A.

Abbeville, 298, 327, 336, 347, 348, 349, 350.

Abel, 211.

Abergavenny, Lord, 123.

Aberlady, 44.

Abingdon, Abbey of, in keeping of Sir John Masone, 51.

Abingdon, a messenger, 312.

Acon, M. d', 129.

Acton's Bulwark, at Boulogne, 352.

Admiral, the Lord High. See Thomas Lord Seymour, Edward Lord Clinton.

-, Lord High (of Scotland), 29.

-, the, of France, see d'Annebaut.

Admiralty, Court of, 54, 55.

Adorni, Bernabo, reveals plot against Doria, 125.

Adrian, (de Cröy?) a servant of the Emperor, 278.

Adrianopolis, 7, 18, 191.

Advocate, the, of France, 231.

Africa carried by assault, 57.

-, 50, 55, 83, 90, 91, 153, 154, 157, 158, 160, 167, 290.

Agatone, Giovanni Francisco, letter from, 176.

l'Agosta Nova (in Sicily), 157.

Aire, 336.

Alasco, John, Envoy of Duke Albert of Brandenburg to England, 48, 60.

-, -, sent with credentials from the Duke of Mecklenburg to Edward VI., 205.

Alba, in Piedmont, 182.

Albanois (mercenaries), 32.

Albergato, M. Annibale, 132.

Albiac, Agnace d', sends translation of the Book of Job to King Edward VI., 217.

Alemath Bassa, one of the Turk's commanders, 279.

Alegre, Gilbert, Baron d', 129.

Alemanni, Louis, Steward of Catherine de, Medici's household, 146, 147, 155, 158, 159.

Alemanni, Louis, commissioned to excite a revolt at Genoa, 147.

-, -, French Ambassador at Genoa, 158.

Alessandria, 241.

Alexander, Mr. Nicholas, 123.

Alost, 266.

-, letters dated from, 43.

All Souls' College, 81.

Allen, John, an English miner, 246.

Allington, Thomas, servant to the Bishop of Westminster, 23.

Almaine Camp (near Boulogne), capture of, by the French, 46.

Alterius, Balthasar, letters from, 25, 26.

Alva, Duke of, 12, 113, 167, 169, 173, 176, 178, 183, 229, 238, 239, 240, 251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 261, 263, 266.

-, -, commands the Emperor's vanguard in Saxony, 12.

-, -, is sent by the Emperor to Spain, 169, 173.

-, -, commands the Imperialists at the siege of Metz, 229.

-, -, is sent away from Flanders on account of his unpopularity, 251, 256.

Ambassadors,
-, 1546–7:—

-, Edward Carne, agent in Flanders, 2.

-, Sir Peter Meautys, Extraordinary to France, 2.

-, Edward Bellingham, Extraordinary to the Emperor.

-, Sir Richard Morysine to Denmark, 2.

-, Dr. Wotton, Resident in France, 4.

-, Baron de la Garde, Extraordinary to England, 4.

-, Odet de Selve, Resident in England, 4.

-, Eustace Capuis, Extraordinary from the Emperor, 4, 88.

-, Sir Thomas Chamberlain, in Flanders, 1546–7,–1553, 4. See Chamberlain.

-, James Zambone, Extraordinary for Venice, 6.

-, Edmond Harvel, Resident at Venice, 5.

-, Francis Vanderdilst, from the Emperor, in England, 27.
-, 1548:—

-, M. de Langey, from Henry II. to England, 352.

-, Gaspar de Figueredo, from Portugal to England, 28.
-, 1550:—

-, Sire de Chastillon and others, Extraordinary to England, 48, 49.

-, Sieur de Chemault, from Henry II. to England, 50, 96.
-, 1551:—

-, M. de Boisdaulphin, from Henry II. to England, 117, 129.
-, 1553:—

-, Antoine, Seigneur de Noailles, from Henry II. to England, 261.

