F

Faget, Joachim, 145.

Faget, Baron de. See Montesquieu, Francois de.

Fajardo, Fagiordo, Fagiardo, Don Luis, 221.

Falconi, bandits of Verona, 424.

Falmouth, co. Cornwall: prize brought into harbour, 371; spies going to, 666.
-, bushel greater at than elsewhere, 372.

Fant, servant of Walsingham, 215, 256, 266, 267, 288.
-, letter from, alluded to, 271.

Farnese, house of, French always defenders of, 502.

Farnese, Alexander, Cardinal, can act as regent in Parma, 101; probable liberality to Allen, 357; expected at Rome, 419, 425; back from Caprarola, 437; sends Odardo Farnese to Pope, 445; promotes marriage alliance with Pope's niece, 501, 505.
-, prospects of succession to papacy, 501; ill, doubtful if will live, 512; sent Conti to Flanders, 569; prayers for success of nephew, 571.

-, Alexander, Duke of Parma, Prince of Parma, a Hannibal, Spanish Governor in the Netherlands, 17, 657, 676.
-, takes Grave, Venlo and Arnheim, 10, 13; success may make negotiations difficult, 53; tries to revictual Zutphen, 657.
-, protects civilians at Neuss, 71; Cleves urged to forsake, 326; Thynne in favour with, 656.
-, taking of Breda would upset plans, 73; designs on Utrecht, 263.
-, no need to leave Flanders on father's death, 101; will succeed to Duchy, 173.
-, receives money, promise to Antwerp, 174; Pope sends money to, 301.
-, Pointz has letters for, 182; peace negotiations with, 221, 246, 280, 323, 335, 336, 369, 388, 421, 451, 491, 561.
-, Guise expects help to take Sedan, 186; may have to relinquish siege of Sluys, 319.
-, wants Hanse to bring pressure on England, 314; influences with Hamburg, 429, 456, 457, 459, 460.
-, Pope grants to be King of England, to command army against, 332; making great preparations for war, 388, 411, 421, 423, 426.
-, need for Leicester to keep busy, 351; sends help to League, 356, 359, 370; negotiations with Guise, 360.
-, inclined to grant religious freedom to Netherlands, 389; Gonzaga to succeed in Flanders, 455.
-, England saved Netherlands from, 390; will attack Holland, 412; designs on Flushing, 446; to recover Holland and Zeeland, 462.
-, refers to defence of Lillo, 391; besieges Ostend, 438; various opinions about, 444; reported hurt, 656.
-, talk of commanding League forces, 409, 410; reported made general of Italian league, 411.
-, bishop of Ross confers with, 416; proposed alliance with Guisards, 427; treaty with, 464.
-, sends to thank Pope, receives Giovanni de Medici, 420, 426.
-, preparing attack on England, 439, 444, 452, 504; ready, 572; Medina Sidonia will not recognise as superior, 572.
-, pope eulogises, 445; made gonfalonier of church, 453; other Italian princes jealous of, 501.
-, will recover Bonn, 462; fear of attack on Cambrai, 498; object of preparations Sedan or Bonn, 499.
-, offers to Scotland, 472; reported victory over English fleet, 499.
-, army to take to Scotland to attack England, 507; hopes to conquer England for self, 518.
-, French King fears advance to frontier, 551, 552, 634; troops from Artois for, 577.
-, provisions shipped from Calais for, 556; report to of fleet sailing, 567.
-, compliments to Pope, 569; prayers for success of, 571.
-, talk of confiding Armada to, 572; packet sent in haste from Spain to, 597.
-, at one in Holy League with Guises, 588; commissioner of at Stade, 612.
-, English commissioners confer with near Ostend, 597; likely to help D'Aumâle at Boulogne, 614.
-, great preparations in shipping, all his men drawn into Flanders, 608; Maxwell secretly goes to, 672.
-, letter from, 182.
-, his 'woman,' 656.

-, Odardo, received by pope, 445.

-, Ottavio, Duke of Parma, party to treaty of Cateau Cambresis, 627; defences against Turks, 17; annoyed at action of Giron, 18; death, 101; thrust out by Charles V., 501.

