V

Vaison, Archdeacon of. See Chisholm; see Hay.

Valdes, Don Petro, ships under command of, 231.

Valence, M. de, articles subscribed by in Poland, not yet fulfilled, 130.

Valenciennes, recovered from insurgents, 10, 11, 12.

-, men gaining entrance into, 18.

-, capture of, alluded to, 29.

Valenciennes road, fort on, 44.

Van den Burgh. See Burgh, van den.

Vannes, Brittany, 366.

Vargas, letters dated at, 197 (2).

Vargas, Juan de, agent or ambassador for the King of Spain in France, 390, 442, 451.

Vaudemont, Charles de, brother of the French Queen, made a Cardinal, 356.

-, Louise de. See Louise, Queen of Henry III.

Veles, Marquis de los, advocates the English enterprise, 352.

Vendeville, Jean (“Giovanni Vinduiglio”), writing by, alluded to, 560.

Vendôme, hope of reclaiming, to the Christian faith, 48.

-, M. de. See Navarre, Henry, King of.

Venetians, the, might provide ships for the Irish enterprise, 401.

Venice, Republic of, 24.

-, and the Turk, negotiations between, 28, 30; possible accord of, 60.

-, English gentlemen or noblemen at, 171 (2), 195.

-, Lord Windsor's funeral at, 194.

-, Sir Richard Shelley going to, 206.

-, the plague at, 211.

-, suggested exchange of ambassadors between England and, 253–256.

-, persons at, said to be in receipt of English pensions, 527.

-, Doge of (his Serenity), 203.

-, -, views of, in relation to proposed interchange of ambassadors with England, 255, 526.

-, -, “Prince”of, nephew of, 253.

-, Signoria of, 42, 193, 203, 211, 279, 424.

-, -, belief that they may incline to war, 33.

-, -, peace made by, with the Turk, 99, 102, 106, 107, 112.

-, -, post of, at Rome, abolished, 107.

-, -, efforts of, to appease the Pope, 113.

-, -, confederates against England and the Turks, 385; galleys to be equipped by, ibid.

-, -, send an ambassador to the Due d'Alençon, 490.

-, -, College of, legate to be presented in, 120.

-, -, envoys from. See Ambassadors.

-, arsenal at, 203.

-, galleys of, harm done to, by the Spaniards, 279.

-, nuncio at. See Castagna.

-, postmaster sent to, by the Pope, 107.

-, Pregadi of, 490; legate received by, 120.

-, Savi degli Ordini at, wish to send an ambassador to England, 541.

-, Rialto and St. Mark's piazza at, trade in, suspended because of the plague, 211.

-, letters dated at, 4, 35, 42, 120, 171, 172, 176, 195, 196, 198, 200, 203, 205–207, 213, 253, 258, 462, 484, 490, 530, 531, 540, 541.

-, news-letters from, 118, 180, 184, 203, 211, 258, 343 (2), 361, 424.

-, resident at, 399.

-, ships of, 236; wrecked, 246.

-, travellers to or from, 7, 253, 255.

Ventry (Fintra) in Desmond, port of, 158.

Vercelli, letter dated at, 232.

Vercelli, Monsignor di, agent of the Cardinal of Ferrara, 41.

Vere, Edward de, Earl of Oxford, has come into Flanders without the Queen's licence, 182.

Vienna, King Henry at, on his way to France, 179.

-, courier to, 182.

-, Court of, murmuring in, 77.

-, letters dated at, 8, 12, 26 (2), 30, 33, 67, 78, 134, 183, 237, 250, 349, 356, 432.

-, news or news-letters from, 33, 117, 184, 327, 331, 523.

-, residents at, 432.

-, traveller from, 202.

Vigili, Onofrio, letter from, 60.

Villars, Marquis de, reported to be made Admiral, 42

Villaverde, in Spain, Fitzgerald at, 317.

Villemor, “Knight of Sens,” Master of Requests, son of, killed, and house of plundered, in the St. Bartholomew, 41.

Villeroi, Seigneur de. See Neufville.

Vilvorde, Don John sends a force to reduce, 384.

Vincennes, wood of, guards at, reinforced, 175.

Vinzet or Winzet, Ninian, confessor to the Queen of Scots, made Abbot of the Scots' College at Ratisbon, 558, Appendix.

-, -, letters of recommendation for, from the Pope, 324, 325; and from the Cardinal of Como, 325.

Vitelli, Marquis Chiappino, goes to Harlem to quell mutiny, 125.

-, -, death of, 240, 261.

-, -, letter to, 2.

-, Ferrante, news from, 173.