne followers first next the Kings Servants that had accompained him from London next before him Sir Lewes Lewkner and at his side the Lord Walden The Ambassador observing as little respect at his approaches as had been till then seene after some few wordes of Complement he presented his Letters which while his Majesty read he in all that time nor before did so much as cast his eye towards the Prince there present till Sir Lewes Lewkner rounding my Lord Walden in the eare his Lordship stept to him with an admonition for his addresse to the Prince which the Ambassador tooke But whether this admonition were well given or well taken or had been better deferred till the King had read his Letters or best of all perhaps intimated immediately after he had performd his respects to the King it may be a Quere His Majesty invited him once to cover at first but the Ambassador excusing the King put on and the other still stood bare headed till the King having read the Letter his Majesty put off againe and falling to a discourse with him of some length he never after covered till he was out of the Chamber He returned to London with Sir Lewes Lewkner and his followers attendance onely my Lord Walden leaving him at the Court gate and remaining that night not perhaps without a Solecisme in Ceremonie at Theobalds A day or two before his Audience a question fell out between Mr. Secretary Winwood and the Master of the Ceremonies whether the French Ambassador mentioned were or ought to be invited to dine at Court the Court being so far out of London the day of his first Audience Sir Lewes Lewkner said he knew of no such order why then quoth the Secretarie who should know it but his Majesty he added is ill served and ill instructed and those things now a dayes which should be done are not and those not done which should be The other replyed he was none of his Majesties Tutors and for himselfe he was to receive his directions from the Lord Chamberlaine and without them not to undertake any thing in his Office but to answer he said more directly he knew not wherein he had done amisse yes when said Mr. Secretary this French Ambassadors Ordinary was met by you in Kent when he should not and should have had a dinner provided for him in Court the day of his first Audience An errour of the Secretary which was neglected Sir Lewes produced his owne experience against both his assertions affirming he had met such and such Ambassadors on the way at some Towne between London and Dover and extraordinaries at their first landing and that Ambassadors Ordinary had many times to his knowledge had no dinner given them by the King at their first Audience November the first Seignior Barbarigo who about a moneth before came to reside here Ambassador in place of Seignior Foscarini departed his Majesty being at that time absent at Royston was conducted from Charter-house to White-Hall by the Lord Haye for his first Audience attended by many Gentlemen of his Majesties privy Chamber in two of the Kings Coaches and seaven or eight of the Lords besides five or six others hyred by himselfe Being come to White-Hall he had his conduction together with his Predecessor through the first Court up the great Staires by the Guard Chamber into the Councell Chamber where my Lord Haye remaining with him while the Master of the Ceremonies went to give an account that he was come he was after brought to his Majesty in the Presence no other Lord receiving him at the Presence doore the Earle of Somerset Lord Chamberlaine being then in Prison His Predecessor preceding and first speaking he delivered his Letters and a breife speech with a voice audible over all the Roome Whence reconducted by the same Lord and the Gentlemen mentioned to his house they there found beyond expectation a long Table ready covered and many white wax Lights not yet it not being foure of the Clock lighted When my Lord Haye offering
as much murmured that they could have with them but a third part of 100000 Markes yeelded to be lent their Emperour and for which notwithstanding they knew not how to give one Marks worth of sufficient Security c. They went within few dayes after accompanied with Sir Dudley Digs his Majesties Ambassador to the Emperour of Russia downe to Gravesend and thence North-ward in such Ships as the Merchants of the Muscovy company had provided for their returne and for the continuance of the re-established Traffick of those parts In September 1618. The Lords of the Councell had committed to a Justice of Peace his House in nature of close Prisoner one Monsieur de la Chenay a French Gentleman late one of the followers of Monsieur de Mareth and now a domestique of Monsieur de Clere left Agent here after the departure of the Ambassador for having confessed upon examination before the Lords that he had an hand by the said Agents imployment in an escape that Sir Walter Rawleigh would have made into France for some disservice to his Majesty The Agent being hereupon sent for and appearing before the Lords assembled in the Councell Chamber refused to answer unto Interrogations till he should be proceeded with as others qualified as he was had been alleadging further that Mr. Bercher at the same time Agent for his Majesty in France had at an Audience before the Councell of State there pretended and claimed a right and honour done to his Representative quality viz. Not to propound his businesse till they the Lords Councellours should stand up as he did and be uncovered as he was in that place Ambassador he said being allowed to sit and be covered as they the Councellors also were at the time of their Audiences This le Clere affirmed had been yeelded to by the King his Masters Councellors and that he had reason to challeng the like from their Lordships The Lords Answer was that severall Countries had severall formes and that the manner of proceeding in France was no rule for ours in England where custome had made it otherwise But this answer would not serve to draw any from le Clere for satisfaction of their demands till at length the Lords neither to yeeld to him nor to force his resolution thought good to retyre themselves and him with them into another Chamber and there as by way of private discourse where the place being no Councell Chamber no odds of observance were given or taken they examined him upon his followers la Chenays confessions and actions he twice with great oathes denied all knowledge of them till at length la Chenay brought further to confront him acknowledging and confessing as he had done to the Lords before the truth of his imployment for Sir Walter Rawleighs escape le Clere could no further out-face it but with shame confessed it Whereof as soon as his Majesty was informed he was in his Majesties name commanded by the Lords to surcease from all further negotiation or exercise of his charge and not to come in presence of his Majesty till a messenger sent instantly post to France should returne with signification of that Kings pleasure for the avowing or dissavowing of his Ministers actions About a moneth after a letter came in answer with particular charge as the Agent pretended that he was to deliver it himselfe to the Kings own hand To which purpose posting to Royston where his Majesty then was and making offer himselfe to present his Letter he could not be admitted but being referred for delivery of it to one of the Lords that then attended his Majesty he refused it and said he would personally as he had command or not at all performe that Service So as returning to London and thence in few dayes to France with the same Letters undelivered and the account of his proceeding the Revocation of his Majesties Agent followed c. A Chiaus or messenger from Turkey being arrived at Gravesend was received there October the thirteenth by the Lord Rich accompanied with his Brother Sir Henry Rich the Master of the Ceremonies my selfe and halfe a score other Gentlemen that Lord entertained noblie at his owne charge all the company went the next morning from his owne Inn to the Chiauses and thence conducting him to the Kings Barge and two others come down for his Service and Landing him at Tower Wharfe we there entred the Lords Coach and other of his friends and of the City the Kings Coach not then serving and brought him to his Lodging defrayed as was also his diet during his stay here by the Turkey Merchants He had within few dayes after his publique Audience of his Majesty in the Banquetting House purposely hung for him with rich hangings where his Majesty touched one of his followers said to be his Son for cure of the Kings Evill useing at it the accustomed Ceremony of Signing the place infected with the crosse but no prayers before or after An Ambassador from Venice Seignior _____ Donati being come to reside here in place of Seignior _____ Contareni recalled by the Republique was brought to his first Audience the first of November by the Lord Clifford the Master of the Ceremonies seven or eight other nominated Gentlemen and my selfe as voluntary the Kings Coach the Lord Marquesse of Buckinghams and three other serving he was taken into them at the house of his predecessor mentioned and their places taken up by themselves in the Coach both on one side the Ancienter having the right hand next the Horses and the other side left to the Lord Clifford and the Master of the Ceremonies There came with us fifteen or sixteen Coaches to the Court The Ambassadors guided over the Terras to the Councell Chamber and after halfe an hours repose there back to the Guard Chamber were at the Presence doore received and introduced by the Lord Chamberlain for their Audience c. This Ambassador Donati was not long after revoked by his Prince for misdemeanors in his charge whilst he was Ambassador in Savoy and Seignior Geronime Landi sent to reside here in his stead A Maske of certain Lords and others being prepared for Twelfe night and to be represented in the Hall at White-Hall the Banquetting House having been burnt a little before gave occasion to his Majesty who had been often troubled with the Puntillious differences of Ambassadors about invitations precedencies and the like to take advantage of this more quiet time then accustomed while no French nor Spanish Ministers were here and to begin a new course at least pretended if not intended no more to admit of Ambassadors to sit with his Majesty under the State and to this purpose gave order for a Box or seate to be made apart with Stooles Cushions and leaning Carpets to be bestowed in it on his Majesties right but somewhat obliquely forward and therein were placed without exceptions from any of them the new come Venetian Ambassador Donati and foure Commmissioners sent
his proceeding considering that the Emperors Ambassador both affirmed that the Spanish had first vifited him personally wheras the French had by an hasty anticipation only performed it by his Servent and that at another time the same French Ambassador had passed over a subject for the like punctuality without any scruple or question as when the Bohemian Ambassador was here and had first visited the Spanish he was for all that visited by him the French Tthat by the stile held in the Emperors Court the precedence is given to the Spanish and that he was therefore bound to observe it here yet notwithstanding all this the French upon a second offter of visite from the Emperors Ambassador excused his being at home so as there passed no complement of visite at all between them In the mean time the Venetian Ambassador after I had returned as from my self the Emperors Ambassador his answer ut supra wrote to me an ofter to come to my House which preventing by going to his told me he had received a returne of his visite sent by his Servant by a Servant of the others who at the first entrance of his Message giving his own Master the title of Excellenza and him the Venetian of Signioria Illustrifsima said his Excellency hoped to see him before his departure which words though of a double sence of seeing him at his own House or at the others taken as a courtesie he desired me to let him know as I did that he had spared to make Reply to his courtesie by his own the Venetians Servant because the Title likely to be used by the Emperors Ambassador and justly to be returned considering the Republicks paritie with Crownd Heads by the same Servant might perhaps breed further distaste but that I that was neutrall and uninterested might let him know as he desired me I would without danger of offence or ingagement by application of Title that he was most sorry any such difference should hinder the Visite and acknowledgement of respects which he and his Republique owed the Emperor and his Ministers but that if any mean could be found to carry things with indifferencie that he would most readily imbrace it That at the first if he had not expressed himself by those different Titles given by his Secretary he had himselfe personally visited him and without further condition put himself upon his wisdome That regarding the duty he owed the State he represented he would not leave his first hold and finally for his own particular he was his most humble servant c. To this the Emperors Ambassador returned that he was sorry the difference stood so stifely upon between them should keep him from the acquaintance of a person of whom he had received so worthy respects that he could not alter what he had once with good reason resolved never to treate del pare with the Venetian Minister That what he stood upon or had done proceeded not he protested from any Capriccio of his own or command of his Master but meerly as he knew of his own experience according to the Stile and manner held between the Emperors and all Venetian Ambassadors ab antiquo so desired pardon for his freedome presented his love and service c. The last Complement being returned to the Venetian Ambassador the business ended without interview or further question or difference between them The 11. of April this Ambassador had his second private Audience fetcht from Denmark-House by water by the service of six or seven Barges by the Earle of Aubigney and other Lords and Gentlemen landing at the Privy Staires at White-Hall and passing through the Sheild Gallery and the late Queens Lodgings into the Kings Privy Gallery and his withdrawing roome there where the King held discourse with him an hour together Remotis arbitris a day or two after he ran at Tylt in the Prince his company with the Lord Montjoy The Sunday following April 14. he was publickly feasted in the Upper House of Parliament seated on his Majesties left hand at the distance of about three persons between and of one beneath His Barons and principall Gentlemen were placed at a Table set cross at the upper end of the Court of Requests accompanied at dinner by the Lord Treasurer the President of the Councell and the Earle of Rutland who had been that day his conductour from Denmarke House by water After dinner as before he was brought to his Chamber of repose and some halfe an houre after fetched thence by the same Lord his conductour to take leave of his Majesty in the Roome where he had dined and thence went to St. Jameses to take leave also of the Princes Highness On Wednesday the sevententh of Aprill and the eleaventh day of his stay here having been all that time defrayed he deparred hence with all his followers in six of the Kings Barges to Gravesend where he was to imbarke in two Ships of the Merchants appointed by the King but paid by himselfe for Dunkirk At his parting he left his Majesties Officers and Servants little fatisfied with the gratuities being but small Bracelet Chaines to the valew of scarse eight or 10 l. a peece To the Master of the Ceremonies bringing him the Present from his Majesty which was his Picture set in Gold richly inchaced with Diamonds and hung at a Chaine of Diamonds Rubies and Pearles valewed at 1600 l. he gave a small Jewell worth little above eight pound and for all his Travell and attendance a Bason and Ewer not of 30 l. valew To the Guard then waiting being twenty foure he gave 40 l. and to the Clerck of the Check a Bracelet of Gold of about nine pounds valew To me who expected nothing having had no command to attend him he gave a small Chaine of Excellent Workmanship as a rememberance he said not a reward worth ten pound besides the rare fashion of it To the Porters five pound to two of the Kings Coachmen dayly attending him tend pound to the hired Coachmen five pound he took away without leave or demand of him the Bishop of Spalato a fault in him and an indignity offered his Majesty considering what noble Treatment he the Ambassador had received here and the unworthy carriage of that double Apostate Prelate toward this State and Religion His Secretary had from the King a present equalling in valew almost all those he bestowed upon his Majesties Servants being worth above an hundred pounds A second Son of the Lands-grave of Hess by name Phillip _____ sent hither on a Negotiation from his Father was to have an Audience of his Majesty on Easter day Aprill the one and twentieth and though he were not a qualified Ambassador yet regarding his condition I had order to receive him at the Court Gate so conducted him thence to the Privy Chamber whence he was after about an hours stay called for received at the doore of the Privy Gallery by the Lord Chamberlain and had there his Audience
