B

Babham, —, proctor in proceedings in relation to complaints of Frenchmen, 169.

Babington, Anthony, is received by the French ambassador, 190; reception denied, 212.

-, -, former practices of, 204.

-, -, letters of, copies of to be taken into France, 105.

-, -, the Scots' Queen's letters to, alluded, to 105.

-, -, conspiracy of, allusions to, 81, 84, 87, 89, 112, 117, 118, 135, 167n, 189, 203, 240.

-, -, said to have been contrived in France, 78; taking of the conspirators, 87; the Queen sends to inform the French King of it, 96.

-, -, negotiation with the French ambassador at Lord Burghley's house, in relation to, 657.

-, -, list of papers relating to, 105.

-, Mistress, comes to Newhaven [i.e. Havre de Grace], 589.

-, -, husband of, dwells near and serves the Guises, ibid.

Babylon, Shah Abbas marching against, 507.

Bacan or Bazan, Alvaro de, Marquis de Santa Cruz, Spanish general at sea, the Markease, 283, 335.
-, has seen letters of Nunez, 98; dares not give liberty to ship or goods without King's order, 99; arrives at Seville with fleet from New Spain, 162; Gibbes interrogated by, 232.
-, at Lisbon, ready to sail in June, 297; has gone out with great fleet, 350; puts to sea, 372; ships weather-beaten, 409; to sail with fleet, 687.
-, victory at S. Michele referred to, 342.

-, -, does not wish to go to sea, 373; expected at court, 418; is returning to Lisbon after being with the King, 423; expected to sail next March (1588), 423.

-, -, said to have left Lisbon [Nov. 1587] with the Armada, going towards Holland and Zeeland, 425.

-, -, conflicting reports concerning, 439.

-, -, his great preparations show that some enterprise is in hand, 452; is said to be certainly going out with the fleet, 462.

-, -, "a great army maintained under," 504.

-, -, knights to be made by, at a Council of War, 508.

-, -, advice of, not to imperil the Armada by sailing in the rigour of winter, 513.

-, -, death of, reported, 533.

-, -, report that he has sailed not confirmed, 559.

-, -, ships of, said to be much weather-beaten by his last voyage to the islands, 409.

-, -, Armada of, to be refitted, 418; expected by the King of Scots, 507.

-, -, wife and children of, alluded to, 373.

-, -, brother of, to be general of the galleys, 570.

Bacon, Anthony, nephew of Lord Burghley, illness of, at Montauban, 10, 110.

-, -, returning to England, 110.

-, -, passports, etc., sent to, 110.

-, -, a messenger from, 156.

-, -, still at Montauban, 167.

-, -, letter from, 672.

Badefou, a chief man of the King of Navarre in Gascony, 516.

Baden [German Empire], diet of Swiss cantons at, 122.

-, Margrave of. See Ernest Frederick.

-, Marquisateship of [?], the reiters not suffered to pass by way of, 338.

-, diet of the Swiss cantons at, 122.

Badoaro, Alberto, proveditore at Venice, 418.

Badomville, with the King of Navarre, 517.

Bagshaw, Dr. [Christopher], in prison, 654.

Bahia. See San Salvador.

Baidone, Jerome, a letter sent (from Venice) by, 500.

Bajazet or Bayazet [II.], Emperor of Turkey (1510), refusal of homage to, alluded to, 673.

Balagny, Sieur de. See Monluc, Jean de.

Ballard [John], a priest, his part in the Babington plot, 96.

Balthazar, one, letter of, alluded to, 502.

Bambrygg, Gylles, letter sent by, 18.

Bandini, Signor Marco, gentleman of the Chamber to the French King, sent to the Pope, 461.

-, -, when sent to Rome at Christmas, was assured that on his return home he would find England destroyed by Spain, 552.

Bar, a Polish castle, 650.

Barbaro, proctor, appointed one of the proveditori for the rebuilding of the bridge of the Rialto, 440; meeting at his house, in Venice, 443.

Barbary, coast of [N. Africa], ships to scour, 63.

-, English subjects to trade freely into, 394.

-, galleys of, captured, 338.

-, three of the chief corsairs of, taken, 475.

-, ship going to, spoiled by an English vessel, 483.

Barbezieres, Mery de, Seigneur de Chemerault, Chemereaulx, Shemereaux, 22; Grand Marshal du Corps sent to King of Navarre, 36, 103; and to Duke d' Aumâle, 535, 540.

Barbi, Count Albert de, at the Convention at Luneburg, 71.

-, -, as Colonel of the reiters, money delivered to, 293.

-, -, to be lieutenant to Duke Otto of Brunswick Luneburg, General of the Field, in the army of the reiters, 327.

-, -, solicited in vain to lead the reiters into France, 619.

-, Count Bourckart de, pay given to, for his "waiting," 433.

Barbisto, —, a colonel of the reiters, money delivered to, 293.

Barcelona [Catalonia, Spain], galleys going to or from, 53, 284, 447.

-, Genoese galleys at, 283; news from, 475; money to be taken to, 681.

Bardi, Jacobo de', 399.

Barham, Thomas, letter to, 658.

Barker, John, of Ipswich, a commissioner for piracies, 33.

-, -, goods belonging to, 62.

Barnby, Barmby, Robert, citizen of London, debts of, 244.

-, -, factors for, in Nuremberg, 604.

Barnel, Julio, greetings sent to, 688.

Barnes, George and John, of London, 414.

Barneville sur Seine [? Barneville Manche, France], ship's master of, 318.

Barra, Stephen de, will no more meddle with affairs, 1.

Barrey, Pierre, master of a ship captured by the English, 318.

Barrios, Geronimo de las, 281.

Bartas, Seigneur du. See Saluste, Guillaume de.

Barwyk. See Berwick.

Basel or Basle [Switzerland], La Noue going to, 263.

-, the protestant lords sending their ambassador to, 422.

-, news from, 392.

-, provisions procured from, 449.

-, traveller to, 263.

Basset, Sir Arthur, death of, 655.

Bassinet, M. du, letter from, 196.

Bastards, the Pope issues a new bull against, 437.

Baste, George, much esteemed by the Prince of Parma, a prisoner at Utrecht, 657.

Bastillo, Juan de, to be paymaster at Melilla in Africa, 281.

-, -, uncle of, alluded to, ibid.

Bathecom, Thomas, letter from, 460.