-, Pietro Alvise, Duke of Parma, murder of, 501.

-, Ranuccio, Prince of Parma: succeeds to management of State, 101; proposed marriage to Lorraine's daughter, 427.
-, proposed marriage to Pope's niece, 501, 505; no longer talked of, 540; marriage determined by Philip, 569.

Faroe, ? Pheru, island of Denmark, 653.

Farrington, —, merchant, 444, 451, 529.

Faucon, President, to deal with Shrewsbury's suit, 27.

Faur. See du Faur.

Faure, Jean, Sieur de Fougeiroles, Fouquerolles, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Favas, Jean du, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Fay, M. du, Seigneur. See Hurault, Michel.

Febure, Jehan le, master of the Sansue, 318.

Fecamp, Feckham [Seine Inf., France], 318, 588.
-, depredations on ships of, 468; Guise puts Governor in, 589.

Feodor I., Pheodor Ivanowich, Theodorus, Czar of Russia, letter of privilege, 231; candidate for Polish crown, 328; asked to help Maximilian, 506.
-, letter from, 477; alluded to, 456.

Feratt, Ferac, Turkish, general in Persia's army (i.e., against Persia), 649.
-, letter of, referred to, 446.

Ferdinand I., Emperor, 370.

Ferdinand, Fernando, Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand of the Tyrol: Philip asks to raise regiments of landsknechts, 283; grants passage, 333; sends troops to Maximilian, 423, 506; differences with bishop of Strasburg, 439; troops for Maximilian held back, 512.

Feria, Duke of. See Figueroa, Gomez Suarez de.

Fernandez de Heredia, Juan Carlos, Conde de Fuentes, Fonta, going away, will not meddle with any thing again, 1; to command Italian cavalry, at Milan, 161.

Ferrara, Italy, 501.
-, devoted to Spain, 454; Duchess of Urbino's stay at, 571.
-, picture of Drake brought to, 572; draws crowd, 573.

-, cardinal of. See Este, Hippolytus d'.

-, Duke of. See Este, Alfonso I. and Alfonso II. of.

Ferreyres, Ferire [Ain, France], 448.

Ferro, Dominico, a Franciscan, candidate for red hat, 425.

Fervaque, Queen Mother advised to win, 289.

Fez, Morocco, Africa, King of, fortifies El Araish, 245.
-, traders to, 600; French intervention with Sultan about, 675.

Fiesa, Count Scipion de, party to treaty of Cateau Cambresis, 626.

Figueroa, Gomez Suarez de, Duke of Feria, attempt to corrupt Hawkins, 177.

Fil, John, searcher, Bristol, 179, 233.

Finisterre, Cape [Galicia, Spain], French ship captured off, 26.

Finnestrange near Lutzelstein, ? Finstingen, Alsace, 334.

Fisck, Thomas, merchant of London, buying horses and cloth for Swedish Prince, 64.

fish, cargo of plundered, 361.

Fisher, John, commissioner for piracies, 33.

-, -, merchant of London, 62.

Fitzgerald, Henry, Earl of Kildare, 83.

Fitzherbert, Thomas, letter to Foljambe, 34; with Gifford at examination, 669; relation to Walsingham, 671.

Fitzmorris, James, foments rebellion in Ireland, 177.

Flaming, Captain, charged with plundering at sea, 632.