almost continually attended his Majesty in the Progresse allwayes lodged and defrayed Towards the end of Novembâ—r upon order from my Lord Chamberlain for reception of another Extraordinary from France Monsieur dâ— Villiaueler Secretary of State there and hither sent about the same businesse of Marriage with Pr. Maria Henrietto Sir Lewes Lewkner went to Dover with the Kings coach and fourteen other hired but much sooner then he needed for the Kings profit though not alltogether by the fault of his forwardnesse but of Letters to that purpose from Mr. Secretary Conway for when he was come thither no news certain could assure him of the Ambassadors yet arrivall at Callayes In the meane time the other Ambassador allready here hastning likewise his incounter more then he needed pressed my Lord Chamberlain for two more to other two attending hired Coaches which he had already to meet him as he intended at Rochester when my Lord imposing on me late at night the Service of procuring them I with much a doe got them ready by eight the next Morning which done repairing to my Lord with the account of the Ambassadors Accommodation and readinesse to depart Letters came from Sir Lewes of the others not yet Landing or so much as knowledge of his approach this known to the Marquesse de Fyat could not stay or turne his resolution of going that night to Rochester whither he said he must go or fast having sent his cook and provisions before him so as parting the three and twentieth of November he had too much and perhaps to little reason both for respect of the Kings charge and of President as one Extraordinary to meete another so far off with no more difference of quality between them he went as far as Dover whether no sooner then six dayes after came the other from his place of Landing the Downes forced thither by the windes and the next day after to Canterbury the next to Sittingborne the next to Rochester and the day after to Gravesend where he was that day received by the Earle of Dorset Edward accompanied with five and twenty Gentlemen the Kings Servants and others come downe thither with two and twenty Barges These with regard of the Tides unfitnesse were commanded to attend at Tower Wharfe about Noone and his Lordship hastning thither by Land in Coach we rowed two hours against the Tide and comming to our Inn in the Evening waited on his Lordship to the Ambassadors Lodging where in the midst of the entery towards the Staire foore my Lord was met by the Marquess de Rothelin brother in Law to Monsieur de Valliauiler and Monsieur de Massy his other brother in Law and received by him and his Collegue on the top of the Staires no sooner Thence after a long contention the Earle of Dorset entred first the Chamher after him Monsieur de Villeaviler next him with the like strife Sir Edward Harbert not long before Ambassador Ordinary in France and then Monsieur de Fiat At his Lordships returne the Ambassadors enforcing likewise upon him the Precedence brought him to the Street door In the time of my Lords Supper the Ambassador sent a Gentleman to know of him his commodity of imbarquing the next morning and had the like complement returned from my Lord by a Gentleman with the good night and the liberty of his time to imbarque howsoever the Tyde would invite him to be ready against a eleaven of the clock the next day and after some question from his Lordship whether he were againe to repaire to the Ambassadors if he did not personally returne his Visite the next morning and a resolution hereupon from the Master of the Ceremonies Sir Edward Harbert that had been an Ambassador my self and ethers there that though they should faile of their Complement he must not of his to fetch them from their Inn to their imbarquing he performed it and with the two Ambassadors the Marquess de Rothelin Sir Edward Harbert Monsieur de Massey and the Master of the Ceremonies in the first Barge some other principall persons and my selfe in the second we came to our landing at Suffolk-House ascended with my Lord of Dorset alwayes fored to the Precedence to the newest Ambassadors Lodging but after much contenrion could not keep off the Ambassadors company till taking leave and Coacht at the street Gate his Lordship and the rest departed In the time of this Monsieur de Villiavilers stay here which was about a moneth the King then at Newmarket his Majesty invited him to his Audience to be given him at Cambridge where received and defrayed all the way out and home and presented from his Majesty with a Diamond Ring of 4000 l. valew so the Ambassador himself that pretended much knowledge in Jewels esteemed it and with one from the Prince of above a thousand pound valew he there took his leave but had after at Theobalds and London severall Audiences and on Newyears-Eve departed towards Dover the other Ambassador accompanying him to Rochester with an intention to have gone with him as farte as Dover but that Sir Lewes Lewkner with regard to the irregularity of his Journey further then had been formerly by president from other Ambassadors Collegues undertaken and with respect of his Majesties charge for two more then for one he diverted it with intimation silently given the King of Monsieur de Fiats changeable intention and signification thereupon from his Majesty to the Ambassador that he must speedily speak with him which brought him back from Rochester to his home at Suffokle-House the day following Both these Ambassadors were defrayed to Rochester but no further The fourth of January I received Order for the invitation of the French Ambassador the Marquess de Fiat the Venetian Seignior Pesaro not long before arrived here in place of Seignior Valeresso and two Agents Monsieur Brumeau for the King of Spaine and Monsieur Van Mal for the Archdutches to a Maske of the Prince with certaine Lords and Gentlemen on Twelfnight I propounded and obtained of the Venetian that he would Sir Lewes Lewkner being then absent call in his way to Court and accompany thither the French Ambassadors that I might with one labour attend them both and introduce them as I had directions by the Parke through the Galleries at eight of the clock at night the place and hour assigned also the Agents but being the next morning assured by the Prince himself that the Maske was to be put off till Sunday the ninth of January I was upon his Highness intimation sent to disinvite them all which I performed with the French personally and with the rest by Letter But on Saturday reinvited them for the next day when about four of the clock the Marquess Hamilton Lord Steward of his Majesties Household then supplying the place of the Lord Chamberlaine indisposed gave me in charge to repaire to the Ambassadors and to let them know that in regard of the inconveniency that would
grow from the intrusion of multitudes of people by the way of the Galleries if they were left open he desired they would enter the Court by the great Gate and thence pass for their repose to the Marquesses Lodgings till the King should come by and take them along with him This intimation was given also to the two Agents who had the same Order for their Entrance as the former but were likewise diverted and conducted to a Roome apart in my Lord Stewards Lodgins which was so ordered of design to avoid their and the French Ambassadors incounter not with apprehention of strife for place their difference of qualities of Agents and Ambassadors clearing all such question but of distast perhaps to either from their incompatibility a regard taken also in placing their Followers in severall Scaffolds to avoid differences and wranglings that might occurre even amongst those of inferior condition if feated promiscuously together in a Scaffold a provisionable care that the King himself had and expressed it that day at his Dinner The Ambassadors were seated with the King as accustomed and the Agents bestowed amongst the Lords beneath Earles and above Barons Here end the Services of my Place of Assistant Master of the Ceremones under King James who died the 27. of March following SERVICES PERFORMED by Me as Assistant Master of the CEREMONIES The first yeare of King Charles From the beginning of the Raigne of King CHARLES THE thirteenth of Aprill I conducted the Persian Ambassador Sir Robert Sherly from his Lodging at Tower-Hill to an Audience of his Majesty at White-Hall Descending at the great Gate of the Court I brought him William Earle of Pembrick as I had my directions from the Lord Chamberlain through the darke passage from the Sermon Court to the Councell Chamber on the late Queens side whence going to the Kings Privy Chamber I there gave notice of the Ambassadors arrivall to a Gentleman Usher of that Chamber all further passage being begun then to be debarred to all but Privy Councellours and Bed-chamber men who conveying my intimation to my Lord Chamberlain in the Privy Galleries I had a charge returned that conducting him by the way of the late Queens Lodging to his Majesty in his Withdrawing Chamber no other but my selfe should go along with him this obeyed he passed with his Majesty some few words of condoling complement and returned by the way he entered The next day I conducted to an Audience for the same purpose and by the same way Monsieur de Bruneau Secretary Resident as he stiled himselfe for the King of Spaine with whom entered onely into the Privy Gallery one Cosmo sometimes Servant and Secretary to the Conde de Gondemar but I had instantly charge from my Lord Chamberlain upon his sight of him to tell him he must avoid that Roome as he did upon my admonition Three dayes after I performed the like Service and with the like directions and Service for conducting of Monsieur Van Mall Agent for the Arch-Dutches The third of May I introduced the Venetian Ambassador Seignior Pesaro to the like Audience his Secretary notwithstanding my admonition following us into the Privy Gallery and by his example the other followers when hearing me say to the Ambassador that he might be pleased to leave behind him la sua gente the Secretary answered Si si bisoina Leseine la gente as reckoning himselfe being Secretary not de la gente leaving them behind and entering with the Ambassador not onely into the Gallery but into the Presence of his Majesty though not approaching neerer then halfe the way within the Chamber The French Ambassador performing his complement of condoling with conduction of the Master of the Ceremonies Another Extraordinary Ambassador from France The Count de Tremes sent to condole the death of King James arrived at Dover in the beginning of May and was received there by the Master of the Ceremonies with the Service of twenty Coaches hired at the Kings charge for his Transport to Gravesend and thence of an answerable number of Barges to Suffolk-House his appointed Lodging together with the other Ambassador Monsieur de Fyat Resident Extraordinary The day after his arrivall he was brought to his publick Audience in the Presence Chamber by the Earle of Montgomery served by five coaches of the Lords besides that of the Kings all covered with black cloath for mourning his passage was through the Hall to the Councell Chamber and after his rest there to the Kings Presence where in company of his collegue presenting foure Letters to his Majesty one after the other The last of which appeared by the Kings cheerfull countenance at the receipt of it to come from his then affianced Mistresse On Saturday the seaventh of May the Funerall of King James was to be Solemnized and his Body to be attended to Westminster Church by his Son King Charles and by all the other Lords Officers and Servants in their proper rancks as they had by their severall places and charges relation to that last duty For this purpose the generall Rendez-Vous or assembly being to be made at Denmarke-House about nine in the morning and the King himselfe repairing thither between twelve and one many disputes grew between particulers for their pretended rights of Precedence about which while they were in question and I attending the Heraulds call to my place of march either as assistant Master of the Ceremonies together with Sir Lewes Lewkner to precede the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber as the Heraulds told me we were ranckt by the Earle Mareshall or promiscously to go amongst them as sworn Servants of that number I had command from his Majesty to repaire to the two French Ambassadors where they were at that time reposing themselves in a Chamber apart and to waite on them all the way to Westminster Church in ranck next after the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury as in the cheife and highest place that could be assigned them about which That is as by oâ—der of procession before after some questions propounded by them for their better satifactions they were desirous to see the Heraulds Book where their places were ordered which shewed by Sir John Burrowes Norrey King of Armes they took Exceptions at their rancking though it were next the Standard and neerest the Body of all other except the Heraulds Trumpetours and other Officers of necessary Assistance because the King himselfe they said went behind the Body alone with whom as Representants of their Master they pretended an equall ranck and March one on his right hand and another on his left But this not allowed them as being against our received Custome and they having denied it the day before they at length seemed to rest satisfied so set forth at the time having first presented themselves with their respects to his Majesty and took and kept both one even course of Parity and the latter came marching all the way on the right
Ambassador had his stand as he said he would at the House of Sir Abraham Williams neere the Gate-House of the Pallace-yard in company of the Queen as Bleinvill which was his owne distinction and not as Ambassador where with her Majesty he had a view of the King in his passage from Westminster Hall to the Church and back againe The Queens Reason as it was voyced for not being Crowned together with the King was because she could not they said by her Religion be present at our Church Ceremonies where she must have had divine Service celebrated by our Bishops and not by those of her own Religion as was demanded for her Crowning The ninth of February following the King was to ride to Parliament and though the Venetian Ambassador had assurance from me that the French was to have no other stand appointed him for view of that Solemnity then the company of the Queen as a private Person and not as an Ambassador yet his jealosie of loosing the pretended right of his Re-publick in Parity with Crowned-heads made him apprehend the allowance of an House taken up for him in King-street about the midst of it where also was assigned one for the States Ambassador at the charge of his Majesty to be an Abatement of his respects which he affirmed was that he was to stand in the same House and place with the French Ambassador but in the end pacified he accepted of it In the meane time a difference that fell out about the place for the Queen she affected to stand in the Banquetting House or in the Privy-gallery when the King had given reasons for her better fight in the house of the Countess Mother to the Duke of Buckingham next the Gate in Kings-street was a Subject for some discontent c. so far as the Ambassador Bleinvill seeming to his Majesty to have been the causer of it had the next day a message brought him by the Lord Conway that it was his Majesties pleasure that he should forbeare further accesse to the Kings or Queens Presence which he storming at and excepting against as an indignity offered to his Representative quality demanded by two or three severall messengers Audience of his Majesty for knowledge of the Reasons of his restraint but was refused it with this limiting distinction If he demanded Audience for any particular business concerning the King his Master he should readily have it but if for himselfe to expostulate his own grievances the King did absolutly let him know that if he came to him he would not see him so as the Ambassador replying that he was here for the King his Master and not for himself and that the refusall of his Audience touched the person he represented and not his own He the next day refused the Kings diet and betook him to his own leaving the Lodging taken for him at Durham-House and removing with the chiefe of his Traine to Greenwich whence two days after returning to London he with the Kings permission had a sight of the Queen and the next day went againe to Greenwich He had in the interim dispatched two or three Couriers one following another with an account of all but at Dover the Ports being by Order shut before hand none of them could be allowed passage till after fourteen or fifteen days when Master Walter Mountacue had been purposely sent from the King they were opened and the Ambassador had his liberty of sending his messenger About a moneth or six weekes after this Malantenda this Ambassador receiving Order from the King his Master for composing of his affaires and differences here and for applying of himselfe to his Majesties pleasure he had an Audience or two and peecing up matters took his leave at a solemne Audience at White-Hall Presence conducted to it by the Earle of Holland