Bathimani, towns in Poland belonging to, 337.

Bathori or Battori, house of, the Chancellor of Poland desires to elect one of as king, 202.

-, André, Cardinal, cousin of King Sigismund, suggested as King, has gone thither in haste, 202.

-, -, receives the Prince of Sweden in the church of Cracow, 476; the Prince crowned King by, 504.

-, Baltazar, brother of the Cardinal, arrives in Cracow with 2,600 armed men, 476.

Bathori, Stephen, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland, serious illness, 1; asked to invade Moldavia, 688; letter of, 59; letter to, 172.

-, -, widow of. See Anne, Queen of Poland.

Batiferro, Frate, a Carmelite, said to be made a cardinal, 442.

Batz [Baz], Isle of, French fishing boats taken off, by the English, 468 (2).

Bavaria [German Empire], lanzknechts in, 335.

-, troops going towards, 607.

-, soldiers contributed by, for the Emperor's army against the Turks, 296.

-, Dukes of. See George John, Palatine of the Rhine; John Casimir, Administrator of the Palatinate; William V.

-, -, Secretary of. See Minucci.

Bavaria, Ernst of, bishop of Liège:
-, report from Liège about, 44; advanced by Emperor, 324; going to Liège, 438; affairs not going well, 450; urges Parma to attack Bonn, 499; aid from his brother the Duke, 506; contributions to, 622.

Bawdit, Lucas, "lader" of a ship with English goods, taken by the French, 469.

Baynard, —, order in relation to, 33.

Bayona [in Galicia], the frontier town of Spain, news from, 11.

Bayonne [Basses Pyrénéés,] English merchants prisoners in, 278; rumour that Drake was coming to, ibid.

-, ship going to, 469.

-, Isles of, ship harbouring at, 589.

Baz. See Batz.

Bazan. See Bacan.

Beale, Robert, Clerk of the Privy Council, 67.

-, -, letter to be drawn up by, 50.

-, -, brother in law of Walsingham, going over [to the Low Countries], 291.

-, -, grant to, for steel, alluded to, 348.

-, -, letter from, alluded to, 405.

-, -, message sent by, 222.

-, -, remembrances sent to, 19, 422.

Beaton, James, Archbishop of Glasgow, ambassador lieger in France for the Queen of Scots, 132; and for King James, 259, 454.

-, -, is perpetually with the Pope's Nuncio and the Spanish ambassador, 94; approaches Stafford to favour Queen of Scots, 127.

-, -, has audience of the French King, 132.

-, -, "somewhat a-practising" by, 340.

-, -, "cold entertainment" given by, to Thos. Morgan, 357.

-, -, Earl Morton to have conference with, 489.

-, -, has gone to Rheims, for a solemn service for the Queen of Scots, 541; has hopes of being made Cardinal of Scotland, ibid.

-, -, the English Catholics at Paris "give out hard words of," 598.

-, -, in relation to "the enterprise of the Queen of Scots," 661; Gifford confers with, 662.

-, -, letters received by from Scotland, reported import of, 54; letter to, extract of, 105; letter sent to, by the French King, 288.

-, -, present sent to, by Queen Mother, 290.

-, -, a kinsman of, 259. And see below.

Beaton (Betton), young, the Bishop of Glasgow's kinsman, is come to Paris, 598.

Beauce (Beausse), la, France, the reiters in, 492; many of the noblesse of, have promised not to bear arms, 517.

Beauchamp, M., a gentleman of the King of Navarre, at Frankfort, 223.

Beaujardin, a gentleman of M. Chasteauneuf, Gifford disguises himself as a servant of, 670.

Beaumanoir, Charles de, Siegneur de Lavardin, going to succour Malicorne, 297; besieged in La Haye, 360, 379; said to have taken Marans, 553; besieging Marans, 555; King directs to bring forces from Poitou, 610; sent to collect troops, 626; regiment of, 642.

Beaupré, Baron de. See Choiseul, Christian de.

Beauvais, Beauvoys [Oise, France], King said to be going towards, 642.

Beauvoir or Beauvais La Nocle, Sieur de. See La Fin, Jean de.

Becklyn, Madam, a widow of Boulogne, 474.

Beckner, Thomas, sent to Sir Edward Stafford, 91.

Bedford, Richard, ship's master, 63.

beer, exportation of granted, 144; brewers in England desired to buy licence of German, 198.

Beguole, ? Begoles, Antoine de, Capt., catholique, with the King of Navarre, 517.

Behrend. See Berendes.

Beinette, Conte de, sent with congratulations to Archduke Maximilian, 424.

Belcastel, the page suspected of murdering the Prince de Condé, 556; fled, 544; cannot be found, 632; punishment of demanded of King, 596.

Belerigh, Johan, of a noble Saxon family, the King of Denmark writes on behalf of, 115.

Belgium [i.e. the Netherlands], Danish ministers in, 336; hopes of restoring to the Roman See, 557, 558, 560, 562, 564; the King of Spain is striving to pacify, 563. See also Low Countries.

Belin, Johan, merchant of Rouen, 632.

Belisre [qy. Belle-Isle], Marquis de, 356.

Bell, Robert, merchant at Rouen, letter signed by, 92.

Belle-Isle (Belisre), Marquis of. See Retz, Charles de.

-, Captain of, ships of, 169.

Bellenger, M. Nicholas, greffier of the French Admiralty, complaints of French crew against the English, heard by, 312.

Belliévre, Pomponne de, going on an embassy to her Majesty, 132; Stafford's praise of, 132, 137.

-, -, is gone with private instructions from the King, 146; is a great enemy to Spain, 147; matters to be treated of, in England, 155.

-, -, reported (by Buzenval) to be so stunned by the bells of London that he wishes to depart, 157; warning against giving him too great credit, 158.

-, -, in regard to preparations for support of the King of Navarre, 164.

-, -, notes of proceedings with, in relation to depredations, 169.

-, -, final interview of, with the Queen, and her messages to him by Stafford, 184, 185; "an unhappy incident" at his departure, 185.

-, -, leaves England, 189; Queen expected better satisfaction from, 190.

-, -, Stafford's and Waad's negotiations with, 191–195, 198, 205–213, 220, 227.

-, -, has had private conferences with the King, 193.

-, -, his good opinion of Burghley, 194.

-, -, information given by, to the French King and Stafford, concerning England, the Queen and her ministers, 194.

