Simancas: July 1573 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas), Volume 2, 1568-1579. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1894.

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'Simancas: July 1573', in Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas), Volume 2, 1568-1579, ed. Martin A S Hume( London, 1894), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/simancas/vol2/p472 [accessed 27 November 2024].

July 1573



30 July. B. M. Lans. 17. Original holograph.	388. Antonio De Guaras to Lord Burleigh. Since I last saluted your Lordship I have received no letter from the duke of Alba, although I am sure that he will not delay in ordering me to inform you that my master the King will punctually fulfil the agreement entered into. I am also sure that his Excellency will send me his Majesty's confirmation of it. In accordance with your Lordship's request that I should let you know what I hear about it, I may say that I have a letter from a friend in Madrid, dated 28th June, saying that his Majesty had ordered the scrupulous fulfilment of all that had been arranged between your Lordship and his Excellency. He has ordered, at the same time, that the English shall be welcomed in all his dominions, and shall receive all favour and good treatment, in accordance with the ancient friendship between the two countries.—London, 30th July 1573. Postscript : I have since received letters from Flanders, dated 26th instant, informing me of the confirmation of the agreement, and that all the soldiers from Haarlem had been executed excepting the English. I hear from Antwerp that his Excellency had written saying that every attention was to be shown to Sir Christopher Hatton, captain of her Majesty's guard. Note.—Full particulars of the negotiations for the treaty of rehabilitation of trade with Spain and Flanders carried on by Sir Thomas Smyth, David Lewis, Dr. Wilson, Hatton, and Mendoza both in Flanders and England, will be found in Cotton, Galba, C. v., as well as all the papers connected with Zweveghem's visit to England on behalf of the States. As the English papers for the years 1572, 1573, and 1574 are mostly missing from Simancas, students should consult the documents referring to the affairs of England, Flanders, and Spain, to be found in the Cotton MSS., Galba, C. III., C. IV., C. V., C. VI., and Vesp., C. XIII., as well as those in the Record Office calendared in the Foreign Series under their respective dates.