the Kings Guard attending their Captain through the streets but what congruity as was done before quere and two or three dayes after departed first for a night or two to his private Lodging at Greenwich and thence to Dover accompanied by Sir Lewes Lewkner but undefrayed on the way leaving the Kings Officers and Servants my selfe in particular after my so long and painfull attendance ill satisfied with his none at all or most unworthy acknowledgements About the middle of February The Merchants of the East Indian Company having signified to his Majesty That a Ship long held for lost and then arrived at Portsmouth had brought in her an Ambassador from the King of Persia obtaind his Majesties Coach with the Earle of Warwick the Master of the Ceremonies and other Gentlemen the Kings Servants in it for his Reception at Kingston and transport to London These Merchants with an affected honour beyond that done to the other Persian Ambassador Sir Robert Sherley had procured the Kings Coach to be drawn with eight Horses as with the more grace to the latter to disgrace the former He came to London the 19. of February and was lodgd the Merchants defraying him in the House of Alderman Holliday then deceased There resting himselfe two dayes his Audience was sollicited and assigned for Shrovetuesday following which suspected by Sir Robert Sherley and his friends to be a plot of the Merchants by so hastning an Audience to prevent his repair to Court and to prepossess the King with the new Ambassadors Reports he intreated the Earle of Cleaveland Husband to his Neece to accompany him at a Visite he would bestow on the said Amdassador for his Wellcome and for the declaring of his own quality of Ambassador from the same King from whom he had so long negotiated here under that Title To this purpose the Earle of Cleaveland addressing himself to the Lord Chamberlaine for his favour in procuring from the Lord Conway Principall Secretary the Letters of Credence brought to King James by Sir Robert Sherley The Lord Chamberlaine excepting his medling in it as being he said no duty of his place From him the Earle of Cleaveland went to the Duke of Buckingham and by his meanes obtaind allowance from his Majestie for the Lord Conway to impart them for so much use and sight as might serve the Ambassador Sherleys turne for the others satisfaction so as my Lord Cleaveland having gotten them into his hands he the morning that the new come Ambassador was in the afternoone to have Audience departed with the Kings Coach and seven other eight or nine Gentlemen and my self accompanying him to Sir Roberts Sherleys Lodging on Tower Hill whence being ready to set forth towards the other Ambassadors I propounded the fitness of sending to him before to avoid the incivility as it might be interpreted of a surprise with signification of our instant coming to him to Visite him To this his Answer met us on the way without other complement then that we might come Entring the Hall where he then was sitting in a chair on his legs double under him after the Persian Posture and affording no motion of
but a gracious answer I acquainted his Majesty with his instant desire that it might stand with his Majesties pleasure to have his publick Audience made private by commanding an avoidance of the pressing company or by his Majesties retrait to his more private Lodgings where the Ambassador might have an immediate access to him for communication of some particulars of his Negotiation which required speed in dispatch His Majesty was gratiously pleased to allow of the former and commanding all to stand back but the Ambassador they spake together a good time out of the hearing of any After taking his leave to returne to London and incountring on the way the Duke of Buckingham he caused his coach to turne back after him but in vaine the Duke taking another way but overtaking the Ambassador that night in his more speedie returne he there in the way received his Letters his complement and his request of a speedy dispatch in his businesse The fifth of October he had his Audience of the Queen assigned and given him at Hampton Court without any Person of Title to receive him at the Gate with excuse from the Gentleman Usher upon my remonstrance of their absence for Service of her Majesty the next day in her remove The Queen received him in her Privy-chamber where he after an Invitation or two of her Majesty covered for which he went not away uncensured of the observing Ladies and Lords there present His Majesty having received an account from France of the cold reception and entertainment given his Ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton Lord of Imber-court imployd thither Extraordinary for prevention and accommodation of whatsoever differences that might grow from the late remove of the French from about the Person of the Queen news came soone after to Court of the arrivall at Dover September the foure and twentieth of Monsieur de Bassampierre sent Ambassador from that King about the same businesse whom to entertain answerable to the stile and Treatment of our Kings Ambassadors there it was consulted of and resolved that neither the Master of the Ceremonies nor other Officers of his Majesty should be sent to receive serve him further off then at Gravesend a Nobleman no neerer then Greenwich for his conduction thence by water to Tower Wharffe and to his house hired and furnished by himselfe in Leaden-hall-street for which latter complement was chosen the Earle of Dorset On his way towards his House the Master of the Ceremonies letting fall some words concerning the provision of Diet made for him by his Majesties Order he would by no meanes accept of it answering that if the King would have been pleased to have assigned him a House he would have received also the favour of his Diet but to eate at an other mans charge in his own House as he would be bold to call that hired for him by his his Officers he desired pardon if he refused it so were the Kings provisions that had been allready served in turned back againe For Sunday following September the thirtieth he had his audience assigned him at Hampton Court and came thither in the Kings coach followed by divers Noblemens with the conduct of the Earle of Carliel though some were of opinion that the Earle of Dorset should have been properly his conductour as had been one and the same Person at the reception and first audience of the Lord of Imber-court in France he was brought after his repose in the Councell-chamber where a Dinner had been prepared for him but he came to late purposely it was thought to eate it and a collation set ready on the Table at his comming but remained untasted of by him or any of his followers through the great Hall to the Presence-chamber where both the King and Queen stood under the State to receive him the Lords and Gentlemen ranged on the Kings right hand the Ladies with the Dutches of Fremoville on the left And having presented his Letters to the King and passed other respects with his Majesty he performed the like with the Queen after which parting towards his coach accompanied by the Lord mentioned and others he was in the outward Court told that the Duke of Buckingham was comming after him whereat making a stand till the Duke came they two privatly and apart from the rest discoursed halfe an houre together before they parted the Ambassador dismissing the Kings Coach returned in his owne to London The twentieth of October a Signification from the Lords of the Councell came to the Ambassadors of Denmarke and of Betblem Gabor as also to Monsieur Benica Agent sent hither from the Marquess of Baden that if they would be pleased to come to Monsieur Rosdorss resident here for the King of Bohemia at his Lodging neere White-Hall which they could not but think as they did a bold Invitation for persons of their quality they should have word sent them thither of the time of the Lords readinesse to receive and heare them but when they were all there at the houre assigned one of the Clerks of the Councell brought word that Bethlem Gabors Ambassador and the Envoy from the Marquess of Baden were to have present access but that for the Ambassador of Denmark their Lordships desired his patience till some other time which he not without shew of resentment for such an Exclusion saying the other two were by me introduced first the Minister of Bethlem Gabor and immediatly after his dispatch the other The two and twentieth of October the Ambassador of Denmark had access to the King in his Withdrawing-chamber with my conduct and upon his dispatch I demanded pardon if I gave him not my attendance home because of a charge I had I said instantly tofetch the two Commissioners of Hambrough to their parting Audience so repaired to them where as I had already ordered it they stayed my comming at my House having before sent them to their Lodgings a Noblemans coach for their transport thither I brought them by the way of the Parke and Privy Galleries answerable to the stile of their first introduction in quality of deputies not Ambassadors into the Withdrawing-chamber there thanking his Majesty for his favours and desiring some small addition and cleering to and of their River of Elb blocked up by his Majesties Ships their other demand of transport of Corne Copper and ammunition of War ut supra being with reason denied them they took their leave and two dayes after had their presents of two Gold Chaines each of the valew of 210 l. brought them by two of the under Officers of the Jewell-house who had for their gratuity given them by the hand of one of the Commissioners ten peeces and to their Servants twenty shillings Two dayes after inviting me to dine with them they before Dinner presented me with a purse and fifty peeces Soone after taking their Journey to Dover without my conduction or expectation of it they there imbarqued for France to returne by Paris
bestowed on Ambassadors I carried it and presented it with this complement MOnsieur j'ay l'honneur que par ma main le Roy vous fait present de son purtrait le quel il vous prie poster pur amour de luy en testmoignagede bons agreables services devoirs que vous luy auez rendus pour le Roy vostre Maistre durant vostre Ambassade icy en Angleterre My LORD I have the honour that the King by my hand doth present you with his purtrait which he prayes you to we are for his Love in Testimony of the good and acceptable services and duties which you have rendred him in behalfe of the King your Master during your Embassie here in England Three or foure dayes after he had taken leave he intreated my opinion and Assistance for punishment of one Phillip Weisman a Germane whose cheife Trade of life having been to undertake the conduct and defraying of Gentlemen of his Country at a price agreed on in their Travailing to and in this and other Kingdomes as he had formerly done of Phillip the yong Landsgrave of Hesse and a Duke of Holstein here he made offer of of his service and was entertained for the defraying of this Ambassador while he remained at Paris after the time of that Kings defraying him till his first Audience was past at the rate of five hundred and fifty Crownes a Moneth for Dyet and Lodging of twelve Masters and twelve Servants This Bargaine made but as the fellow pretended much to his losse in regard of the dayly increaseing number of guests at the Ambassadors Table he a while held himselfe silent both at the Ambassadors departure from Paris and on the way where he undertook the whole companies defraying at twenty five Crownes a man till they should come to London but within two dayes after their arrivall here he began to make his demands in so unreasonable a measure and with such touch to his honour as he made complaint of him by me to my Lord Chamberlain who acquainting the King with it his Maiesty was pleased that the Lord President of the Councell the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-chamberlain should heare and determine the businesse Whereupon the said Philip appearing before them together with two or three Gentlemen of the Ambassadors and my selfe the Lords passed on him their sentence which according to the Ambassadors request sent by me to the Lords and as it was the next day repeated by the Lord President and referred to the Ambassadors owne penning in French was as followeth MOunsieur Henry Comte de Manchester President de Conseil prive du Roy de la Grand Brittaigne Phillipe Comte de Montgomery Grand Chamberlan Conscillers du Conseil prive d'estat de la dicte Majeste Commis Depute par sa dicte Majeste pour entendre la potestation que Sieur Rosenkrantz Ambassador extraordinaire pour la Majeste dt Densmark auroit fait a l'encontre de Phillippe Weysman pour quelques injures mesdisances que qu' il auroit proferree escrites contre sa personne au prejudice de reputation du Roy son Maistre de sa bonne renomme ' e en particulier ayants par commandement expres de sa Maieste adiourne examinè le dit Phillippe Wiseman â—nsemble entenduenmesme temps par confrontation quelques uns des domestiques du dit sieur Ambassadour aultres ensemblé lu examiné sa lettre and dit sieur Ambassadour Avons trouvé que le dit Phillippe sans raison hors de propos apres avoir receu beaucoup plus d'argent qu' on ne luy autoii accordé selon sa propre confession auroit malicieusement effrontement mis en avant telles paroles eserits sans avoir esgard a la dignité de la parsonne que le dit Ambassador represente ny a sa qualitè particuliere avons ordonne qu'il soit mis en sure garde jusques a ce qu'il donnera satisfaction au dit Ambassador si ce n'est qu'il troue bon de le fayre mener au Roy son Maistre pour l'estre chastié selon qu'il a merité En foy de quoy nous signons la presente le 14. of April 1627. Manchester Montgomery Carleton My LORD HEnry Earle of Manchester President of the privy Councell of his Majesty of Great Britain Philip Earle of Mongomery great Chamberlaine and of the Councell of State to his said Majesty being Commissioners and Deputies for his said Majesty to heare the Protestation which the Lord Rosenbranck Ambassador Extraordinary to his Majesty of Denmarke shall make against Phillip Wiseman for certaine injuries and calumnies which he should speak and write against his person in prejudice of the honour of the King his Master and of his own particular reputation having by express commandment from his Majestie adjourned and examined the foresaid Philip Wiseman and understood the same time by confrontation of some of the Domestiques of the said Lord Ambassador and others as also examined his Letter to the said Lord Ambassador We finde that the said Philip without any reason or cause having received more monies then were agreed upon according to his own confession hath maliciously and impudently blazed abroad such words and writings without having regard to the honour of the person whom he presents or to his own particular quality therefore we have inordered that he be put in safe Custody untill he give satisfaction to the foresaid Ambassador if he thinks it not fit to bring him before the King his Master to be punished according to his demerit In faith whereof we signe this present Instrument this 14. of Aprill 1627. Manchester Montgomery Carleton The fellow persisting stubborne and most averse from submission was after four or five dayes restraint in the house of a Messenger delivered by Warrant of the Lord President of the Councell and the Lord Chamberlaine from the Messengers hands to the Ambassadors who causing him to be imprisoned in the Counter by vertue of the said Warrant which gave him power to dispose of him he was upon the point of being sent for Hambourgh but his stomach lessening and his submission made with acknowledgement of his fault both by word and writing he was at last set at liberty Five or sixe dayes before Saint Georges Feast was to be kept at White-Hall the Ordinary Ambassador of Venice Contareni desired my Confetence intimated by his Secretary sent to me to the purpose of his best course for his sight of that Solemnity I hereupon repairing to him told him That the manner had ever been except in one or two Exceptions when the King was pleased to send his Invitation for Ambassadors to convey to his Majesties knowledge by the Lord Chamberlaine their desires to have the honour of his right and the solemnitie that day whereupon he desired me to performe that part from him which I did had his Majesties allowance to it and let the
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