-, -, "found himself grieved" by the Apostiles sent to him, on behalf of the Queen, 198; warning given by, concerning her Majesty, 199.

-, -, declaration of, in defence of M. Chasteauneuf, 206, 207, 269.

-, -, has informed the French King and Council of Scot's death, 227; is a very honest man and does all the good he may for England, 236.

-, -, message to, from Stafford, 242.

-, -, Stafford's further conferences with, 250–257; 267– 270; allusions to, 257, 265, 272; resumé of, 264; alluded to, 322.

-, -, to be a commissioner for sea-causes, 270.

-, -, message sent privately from, 272.

-, -, is sent in haste to the Duke of Guise, 273.

-, -, is said by Stafford to be the fittest man to negotiate with (about English affairs), 274; and to lament the differences between the French King and her Majesty, 289.

-, -, movements of, 295.

-, -, Stafford's negotiations with, in regard to the stay of seizure of English shipping, 322, 384, 392.

-, -, information given to, 331.

-, -, in relation to his negotiations with the Duke of Guise and the League, 498, 517, 541, 550, 551, 590, 592, 595, 596, 600, 604–606.

-, -, has come to the King, 565; present at the King's Council, 583; goes to the Queen Mother and the Louvre, 606, 607.

-, -, his wisdom, experience and devotion to his master's service, 635, 636.

-, -, letter from, 164.

Belloy, — du, author of the Apologie Catholique, in the Conciergerie, the people demand justice to be done upon, 651.

Belluc, Joachim and Jacques, passport for, 600.

Belmonte, Francisco, Prieto de, letter to, 402.

Belsunce, or Belzunsi, Antoine, Seigneur de, Governor of Puymirol (Peinirol) in Gascony, a chief man of the King of Navarre, 516.

Belt (Belthe), the, "a country of Germany" ports of, 28; ship returning from, 44.

Bene [Alfonso], Abbé del, Albene, agent for the King of Navarre in Paris, 129, 340, 484.

-, -, hates Simiers, 130; in relation to Count Soissons, 345, 346.

-, -, Stafford's accusations against, 345, 347, 374–80, 484, et seq., 545, 547.

-, -, writes to Walsingham, complaining of Stafford, and giving assurances of his devotion to her Majesty, 367, 368.

-, -, copy of Latin letter from, to Buzenval in abuse of Sir Edward Stafford; with Stafford's marginal comments thereupon, 374–380; alluded to, 381; quoted by Stafford, 484.

-, -, refers himself to the English Queen and Council, 379.

-, -, information given by, concerning Morgan, 381; the author of M. de Sallette's imprisonment, 382; Sallette's character of, 383.

-, -, "the King of Navarre's factotum," 484; wishes Stafford "to let the Queen and the French King break," 484.

-, -, assurances given to the King by, on behalf of the Due d' Aumâle, 540; instructions of, to the Count de Soissons, alluded to, 542; talk of, at the Court, believed to be a brag, 543.

-, -, is a dangerous fellow, 545; has dealt with all parties in turns, 547; and is now forbidden the court, 548.

-, -, further relations of, with Stafford, 546, 547, 564, 565; fear that he may "put bees in their heads " in England, 548.

-, -, mission of, to Florence, 591.

-, -, letter to, from Rome, substance of, given, 136.

-, -, letters to and from, alluded to, 125, 126, 131, 347, 367, 380, 464, 543.

-, -, mother of, Stafford is willing to take bond of, 346.

-, -, an old uncle of, 548.

-, Captain Mazino del, affection of, to Elizabeth's service, 3.

-, -, a warning sent by, 376; Palavicino surety for, 378; a packet brought to Stafford by, 463; Stafford's "very friend," 464.

-, -, letters from, 13, 66, 349, 373, 381 (2), 422.

-, -, -, alluded to, 66, 303, 376, 659; copy of, 381.

-, -, letter to, 381.

Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, bishop of Civita di Penna, Governor of Rome, candidate for red hat, 419, 425; congregation to settle differences with Auditor of Chamber, 426; reform of tribunal, 437.

Bennart, M. Francois de, of Rouen, 169.

Benot [qy. Bennet], Thomas, collector in London, 542.

Bentevoglio, Cornelio, comprehended in the treaty of Cambresis, 627.

Benutio, Fra Steffano, Bishop of Arezzo, may be made a cardinal, 425; reported (at Venice) not to be elected, 442; election of, announced by the Pope, 443.

Berchenhausen, in the Archbishopric of Cologne, castle of, taken, 444.

Berck. See Rheinberg.

Berendes, Behrend, Andrew, sen., demand of, in the name of his son, Andrew Berendes, jun., for restitution of goods; certificate in relation to, 539; the senators of Hamburg pray the Queen for the restoration of, 568–9.

-, (Bernds), Daniel, merchant of the Steelyard, 145; "fetched forth by sergeants," 146.

-, (Berends), Melchior and Andrew, factors in London for a subject of the Duke of Brunswick, 339.

Bergamasco, a. See Giraldi.

Bergamo [Prov. Bergamo, Italy], bishop of. See Ragazzoni, Geronimo.

Bergen [in Rugen Pomerania, German Empire], the King of Denmark writes on behalf of his lieges of, 357; ship bound for, ibid.

Bergen-op-Zoom (Berghes su la Soma) [Prov. N. Brabant, Netherlands]. people of, a village burnt by, 174; are doubtful where they stand, 426.

-, garrison of, noted prisoner taken by, 262, 263; double guards in, 444.

Bergerac, Brigeracke [Dordogne, France], Turenne and Navarre near, 678.

Bergh. See Rheinberg.

Berghen, Robert II., van, bishop of Liège, party to treaty of Cateau Cambresis, 626.

Bergstrasse, the [in the Palatinate], Duke Casimir's reiters to come by way of, 338.

Berlin, Colonia ad Suevum [Prussia, German Empire], letters dated at, 20, 42.

Berlinger, Colonel, has spoken in behalf of pay for passage of Germans, 260.

Bermudes, Pedro de, " the governor" [of Bayonne ?], 278.

Bernard, Captain, one of the French ambassador's men, made prisoner, 194.

-, Francis, a letter for, desired touching goods taken from him, 138.

Bernardo, Monsieur, alluded to, 687, 688.

Bernds. See Berendes.