Flanders, 50, 146, 182, 343, 387, 420, 426, 453, 489, 569, 637, 666.
-, news from, 416.
-, ships found within banks of, to be confiscated, 29; Philip raising money for, 679, 681.
-, Mendoza boasts of successes in, 49; progress of war in, 82, 83; Philip sends men and money for, 112, 123.
-, Walsingham's plan for negotiations with, 84n; Parma need not leave, 101; officers from go to Spain, 235, 329; Philip busy with war in, 680.
-, famine in, 173; money for, 283, 284; provision of wheat for, 300.
-, proposed devastation, 305; guns made of bells from, 332; school of war, 341.
-, bishop of Ross gone to, 340; and invasion of England, 344; England attacks Spain in, 504.
-, Allen to go legate to, 357, 380; talk of Savoy as Governor of, 409, 410; Gonzaga made Governor, 455.
-, in danger if England neglects, 380; La Noue on, 390.
-, forces in field in, 421; troops from Kempen march to, 437.
-, Passerane starts for, 462; Spanish bastard going to, 505; Duke of Pastrana going to, 570; Earl Morton goes to, 590.
-, gold from Italy for, 508; Terra Nova to replace Parma in, 572.
-, troops levied for Poland to go to, 607; all Parma's men drawn into, 608.
-, many gentlemen go from Italy to, for enterprise of England, 641.

-, wares, 34.

fleet. See Navy.

Fleming, Oliver, 260.

Flemings, pressure on Huguenots at Canterbury, 166; depredations by, 312.

Fletcher, Dr. Giles, negotiations at Hamburg, 314, 315, 398, 399, 404–7; and Stade, 320, 321, 406.
-, letter from, 313, 320, 348.

Fleury, Seigneur de. See Blosset, Jean; Clausse, Henry.

Floode, Giles, 413.

Florence, Italy, 419, 534.
-, ships of, escape English, 63; naval preparations in territory, 233.
-, passport for Portuguese going to, 178; bets permitted at, 425.
-, fetes for coronation at, 420; embassy from Rome, to 425; funeral and coronation at, 426, 440.
-, devoted to Spain, 454; included in treaty with Francis I., 626.
-, air does not agree with Grand Duke, 505; preparations at to receive Duke and Duchess of Mantua, 571.
-, del Bene going to, 591.
-, ambassador in Spain, 181, 182.
-, intelligence from, 335.
-, letter from, 239.
-, news from, 191, 420, 505, 557, 571, 572.

Flores, Pedro Rues, chief clerk to Council, Malaga, 413.

Flushing, Floushinge [Prov. Zeeland, Netherlands], 33, 198, 263, 511.
-, flyboats of, 18; captures by, 19, 43.
-, French prizes carried into, 28, 44, 50.
-, some enterprise upon, 158; Stafford still engaged upon, 340; Elizabeth reserves for herself, 425.
-, Leicester reported at, 438; Parma's designs on, 446.
-, courier of, 657.
-, letters from, 335, 339.

Focchers. See Fuggers.

Foge, M., an apothecary, 603.

Foix, Frederic de, Vicomte de Meille, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Foix, Louis (Comte de Curson), Gaston and Francois de, the brothers Gurson, slain in Guienne, 355.

Foljambe, Geoffrey, letter of Fitzherbert to, 34.

Fonta. See Fernandez de Heredia, Juan Carlos, conde de Fuentes.

Fontaine, Fontayne, M. de la, 149, 366.
-, son of, 366, 491.

Fontaine-Milon, Sieur de, 688, 689.

Fontenay le Comte [Vendée, France], 103.
-, siege of, 297.

-, Governor of, la Boulaye, 516.

Fonteneilles, M. de. See Roche, Philip de la.

Fonterailles, M. de. See Astarac, Michael d'.

Fonteynes, M., Governor (sic), of Britanny, 350.

Force, Sieur de la. See Caumont.

Forest, Hector de, Seigneur de Blacons, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Fors, M., a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Forse, M. de la, a chief man of Navarre's party, 516.

Forth, Frith of, 232.

Foscarini, —, Proveditore for rebuilding Rialto bridge, 440.

Fouquerolles, M. de. See Faure, Jean.

Fourde ? Voorde, bishop of Bremen and Council at, 611.

Fourier, Fourrier, John, 521, 643.

Fox, —, ambassador of Navarre, at Hamburg, 653.

Foxley, John. See Gratley, Edward.

Francavella, Duke of. See Silva y Mendoza, Rodrigo de, Duke of Pastrana and Francavella.

