Addenda.: Miscellaneous, 1535 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 8, 1545-1546. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Addenda.: Miscellaneous, 1535', in Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 8, 1545-1546, ed. Martin A S Hume (London, 1904), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/spain/vol8/pp599-600 [accessed 19 April 2025].

Miscellaneous, 1535



1535. N. D. (Feb. 1, 1535 ?) Simancas E. I. 806. Italian.	456. News from England sent by Count de Cifuentes.
1535. N. D. (Feb. 1, 1535 ?) Simancas E. I. 806. Italian.	The King of England has summoned the Steward of the Queen to the Palace, and has behaved with greater moderation towards her than previously. (fn. 1) He has even spoken of sending back to her her old servants, and it is said that orders had already been given to that effect. The reason for this more moderate attitude is that the Emperor has treated, and is treating, the English ambassadors at the Imperial court with great courtesy, and tells them in gentler words than he formerly employed that the Queen ought to be restored to her former dignity. Good results are to be hoped from this line of conduct. It will certainly be more successful than any other method of proceeding. It is said that Anne is not popular with the English, in consequence of her pride, and because of the insolence and evil carriage of her brothers and other relatives. The King himself does not love her so much as he formerly did, and it is said that he is paying court to another lady of whom he is enamoured. Many of the nobility favour this new passion of the King in order to lead him away from Anne.
10 May. Simancas. E. V. 1563.	457. The Emperor to Count Cifuentes. (Extract.)
	If a favourable opportunity offers he is to speak to the Pope about the business of Ireland, and to persuade his Holiness, with the greatest dexterity possible, that the enterprise would serve his interests and enhance his prestige. Cifuentes is to entertain the person who spoke to him on the subject of Ireland, by saying that, as some time has passed since the person left that island, and the present condition of affairs there is not known, Cifuentes is some-what at a loss how to answer, but that the Emperor is always ready to help them as soon as his present enterprise is brought to a conclusion, and he is able better to judge what is best to be done with regard to Ireland.
	Barcelona, 10 May, 1535.
15 Oct. Simancas. Genoa, 1368.	458. Chapuys to Gomez Suarez de Figueroa.†
	A certain Irish gentleman had in former years done much to oppose those of his countrymen who submitted to the King of England, because, being, as he said, a dutiful son of the Holy Father, he felt it to be his duty to prevent if possible Ireland following the evil example of England and separating from the Church. This gentleman, however, seeing that the Pope, unmindful of the struggles of the faithful in Ireland, did nothing to support or help them, has thought it best to crave the pardon of the King of England. Without previously requesting a safe conduct, or any other guarantee, he went personally to London to implore the clemency of the King, who, however, cast him into the Tower of London, from which place few indeed of those who are consigned to it leave it except for the scaffold.
	The Commissioners of the King are visiting the monasteries and turning out all the inmates under twenty-five years of age, the rest of the monks who remain being forbidden ever to leave the cloister. The King's ministers hope that the monks thus imprisoned will find the life intolerable, and therefore abandon their monasteries, and they (the King's ministers) hope that great sums of money will accrue to the King in this way. The same policy is being followed with regard to convents of nuns if they are rich. Worse things still may be expected from the next Parliament. (Mutual confiscations of vessels and goods by the King of England and King of Sweden and Duke of Holstein.)
	London, 15 October, 1535.
22 Dec. Simancas. E. V. 1563.	459. The Emperor to Count Cifuentes. (Extract.)
	The King of France continues the same. He has not abandoned his pretensions to Milan, and is still bent on extending his dominions. There is no doubt that he and the King of England are carrying on very close and secret negotiations, each with his own end in view. If it be true, as it is reported, that the King of England offers to the French money and troops for the purpose of attacking the Emperor's interests, the value to be attached to the offers of the King of France to assist in the execution of the Papal sentence against him of England may be judged. Even if the King of England has not made the offers attributed to him, the King of France, being so intimate with him as he is, cannot be trusted. The Emperor is credibly informed that the Cardinal of Paris (fn. 2) endeavoured to interrupt the sitting of the Consistory when this matter was brought forward.
	Naples, 22 December, 1535.