Berne, Switzerland, canton of, villages belonging to burned, 502:
-, republic of, lordship of, sending army to oppose duke of Savoy, 100; places in, 449.
-, -, people of, Bernois, places on Lake of Geneva belonging to, 93; in arms, 449.
-, mission from to Casimir at Heidelberg, 202, 219; ambassadors from to meet those of Basel and Zurich, 422.
-, avoyer of. See Mellunes.

Berner, Abel, envoy of the King of Denmark, letter from, 85.

Bernet, Raymond Roger de, Governor of Boulogne, brave defence, 607, 608.

Bernstorf (Bernelstolff), Bernsdorfe, Count William of, Colonel of the reiters, will not be hindered by the Electors from serving the King of Navarre, 282; numbers in troop, 327.

-, Count William of, command of, in the army of the reiters, 282, 327.

Berry, Berri, France, the German reiters lodged about, 439.

-, traveller into, 592.

-, Governor of. See La Châtre, Claude de.

Bertyne, Captain, of the Isle of Ré, ship carried into Rochelle by, 469.

Berwick (Barwyk), surprise of, by the Scots, cried in the streets of Paris, 499.

Berziau, Jerome, Seigneur de la Marsillière, Marsilier, Secretary of the King of Navarre:
-, mission to King, 5, 6; will not speak of peace, 21; meets Stafford, 24, 366; secret visit to Paris, 366.

-, -, letters from, alluded to, 3, 48.

Bessons, a chief man of the King of Navarre's party, 516.

Bethune, Maximilian de, Baron de Rosny:
-, sent to meet Swiss ambassadors received by King, 5, 24; no intention to speak of peace, 6; a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Betton. See Beaton.

Beure, Seigneur de. See Bourgogne, Adolphe de.

Beuterich, Dr. Peter, minister of Duke John Casimir, in relation to the enterprise of the reiters, 94, 107, 108, 121, 187, 203, 223.

-, -, illness of, 148, 156; death of, 226; alluded to, 237, 258.

-, -, later allusions to, 307, 308, 430, 684.

-, -, letters from, 79, 86; alluded to, 87, 435.

Beverland, South, island of [Prov. Zeeland, Netherlands], 438.

Beza, discretion of, at a conference of ministers, 686.

Bible, the, printed in Hebrew, 27; proposal to print in Greek, Latin, etc., ibid; translators of, into Latin, ibid.

-, -, "of Tremelius and Junius," reprinting of, 27, 91.

Bichar, Henry, of London, letter to, alluded to, 414.

Biersing, Nicholas, late Governor of the Society of Adventurers, negotiations with, alluded to, 652.

Bilbao [Prov. Vizcaya, Spain], voyage from, 616.

Billigheim (Billickheim) [Rhenish Bavaria, German Empire], camp before, 433.

"Bir," Captain, a French ship taken by, 318.

Bird [John, merchant of London], order for payment by, 33.

Biron, Marshal de. See Gontaut, Armand de.

Biscay [Prov. Spain], men and mariners imprested in, 12.

-, ships making ready in, 12; Spanish ships in, 93; galleons of, for Recalde's squadron, 161; no ships or warlike provision making ready in, 232; ships of (Biskins) preparing for their ordinary trade, 233; at Lisbon, 332.

-, Spanish soldiers to be shipped from, 373.

-, soldiers embarked in, 439; note of recruits from and ships of, 471.

-, fleet, English fleet arming, in case it should move against her, 421; a new fleet being made in, 560; fleet of, to join the Lisbon fleet and go for England, 597.

Bisignano, Bissignano, Prince of, going to his cousin the Duke of Urbino, 411; movements of, 571.

Bishe, Countess of, said to govern the King of Navarre "as she listeth," 510.

"Biskins" [i.e. ships of Biscay] preparing for their ordinary trade, 233.

Bisseldorf, qy. Dusseldorf, q.v.

Biswater. See Bridgewater.

Bizarri, Pietro, letter from, 19.

Blacons, Seigneur de. See Forest, Hector de.

Blamont, near Nancy [Meurthe, France], the reiters said to be near, 359; have now come as far as, 365.

-, Huguenot camp at, letter dated at, 361, 363.

Blanchemair, Captain, has made himself master of the castle of Berchenhausen, 444.

Blaye [Gironde, France], a merchant of, 81; a Yarmouth ship taken at, 329.

Blayon. See Glaion.

Blochett, James, paper printed by, at Paris, 180.

Blois [Loire et Cher, France], the French King going to or at, 5, 103, 374, 515.

-, league made with her Majesty at, alluded to, 642.

Blondet, Nicholas, pass to France desired for, 50.

Blosset, Jean, Sieur de Torcy, Torcay, Torce, 594; warships of, 169.

-, Louis de, Sgr. de Fleury, a chief man of the King of Navarre on this side the Loire, 517.

Blount, Christopher, married to a kinswoman of the Earl of Leicester's first wife, 229.

Boai, a Colonel called, to raise a regiment for the Duke of Guise, 685.

Bodin, —, prophecy by, concerning Queen Elizabeth, alluded to, 94.

Bodley, Thomas, sent to the French King, 611, 636; in relation to Stafford's servant Lilly, 627, 628; an offer made to the French King by, on her Majesty's behalf, 629; alluded to, as "her servant lately sent," 633; King's answer to, 637.

Bogdanowich, John, Prince of Moldavia, letter from, concerning like negotiations for his restoration, 688–690.

-, -, son of, mission of to the Queen, and her kindness to, alluded to, 688, 689.

Bohemia, kingdom of, money given by, to the Emperor, for his army against the Turks, 296.

-, forces levied in or going from, to Archduke Maximilian, 325, 423, 442; hourly expected by him, 447.

-, people of, have not made up their minds to assist Archduke Maximilian, 504.

Bohemian Baron, insolent behaviour of, at a conference with protestant princes and electors, 311; stabbed by the Prince of Hesse, ibid.

Bohemians, still treating [with the Emperor], 424; in their Diet, have agreed to give troops for Maximilian's service, 440.

Boinin [or Boivin], Robert, master of a ship taken by the English, 318.

Bois de Vincennes. See Vincennes.

Bollen. See Boulogne.

Bologna [Prov. Bologna, Italy], vicelegate of. See Dandino.

Bolswaert (Bolverd) in West Friesland, in favour of Leicester, 421.

Bolviler, Baron. See Polviller.