France and French, 309, 388, 452, 592, 612.
-, Spanish peace with showed ill will to Elizabeth, 177; Casimir's expedition to, 255, 308, 433; defeat at San Miguel, 342, 344; Duke Wolfgang in, 434; treatment of Protestants in, 656.
-, treaties with England and Burgundy contain clauses for allies, 627; six persons who can save, 677.
-, news from, 54, 58, 103, 135, 157, 158, 595, 642, 658, 677.
-, 1586:
-, Philip's support of the faith in, 1; Spaniards unpopular in, 49; strong feeling against Spain, 147.
-, naval preparations, 12–13, 21.
-, negotiations for German intervention in, 14–18, 20, 26, 40–2, 45–7, 109, 116, 117, 138, 140, 142, 151, 162, 170–2, 178, 682.
-, English depredations on shipping, 26, 28, 80, 81, 654; Zeeland depredations on, 29, 30.
-, reply to Leicester's placart restricting trade, with Spain, 28–30.
-, Queen Mother accused of ruining, 36; peace in would make more trouble for Spain, 51.
-, German embassy to, 50, 82, 109, 134, 135; little discussed at Luneburg, 201.
-, depredations on English ships, 62, 63, 169.
-, miserable state of, 66; no sign of peace in, 81; inundation in, meaning to Queen Mother, 92; famine in, 147.
-, Babington plot said to be contrived in, 78; Queen of Scots sends secret letters to, 96.
-, ambitions of Lorraine in, 97; great dearth in, 139.
-, try to get Harborne dismissed from Porte, 123; ships of war owned in, 168, 69.
-, Pope promised extirpation of heresy in, 123; King will suffer no religion but own in, 167, 175; injured by Pope's making Philip Emperor of Indies, 274.
-, Elizabeth may be asked to mediate peace in, 147; question of peace in, 162.
-, efforts to get money out of Palavicino, 160; list of princes and peers of, 176.
-, 1587:
-, news of, 359, 424.
-, German intervention in, 186, 197, 198, 202, 234, 264, 305, 307, 308, 327, 328, 371, 374, 384–7, 396, 431–3, 559.
-, seizure of English goods in, 190, 246, 280, 295, 319, 331; effect of English reprisals in, 208; possess nothing in England, 212.
-, danger of breach with, 194; greater assurance of amity, 220.
-, fury over execution of Queen Mary, 227, 229, 239, 252.
-, no shipping making ready in, best gone to Spain for salt, 233; naval activity in, 297.
-, extremity of Protestant cause in, 235; condition of, 262; Germans hope to chase League out of, 293.
-, supposed dread of war with, 249; not advantage to quarrel with England, 253.
-, ill dealings with Walsingham and Stafford, 267; rumour of evil intents of England to, 299.
-, Queen presumes on civil dissensions in, 289; provision of wheat for, 300.
-, scarcity in, 290; Spaniards hope to reduce to naught, 557.
-, troops to serve against Turk, 296; naturalisation of Spaniards in, 309, 310.
-, proposed demonstration on frontier, 298; excitement in over book and pictures of English martyrs, 316.
-, visit from fleet would cause to make more account of England, 300; Queen accused of fomenting trouble in, 302.
-, memorial on arrests and depredations, 309; merchants' complaints against, 329.
-, Swiss Catholics desert alliance for Spain, 324; design for overthrow of Protestants in, 370.
-, King would rather have war in Lorraine than, 333; Pope's contemptuous opinion of, 365.
-, cannot hinder Spanish attack on England, 344; Parma fears armies in, 389; suggestion for Parma to command League forces in, 409–11.
-, del Bene thwarts Navarre in, 379; Cardinal for, 421.
-, decision upon matter of depredations on subjects, 392, 410.
-, people cry out for peace, 421; Pope asks College to pray for, 426; Pope asked to permit alienation of ecclesiastical goods in, 461.
-, terms for in Conti's army, 428; reiters abandon, 456.
-, intelligence of Scotland in, 454; Queen prevented Netherlands yielding themselves to, 465, 466.
-, 1588:
-, England standing "tickle" with, 481; no cause to rejoice at English defeats, 500.
-, good opportunity for revenge on Spain, 502; Spaniards take advantage of preoccupation to attack England, 517.
-, ravaging Montbeliard, 502, 507; Swiss returned from quarrel, 513.
-, relations with England, 520, 525; complaint of English depredations in, 527.
-, King will not suffer free exercise of religion in, 521; fear of revolt in chief towns, 581.
-, Spain means to trouble, 526; Swiss leaving alliance for that of Spain, 554.
-, Venice will not follow evil example, 534; Bellievre and Pinard urge need of peace for, 595.
-, del Bene ordered out of, 548; Pope hopes to restore to Catholic faith, 562.
-, suspicion of English negotiations with Spain, 552; the German army in, 617–9.
-, Parma loses hope of getting port in for English expedition, 561.
-, Spanish designs against, 563; John Casimir on state of, 622.
-, enquiry about troops ready in, 566; or talk against England, 567.
-, picture of Drake brought from, 573; Castro in, 601; Gifford in, 671.
-, Germans cannot supply fresh succour in, 574; value of Sedan for Germans to get a footing in, 593.
-, pitiful state of, 639; talking not necessarily followed by deeds in, 652.