Servants kept them company Don Antonio fitting on a stoole at the end of the Table gave subject of exception to one of the Kings Gentlemen ushers as being he said irregular and unusuall that place being ever wont to be reserved empty for State but this as a superstition of a Gentleman ushers was neglected After his Majesties dinner the Ambassador introduced by the Vice Chamberlain to the Presence of his Majesty in the Privy Gallery had there his Audience Sir John Digby and as he was parting the Lord Lysle Ghamberlain to the Queen asked me and I the Ambassador whether he had any intention to visite her Majesty he answered he thought it ill manners and a kind of disrespect at so short a warning to venture the trouble of her Majesty November the first Towards the time of Solemnity of Prince Charles his Creation for Prince of Wales the King advised with some of his Lords which of the Ambassadors French or Spanish were first to be invited to it The Spaniard had by a private and silent way offered himselfe to an Invitation The French had been earnestly pressed for by some Lords his favourous neere about the King And had he but two dayes before when he had an Audience of his Majesty made offer of his presence at the Feast his Majesty had perhaps been put to some plunge how to have excused it But on Sunday night the Eve of the Feast a resolution to invite neither was taken and I sent to the Spanish Ambassador with this Message that his Majesty thankt him much for the offer he had made to honour the Prince his Creation with his presence that some of his Majesties Servants neere him had earnestly solicited him to invite the French Ambassador but his desire having been as it should be ever to give content to all Ministers of Forren Princes he hoped and requested that he would not take it in ill part if he should not be at all invited no more then the French Ambassador should be to that Solemnity assuring him that to the next whensoever he should be invited before any The Ambassador returned him for answer that he most humbly kissed his Majesties hands and desired he would in all proceed with him as with an English man and his Servant that whensoever it should be his pleasure to do him the honour to invite him it should be his happinesse and an especiall contentment to him So againe when his Majesty should think fit he should be absent it should content him also as being his Majesties pleasure to have it so At my parting he was earnest to know whether there were not the like message and excuse sent to the French Ambassador whereof though had it been so it had been neither reason nor duty for me to discover when I assured him there was none he expressed much the greater Satisfaction About this time Cavalvere Guaratesi Agent here for the Duke of Florence being assigned an Audience of his Majesty was by mistake brought in by whom I know not by the way of the Parke and privy Gallerie and had a fire made him in the Chamber of the Ambassadors Ordinary Audience Sir Lewes Lewkner at the same time told me of him and wisht me to go to receive him but neither was that Service to be performed by me to the Person of an Agent and therefore by me declined neither was any Agent to be admitted to that place by that way but by the way of the privy Chamber November the first 1617. The Ordinary Ambassador of Venice Seignior _____ Barbarigo dying here Seignior _____ Contareni came hither Extraordinary and was brought to his first Audience at White-Hall by the Lord Clifford accompanied with halfe a score Gentlemen his Majesties Servants in his Majesties Coâ—ch and three of the Lords Coaches His house was at the Hospitall where he had attending our coming the French Ambassaâ—ors Coach the Masters of the Ceremonies who had dined with him and five or six of the Ambassadors owne and others providing After his rest in the Councell Chamber he was conducted to his Majesties Presence in the Presence Chamber and there after a breife speech Nota. and delivery of his letters of credence which before he had made an end of speaking he took not from the Secretary who held them in his hand he returned to his home in company of the Persons mentioned An Ambassador with his assistant Commissioner Chancellour of Museovey sent from that Emperour to his Majesty was the fifth of November 1617. received at Tower Wharfe by the Lord Compton having been first met at Gravesend by Sir Richard Smith and others sent in name of the City and brought up in their Barges The Kings Coach and five or six others tooke them in at Tower Wharfe but with such disorder of Gentlemen come from Court more then were appointed that too soone pressed into them as without my care and boldnes to displace some must of the better sort of Musfes have walked on foote to their Lodgings They were wellcomd at their Landing with a volley of great Ordinance from the Tower and shippes and were incountered on Tower Hill by the Aldermen of the City in their Scarlet Gownes and other Citizens in their Velvet Coates and Chaines of Gold all on Horse-back and thence conducted to their House in Bishopsgate-street where they were Lodged and defrayed at the charge of the Muscovey Company On Saturday the eight of November the Lord Chamberlain let me know his Majesties pleasure for my repaire to the French Ambassador with an assignation for his demanded Audience the next day at one of the Clock and with an excuse of unfitnesse of the houre in regard the King intended to depart that day betimes to Theobalds He came according to appointment and being introduced to his Majesties Presence I with demand of Pardon left him and taking with me the Kings Coach which together with the Lord Chamberlains attended that Service at the Court gate went without any Lord or other to accompany me to Bishopsgate-Street to setch thence the Muscovit Ambassadors to their Audience All their Servants of less esteem marched all the way on foot before him the rest in Coaches provided by the Merchants each of those on foot carrying before them with ostentation to open view some parcell of the various Present sent to his Majestie from the Emperour This consisted of Sable Furres black Foxes Ermynes Hawkes with their Hoods and Mantles covering their backs and wings all enbroydered with Gold and Pearle two lining Sables a Persian dagger and knife set with Stones and Pearles two rich Cloath of Gold Persian Horse-clothes a Persian kettle Drum to lure Hawkes with c. Besides many other Sables and black Fox furres sent the King from three of the principall Nobles of the Emperors Court and besides some presented to his Majesty from the Ambassadors and the Chancellour The Queene and Prince had likewise their severall presents of furrs from all
these mentioned alltogether esteemed worth 4000 l. sterling The Ambassadors were received at the Court gate by the Lord Shandoys and on the top of the staire at the enterie to the Guard Chamber by the Earle of Shrewsbury and by these conducted along the Terras immediatly the King allready expecting them with some impatience into the Banquetting House There at the doore they were met by the Lord Chamberlaine and being entred the Roome the exceeding press of the people so hindred their profound Superstitious reverences As stooping and knocking their for cheads against the ground or rather Adorations intended to have been thrice but by that hindrance only once and that close before his Majestie performed by them as it turned much to their discountenance and discontent Those that carried the Present about fifty were after the Ambassador had finished his Speech and Interpretation made of it commanded to pass along on the left hand and in sight of his Majestie by one and one in the Privie Gallery where his Majesty might at leasure in his return take better view of what the press before had hindred The Lord Chamberlain reconducted the Ambassadors after their dismission to the door of the Banquetting House the other Lords to the Stations of the first Reception and I only to their Lodging The fourteenth of December I was sent by the Lord Viscount â—â—sle Lord Chamberlain to the Queen to conduct the Wife of the French Ambassador to the presence of her Majesty at Denmarke House where at the Gate I received her and brought her to a Chamber for her repose at the right hand of the first Court thither after a small time of stay repaired for her entertainment and to accompany her to her Majestie the Lady Blanch Arundell Mistress Barbara Sydney Mistress Southwell of the Queens privy Chamber and Mistress Gargrave one of her Majesties maides of Honour not long after a Gent. Usher bringing word that the Queen was come forth into the Privy Chamber she passed with this Company her Servants going before her towards her Majestie and was met at the Presence Chamber door by the Lord Chamberlain and received by her Majestie without a kiss from her though by some expected This done she returned reconducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Gaurd Chamber by the mentioned Ladyes to the entrance of the Portico of the first Court and by my self to her Coach The 17. of December by Order of the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen I and two of her Majesties Gentlemen with her Majesties Coach and another attended Sir Thomas Summerset Son to the Earl of Worcester for the Conduct of the Venetian Ambassador to his first Audience of her Majestie we found him ready at his House at the Spittle with two Choaches of his own and some Gent. Strangers to accompany him thence Bringing him first to the Councell Chamber at Denmarke House he was introduced by the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen into the Privie Chamber and after delivery of his Letters and some few words of complement he returned home with the company mentioned Sir Thomas Somerset would have taken leave of him so soone as he entred the fore-Court of his House but I telling him it was the Custome and would be expected that he should leave him in his Chambers he would not be perswaded to pass further then he had which the Ambassador resenting went sodainely from him without so much as offering to accompany him back towards his Coach and not without shewing a countenance of infatisfaction The 28. of November Sir Thomas Spence Lord of Wormstone who had been a Generall in the Wars of the King of Sweden let me know that an Ambassador extraordinary from that King was arrived at Gravesend and there attended Order for his proceeding My Lord Chamberlaine was not then in Town and because I was tender in taking any course without his Lordships directions and that also I knew not whether the Master of the Ceremonies then also out of Town might have already received Order for that Service I wrote to him a Letter signifying my knowledge of that imployment toward for which if he had already Order I might be discharged He wrote answer that he knew it two dayes before and would himself the next day go about it and so did fetching him from Gravesend to his abiding in the Crouchet Fryers The fourth of December Master Secretary Lake sent for me and shewed me a Letter he had then received from the Earl of Buckingham then with the King at Newmarket signifying in Answer of and by him from my Lord Chamberlaine That whereas the Ambassador of the King of Sweden was desirous of an Audience there the King was pleased he should have it but not to be defraied as that which had never yet been done to any of that Kings Ambassadors neither would he bring up any such Custome but that for Coaches and other things usuall his Majesties pleasure was that Order should be taken to furnish him Upon sight of this Letter I desired Sir Thomas Lake to send to the Master of the Ceremonies but he was out of Town as was also the lord Chamberlaine whom when he returned I acquainted with the business At the first he was of Opinion that the Ambassador himself must pay for the hire of his Coaches but I intimating that it was his first Audience he was to go to at which usually his Majesty sent his own Coach for service of Ambassadors he assented that he should have Coaches at the Kings charge but not that he should have carriages so for his Baggages also demanded as being an allowance without president yet this also at the last besides the hire of two horses was yeelded to and we setting forth from London the eight of December came the first night to Puckerage whence I wrote by a Servant sent before with the Ambassadors Cookes to the Earle of Buckingham to signifie our approach and that if his Majesties pleasure were to do the Ambassador any further honour by incounter of some Noble Person on the way his Lordship might have time to take and give directions for it But his Majesty and my Lord being when my letters came allready horsed to ride on hunting all rested without further order till the evening that we arrived at our Lodging whence I went immediately to my Lord of Buckingham my Lord Chamberlain being then at London with the accoumpt of our comming and to solicite the Ambassadors Audience but this being referred for resolution to the next morning I acquainted Mr. Secretary Lake and the Lord Fenton with the Ambassadors desire of dispatch and at eleaven of the Clock before noone obtained the Kings pleasure for accesse at two After noone when the Lord Clifford with halfe a dozen Gentlemen of the privy Chamber his Majesties Coach and the Bishop of Winchesters went to receive him at his Lodging and with the Ambassadors followers in other foure Coaches that brought us from London brought him to Court
He was conducted without stay any where to the Presence Chamber where his Majesty was already come forth to receive him Having delivered his letters of credence he made an Oration to the purpose of the Kings Princely Office of mediation for Peace between the King of Denmark and Sweden of almost an houre long Which finished and breifely answered by his Majesty in the same Language the Ambassador turned to the Prince and beginning to him another formall speech the King left him so did the Ambassadors after a while the Prince and returned to his Lodgings This was on Thursday The Saturday following about ten of the clock at night came to my Lodging one of the Pages of the Bedd-Chamber to tell me from his Majesty that his pleasure was I should invite the Ambassador to dine with him the next day which I performed in the morning and had his Majesties Coach no more attending at the Court gate about Noone when the King having ordered that a Noble man should fetch him from his Lodging it was held by others needlesse and except at his first Audience now past and at his last I onely might serve the turne for his conduction which was allowed of and I with Sir James Spence onely brought him through the Presence into the withdrawing Chamber where the King within a while entering he took him with him to dinner in the Presence Chamber About the midst of the Table as accustomed sate the King at his left hand the Prince and at the Tables end beneath the Ambassador who had for his Carver none but the Princes and for his cup one of his own Gentlemen Before dinner a question grew which was diversly argued according to opinions whether the Prince were to fit covered at dinner or no in Presence of his Father seeing the Ambassador as a Kings representant was not to sit uncovered Some affirmed they had seene the Prince sit bare headed when an Ambassador had his hat on others otherwise But the King cleared all when after I had given him an hint of the question and that himselfe had sate a while uncovered he put on and willed the like to be done by the Prince and the Ambassador The Ambassadors Gentlemen had no Table appointed for them by the Kings expresse order because he said the young Prince of Anhaults Gentlemen who had been with him the weeke before had none though the reason might not seem to serve for one as for the other the different qualities of their Masters considered but were sent two or three of the cheife of them to the Table of the Groome of the Stoole the Lord Fenton the rest dined after with the Princes Waiters When dinner was done the King retyred himselfe and left the Ambassadors there in the withdrawing Chamber to attend there his returne which was an houre after and then holding with him a private conference his Servants were after admitted into the roome with whom I entring his Majesty drew out my Sword and knighted with it the Ambassador From thence the Ambassador went by assignation from the Prince who would save him he said his offered paines of going to his Inn and returning streight to his Highnesse Lodgings and after a short Audience tooke his leave His Majesty by the mediation of Sir James Spence was pleased besides giving him a Patent for confirmation of his Knight-hood to add a marke of honour to his Coate of Armes The next day we left New-Market dined at Cambridge saw the best Colledges there lay the first night at Newport neare Audley end which rare Building of the Earle of Suffolks the Ambassador also saw lodgd the next night at Waltham and after ten dayes absence were againe at London There after the Ambassador had rested a day or two he demanded Audience of the Queene but her Majesty refused to give it without other reason or excuse then that the King his Master had not written to her and why should she then she said see his Servant Towards the day of his parting the King being then returned to London and he having already taken leave of his Majesty at New-Market it was held by some of the Lords that his Majesty neede send him no present his businesse they said little concerning us here and his Master a remote Prince of little or of no necessary correspondence with us Besides he was sent hither with that Kings interest onely as with a demand of aid against the King of Poland and to solicite his Majesties mediation for freindship between him and the King of Denmarke and sinally to thank his Majesty for the good and beneficiall Office he had done the King and State of Swethland in composing by his Ambassador the bloody differences between them and the Russians with other the like reasons too frugally perhaps alleadged for sparing of a Present But I intimating to my Lord Chamberlain that seeing he had not been here defrayed by his Maâ—esty further then by his Coaches and Carriages had been otherwise well looked on and graced by his Majesty had fairely carried the businesse he came for of expressing of thankefullnesse and was the first Ambassador that ever came from that King since his coming to the Crown of Swethen His Lordship moved his Majesty in it and so prevailed as that he sent him by me a Diamond Ring and his picture inclosed in it worth about 2000 l. sent to him I said when I presented it as a private Toaken without publique Ceremonie to be worne by him not for the value but for the senders memory A day or two after he departed without any attendance or convoy of Barges or Coaches to Gravesend and there tooke Shiâ—ping I moved my Lord Chamberlain for the Ambassadors use of the Kings Barge to Gravesend but his Lordship answered me he knew of no such custome and could therefore give no such directions But his Lordship was herein mistaken both for the extent of his owne power and the Ambassadors right the custome having ever been for the Lord Chamberlain to command and for Ambassadors especially extraordinaries to use his Majesties Barges to and from Gravesend as at their coming so at their parting January 5 1617. My Lord Chamberlain acquainting me with the pleasure of his Maâ—esty for an Invitation already in charge to Sir Thomas Smith cheife of the Muscovey company to be delivered to the Ambassador and Commissioner of that Emperour for their dining the next day with his Maâ—esty his Lordship added that he had given order to the Jewell house for a faire guilt cup to be provided which when his Maâ—esty had drunke in to the Ambassador it was upon his pledge after the custome of that Country to be left to him as a present of the Kings favour whereupon I was bold to demand of his Lordship how he thought it would be apprehended if the Chancellor his Collegue should not receive the like honour this moved his Lordship to send to the Merchants for their opinion which brought forth