Bon Vouloir, French ship, 318.

Bona, Queen of Poland, 202.

-, daughter of. See Catherine, Queen of Sweden.

Bonello, Signor Mario, is going to Venice "to purge himself," 418.

-, Pio, spoken of as a possible cardinal, 425.

Bonn, Bouna [Rhenish Prussia, German Empire], horsemen near, 411.

-, taken by Martin Schenk, 462, 490; an attempt upon, by Parma, expected, 499; succour of, hoped for, 535, 541; German Princes said to be arming for relief of, 553.

-, siege of, 563; three hundred Spaniards said to be slain before, 599.

-, Schenck's defence of, 620; the army about, stands ready to attack the Palatinate, ibid; the Queen is urged to send succours to Schenck, ibid, 623.

-, Parma, believed to have taken, 622; will be lost unless aided, 639.

Bonna, Geronimo di, factor for a London merchant, letter sent by, 444, 451, 529.

Bonne, Francis de, Seigneur de Lesdiguieres, Desdiguieres, Esdiguieres, Diguieres, repulses La Valette, 4; defeats Vins, 154; may succour Montelimar, 353.
-, retakes it, 359n; Savoy levying troops against, 409; returning against Saluzzo, 446.
-, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516; junction with La Valette and Montmorency, 652.

Bonrepos, M. de, killed, 4.

Bonshommes, les, hermitage by (near Paris), the Queen Mother returns to, 257.

Bontemps, Captain, ships of, 169.

Bonvi, Raoul, Vayvode of Wallachia, refusal of [1510] to acknowledge duty to the Turkish Emperor, alluded to, 673.

books:
-, Stafford sends to Walsingham, 13, 50, 123, 290, 315, 347, 368, 586, 641.
-, on execution of Campion, 48.
-, a discourse of the fight between two English ships, etc., 63.
-, on Sidney's death, 150.
-, Historia del Duque Carlos de Borgonna, 177.
-, on Catholic martyrs in England, 316.
-, prophecies by Grebner, 331.
-, of La Noue, presented to Queen, 347.
-, by a native of Meissen, 412, 413.
-, printed in Spain causes anger at Paris, 483.
-, in Paris reporting reverses of English, 499, 500.
-, Apologie Catholique, 651.

-, See also Bible.

Borcholte, Christopher, certificate by, 539.

Borda, Borde, Sieur de la. See Laborde.

Bordeaux [Gironde, France], proposed meeting with M. de Mayenne at, 4.

-, Landes of, letters intercepted on, 283.

-, Mayor of, a former. See Montaigne, Michael.

-, a merchant of, has declared that the Armada is out, 640.

-, Parliament of, 4; court of, proposal to send a prisoner to, 596.

-, river of. See Garonne.

Borden. See Arundel, Charles.

Borgalesi merchants, to provide money for Flanders, 679.

Borghini, Adreano, comprehended in the treaty of Cateau Cambresis (1559), 627.

Borgia, Cæsar, son of Pope Alexander VI., Giucciardini's note concerning, quoted, 570.

Bornay, Mr., sent to Calais with charge from the Queen, 609.

Bornstra, Captain, letter from, 624.

-, -, expences incurred by, ibid.

Borophsky [a Polish nobleman], election [qy. of a king] deferred until the Chancellor is agreed with, 337.

Borromeo, Count Federico, a Milanese, his chance of being made a cardinal, 425, 442; election of, 443.

Boseveino, a castle 16 leagues from Cracow, news sent from, 411.

Bostock, Mr., high sheriff of Surrey, letters to, asked for, 35.

Boston, co. Lincoln, ? Brostum, 358.

Bothwell, James, "infamous letters said to have passed between the Queen of Scots and, 97; his marriage to her, alluded to, ibid.

Bouch. See Buck.

Bouillon [Prov. Luxemburg, Belgium], delivery of, to the Bishop of Liège, a treaty for (in 1559), 627.

Bouillon, Duke of. See La Marck, Henry Robert and William Robert de.

-, Duchess of. See Bourbon, Francoise de, widow of Henry Robert, Duke of Bouillon.

- Princess of. See La Marck, Charlotte de.

-, house of, made destitute, 593; precedents " wherein they be named, in the treaty of Cateau Cambresis," 627.

Bouk. See Buck.

Boulaye, la, Baron de. See Eschalard, Philippe.

Boulogne, Bullen, Boullen, Bulloigne [Pas de Calais, France], Epernon going to take possession of, 37; taking of, by the League, "foiled" by M. de Gourdan, 257; demanded by the League, 291.

-, the high town of, siege of, by the Duc d' Aumâle, notices of, 607, 608, 612–614; attack upon, repulsed by the Governor, 608; the Duc d' Aumâle is battering, 614; castle in, men put into, for the Governor, 607; people of, "daily call traitor " to those of the League, 608.

-, the low town and Mount of, troops put into, for Epernon, 474; the Duke of Guise's men attempt to sack, but are frustrated, 475; men of the League in, 607, 608; held by d' Aumâle for the League, 613; hostel of the Arms of France in, 614.

-, advertisements from, 577; will receive no men for d' Aumâle, ibid.

-, castle near. See Hardelow.

-, inhabitants of, 474; victualled for two years, ibid; will, it is hoped, maintain themselves, 613.

-, re-inforcements put into, 638; siege of, to be raised, 651.

-, the country near, peasants of, come to the Leaguers, 508; all passages near, occupied by d'Aumâle's forces, 614.

-, letter dated at, 475.

-, ships at, 28, 577; orders concerning, 29.

-, travellers to or from, 474, 577, 656.

- (Bollen) Road, Lord Howard's "goodly company of ships" in, 613; letter dated from, 614.

-, Bishop of. See Ormy, Claude Andreu d'.

- Governor of. See Bernet, Raymond Roger de.

Bouna. See Bonn.

Bourbon, house of, not certain that against Condé for succession, 470; many resort to King, 515.

Bourbon, Anne de, Vicomte de Lavedan, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

-, Cardinal of. See Bourbon Vendôme, Charles de.

-, Charles, 3rd Duke of Bourbon, sack of Rome by [in 1527], alluded to, 343.

-, - [the late], heirs and followers of, articles for, in the treaty of Cambrai, alluded to, 626.

