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Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1890.

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'Venice: September 1577', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 7, 1558-1580, ed. Rawdon Brown, G Cavendish Bentinck( London, 1890), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol7/pp564-565 [accessed 29 November 2024].

September 1577



Sept. 20. Original Despatch, Venetian Archives.	685. Hieronimo Lippomano, Venetian Ambassador in France, to the Signory.
	A fleet of English, Norman, and Scotch vessels, to the number of forty, lately arrived in the neighbourhood of La Rochelle, to carry provisions thither and load on the return voyage with salt at the Island of Ré (Res). When M. de Lansac, the younger, heard this intelligence he sent to reconnoitre, and finding that the vessels belonged either to the enemy or to the insurgents, he attacked them vigorously, when a large number surrendered. Although this capture has been effected before the conclusion of peace, it is believed that the vessels and provisions will have to be released, in order not to throw difficulties in the way of peace and to give some satisfaction to the Huguenots at the outset.
	Poitiers, 20th September 1577.
	[Italian.]