a quarter were expired for which demanding an Audience the 16 of March and having it granted or the next day he after two hours attendance had it of his Majesty in the Privie Gallery and within few dayes after departed the Kingdome The ill understanding between his Majestie and this Ambassador was an occasion that Master Secretary Lake sent for me and acquainted me with the trouble his Majestie had put himself to to make apparent the little reason the French Ambassador had to except so against his proceeding which to justifie his pleasure was he said that Sir Lewes Lewkner Master of the Ceremonies and Sir William Button and I Assistants should search our Notes and presidents to the purpose of the Question Whereabout I presently imployed my self and sent my Collection answerable to the time of my Service and of my experience to Sir Thomas Lake then with the King at Newmarket but all to little purpose for his Majesties satisfaction beyond that he was resolved on for the Spanish Ambassador In March 1617. The Earle of Montgomery Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber was pleased to intreat my Service and company with him to the Venetian Ambassador Seig. Contereni his Lordship being sent to him from the King with a Message in the behalfe of Captaine Manwaring which I delivered by interpretation from his Lordships mouth to this purpose His Majesty understanding what present use the State of Venice had of men for their Service and desirous to shew his affection towards them in giving them his leave to raise certain companies here for their War had taken further notice that since they were to have Land-men to be commanded by Sir Henry Peyton and Ships from hence for their Convoy to Venice he thought fit to Recommend for command and conduct of those Ships Captain Manwaring a Gentleman that he had made speciall choice of and held most fit for that Imployment and though the Ambassadormight have heard perhaps that heretofore the said Captain Manwaring had followed the not approved course of a Pirate it was in his unsettled yeares and more desperate fortune but that now his Majesty knew him to be so reclaimed as if he should himselfe have present use of such a Commander he would imploy him as soon as any other of his Subjects and would take it for an Argument of that Common Weales respects to him if they would upon his recommendation entertain him For doing which they should find him more forward hereafter to further and assist them in any the like occasion when he should see that at his request they had made use of so fit a Subject for their Service To this the Ambassador made answer that the Republique was much obliged to his Majesty for his so gracious notice and furtherance of their Assignes and in particular for recommending one to their Service whom he himselfe and the World knew to be so worthy and whom he had already recommended to that State for imployment but had as yet received no answer which dayly expecting he must beg pardon if he did yet attend it without giving his resolution My Lord replyed that the King had been informd that the Ambassador had full Commission and power to imploy whom he should be pleased and that with that liberty he might he thought admit of the Captaine The Ambassador disclaimed that he had any such liberty and said that on the contrary he had order from the State to send the Ships away without any other Commander then such as were to go along with them to governe them in regard they had a Commission with them not to offend or assaile any they should incounter at Sea but if they should be assayled then to defend themselves as they might with the power that was to go along with them In conclusion his Lordship fell to demand that since Captain Manwaring could not have the command that his Majesty thought to prefer him to whether the Ambassador would not let him assure the King as from the Ambassador himselfe and in name of the Republique that if there should be hereafter any other imployment suiting with the condition of Captain Manwaring that he should have the offer of it before any man the Ambassador assured his Lordship he might rest upon that both for the respect that the Republique he knew carryed to his Majesties Recommendation and for the merit also of the Gentleman then Recommended whom he had already as he had said by his Letters presented to the State for his valour and forwardnesse to do them service The Russian Ambassador having received an Assignation the two and twentieth of March for the next dayes repaire to an Audience of the Councell a request was made by some of the Muscovy Merchants as such that well understood their Puntillious humoursthat way that the Ambassadors might have pretending it to be the custome of their Countrey and an honour due to their Emperour a sight of his Majesty before their conference with his Councell which yeelded to I had order to fetch them with one of the Kings Coaches and the Lord Chamberlains which was for their more honour every Audience sent to them in Company of the Kings under title of his Majesties Coach taking with me one Gentleman of his Majesties Servants to accompany me for avoidance of the like exceptions as had been formerly taken by the Chancellour I brought them to the Court at two of the clock and discended at the great gate there before I entered I desired them as I had in charge not to take it in ill part if they found there never a Noble man to receive them since it was I said a Ceremony not performed towards an Ambassador of any Prince whatsoever except onely at his first and last Audience This could not hold them from murmuring and expressing with discontented Countenances their ill Satisfactions yet onward they went following my guidance as my Lord Chamberlain had given me directions up the Stone Steps through the Guard Chamber and Presence to the privy Chamber where after some little time of stay neere the State but not sitting nor having any Stooles for it offered them the Lord Chamberlain came forth and brought them into the privy Gallery where the King seated about a third part distant from the doore there towards the Councell Chamber with his chaire back to the wall on the left hand his Majesty rose up to them at which they made their profound reverences repeated in breife the substance of their errand had a gracious answer and were dismissed to rest themselves in the Stone-Table Chamber till the Councell should be assembled for them who in a short time after passing by them and onely saluting them one of the Clerkes of the Councell called to me to bring them in when comming forwards they made a suddaine stand because they saw none of the Lords to returne forth to me and introduce them till at length that respect also was by three or foure of the principall
Lords given them and they being entred the Chamber and seated in two chayres placed at the upper end of the Table propounded and dispatcht so much of their businesse as the ripenesse of it would give leave and departed by the way of the Audience Chamber through the Privy Garden and the Cloyster or Stone Walke there to their Coach and were thence by me and the other Gentleman conducted to their Lodging The next day being the foure and twentieth of March and the day of his Majesties comming to the Crowne I was sent with a Gentleman to accompany and two Coaches as before to the same Ambassadors to conduct them to a Tylting whither the Merchants had made way for an Invitation by the way of the Park to the end of the Tylt-yard Gallery next it where in the first Window next that entrance were placed for them two Stooles and a Carpet to leane on the Travers drawn between them and the King whom after the Tylting they were admitted to see and salute their Followers of all conditions excepting their Interpreter for their use were bestowed on a Scaffold ordained only for them next the entrance into the Tylt-yard on the Kings left hand where three or four of the better sort of them had a leaning Carpet laid before them and Seats to sit on the rest had a Seate or two and so took as they could their best commodities At the time of these Ambassadors Iast appearance in the Councell Chamber they had an assignation to be there againe the Wednesday sollowing but other business then intertaining the Lords beyond expectation it was deferred for a sevennight longer when I fetcht and brought them attended as before through the Park and Galleries to the Chamber next that of ordinary Audiences where they had not nor affected a sight of his Majesty before their Audience of the Councell as they had done before Thence I go to acquaint the Lords of their being present there and retuning with Answer of their Lordships readiness to receive them They would not be perswaded to move thence till some of the Lords should as at other times come forth to entroduce them which at last they did and brought them giving them the hand of entrance into the Councell Chamber whence after they had obtained a promise of a faire end to their Negotiation the Lords reaccompanied them to the Chamber whete they first received them and there left them to my conduction The French Ambassadot Monsieur de Mareth having been detained here by the indisposition of his wife or rather for fome other cause tending to his more faire loose at his departing three weeks after he had taken leave of his Majesty demanded and had another Audience whereof he had a quick dispatch with no ill countenance from his Majestie or shew of insatisfaction from himself The Russian Ambassadors having received Letters from their Emperor hasting their return demanded Audience of his Majestie and had it the 13. of Aprill attended to it by me as before They expected and desired at the same time as at other when it was always refused or excused to have a Nobleman to receive them at their comming to Court but it was before hand incharged to me to put them from that hope in regard no other Princes Ambassadorswhatsoever were allowed that honour at private Audiences but only at the first and last publike and sometimes when they were invited to dine with his Majesty as they were The 24. of April following when they should have received an Assignation for their last Audience and fiuall dismission but the Signification of it having been incharged to no one particular of the Merchants nor as it out to have been to the Master or Assistant of the Ceremonies it was forgotten or neglected till the very morning of the day assigned for it whereof when I and one Gentleman with me with only two Coaches as formerly came to fetch them they complained as of a disrespect being their last Audience yet they set forth at halfe an hour past two that they might be at the Court by three their hour appointed precisely and by me observed as punctually that neither they might stay against which they ever murmured for the King nor the King which had been most unfit for them At the Court Gate they were received by the Lord Gerrard in the middle of the Court by the Lord Crumwell an honour done them more then for ought I ever heard to any other Ambassador and yeilded to upon their own and the Merchants importunity and on the top of the Stone-Stairs by the Earle of Ormond who with the two other Lords conducting them through the Guard-Chamber a different way from what had been before Ordered for their passage over the Terras to the Banqueting House but suddenly changed with regard to the then appearance of Courtiers which in that larger Roome would have lessened the Majesty of that presence They were received at the Presence Chamber door by the Lord Chamberlain and brought by him to his Majesty there standing under the State who when he had received their thanks and was passing to his last Complement of farewell they fell earnestly to press his Majesty that his Ambassador then nominate for Muscovy might be sent along in company with them and with the money granted to be lent them which was an hundred thousand Marks But the King excusing both saying he was not yet fully resolved upon the choise of the person for that charge who must have time he said to put himself to equipage To this answer they objected their Commission and Instruction which they affirmed to have from their Emperor to this purpose That in case they should obtaine the sending back with them of an Ambassador they should not come away without him so as in conclusion the King upon their much and even unmannerly importunity denied them not that request also whereof they knew so well how to serve themselves as going thence immediatly to the Councell demanding permission for it but at that very instant they would not let go the hold they had gotten of the Kings assent till they were dismissed with the like from their Lordships of sending the Ambassador in their company though this could not succeed without great charge and trouble to the Merchants in so long a stay as must be necessary for the preparatives of the till then but privately nominated Ambassador Sir Dudley Diggs This concluded they left the Lords were reconducted by the three Lords before mentioned to the place of their first reception and by me to their lodging When the next moneth began his Majesties trouble the Lords and the Merchants ended with the dispatch and departure of these two Ceremonious Ambassadors who content neither with the Kings present then sent them and by me delivered having been provided at the Merchants charg though presented in his Majesties name and worth above six hundred pounds between them nor with the Merchants worth well neere
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
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