France:
-, Admiral of. See Arques Anne d', Duke of Joyeuse; Chatillon, Gaspard de, Sire de Coligny.
-, Chancellor of. See Hurault, Philip, Comte de Chiverny.
-, Grand Ecuyer of. See Lorraine, Charles de, Duke of Elboeuf.
-, King of. See Charles the Simple; Charles IX.; Francis I.; Henry II.; Henry III.; Louis XII.
-, Marshals of. See Arques Guillaume, Sieur de Joyeuse; Aumont, Jean d'; Cosse Brissac, Artus de; Gondi, Albert, de Duc de Retz; Gontaut, Armand de, Baron de Biron, Goyon, Jacques, Sieur de Matignon; Montmorency, Henry due de.
-, Queen of. See Louise.
-, Queen Mother of. See Catherine de Medici.
-, Secretary of State. See Brulart Pierre: Neufville, Nicolas de, Seigneur de Villeroi; Pinard, Claude.

-, Vice Admiral of. See Moy, Charles de, Seigneur de la Meilleraye.

Franche, Tobie, 179, 233.
-, claim for redress from, 410.

-, William, merchant of Salcombe, 64.

Franchecomte, the French Countie, France, 155, 335.
-, Italian forces in, 359.

Francis I., king of France, said House of Lorraine would ruin house of Valois, 97; persons comprehended in treaties with, 626.

Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou, Alencon and Brabant, Monsieur, 31, 517.
-, Simiers in service of, 129; at conference at Nerac, 153; manner of dealing with Casimir, 162, 163; mission of Randall to, 255.
-, death referred to, 186, 375; plot to kill, 464n.
-, Flemish hatred over, 344; del Bene in England with, 368; state of League in time of, 523; Joyeuse buried in same manner as, 534, 535.

Francker, ? Cranchen [Prov. W. Friesland, Netherlands], deputation to Leicester, 421.

Francoise, Marquise de Rothelin, widow of Louis, Prince of Condé, mother of Soissons, letter of Soissons to, 543.

Franconia, Germany, forces against Turk, 296; bishop of Wurtzbury called Duke of, 325.

Francourt, Sieur de, agent of Condé in Germany, 46, 434.

Frangipani, Fabio Mirto, archbishop of Nazareth, papal nuncio in France, 352.
-, King meets at La Charité, 60; precedence in choosing quarters, 96.
-, frequent conferences with Mendoza and bishop of Glasgow, 94; procures release of Morgan, 357; protestation of, 384.
-, asks King's help against enemies of the faith, 453; Gritti to ask about League, 534; has heard nothing, 535.
-, Gondi's dinner to, 497; upset at news of Pope's death, 532; encourages Beaton with hope of red hat, 541.
-, King of France promises not to hinder Armada, 559; urges King to abandon England, Geneva and Sedan, 629–31; betrays King's confidences to Queen Mother, 644; chief dealer in information [from Gifford], 670.