Ambassadors at Venice, their duties, 94, 95, 109, 110.

Ambleteuse, 295, 323, 345.

Amboise, letters dated from, 89, 92, 95, 96, 97.

-, Cardinal of, death of, 54.

-, 317.

Amiens, 312, 319, 327, 336, 350.

Ampoule, La Sainte, wherewith the Kings of France are consecrated, 222.

-, -, a cure for the falling sickness, 222.

Amsterdam, 31.

Anabaptists, the, in Flanders, 122.

Anabaptists, the, injury done by, to religion, 220.

Antinomians, the, injury done by, to religion, 220.

Adiaphorists, the, injury done by, to religion, 220.

Ancise, Aleram, son of Boarel, Marquis d', a nobleman of Savoy, 28.

Ancona, 93, 100.

Ancre, 339.

Andelot, M. d' (Francis de Coligny), 20, 21, 28, 52, 147, 152, 154, 158, 159, 252, 290.

-, -, his great suit with the de la Val family, 28.

-, -, his mission to Spain, 52.

-, -, sent to Switzerland by Henry II. to enlist troops, 147.

-, -, taken prisoner in Italy by Fernando Gonzaga, 152, 154.

Andrea, Captain, 299.

Anet, a residence of Madame de Valentinois, "a wonderful fair and sumptuous house," 54, 55, 56, 258.

-, letter dated from, 257.

Angers, letters dated from, 113, 118, 121, 150.

-, 146.

Angoulême, Duke of, afterwards Charles IX., birth of, 49, 55.

Anguscioli, Count Julian, one of the murderers of Pietro Ludovico Farnese, Duke of Piacenza, 291.

-, -, his arrest, 291.

Anhalt, John, Prince of, prisoner at siege of Magdeburg, 74.

Annebaut, Claude, Seigneur d', Admiral of France, 20, 233, 324, 327, 331, 351.

Anjou, Henri, Duc d', birth and baptism of, 187.

Anserville, near St. Diziers, 23.

Anspach, George of Brandenburg, Marquis of Nuremberg and, 174.

Antenori, Amerigo, a Florentine Captain, 143.

Anthony, A., Clerk of the Ordnance, 26.

Antwerp, 31, 32, 34, 40, 57, 58, 59, 66, 108, 120, 122, 156, 161, 206, 211, 236, 254, 260, 273, 301.

-, an English ship arrested at, for the Emperor, 120.

-, all ships laden with the property of English subjects stayed out, 161.

-, monetary transactions of the English Government at, 32, 34, 211, 273.

-, marquisate of, 286.

-, magistrates of, letter of, 27.

-, -, letter to, 152, 155.

-, complaint of English merchants at, 188.

-, letters dated from, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 26, 27, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 57, 64, 66, 67, 74, 212, 218, 235, 245, 255, 263, 265, 264, 266, 273.

Appollonius, Herman, Envoy from the Hanse Towns to England, 246.

Aragon, the Courts of, 92.

Aramon, M. d', 172.

Archald, the, 251, 276.

Arde, burning of, 25.

Arden of Feversham, his murder, 279.

Arderne, John, 318.

Ardinghilli, Julian, 29.

Ardres, 298, 299, 303, 319, 323, 324.

-, the Captain of, see Blerencourt.

-, the Abbot of, 318, 319.

-, letter dated from, 303.

Aremberg, d', Jean de Ligne, Comte, 122, 193.

Argel (Algiers), 55, 90, 113, 264.

Armachan (Armagh), the blind Scotch Archbishop of (Robert Wauchope), 72, 82, 108, 128.

-, goes to Rome, 72.

Armi, Ludovico de L', 12, 18, 35.

Arnold, Nicholas, one of the Council at Boulogne, 294, 299, 309, 353, 354.

-, Mr. 149, 227, 237, 242.

-, a Dutchman, 227.

Arras, 297, 336.

