Venice: October 1523 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 3, 1520-1526. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1869.

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'Venice: October 1523', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 3, 1520-1526, ed. Rawdon Brown( London, 1869), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol3/pp344-346 [accessed 25 November 2024].

October 1523



Oct. 2. Sanuto Diaries, v. xxxv. p. 52.	763. Giovanni Badoer to the Signory.
	Six thousand Spaniards made an assault upon Bayonne, and would have taken it had not Mons. de Lautrec arrived.
	The English are under Boulogne.
	Lyons, 1st and 2nd October. Registered by Sanuto, 11th October.
	[Italian.]
Oct. 5. Sanuto Diaries, v. xxxv. p. 66.	764. Antonio Surian, late Ambassador in England, to the Signory.
	Having received the Signory's permission to return home, went to the King of England and the Cardinal on 9th September, and took leave of them. On the 14th crossed over to Calais, leaving the secretary [Lodovico Spinelli] in England to obtain certain letters from the King. On the 22nd the secretary in like manner, having obtained leave, quitted London. They have both arrived at Mechlin, and will visit Madame Margaret. The English troops have crossed over hither (pasate di qua).
	Mechlin, in Flanders, 5th Oct. Registered by Sanuto, 17th Oct.
	[Italian.]
Oct. 14. Sanuto Diaries, v. xxxv. pp. 86,87.	765. Letter from Rome.
	The Duke of Sessa told the Venetian ambassador that the [Arch]bishop of Bari had been sent by the King of France to Spain to negotiate an agreement. First of all, the King of France is willing to give his daughter for wife to the Emperor, with the duchy of Milan and the kingdom of Naples for dower. He refers his dispute with the King of England for arbitration to the Emperor. Should the Emperor not choose to make the proposed marriage, the King of France consents to absolve him from the payment of the tribute for the kingdom of Naples, and to renounce his rights to the duchy of Milan.
	The Duke of Sessa said the Emperor would not accept any of these proposals (prestidi).
	Rome, 14th October. Registered by Sanuto, 20th October.
	[Italian.]
Oct. 19. Original Letter Book, Letter no. 234, St. Mark's Library.	766. Gasparo Contarini to the Signory.
	On the 9th arrived at Pamplona with the Chancellor; the Emperor made his entry on the 12th. On Saturday the 10th news arrived of the death of Pope Adrian VI., of the descent of the French army into Italy, and of the retreat beyond the Ticino of Prospero Colonna.
	Pamplona, 19th October 1523.
	[Italian, 4 pages.]
Oct. 20. Original Letter Book, Letter no. 236, St. Mark's Library.	767. The Same to the Same.
	Was told by the Chancellor that the Archbishop of Bari (fn. 1) proposed in the name of the King of France, that peace should be made by the Emperor's surrendering the Milanese and Tournai, France restoring Fonterabia, and matters being placed on the same footing as before the war. Moreover, the treaty of Noyon to take effect by the marriage of the Emperor to the daughter of the King of France. Should this form of peace not please the Emperor, the King of France is willing to stipulate a truce, each party retaining what they hold on the day of signature, by which time the King of France expects to have recovered well nigh the whole of the duchy of Milan.
	The Chancellor added that the object of the French is to commence a negotiation, and thus to render the King of England and the Republic of Venice suspicious; but that their artful devices are well known to the Emperor.
	Pamplona, 20th October 1523.
	[Italian, 1 page.]