The compleat ambassador: manuscript, [16--]

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The compleat ambassador: manuscript, [16--]

Correspondence (1570-1573) of Queen Elizabeth I with Francis Walsingham, Robert Dudley, William Cecil, and Thomas Smith regarding the negotiations for a treaty of alliance with France.

1 v. (671 leaves) ; 30 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7803038

Houghton Library

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Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639

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Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1523 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x00033d ...

Smith, Thomas, 1513-1577

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Statesman, scholar. From the description of An Abstract touching the Queen's marriage : copy of manuscript. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661968 English scholar, diplomat, and political theorist. From the description of A comunication or discourse of the Queenes highnes mariage : Debated betwixte fower gentlement of the courte at Monthall in Essex reported by s[i]r Thomas Smythe knighte to his neighbor Ffraunc[es] Wyat gentleman 1561 p[ri]mo Aprilis : contemp...

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598

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Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, as the Queen's personal envoy, was sent to France in February 1571 to negotiate a marriage between Elizabeth I and Henry, Duke of Anjou (later Henry III, King of France). In August of that year Buckhurst accompanied the French envoy Paul de Foix to England to further the marriage negotiations. From the description of Autograph letter signed from William Cecil, Baron Burghley, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester [manuscript], 1571 August 11. (Folger ...

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588

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Sluis fell to Spanish forces on August 4, N.S. From the description of Provisions ordered by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to be sent to the besieged town of Sluys [Fr. L'Ecluse], Netherlands, 1587 July 28. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 428974664 John Gray was the son of John Gray of Flansham, Sussex. From the description of Conveyance by bargain and sale from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to John Gray, yeoman [manuscript], 1574 Novemb...