-, Bishop of, (Antoine de Granvelle, afterwards Cardinal, chief adviser of the Emperor after the death of his father Nicolas de Granvelle in 1550), 30, 41, 43, 74, 85, 87, 90, 103, 104, 105, 113, 116, 126, 132, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 154, 155, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 222, 225, 232, 239, 240, 242, 243, 244, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 261, 262, 266, 270, 271, 277, 279, 280, 281, 283, 285, 287, 288.

Arschot, Duke of (Philip de Croy), 8.

-, -, marriage of, to the Princess Dowager of Orange, 25.

-, Charles de Croy, second Duke of, 140.

-, -, slain "through folly," 140.

-, Philip de Croy, third Duke of, one of the captains before Terouanne, 265.

Artois, 293.

Arundel, Earl of, 14, 190.

-, -, his implication in the Duke of Somerset's conspiracy, 203.

Arundel, Sir Thomas, 203.

-, -, implicated in Somerset's conspiracy, 204.

Ascanio, Signor (della Cornia), nephew of Pope Paul III., 102, 107, 111, 120, 128, 261.

-, -, joins the Imperialists in their attack on Sienna, 234, 241; dangerously wounded, 261, 266.

Ascham, Roger, 69, 216, 221, 222, 223, 230, 231, 248.

-, -, letter from, 222.

Asinalunga, a town near Sienna, 247.

Asti, 173, 177, 241, 282.

Atkinson, Edmund (Bluemantle), 21, 22, 23; (Somerset), 52, 53.

Atwood, Captain, an officer at Boulogne, 354.

-, -, discharged for cowardice, 354.

Aubespine, Claude De 1', Seigneur de Hauterive, King Henry II.'s Secretary of State, 20, 50, 51, 289.

-, -, receives a gold chain from Edward VI., 200, 204.

-, -, sent to England to make personal inquiries into the state of health of King Edward VI., 280, 286, 287.

Aubespine, Sebastian de 1', see Abbot of Bassefontaine.

Aubigny, M. d', brother to the Earl of Lennox, 331.

Aubry, M. d', 238.

Aucher, Sir Anthony, 292, 312, 313, 315, 316, 319, 330, 339, 346, 356.

-, -, letter from, 316.

Augsburg, letters dated from, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 61, 65, 66, 68, 69, 76, 80, 85, 87, 90, 95, 96, 99, 101, 103, 111, 115, 123, 124, 132, 135, 137, 140, 150, 154, 157, 159, 162, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 174, 178, 180, 186, 218, 219.

-, surrenders to the Emperor Charles V., 1, 6.

-, the Emperor's Court at, 108, 132, 140, 169, 185.

-, -, the citizens of, much oppressed, 249, 285.

-, diet at, 48, 49.

-, copy of proceedings at diet of, 51.

-, great scarceness of provisions at, 86, 95.

-, the diligent labour of the people of, 95, 96.

Augsburg, Protestants of, persecuted, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 174, 187.

-, confession of, 179, 220.

Aumale, Duke of (Francis de Guise), 16, 40.

-, -, his marriage to a daughter of Hercules, Duke of Ferrara, 16.

-, -, permitted to return to the French court, 327. See also Francis Duke of Guise.

Aumale, Duke of (Claude de Guise), 15, 57, 350.

-, -, his ambition, 75.

-, -, commands French infantry in Italy, 158.

-, -, the prisoner of Albert of Brandenburg, 229.

Aurifaber, John, 248.

Austria, Ferdinand the Archduke of, second son of the King of the Romans, 138, 215.

-, house of, 3.

Austrians, the, 199.

-, ask for aid from the States of the Empire, 24.

Avesnes, in Hainault, 157.

Avignon, 141, 266.

-, King Henry II., threatens to seize, 127.

Avila, Louis d', Spanish captain of horse, 251, 276, 282.

Auxy-le-Chateau, 339, 340, 341.