Gravesend whether a Master of the Ceremonies should be sent with the Kings Barge to meet them and a Nobleman of fitting quality to Tower Wharffe to receive them at their Landing there The eight and twentieth of June a Turkish Chiaus or messenger who came hither about the time of King James his Death having demanded Access to the Queen for congratulation and being allowed it I was the same day sent to for that Service by Monsieur de Tilliers and in absence of Sir Lewes Lewkner who came notwitstanding at the instant of the Audience introduced him to her Majesty in her Privy Chamber where she received him with the interpretation of Sir Lewes Lewkner in French another in English to the Queen of what another said to him in English from the Chiaus his mouth in Turkish About that time the Duke de Cheuereux with his Lady the Dutches tooke leave of their Majesties so did Monsieur de Tremes and the Marquess de Fyas soone after The Duke presented me by his Steward with a chaine of 30 l. valew which was assured me to have been ordained double to that but I had to doe with the unjust Steward The other Ambassadors acknowledged my paines with thanks et nihil ultra These gone the Plague increasing the Court removing to Salisbury and I with my family retiring from the danger of infection in London to the Countrey I rested all the rest of that Summer unimployed In the meane time a Splendid Ambassador N. Oxensterne arrived at Southampton from the King of Sweden was received and conducted by Sir Andrew Kith to the Presence of his Majesty at Salisbury Sir Lewes Lewkner being then under restraint for his carriage towards the Venetian Ambassador and I absent c. for the reasons mentioned Having in October understood of the Treatment of the Ambassador of Sweden at Salisbury and how necessary my Service was and would be at Court during the absence and restraint of the Master of the Ceremonies for the cause before specified I repaired thither making the best way I could through the danger of the sickness then dispersed almost every where over the Countrey and being arrived there found Sir Lewes Lewkner commanded from his attendance on the Marquess de Bleinvill newly come over Ambassador from the French King to his House at Acton neere London upon complaint of the Venetian Ambassador for his pretended interest and partiall carriage towards the said Ambassador at the Funerall of the late King as is before delivered whereupon I received the Lord Chamberlains commands upon his Majesties pleasure signified to that purpose to attend that Service entered on by another one of the Heraulds but quitted upon the charge given me to discharge it so repaired to the Ambassador with the signification of the proper duty of my place and of the command I had from his Majesty to performe it at all his occasions whereof one fell out two or three dayes after when going to see that antiquity at Stonenge I accompanied him The next day going with him to render his visits to the Earle Marshall and Lord Chamberlain I had order opportunely to tast his disposition for his remove the King being assigned his to Windsore and Hampton Court when I finding his ambition to Lodge in the Kings own House there acquainted my Lord Chamberlain with it who had already given order for his Lodging at Kingston and received from his Lordship answer That his Majesty would never allow any Ambassador to be Lodged so neere him whereupon letting the Ambassador know as dexterously as I could what order had been already taken for his residence at Kingston His answer at first was that what was his Majesties pleasure should be his obedience but proceeding he asked the Plague having been as I am told so much and so lately in that Towne may I not be Lodged within the Kings House at Hampton I replyed it had not been the Custome for Ambassadors to be so Lodged yet said he the Duke de Cheuereux had his Lodging in the House at Richmond and so had the Marquesse de Fyat To this I spared then to reply as by way of contestation but conveying his answer to my Lord Chamberlain and he it to the King His Majesty commanded me to carry to the Ambassador this small resolution That the Queen having been desirous for the long acquaintance sake that had passed between her and the Dutches de Chevereux to have her neer her at the time of her the Dutchesses Delivery and lying in then towards would have her lodg'd in the Kings House at Richmond and that she having her lodging there it was fit that the Duke her Husband should have his there also And as for Monsieur de Fiat it concerned both his Majesties profit and his ease to bring him together with the other Ambassador to one House when a second kept for them at London at the Kings charg as was the Dukes at Richmond would be both dangerous in regard of the Sickness troublesome to the Kings Officers by their serving in of provisions for Diet at two severall places and of great expence Besides it was intended that if those Ambassadors should have come to lye at Hampton Court from Richmont the King would have instantly removed to Windsor or to some other of his Houses To this the Ambassador Bleinville answered he knew not that but this he knew he said that Lodgings were marked for the other within Hampton Court and to be made use of there at their pleasure adding that the Earles of Carliel and Holland late Ambassadors to the King his Master when they were with his Majesty at Saint Cermans were quartered neere the Kings House yet would not rest contented with their Lodging till they had gotten within his Majesties own House two or three roomes furnished for their retraite and to lodge in at their pleasure though indeed they spared to make such use of them In conclusion I said that neither his Majevty nor the King his Father had ever lodged any Ambassador in their Houses while they themselves lodged in them and that his Majesty now would be loth to make a President that would hereafter beget him so great a trouble as this was like to be and that therefore his Majesty hoped that the Ambassador would not take it in ill part if desirous to give him satisfaction and to treate him in all as the Representant of the King his Master he did in this not correspond with his desires c. Having said thus much to him as from the King he not without some countenance of insatisfaction and with intimation that he had but propounded it only and would leave it to the Kings consideration and pleasure there was for that time no further question made of it To dayes after desiring me to procure him an Audience I intended the King for it at his return from Hunting and though it were late I was sent to him with his Majesties pleasure for his
respect to any of us Sir Robert Sherley gave him a salutation and sate downe on a stoole neer him while my Lord of Cleaveland by an Interpreter signified in three words the cause of the Ambassador Sherleys and his and our comming to him but with little returne of regard from him till I informing the Interpreter of the new Ambassador what my Lords quality was he let fall his Trust-up-leggs from his chaire and made a kinde of respect to his Lordship This done Sir Robert Sherley unfoulding his Letters and as the Persian use is in reverence to their King first touching his eyes with them next holding them over his head and after kissing them he presented them to the Ambassador that he receiving them might performe the like observance when he suddenly rising out of his chaire stept to Sir Robert Sherley snarcht his Letters from him toare them and gave him a blow on the face with his Fist and while my Lord of Cleaveland stepping between kept off the offer of a further violence the Persians Son next at hand flew upon Sir Robert Sherley and with two or three blows more overthrew him when Master Maxwell of the Bedchamber and my Lord of Cleaveland nearest to him pulling him back while we of the company laid hands on our Swords but not drawing them because not any one Sword or Dagger was drawn by the Persians my Lord of Cleaveland remonstrated to the Ambassador the danger and insolencie of the Fact saying that if he and the Gentlemen there with him had not borne more respect to that King whom he represented then he the Ambassador had done to the Letters shewed him for justification of the others quality neither he nor those about him that had committed that insolency should have gone alive out of that place After these words he made some shew of acknowledgment and said he was sorrey he had offended his Lordship and us by his Act which he had performed transported with extreame rage against a Person that had dared to counterfeit the King his Masters hand which was alwayes he said set on the top of his Letters when these Letters he had shewed had it on the back-side and to heare as he had done that so meane a fellow and an Imposter should presume to say he had married the King his Masters Neece To this Sir Robert Sherley who was in the meane time retyred behind the company amazed and confounded with his blow and Treatment stept in and answered That he never said he had married the Kings Neece but the Queens kinswoman and that for the manner alleadged of signing his Letters it was true that the King of Persia in all imployments of his own Subjects to Forren Princes or in writing to them used to signe above in the front of his Letters but that when he imployed a stranger to any Forren Prince his signature was usually affixed on the back side of his Letters that before their opening they might shew who sent them To this the Ambassador replyed with scornfull looks onely we all with little or no respects to him departed and conducting Sir Robert Sherley to his Lodging accompanied the Earle of Cleaveland instantly to Court where finding the Duke of Buckingham in the Presence-chamber the King being even then come forth to Dinner his Lordship acquainted his Majesty with our adventure and I received present order to let Sir Lewes Lewkner know that he should instantly repaire to the new come Persian Ambassador and tell him that his Audience for that afternoone was thought fit to be snspended and remitted to another day that his Majesty might be particularly informed of the causes of the disagreement and disorder happened The greatest blot and fault of this adoe was cast upon Sir Robert Sherley for his default in his resolution not to returne with blows or words at least the affront done him which had he done would have confirmed the truth of his representative quality and not given subject from such weaknesse and want of Spirit discovered by him to the Merchants to dispute as they confidently did and to his own freinds to defend _____ the soundness of his commission yet at length he writing to his Majesty and beseeching him to send him into Persia with his two Letters tyed about his neck for tryall whether they were true or false the world began to have a conceit of his unjust sufferance and the King to charge it home to the Merchants with his command and especiall pleasure signified to them that he should be senr a long in their Fleet then ready to part for the East Indies and be by them Landed in Persia there to make his Purgation which they though unwillingly assented to and pressing for the other Ambassadors Audience he had it after eight or ten dayes delay assigned and given him the sixth of March fetcht to it by the Earle of Warwick c. Entering the Banquetting House where his Majesty stood under the State to receive him without one looke or gesture of respect till coming close to the Kings person he clapt his Letters to his cyes one after the other kissed them and presented them to the hand of his Majesty but not so much as bowing his Body at their delivery onely having finished his little Ceremony he in his retrait after some twenty paces made with his back to the King turned about and waving his hand on each side imperiously as commanding a prospect hindred by the multitude that pressed in between his sight and the Kings he made a kind of a stoopping reverence so a second and a third and departed When understanding that the Queen was gone abroad whom he meant to visite he imployed the time a while in a walke with all his coaches about Saint Jameses Parke and returning saw her Majesty The next day I brought the other Ambassador Sir Robert Sherley to a private Audience of his Majesty in his Withdrawing-chamber After many Contestations between the Merchants and the Ambassador Sherley whether he were to be defrayed by them as the King required or by the King since his Majesty had intimated his resolution that he should be transported to Persia in the Fleet that was to pass for the East Indies at the beginning of May and in them also the other Ambassador that time being come of their departure they both arrived too late at the place of their imbarking the Downs for performance of that voyage in that season the Fleet that could no longer stay for them being already gone though Sir Robert Sherley had gotten the start of the other and imbarked in a Pinnace of the Fleet together with Sir Dormer Cotton imployed by his Majesty at the same time Ambassador to the King of Persia both for truth whether Sherley were or not an Imposter and also to fix a Trade there which the other Ambassador came to Negotiate so as they were all forced to returne to London and there attend the opportunity of departure in
the King desired speedily to give him because of his intended remove the week following to Wansteed This had been assigned for Sunday the ninth of July had not the Master of the Ceremonies intimated that it would prove improper in regard that the two Venerian Extraordinaries were that day to have their parting Audience at two of the clock and to alter their houre by anticipation or this to come after them might beget distaste his Majesty would have appointed the next day being Saturday but that being judged too precipetate so to surprize an Ambassador before he could recollect himself so soone after his Arriveall and he also apprehending it in that sence it was by me made known to him that he should have his Audience the Tuesday following July 11. at Wansted In the meane time I received Order from my Lord Chamberlaine to hire two Coaches of the Kings providing besides his Majesties own Coach for his and his Followers daily use The 16. of July I was to waite on him to his Audience assigned at Wansted with the conduct of the Earle of Northampton but his Majesty altering the hour of two after to ten before Dinner I was put to it at nine of the clock the night before to command an Assembly for the altered houre so brought him at his due houre to his Audience The 9. of July the two Extraordinary Venetian Ambassadors took leave of his Majesty in the Banquetting House purposely prepared for it and hung with the rich Hangings introduced by the Earle of Mongomery their repose having been first in the Councel Chamber whether they came by the way of the Park a suddaine extream shower having made the ordinary way through the Sermon-Court impossible Then after took leave of the Queen also July the 17. They parted to Gravesend in Barges of the Kings providing and so farre the Master of the Ceremonies attended them but leaving them there as at the limits of all Ambassadors conduct or reception in observation of the new Order resolved on as before they were served only by Walter Brisco Marshall of the Ceremonies for the readier hire of their Carriages at their own charges as was also all their Coaches the Kings for their personall use excepted to their lodging the next day at Sittingborne to their Dinner the day following at Canterbury and to their imbarquing at Dover in two Ships of his Majesties for their landing at Callis Though I had done little or no Service they sent me a Chaine of twenty two pound valew having towards the rest of the Kings Servants carryed themselves as Italian Lesnianti without superfluity but not without the others murmurs The day that the Denmark Ambassador had his publick audience of the King at Wansted he having exprest to me his desire for the conveniency of admitting and returning visit of particulars before he had seen the Queen with an over-nice curiosity having allready seen the King I wrot to Sir Morris Dromond a Gentleman Usher of her Majesties Privy-chamber that he would help me to the knowledge of her Majesties pleasure for his Audience which he did by Letter upon communication both with her Majesty and her Lord Chamberlain Monsieur de Tilliers with signification that I should bring him the next day between one and two in the Afternoon so as late that night I wrote to my Lord Chamberlain for better assurance from Errour what order I had received from Sir Maurice Dromond and touched upon the course usuall of fetching the Ambassador at his first publick Audience from his home by a Person of Title but that the shortnesse of the time and the two Courts divisions hindring this I thought I said it would be sufficient if the Count de Cipierre Master of the Horses to her Majesty should receive him at his Landing at Greenwich so that morning I conducted him in the Kings coach and two other hyred to his imbarking at Tower Wharffe thence to the incounter at Greenwich Bridge of the Count mentioned to his repose in the Councell-chamber and after to the Queen in her Privy-chamber the Ambassador speaking to her French having upon my advise changed his first purpose of speaking to her in Latine c. The next day hastning his private Audience of his Majesty he sent the King his Masters Agent Master Below to Wansted and obtained it for the day following July the fourteenth introduced by a private stayre to a Chamber where he might attend the Kings time of admittance which instantly succeeding his Majesty in the Gallery there no Privy Councellours or other neere gave him his eare for above halfe an houre and dismist him for his returne to London The two Commissioners from Hambrough They had brought no Letters to her Majesty yet demanded and had Audience contrary to that when the Ambassador of Sweden demanded and was refused of Queen Ann because he had brought her no Letters being desirous to kiss the Queens hand as an honour they said which other imployd from their State before them had received of the Queen deceased they requested me to make their way which I did repairing for it to her Majesties Lord Chamberlain but he then instantly gone for France I addrest my selfe to the Bishop of Mando and between him and Madam de Saint George Groome of the Stoole to her Majesty got their Audience to be assigned for the next day the thirtyeth of July between foure and five after Vespers But about two that Afternoon I was told by Sir William Gordon Gentleman Usher to the Queen that the King would speak with me presently about a businesse of importance when repairing to his Majesty in his Privy-Gallery he commanded me that I should without any noise or notice to any go instantly to the deputies of Hambrough and let them know that whereas they were assigned their Audience of the Queen that day her Majesty being ill at ease could not give it them till the next I perceiving this alteration to be without her Majesties knowledge and for some particular cause best known to the King went without further question about the Service but first told Sir William Gordon that it might happen as I guessed by some directions doubtingly given me by the King that he would alter his mind and that the Audience should proceed at the houre first appointed for it upon which consideration I would go I said to the Commissioners where they then Lodged at the Still-yard and discharge them of their expectation but not so fully as that I would not leave them in some opinion that the Queen might perhaps so recover of her indisposition as to send to them to come to her that day this I performed and entertaining them in doubt whether they should go or not having perswaded them to dismisse their allready prepared coaches and if they should be sent for to make their passage by water I after an hours expence of time with them had a messenger sent to me from the King that I should