-, Charles de, Cardinal of Vendôme, brother of the Prince de Condé, in relation to the Prince's death, 544, 553; letter sent to, from the Princess, 554; expected at Paris, 583, 590; said to be gone to Soissons, to the Leaguers, 592.

-, -, the article declaring him first prince of the blood shall remain untouched till the Assembly of the States, 651.

-, Charles de, Comte de Soissons, Toisson, half brother of the Prince de Condé, 3, 51, 126; brings news of Montmorency, 9; is sent by the King to the Court of Parliament, 12; Cour des Comptes will not listen to, 20; is "almost mad" with the Duke of Montpensier, 22, 23; warned by Stafford not to come to Paris, 39; sends thanks for kindness in relation to a robbery, 157; payment due by John Casimir to, 188; Bernese ambassador may serve designs, 220; proposed marriage of, 274, 299; fear that he may be drawn into the League, 274; going with Navarre towards La Charité, 389.

-, -, in relation to loan furnished or to be furnished for, by her Majesty, 52, 202, 346, 377 (2), 378, 381, 484; money in Stafford's keeping, demanded for, 377, 484; income received by, from his mother and kinsfolk, 377.

-, -, Stafford writes concerning, 345, 346; recommendation of, by the Ring of Navarre, 347; intended proceedings of, 354; alarm less he should declare himself for the King of Navarre, 360; is summoned to bring his forces to the King, ibid; goes to the King of Navarre, 373; Turenne goes to join, ibid; the Abbé del Bene's influence over, 345, 377; a youth of invincible spirit, 377; may be Governor of Picardy, 378.

-, -, said to be wounded 442; with the King of Navarre, 516; may be an instrument of great harm to the Huguenot cause, 542; instructions given to, by the Abbé del Bene, alluded to, ibid; suffers no word against the Catholic faith, 543; reported insulting behaviour of, to a Huguenot minister, ibid; is "marvellously perplexed" [i.e. distressed], by the Prince of Condé's death, 546; attends his obsequies, 555; has had mass said at Pau, 595; looked for at Rouen, 652.

-, -, Governor of. See Vanteak.

-, -, man of, 202, 345.

-, -, mother of. See Francoise, Marquise Rothelin.

-, -, Duke of Vendôme, Francoise wife of, Duchess of Vendôme, 626.

-, Francois de, Marquis de Conti, brother of the Prince de Condé and half brother of the Comte de Soissons, imperfections of [i.e., le beque (stammering) prince], 354, 376.

-, -, summoned to bring his forces to the King, 360; illness of, 373; is about to take horse, 376.

-, -, as "conductor of the army of strangers," articles of capitulation made with, by the Duc d' Epernon, 428; on this side the Loire, 517.

-, -, his brother Soissons on very evil terms with, 542, 543.

-, -, as Prince of Condé, letter sent to, by the Princess, 554.

-, -, well received by the King, 626.

-, Francoise de, Duchess Dowager of Bouillon, widow of Henry Robert Duke of Bouillon, 9; death of, 297; allusion to, 593; letter to, 216.

-, Henri de, Prince de Condé, 33, 36, 81.

-, -, has gone with the King of Navarre upon an enterprise, 22; warning sent to, of a plot against him, 24.

-, -, promises Duke Casimir to go to meet the reiters, 61; as leader of the reiters (in 1577), allusions to, 162, 307.

-, -, powers granted by, to the ambassadors to Duke Casimir, 186.

-, -, movements of, 81, 360; Del Bene tries to keep on bad terms with Soissons, 378; to be left in Poitou, 389; fate of, not known, 417.

-, -, reply of, to the Duc de Petite Pierre, mentioned, 433; visit of, to Heidelberg (in 1574), alluded to, 434.

-, -, narrow risk of his ruin, 479; reasons which will prevent his becoming a Catholic, 480; the Pope prayed to call in the excommunication against, 489.

-, -, relations between the King of Navarre and, 480, 516, 523, 530, 544.

-, -, the King of Navarre, no power over, 523; the French King's hope of bringing him to change his religion, 523.

-, -, murder of, 530, 531, 535; said to be by poison, 531, 540, 552, 556; loss by, to the Huguenot party, 530–532; later allusions to, 542, 543, 549, 587, 596, 622, 632; the King of Navarre's party in Paris make no account of it, 544; but that King put in danger thereby, for one preserved the other, 546; that King's sorrowful taking of it, ibid; the Pope's joy on hearing of, 563.

-, -, Stafford's love for, 547.

-, -, lamentations over, 552, 553, 555; assembly at St. Foy may be deferred by reason of, 554.

-, -, letter from, 137.

-, -, letters to, alluded to, 375.

-, -, paper on his right to the succession, 470.

-, -, agent for, in Germany. See Francourt, Sieur de.

-, -, Captain of his guard, and gentleman of his train, believe in his wife's guilt, 553.

-, -, chamberlain of. See Couvrelles.

-, -, daughter of, at Jametz, in great danger, 623.

-, -, page of, valet de chambre. See Belcastel.

-, -, Secretary of; See Sarrazin, Theophil, Sieur de Salneuve; Villesaison.

-, -, steward of, 553.

-, -, household of, Stafford a former member of, 129.

-, wife of, Princess of Condé. See Tremouille, Charlotte de.

-, Louis I. of, Prince of Condé, enlists services of Deuxponts, 46.

-, -, Francoise, widow of, Lady Stafford sends to, message from, 547.

-, Vendôme, Charles de, Cardinal of Bourbon, good-nature of greatly abused, 98; is to devise proceedings against heretics, 180; staggered by action of League, 258.

-, -, Stafford's relations with, 376.

-, -, reported death of, 426.

-, -, orders sent by, to the Duc d' Aumâle, to retire his forces, 550.

-, -, expected at Paris, 583, 590; said to have gone to the Leaguers at Soissons, 592, 595.

-, -, article declaring him first prince of the blood, to remain undecided until the Assembly of the States, 651.

-, -, Epernon's liking for, 470; will do nothing [for the King of Navarre], 484, 553; Sedan and Jametz left to, 499; has come to Paris, 517; ill of the gout, 553; slow, and governed by ill counsellors, ibid; at a meeting in Queen Mother's chamber, 584; said to be going to Sedan, 597; follows the King to Chartres, 609; talk of making Governor of Normandy, 626; to be urged to stir up the King, 635; made Governor of Normandy, 640.

-, -, letter from, alluded to, 345.