Frankenthal, Franctal [Rhenish Bavaria, German Empire], 107, 238.
-, negotiations at, 165, 171, 183; Clervant at, 243; Palavicino at, 262.
-, letters dated at, 156, 180.

Frankfort [German Empire], 14, 17, 19, 25, 112, 281, 473, 624.
-, Palavicino going to, 26; John Casimir going to, 86; John Casimir at, 187; Palavicino leaves, 262n.
-, contribution to French Huguenots, 62; Segur ill at, 541.
-, news from, 301, 337.
-, letters dated at, 40, 42, 43, 61, 64, 77, 78, 82, 87, 88, 91, 106–8, 113, 117, 120, 121, 134, 135, 142, 143, 150, 152, 153, 155, 171, 182, 188, 200, 202, 203, 219, 220, 223–6, 237, 239, 243, 245, 262, 264, 275.

-, referred to, 135.
-, letter from, 502.
-, fair of, 599.
-, merchants of, 472.

Freburch. See Freiburg.

Frederick III., the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, 427.
-, appeal to for help in France, 46; alliance to help Prince of Procian, 433.

Frederick IV., Elector Palatine of the Rhine, 422.
-, desires Elizabeth's portrait, 198; proposed marriage, 595; fear of corruption by heresy, 619; desire to be included in any treaty between England and Spain, 622.

Frederick II., King of Denmark:
-, assistance desired for intervention in France, 17, 26, 40; proposed contribution, 111; ambassadors to France, 683.
-, conference with Saxony and Brandenburg, 18, 27; holds conference at Luneburg, 71.
-, mediation in Spain, 55, 77, 678; offers mediation with Netherlands, 101.
-, envoys with Walsingham, 85; discussion about contraband of war and Spain, 90.
-, John Casimir, sends to, 113, 139; messenger back from, 151, 152, 171.
-, Casimir desires Queen's offices with, 201; James sends to, 259.
-, enquiries about, 232; making great fleet, 237; in Jutland, 301; German Protestants ask help, 327.
-, Navarre sends to, 301; army of under Philip of Brandenburg, 334.
-, Hollanders desire as protector, 304; Queen has cause to complain of Hamburg to, 320.
-, to attend Protestant assembly at Naumberg, 312, 326; renews alliance at Dresden, 326.
-, mediation of, with Spain, 323, 335, 336, 369, 370, 421, 451, 557; mission of Rogers to, 646.
-, wants to make son King of Romans, 333; Hanse fear of, 348, 349; difficulties with Hamburg, 403.
-, instructions for ambassador to, 369–71; to meet princes at Hamburg, 599.
-, stays German troops going to Spain, 372; contributions to Navarre, 427, 493; wants money back, 480, 483.
-, book offered to, 413; mission from France to, 517; death of, 585; Casimir's hopes of quenched, 622; contribution for reiters, 653.
-, letters from, 115, 230, 335, 357, 486, 494, 495.
-, letters to, 182, 323.

Fregoso, Ottavian, party to treaty of Cateau Cambresis, 626.

Freiburg, Freburch on the Elbe [Hanover, German Empire], 646.

French. See France.

French Countie. See Franchecomte.

Friburg, Switzerland, agreement with Spain, 324.

Friburg in Breisgau [Baden, German Empire], 607.

Fridelsheym, Fridelsen, 187.
-, letter dated at, 86.

Friesland [German Empire], contribution to French Huguenots, 62; frightfulness of people, 312; English attacked Spaniards in, 504.
-, Countess of, party to treaty of Cateau Cambresis, 627.

-, East. See East Friesland.

Fucheri. See Fuggers.

Fuentes, Conde de, Fonta. See Fernandez de Heredia, Juan Carlos. See also Silva, Juan de, Conde de Cifuentes.

Fuggers, Focchers, Fucheri of Augsburg, raise money for Philip, 112, 140, 141.

Fulstein, Foelix Herbert, Baron of, letter from, 393.

Furleger, John, citizen of Nurnberg, 244.