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
Bruxells the Hague and Hambourgh The Ambassador of Denmark had the fifth of November a private Audience of his Majesty in the Withdrawing-chamber and was after it by me conducted over the Terras crosse the lower end of the Guard-chamber to the Queens Closet in her Privy-chamber for the like Audience of her Majesty to signifie the King his Masters pleasure of imploying him on a posting Journey into France with intention and command of his speedy returne hither But foure or five dayes after as he was upon the instant of his departure Letters came from his King which for a while retarded him till others comming he the sixteenth of November wrote to me to procure him another Audience of his Majesty with all possible speed allwayes regarding he said his Majesties convenience This in absence of my Lord Chamberlain I moved for and obtained within two hours after he comming to Court by water the Kings Coachman being not to be found for his so immediate Service The eighteenth of November after he had the day before prepared for his silent departure he in the morning early went in a Barge of his own hiring to Gravesend and by coach also at his own cost to Dover leaving behind him some murmurs of the Kings Servants that having done him the Service of their places expected their satisfaction and would not beleive but that they should be deceived of it he parting so suddainly without notice given or leave taking except some few dayes before of the King Queen and certaine Lords though his intention of his speedy returne were not undiscovered to some besides my selfe whom he trusted with it The day of his departure Monsieur Bonika sent from the Marquesse of Baden about important businesse having taken leave and received for his present a Chaine of Gold of 150 l. valew posted after for his company and safer passage to Paris On Sunday the fifteenth of November the Duke of Buckingham having prepared a sumptuous entertainment of a Supper and a Maske at York-house for the French Ambassador Monsieur Bassampierre had his Feast honored with the Presence of both their Majesties the King sitting towards the end of the Table with the Queen at his right hand the Ambassador was as soone as they were set invited by his Majesty to sit downe at the end of the Table on that hand which might seeme to be the upper end but was held the lower because next the doore and furthest from the fire he had a wet Towell to wash which given him by the Duke who stood by to serve him all the time of the Supper and would not be put from him nothwithstanding the Ambassadors many excusing refusall of such service c. the Ladies and strangers invited had a plentifull supper in the great Hall of the House while the King and Queen were retyred during some preparations for the Maske in that Roome where their Majesties were Feasted who that night lodged at Somerset-House and had the next day a continuance of their and the Ambassadors entertainment of Feasting Dancing c. The sixteenth of November the Queen prepared for him a Maske represented by the Duke of Buckingham the Earle of Holland Sir George Goring her Viz-Chamberlain and other her Majesties Servants at Somerset-house whereto he came from White-Hall in company of their Majesties by water and had made for him after the Maske a most sumptuous Banquet He should have had by assignation his publick parting Audience but the King with an intreating complement of letting him know and leaving it to his consideration how seriously the Queen was at that time applying her self to her Masking businesse drew him to have it deferred till the Sunday following when towards foure of the clock the Earle of Carliel with the Kings best coach and another of his Majesties fourteen of the Lords Coaches following six or seaven of the Kings Servants onely in them to leave the more place for strangers brought him for his repose to the Councell-chamber where Wine Bread Beere c. usually served in by the Guard was for that time spared as a custome of improper use towards the French and from thence over the Terras to the Banquetting-house where both their Majesties standing ready to receive him and the Ladies ranged in order of their qualities on the left hand of the King all along the Roome and the Lords and Gentlemen on the right The French that marched before the Ambassador being made to stay and be placed on that side for the fairer passage and prospect to their Majesties he there took publick leave of them both but after followed them along the Privy-galleries as far as to the Withdrawing-Roome and was thence conducted by the Earle of Carliel to his Lodgings to Supper in company of divers great Lords and Ladies with whom after Supper returning to the King and Queen he was present with them at a Play in the great Hall which ended and their Majesties waited on by him to the Kings Withdrawing-chamber he there took a second leave and returned late to his Lodgings Two dayes before his departure it being talked of in Court that the Master of the Jewell-House Sir Henry Mildmay had made his meanes to the Duke of Buckingham and other neere about the Kings person for carriage and delivery of the Present designed to the Ambassador which was a rich Jewell of foure great Diamonds with a great Pearle pendant at it alltogether esteemed by Jewellers at a Merchants rate to be worth seaven thousand pounds the Master of the Ceremonies understanding of these endeavours to the others profit and his disadvantage both present and future from president came to my house as to one whom it highly concerned he said in my right of reversion after his death or in case of his sicknesse or absence when I was to carry the like Presents to those Ambassadors that I had attended or done Service to whom they should be formerly presented with Jewels from his Majesty and intreated me to go with him to the Lord Chamberlain the Earle of Montgomery To whom when we came his Lordship upon the first overture of the difference resolved it to be an undue claime of the Master of the Jewell-house and professed he would to his power oppose him From his Lordship we went both together to the Earle of Pembrok then Lord Steward of his Majesties House-hold and but a small time before Lord Chamberlain and he with expression even of passion condemned the pretence of the Master of the Jewell-House saying no man could better speake to that question then he could who had been present when it was moved before the Lords of the Councell and King James himselfe for their decision By Sir Henry Carew and Sir Lewes Lewkner which had most right to the carriage of Presents the Master of the Ceremonies or the Master of the Jewell-house this latter pretended indeed he said to their carriage when they consisted of Plate or chaines of gold and
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
Ambassador know as much who expecting answerable to my promise That I should a day or two before the Feast assigne him the time and way of his comming to Court I in the interim by my Officer sounded the disposition of the States Ambassador and Deputy for their sight of it also which I did the more covertly because the Venetian seemed to affect his being alone at the Feast and that the other unless they should of themselves request it might be absent for what cause I could not conceive unless for his own more conspicuous note when finding them also desirous to see the solemnity I rendred the account hereof to his Majesty and after to the Venetian that he might not be ignorant of his company which he readily allowed of but when my Officer had cast out a word as I had given him in charge tentandi gratia upon some doubt I had of a Puntillio that the Denmarke Ambassador finding the windes blow so stiffely against his departure would be there also he started at it and whereas before he had given his full resolution that he would not faile to be at the Court gate about nine of the clock before noone as I had assigned him he added that he could not tell in what disposition of health he might be that day so if he came not at the houre appointed I should no longer expect him From this change of his resolution to an uncertainty I presumed he would faile and so found it when on the day and somewhat before the houre he sent his Secretary to me with a Complement to be delivered by my Lord Chamberlaine to his Majesty that the night before having had a Fit of an Ague and doubting the effect of the cold Aire so soon upon it he should not dare to venture so soone abroad to have the honour of his Majesties sight at that great Feast but he hoped that the next year he should have that happiness c. From what reason this Puntillio grew was unknown I was told after by one of the Venetians Followers That he was absent aâ— affecting Precedence of the King of Denmarks In Ambassador regard this gives it to the Ambassador of the Electors and the Venetian doth not but guessed at to be a pretence of precedence that the State of Venice might perhaps have as Kings of Cypres and Candy though by the Turks dispossessed of the former and under that title to pretend precedence of the King of Denmarke as an Elective King wheâ—eas they held themselves Kings of Cypress by inheritance hut what reason the Ambassador of Venice Landi had at the Prince his first exercise of his Armes at Tylt Anno 1619. to yeeld the hand to the King of Bohemias Ambassador the Baron of Donnow The Venetian Ambassador was of opinion when I I first discoursed with him about the accustomed manner of the Ambassadors seeing the Feast and presenting themselves to the King at his Dinner that he was to performe it alone without company of the States Ambassadors and of the same mind was the Ambassador of Denmarke for himselfe and this course approved of by my Lord Chamberlaine but when during the Kings Dinner they attended the instant for discharge of that Complement in the Conncell Chamber and that the States Ambassador Joachimi had described them the manner of his march together with the French Ambassador at a Feast two or three years before when he was imployed a Commissioner hither The Ambassador of Denmarke refused not to assist and make one worke of it which they did viz. The Ambassador of Denmarke Joachimi and Mousieur Cattz with my conduct in the time of second course as the King himselfe had ordered it upon my Proposition first the first and next the other two complying in their order at the Kings left hand as they altogether entred that way and at that side of the Table and after passing down along before the Knights of the Order with their respects bestowed personally on each Knight as they deemed fitting and by the way they entred returning I had received them at their repaire to Court one after the other as I had first designed with the Venetian Ambassador at the Court gate whether also and no further I went to receive him of Donmarke because he came upon his own invitation and not the Kings and had intended not to come had not the cross windes taken away his liberty of departure From the Gate I brought them to the Kings Chappell for sight of the Ceremony there having also appointed the Queens Closet in the Chappell for the States Ambassador in case the Venetian had come but in his absence I made use of it for the others followers Thence at the beginning of the Provision I conducted them cross the lower end of the Guard Chamber to the Terras where in the first corner next the door on the right hand I had caused a Scaffold to be raised and carpet to be spred on the wall before and on the rayles behinde them where they might have sight of his Majesty and the Knights in their procession That finished we returned to the Chappell and the Service ended I bestowed them for their repose in the Councell Chamber till the time should serve for the sight of his Majestie at the Feast ut supra The Ambassador of Denmarke preparing dayly for his departure retarded onely by the want of 10000 l. sterling to be paid him for his Master to whom his Majesty was debter of a far greater somm some about him toucht upon the custome here of the Kings presenting his Secretary with a Chaine of Gold which though I pretended and alleadged from example and for reasons brought against the Transilvanian Ambassador might be denyed him I made way for it notwithstanding by my Lord Chamberlains favour which after his Lordships question whether I could produce a president for it and my answer that if there were none it would not be amiss I said in my opinion that one might be dispenced with for a Secretary of a Representant of a King so neere in blood to his Majesty and to whom he stood so much ingaged for supplies of money c. it was assented to and a chaine of an 100. markes valew presented to one Mr Calendrine a Gentleman that having followed and served him all the time of his abode here and now at his return in place of his Secretary then absent was thought by the Ambassador fittest of any about him to be under that Title so rewarded All occasion of longer stay being removed and the time of the Ambassadors departure being designed as by his letter he let me know for the third of May I warned the Kings coach to be ready to carry him to Tower-wharffe and his Majesties Barge with two other for his baggage and Servants to Gravesend so that day I accompanied him thither took leave there of him and the next day returned to London Towards the time of his departure
Kings to conduct him of Mantova we altogther having besides the service of three hired coaches for the first and two for the latter all at their own charge parted from London on Tuesday morning and were by two after Dinner at Oaking where after a brief Complement passed between the Ambassadors that had not till then seen one anothers The Mantovan having alwaies kept behind to let it be seen he was of another company and imployment and bringing them for their rest to two severall chambers I first introduced those of Denmark whose complement dispatched Letters delivered and themselves reconducted to their chamber I after brougth in the Mantovan for his farewell This passed and he returned to the place of his repose I again conducted the other two to a private Audience after their publick and leaving them with his Majesty accompanied the Mantovan to his coach and returned to the other whose private Audience finished we went that night to Winsore the next morning to Hampton court and were that evening as the Ambassador of Montava likewise was by another way at London whether both this and the other were accompanied by the Lords their conductors to their severall lodgings with a course and trouble to me beyond example of bringing two Ambassadors at once in one day to their Audiences so far from the ordinary standing court of his Majesty The next day August the twentyninth when the Ambassador of Mantova had before hand immediatly upon his return sollicited and obtained Assignation for a parting Audience of the Queen then come to Somerset house at two of the clock after noon and that I had received the desires of the Ambassadors of Denmark to have likewise their Audience of her Majesty with her first conveniency I received from the Earl of Carliel her Majesties pleasure That at the same hour those of Denmark should be admitted and the Mantovan an hour after and that to this purpose I should repair to the Earl of Dorset for his company with the former and to the Lord Morley for the latter But this Lord being indisposed I was driven to my former shift of procuring a Nobleman for the Service The Earl of Dorset undertook and discharged his part fetching the two Danes from their lodgings to Somerset house there entring the court with the Queens coach their other coaches staying in the street and accompanying them in the Councel chamber till their time of admission to the Queen and dismission back whither his Lordship went with them to their lodging In the mean time only attending them to the Gate of the court was arrested there by the necessity of my service for the introduction of the Mantovan who for want of a Nobleman to accompany him was fetch from thence by Sir Robert Ayton Secretary to the Queen and in one of her Majesties coaches brought to court where after a publick Audience given him in her privy chamber she gave him a more private one in her withdrawing chamber and at his leave taking presented him with a Diamond Ring