-, -, almoner of, 675, 676.

-, -, Francois de, Duke of Mont pensier, 51:
-, Soissons waiting for news from, 3, 39; false move for peace, 22, 36; Soissons half mad with, 23; Queen counts on detaching from Navarre, 52; proposed marriage, 60.
-, message about Sedan, 273; Soissons and, 345, 346; Soissons and his brother may dispute the leading of the avant-garde with, 354; fear that he will declare for the King of Navarre, 360; Drury's reported influence over, 376, 377; said to be going to the French King's army, 377; will do nothing at all, 378; leading vanguard in royal army, 389.

-, Madame de, wife of, 256, 661; a reported plot of, to carry off M. de Salettes, 382.

-, Mademoiselle de, " from whom the Abbot (del Bene) never stirs," 376.

Bourbonnais, France, French King going to baths of, 48.

Bourges [Cher, France], the King of Navarre said to be going to, to meet the reiters, 377, 379.

-, the Duke of Guise to have, for surety, 651; the Governor to remain in, ibid.

Bourgogne, Adolphe de, Seigneur de Beure, party to treaty of Madrid, 626.

Bournham, Bournan. See Burnham.

Boxtehudans. See Buxtehude.

Boyer, a ship's master, compelled to go to Hamburg, 646.

Boys, Michel de, merchant of Rouen, memorial for restitution or satisfaction of his goods, sold in England, 361.

Brabant, hopes of forcing the enemy to quit, 305.

-, Duke of. See Francis, Duke of Alencon.

Bracey, Mr., money procured from, 283.

Bradbery, the Sieur de, late page of the Chamber to the King of Navarre, 10.

Braganza [John, late], Duke of; [Mary] daughter of, proposed marriage of, to the Duke of Parma's son, 569.

Brand, John, commissioner to treat with the deputies of the English Merchants Adventurers at Hamburg, 314.

Brandas or Brandes, Daniel, of Hamburg, restitution of goods demanded for, 539, 568.

Brandenburg [German Empire], Duke Casimir gone or going to, 76; King of Denmark in, 326.

-, -, footmen in, muster of, 506.

- Duke, Elector, Margrave of. See Joachim Frederick; John George; Philip, Duke of Brandenburg.

Brandenburg Anspach, margrave of. See George Frederick.

Bras, Signor Gaspar, hidalgo of the King's household in Magazan, letter to, 144.

Braslow, a Polish castle, 650.

Brassels. See Bruchsel.

Bread, high price of, in Flanders, 173.

Bream. See Bremen.

Brecque, Jehan de la, ship plundered, 318.

Breda [Prov. N. Brabant, Netherlands], the English said to have surprised, 73.

Brehaut, Antoine de, Sieur de la Roche, premier ecuyer tranchant to the Queen Mother, 118.

Bremen, Bream [German Empire], contributions from, for the King of Navarre, 62; joins fast with Hamburg, 349.

-, citizens of, ships said to be spoiled by English men of war, 494.

- chapter of, negotiations with English, 407.

-, -, Senate of, request of, to the King of Denmark, 494; men of, the King prays that they may have satisfaction, ibid.

-, travellers to, 142, 228.

Bremerland shore, a castle may be built near, to stop the passage of ships, 644.

Breole, La, Breulle, in Provence [Basses Alpes, France], taken by Epernon, 154.

Brescia. See Bresse, La.

Breslau or Preslavia, Vratislavia [Silesia, German Empire], 513; news from, 442, 447, 507.

Bresole, Sieur de, a chief man of the King of Navarre in Gascony, 516.

Bresse, La, France, reiters supplied with food in, 448.

Brest [Finistere, France], report that the Spanish fleet will shortly arrive at, 567.

-, Governor of, 33.

-, harbour of, Spanish captains' enquiries concerning, 330.

-, ships of, English ship taken by, 62.

Breteville, Otto de, merchant of Rouen, ship belonging to, 22, 26.

Brethon, Jehan, master of a ship taken by the English, 318.

Bretigny, Sieur de. See Guintaurdoines, Fernando de.

Breton, a, at Rouen, 578.

- ship, captured, 29; merchant ship, plundered by an English captain, 613.

Bretons, English ship ransacked by, 351.

- See also Brittany.

Briare [Loiret, France], camp at, letter dated from, 396.

Bridges. See Bruges.

Bridgewater, Biswater, Brushwater, co. Somerset, a captured French ship taken into, 22, 26; restoration of goods taken out of, desired, 50.

Brienne, Comte de. See Luxembourg, Charles de.

Brigeracke. See Bergerac.

Brill, the [Prov. S. Holland, Netherlands], double guards in, 444.

-, traveller, at, 198.

Brion [qy. Biron], M. de, proposed as Governor of Auxonne, 65.

- See Gontaut.

Briquemault, M. de, imprisonment of, 99.

Brissac, Comte de. See Cossé, Charles de.

Brisson, Bernabé, Sieur de Gravelle, President of the Parliament of Paris, Stafford treats with, 317; resolution of, concerning depredations by English and French ships upon each other, 392.

Bristol, Bristo, co. Gloucester, 232.

-, French ship's cargo brought to, 179.

-, citizens of, complaint against, 179.

-, goods of French merchants sold in, 361.

-, a native of, 413.

-, resident at, 33.

-, officials in, 179, 233.

-, sheriff of. See Longs.

-, ship of, captured, 62.

-, prize goods brought into and bought by the inhabitants, 233.

Briteste, in Albigeois [Lot et Garonne, France], 5.

Brittany, France, arrests of English goods in, 124.

-, ill deeds of M. de Mercœur in, in regard to English merchants, 322, 329.

-, men (? spies), sent to, 666.

-, ship of, 567; ships of, taken by the English, must be released before the English receive restitution, 351.

-, ships on the coast of, 21.

-, English ships carried into, and their crews massacred, 62.

-, ship of Sir Walter Ralegh sold in, 65.

-, English ship arrested in, 351.

-, releases [of ships] in, 384; resolution in, concerning letters of mark, 392.

-, harbours of, Spanish captains' enquiries concerning, 330.

-, letters from, alluded to, 384.

- (Haute and Basse), an infinite number of the noblesse in, have promised not to bear arms against the King of Navarre, 517.

-, Governor of. See Fonteynes (?); Lorraine, Philip Emanuel of, Duke of Mercoeur.

Broadge. See Brouage.

Broke, —, payment to, 283.

Brooke, William, Lord Cobham, said to be going over [to Flanders] to treat of a peace with Spain, 385.

-, -, mission of, to the Low Countries (in 1578), note of, 466.

-, -, sent with Walsingham [to the States and Duke Casimir, 1578], 471.

-,-, going over into Flanders, 538.

-, -, document signed by, 105.

-,-, letter to, 310.

-, -, servants of, letters sent by, 556.

Brostum [qy. Boston], her Majesty's port of, a pirate ship brought to, 358.

Brouage Broadge [Charente Inf., France], proposal to shut in by land as well as by sea, 4; secret preparations for, 43; to be kept for the King of Navarre, 73.

-, French fleet at, 93.

-, ships professing to be going to, 21.

Broughton, Erasmus, prisoner in Spain, petition signed by, 168.

Brouhet, Benjamin, of Cley, complaint against, 632.

Browne, Anthony, Viscount Montagu, ambassador to Spain (1561), 465.

-, Thomas, at Rouen, letter of, 658.

Bruce, Robert, of Bennie ? [R.B.], returning from Spain to England, should be looked to, 58.

Bruchsel or Bruchsal, Brassels [Baden, German Empire], the reiters to go by way of, 338.

Bruges, Bridges [Prov. W. Flanders, Belgium], the Duke of Parma at, 437, 444; instruments of war, etc., sent by way of, 437; soldiers marching towards, 444; Salcedo arrested at, 464n.

-, people of, in great necessity, 174.

Brulart, Brulard, Bruslard, Pierre [Sieur de Crosne et de Genlis], French Secretary of State, confers with Stafford and Waad about Chateauneuf affair, 206– 12; explains the King's purpose and returns a Memoire, with apostiles, 310.

-, -, is prayed to give satisfaction to English subjects, 322.

-, -, attitude of, in relation to Morgan's deliverance from prison, 353.

-, -, Stafford desires answer from [concerning the stay of ships, etc.], 384.

-, -, letters from, 231, 310, 311; countersigned by, 106, 119, 199, 218.

-, -, - to, 321.

-, -, memoire sent, to, 310.

-, -, a Secretary of, 206.

Brumen, Geoffrey le, Mr. Geoffrey, physician at Paris, Navarre sends message to Walsingham by, 593.

-, -, letter from, 511.

-, -, nephew of, 366.

Brunswick [German Empire], Duke John Casimir at, 76.

-, a conference to be held at, 264, 275. See Luneburg.

-, Palavicino at, 282.

-, Chancery of, the two Dukes of, a struggle with, as to the raising and free passage of reiters, 305.

-, letter sent from, 305; letters from, alluded to, 330.

-, money taken to, for the reiters, 275.

- Duke of. See Julius.

-, -, the young. See Henry Julius.

Brunswick Grubenhagen, Duke of. See Philip Ludwig.

- Luneburg, Duchess of. See Dorothea, Princess of Denmark.

-, -, Duke of. See Otto; William.

Brushwater. See Bridgewater.

Bruslard. See Brulart.

Brussels [Prov. Brabant, Belgium], the Duke of Parma at or going to, 173, 437, 444; a war council called by him there, 426; men sent for from, 666.

-, the French King's agent in, letter of, alluded to, 49, 50.

-, letter dated at, 183.

-, reports from, 173, 389, 411.

Bucenvall. See Choart, Paul, Seigneur de Buzenval.

Buck, Buche, Bouch, Bouk, Hans von, Colonel in former army of reiters, 163, 275, 327, 492.

-, -, may serve Navarre, 282.

-, -, as Colonel of the reiters, money delivered to, 293.

Buckhurst, Lord. See Sackville.

Buckingham, Duke of. See Stafford Edward.

Buckley, Mr., man of, condemned at Newhaven [Havre de Grace], 368.

Buda-Pesth [Hungary], Turks gathering near, 337.

Bui. See Buys, Paul de.

Bull, Queen's ship, at Calais, 19.

bull in cena Domini, 179.

Bullen, Bulloigne. See Boulogne.

Bullion. See La Marck, Dukes of Bouillon.

Burckholt, Christopher, a lord of Stoad, a commissioner appointed by the commissioners resident there, 611.

Burgau, the Marquis of, stands ready to assault the Palatinate, 620.

Burghley. See Cecil.

Burgundy, Low Countries of the House of, 182.

-, the King of Spain as Duke of, money to be paid to, 112, 141; allusion to, 465.

-, -, dearth and plague in, 198.

-, the reiters said to be marching towards, 351; the Huguenot army may turn towards, 363.

-, the Duc de Maine said to be at Dijon in, 421.

- Duke of. See Charles the Bold.

-, the reiters should have ravaged those parts of, addicted to the League, 522.

-, the army of the Duke of Guise and the League led into, 619.

-, ancient treaties of, with England and France, alluded to, 627.

-, Lieutenant of, the Grand Ecuyer, 65.

-, Low, Circle of, English troops said to have invaded, 686.

Burnet, Rudolff, factor for a citizen of London, 604.

Burnham, Bournham, Bournan, Edward, one of Walsingham's clerks, believed to be honest and discreet, 215; information received from, 284; in relation to La Huguerye and his mission, 292, 301; and to the case of the Sieur Davegua, 514, 515.

-, -, matter in the hands of, 627; is going into Zeeland, ibid.

Busenval. See Choart, Paul, Seigneur de Buzenval.

bushel, greater at Falmouth, 372.

Butler, John, letter from, alluded to, 607.

butter, export from Holland, 28.

Buxtehude, Boxtehudans [Hanover, German Empire], peace proposals made at, 645.

Buys, Buy, Bui, Paul de, journey to England, 202; Walsingham and, 203; report to Duke of Petite Pierre, 317; negotiations of alluded to, 330, 332.

-, -, takes message from the Queen to Duke Casimir, 430.

-, -, dealings of, with Duke George of Bavaria [i.e. Petite Pierre], 431, 432.

-, -, Secretary of, 180.

-, -, -, letter of, 178.

Buzanval, Buzenval, Busenval, Seigneur de. See Choart, Paul.

Bylly's Almanac, prophecy in, for the year 1588, alluded to, 652.

Byshopp, Robert, prisoner in Spain, petition signed by, 168.

Byrowne. See Gontaut, Armand de, Baron de Biron.