from her own finger of four hundred pounds value which giving him exceeding satisfaction was an occasion taken by me for preparation of his better acceptance of the Kings Present to come of a thousand Ounces of gilt Plate as if both their Majesties had understood one another in the consent of so presenting him that the publick and ordinary rates present might pass with the better acceptation more out of danger to become a Prefident for the Kings greater charge hereafter But while I was thus provident for my Masters honour and profit a Message was brought me from my Lord Chamberlain then at Court intimating that wheras his Majesty was pleased by likelyhood from the Queens perswasion to correspond with her in the quality of their gifts That this Ambassadors present should have consisted of Plate He was now resolved to convert it to a Jewell and to add to the value proportioned as above And that to this purpose I should respite the presenting of the other till I should understand further from his Majesty This I did accordingly and the day after the Kings arrivall at London I received from the hand of the Earl of Holland the Lord Chamberlain being then going out of Town and leaving with me such order a Jewel being a Picture-case set with four Diamonds of about five hundred pounds value but no Picture in it for which his Majesties complement was for my delivery That his Picture wanting there because one could not be so suddainly provided and fitted to it it might be supplyed with that which the Ambassadors would he said preserve of him in his memory About the same time one of his Gentlemen whom he had made now and then use of for his Pen and had withall carried the Title and sometime executed the Office of Steward having heard of our custome heretofore to present Ambassadors Secretaries with Chains at their parting expected the like and made one Sir Francis Biondi his means to me by his Letter to that purpose whom I answered by Letter with reasons as before when Bethleem Gabors Secretary petended to the like favour from his Majesty but was refused it and so was this I having first acquainted the Ambassador himself with his pretence and with our course of limitation here for presenting Secretaries onely when they were as the Venetians Secretaries of the Embassage or had been for some especiall affaires imployed and noted for Assiduall Negotiators The fifth of September this Ambassador parting hence in the Kings Barge with no more Barges or Boates that one being capable of his Traine I accompanied him to Gravesend where presenting me with sixty double Pistoles I left him in his way to Dover for his imbarking c. He was not visited during the time of his stay here by the Venetian Ambassador no more then this by him The two Moores Commissioners from Saly having long attended the Kings returne to London and found little fruit of their Negotiation with the Lords demanded and had at last an Audience of his Majesty in the Privy-gallery comming to Court from their Lodging at Sir Abraham Williams in Westminster in a coach of their own hyring without my conduction onely I received them at the Court Gates brought them to the Councell-chamber thence to their Audience back to their coach and there left them The ninth of December the Ambassadors of Denmark went to an Audience of his Majesty at Havering with the Kings coach and two others hyred by themselves onely my selfe and no Nobleman accompanying them their Audience being to be private Arriving there towards Noone we found a Table covered for their dinner at the Kings charge whereto they sate down immediatly after the King was set to his and were served by the Guard for whom at their parting they gave to the hand of a Gentleman Usher Quarter-waiter 10 peeces After dinner they had their Audience in the Privy-chamber and that night returned to London They
Officers of Justice a Gentleman came in the morning from the Countess of Buckingham to the Ambassador of Savoy demanding leave of him for the said Officers to pass through his house into his Garden joyned to the Ladies for her more easie apprehension and arrest by that way which though at first he somewhat stuck at as wronging and lesning he thought the respect of his quality to leave his house free of entrance to such persons especially for the surprize and arrest of a fair Lady his Neighbour he at last notwithstanding suffered the Constable to enter it and with convenience to remain in it and in the Garden watching his opportunity till dinner-time when some of the Gentlemen attendants on him contriving a way to be rid of that incumbrance dressed the Ambassadors Page a handsome fair Boy in womans apparrell thrust him suddenly into the Lords Coach as if it had been the Lady making her escape and drove fast with him down the Strand followed by a multitude of people and those Officers not without danger to the Coach-man from their violence but with ease to the Ambassador that had his house by this device cleared of the Constable but himself after charged by the Duke That all this was done of designe for the Ladies escape which in that Hubbub she made to his no small prejudice and scorn in a business that so neerly he said concerned him she being Wife to his Brother and bringing him Children of anothers begetting yet such as by the Law because begotten and born while her Husband was in the Land must be of his Fathering The Ambassador for his Purgation from this charge went immediatly to the Duke at Whitehall but was denied accesse Wherupon repairing to my Lord Chamberlain for his mediation I was sent to him by his Lordship to let him know more particularly the Dukes displeasure and back by the Ambassador to the Duke with his humble request but of one quarter of an hours audience for his disblaming But the Duke returning answer That having alwaies held him so much his friend and given him so many faire proofs of his respects he took his proceeding so unkindly as he was resolved not to speak with him I reported this to the Ambassador and had for his only answer What Reason cannot do Time will Yet after this the Earles of Carliel and Holland interposing the Ambassador hungry after his Peace from a person of such power and regarding his Masters service and the publick affaires he a sevennight after obtained of the Duke an interview in Whitehall Garden and after an hours parley a reconciliation About the same time the Ambassador of Venice Contareni having sent an Express to Dover with a Packet came the Councels Warrant for passage of it to the Denmark Ambassadors attending there their passage for conveyance of it by them to the Venetian Ambassador in France Sir John Hippesley Lievtenant of the Castle under the Duke of Buckingham understanding of it and withall the mind of his Lord and Master mentioned sent to them for a sight of the Packet only as a duty he said of his charge which with some question Quere Whether this were not Pas de Clere in their mystery the Ambassadors yeilding to and sending it to him by their Secretary he refused to return it saying he would have care for the conveyance of it But sent it immediatly to Court to those hands that opened it and taking out as the Ambassador made complaint some particular Letters sent the rest to him whereat he formalizing himself as he did also for another Packer the Duplicate of this sent after it by his Secretary at Dover which delivered to the hand of a Marriner then upon passage was likewise intercepted He demanded Audience of his Majesty made protestation and offer to retire himself to Greenwich till the State he represented should upon the Account of his and their wrong signifie the sense of it and pleasure for his further proceeding But maturer consideration all his Letters being returned and his Majesty having professed to him his high displeasure for such proceeding made him alter his course and digest the pretended injury so far as only to give account of it to his State from whom he not long after received their pleasure that he should spare his access both to King and Councel till he should formally receive some publick satisfaction The usuall course was and is yet for Ambassadors to send to the Master of the Ceremonies a signification of their arrivall And after the said Master to let them know the time when be would repair to them to welcome them and conduct them to London After a long expectation of two Ambassadors Commissioners to come from the States Viz. Monsieur Randwick and Monsieur Pawe they arrived at Gravesend the seventh of February and were there met by Her Joachimi the Resident here Amongst other discourses they had with him as I was informed being then absent concerning the Treatment they might expect from his Majesty A Question was moved whether the Master of the Ceremonies were not to receive them there with the Kings welcome and to know their dispositions for the time of their coming to London before he should come to fetch them thence with the Kings Barge which it was affirmed Sir Lewes Lewknor had at other times done to some of their Ministers This scruple intimated to me at a time when I could discharge neither of those services my Wife being then dangerously sick of the small Pox and in that respect not stirring out of doors I wrot to the Resident Ambassador to this purpose That howsoever some perhaps extraordinary occasion might have begotten at some time such a redoubled course of observance the like whereof had not come under my experience it was no rule that if I my self had as I remembred I had once the Summer before made a first and second Journey to Gravesend to the Ambassadors of Denmark it was in the way of good manners to comply with them at a time of the Kings remote absence from London his Majesty being then in progress while in the interim I attended answer to my Letters for direction about the manner of their Treatment upon the Reformation then newly established for the defraying of Ambassadors which I hoped should serve them for a consideration to keep them from drawing into consequence that or any other former reception different from the Ordinary especially at a time that his Majesty endeavoured more then ever to reduce our formes of Treating Ambassadors to the stile of those practised by other Princes How these reasons prevailed I know not sure I am they had not any man sent to them in my place till the fourth day of their stay at Gravesend when Master Beaulieu Secretary to his Majesty for the French tongue intreated to that Service by me and allowed of upon my recommendation by my Lord Chamberlain brought them in the Kings Barge the twelfth
a resolutton that the honour which one had the other would no question expect and that threfore both must be alike proceeded with So the next day I was sent to them with the Kings Coach and the Marquesse of Buckinghams with the company of foure or five of the Kings Servants an honour more then usuall at such invitations but the Merchants had made it their request and it was not stood on for satisfaction of that particular Ambassador whose Nation stands so much on Ceremony with order to me to bring them to the Court gate by eleaven of the Clock and this without stay through the Guard Chamber and Presence to the privy Chamber where his Majesty would be seated under the State ready to receive them And that after their Complement should be passed thence I was to conduct them along the privy Gallery to the Councell Chamber for their conference with the Lords about their Negotiation while the King should be at Chappell and after to conduct them along the Terras and by the way they had before passed to the privy Chamber to dinner But all this designed course was inverted by his Majesties impatience to stay so long for them when by reason I had relyed on my Lord Marquesse of Buckinghams assurance over night that he would give order as Master of the Horse for the Kings coach to be ready the next day at the appointed houre and his Lordship had forgotten it we could not come to Court being so retarded till after eleaven so as the King being already gone to Chappell I received a direction different from the former and discending from the Coaches at the Court gate then happened another incongruity the Lord de la ware appointed to receive them there did not appeare at his time so as the Ambassadors Puntillios in their reception made a stand under the Court gate but at last against their Ceremonious stomacks went on as far as the midst of that first Court where they were met by the said Lord and after on the top of the Stone stayres by Richard Earle of Dorset which two Lords conducted them over the Terras into the Councell Chamber kept them company with almost an hours patience till his Majesties return from Chappell they were at last brought through the Stone-Table Chamber where the Lord Chamberlaine met them to the privy Gallery where about the midst of it stood the King and received them and was thence followed by them into the Privie Chamber where the two Ambassadors seared at the Tables end of his Majesties left hand they had their Health drunk to them by his Majestie after their Country manner and the two Cups they drunk in presented to them After this followed their Emperors Health drunk to them by his Majestie Their servants about fifty of them had a Dinner provided in the Guard Chamber where the Guard that waited on them failed not of their accustomed care by soone shifting away their Dishes to keep them from surfeiting The Ambassadors after Dinner were reconducted by the two Lords mentioned to their severall Stations and by me and some of the Kings Servants to their Lodgings Their failing at the time of their assignation as before was a cause that the conference they should then have had with the Councell was deferred till the day following at nine of the Clock which should have been otherwise either immediatly before Dinner or in the afternoon if they had not alleadged for excuse that it was the Custome of their Country that whensoever an Ambassador was to have an Audience of the Prince his Councell they were to see the Prince his Eyes first but in regard that their feasting with the King where they said they hoped his Majestie would allow them the liberty to take their Drink which they must forbear if business were immediatly to follow they desired they might not have their Audience till the next morning and then see his Majesties Eyes before they should see his Councellors This request though unusuall thought reasonable and granted I about nine in the morning fetcht them from their home where the Chancellor took exceptions that he had never a Gentleman sent to sit within his Coach which was the Lord Chamberlaines sent ordinarily then with the Kings as I did with his fellow Commissioner And bringing them by direction through the Park and the Tylt-yard Gallery to the Ordinary Chamber of attendance for Audiences the King saw them only in the next Roome save one to the Privie Gallerie and there with three words and their low reverences left them to the Councell Eight of which having gone before into the Councell Chamber and comming back to meet and receive them in the Stone-Table Chamber they were by them introduced the Ambassador preceding their Business heard they dispatcht brought back by the Councell to the Chamber where the King had seen them and they as they desired his Majesties Eyes and there left to my reconduction which they had to their Lodgings A Mask prepared for Twelftyde wherein the Prince was to be a principall Actor and that his first Exercise in that kinde was a subject for the King to invite to it the Spanish Ambassador and to observe the promise his Majestiy had made him the yeare before to that purpose the rather because a Marriage between the Prince and the Infanta was then in Treaty The French Ambassador in the mean time being left with litle or no regard of satisfaction given or sought to be given him either by private excuse or otherwise At which neglect as he understood it he took such shadow and offence as repairing to Court and demanding as unseasonably perhaps as impatiently Access to his Majesty was entertained by one or two Lords of the Bed-Chamber whom he that instant incountered with as satisfactory reasons as they could frame for diversion but with little effect though Sir Thomas Edmons Comptroller of his Majesties House who had been in France Ambassador were together with the Master of the Ceremonies sent to him immediatly after to the same purpose of modification so as standing first upon his Masters right of Priority before any other Kings particularly before that of Spaine and affirming that he could prove by many Presidents of our own that if the Spanish Ambassador were ever heretofore present at any such entertainment or Solemnity at Court it was by the French Ambassadors permission when either he would not be there or that he was sent to by his Majesty with intreaty to excuse his absence He at last threatned to make protestation against the wrong done his Master in his Ambassadors person But this threatning little it seems regarded by his Majestie who was resolved vpon his course for entertainment of the Spanish was a cause of the French Ambassadors sending his Secretary Post into France with the Account of the Kings and his own proceeding and of the Letters that came shortly after with his Revocation before his three years Residence wanting but