P

Padavin, Giovanni Battista, secretary of the Inquisitors of State, 129;

letters to Muscorno, 228, 246.

Paderborn, Padelborn [Westphalia], 511, 533.

Padua, 8, 16, 34, 36, 37, 42, 45, 46, 52, 56, 164, 243.

-, podestà of, 53.

-, See Fosoarini, Giovanbattista;

Memmo, Marcantonio.

-, Carleton at, 68, 223;

house of, 174.

-, Pescina reported at, 183;

La Tremouille at, 215.

-, letters dated from, 106, 145, 168, 184, 223.

-, rectors of, instructions to, 197;

letters of, 223.

-, doctor's degree at petition to extend to Protestants, 106.

-, University of, crowded by Ultramontanes, 106;

Prince of Anhalt leaves, 121.

-, -, Reformers of, 260.

-, -, -, licence books, 197.

-, -, colleges and confraternities may not be founded at, 197.

-, -, professors of, 260.

Palatine of Hungary, 81.

Palatine of Neuburg. See Wolfgang, William.

Palatine of the Rhine, the Elector. See Frederick V.

-, - son of. See Henry Frederick, the Prince Palatine.

-, Electress, the dowager. See Louisa Juliana.

-, the Countess. See Elizabeth.

Palatinate, ambassadors from, to England. See Schomberg, Meinhart von.

-, contributions of, to Elector, 571.

Palma, fortress of, Carleton asks to see, 191;

his entertainment at, 205.

-, proveditore general of, ordered to entertain Carleton, 195.

Panigarola, praeses of Milan, 31.

Paoli, spy of Savoy in Venice, 162.

Parga [Epirus], governor of, instructions to, 82.

Paris, 156, 223, 262, 290, 292, 305, 321, 358, 384, 392, 399, 417–419, 432, 435, 468, 478, 483.

-, despatches dated from, 5, 6, 15, 18, 19, 28, 29, 45, 51, 62, 80, 86, 90, 92, 95, 99, 107, 112–115, 118, 125, 131, 157, 169, 179, 184, 190, 204, 216, 217, 230, 231, 237, 264, 271, 280, 287, 299, 310, 316, 324, 332, 350, 357, 364, 381, 385, 395, 407, 413, 423 443, 451, 463, 469, 475, 492, 508, 509, 514, 525, 529, 539, 543, 547, 566.

-, letters from, 122, 560.

-, Edmonds returns to, 175.

-, States General to meet at, 197.

-, treaty dated at, 518.

-, Spanish marriages unpopular at, 546;

danger of offending, 558.

Parkhurst, William, English resident at Turin, 285, 305, 320.

-, -, ordered to congratulate duke on success against Spain, 287.

-, -, friendship with Zen, 298;

sent to London, his expedions journey, 305;

proceeds to Wotton in Holland, 328;

sent to Heidelberg, 478.

Parliament of 1614, constitution of, 134,

disposition of, 135.

-, decision to convoke, 89;

date fixed, 100;

elections for, 101;

to deal with purveyance, 101;

opening of, 115;

king's speech, 115, 116;

purveyance, 116;

naturalises palatine's son, 116;

subsidies delayed, 119;

vestments discussed, 119;

king presses for supply, 121;

proposal to unite houses to discuss impositions. 132, 133;

king asserts prerogative to, 135, 138, 139.

-, dissolved, 135;

discuss right of king to levy imports, 138;

speech of Wentworth, 139;

Spanish ambassador's view of, 146.

-, king objects to behaviour of Roe at, 268.

-, opposition in Council to summoning of, 512;

only means of obtaining supplies, 513.

-, See also France;

Ireland.

Parma, 16.

-, would join defensive Italian league, 200.

-, duke of. See Farnese, Odoardo.

Parsson, Edward, English merchant, 58.

Paschal, Pasquale, Charles, French Ambassador to the Grisons, 72, 77, 87.

-, -, acts against Venice, 84, 128.

Pastrana, duke of. See Gomez de Silva et Mendoza, Roderigo.

Paul V, pope, 48, 183, 294, 296, 329, 411, 413, 414, 427, 430, 466, 489, 508, 516.

-, desires peace, 39;

rumoured league of, with emperor and Spain, 50, 51;

opinion of, upon Turkish fleet, 62;

objects to French marriage negotiations with England, 80;

asked to help emperor, 82;

thanks Venetians for suppressing Novus Homo, 134;

thanks Aldobrandini for efforts to reconcile Savoy and Venice, 164;

taxes Card. Aldobrandini with dealings with hereties, 168;

to contribute to pay up Bucquoi's troops, 172;

urged by Venice to mediate, 236, 329, 345;

distressed by dispute between Spain and Savoy, 240;

opinion of the Duke of Savoy, 241;

will not commit himself, 253;

will defend Savoy, 255;

proposed league of, with France and Venice, 290;

fears Jesuits, 321;

defends action of Spain, 330;

upset by book Novissimus Homo, 348;

desires to keep hereties out of Italy, 354;

policy of, 362;

irresolution of, 393;

objects to English intervention. 403;

not much considered by Savoy, 459;

dispute of Venice with, 466;

takes part in treaty of Asti, 477;

share of, minimised, 539;

France unwilling to offend, 571.

Paul, Father. See Sarpi, Peter.

Pellegrini, —, Secretary to the Council of Ten, writes to Muscorno, 393.

Pepper, trade in, 112, 148.

Pera, Vigne di, dispatches dated from, 4, 13, 17, 24, 33, 44, 50, 61, 63, 66, 71, 76, 79, 83, 91, 102, 106, 114, 117, 121, 124, 156, 206, 222, 248, 280, 336, 366, 452, 474.

-, Cadi of, imposes carazo on Christians, 75, 79;

keeps quiet, 91;

outrage on servant of French ambassador, 156.

Perron, James Davy du, cardinal, controversy with James, 28, 29n;

Edmondes objects to speech of, to States General, 490, 553;

reply of James to, 543, 548.

Persia, king of, desires war against Turks, 91.

Perth, earl of. See Drummond, John.

Pescina, Pessina, Piscina, Giovanni Giacomo, 362;

mission to Venice, 151, 173;

Spanish suspicious of, 142, 151, 164, 165;

desires admission before Venetian Senate, 149, 150;

admitted, 151, 154, 157–161;

rumours about, 155, 183;

exposition of, 163;

reply to, 163;

mission of, unknown to Aldobrandini, 168;

negotiations with, 167, 168, 176, 177;

announces coming of a regular ambassador, 205;

made ambassador to France, 414;

Edmondes to help, 432;

expected in Paris. 469.

Petaochio, a ship, 155.

Pfäffers, Favera or Feffres [St. Gall, Switzerland], banned for the plague, 31.

Philibert. See Filiberto.

Philip II king of Spain, 311.

Philip III, king of Spain, the Catholic king, 3, 11, 15, 288, 309, 488, 547.

to be arbiter of the Montferrat dispute, 26, 35, 53, 71, 110.

orders Hinojosa to restore places of Mantua, 2, 9.

gives presents to ambassadors of Denmark, 12.

influence in France, opposition to, 19.

wishes to have heiresses of Montferrat, 23, 47.

desires peace, 39, 164.

rumoured league of, with pope and emperor, 50, 51.

anxious for friendship of England, 60, 64.

French demand that, shall not molest Mantua, 77.

asks pope to help emperor, 82.

thinks Turks cannot furnish a fleet, 86.

offers to help against revolted Princes. 95.

writes friendly letters to French princes at Queen Regent's request 109.

Queen Regent sends information to, 143.

resolved to disarm Savoy, 157.

treatment of English rebels, 250.

presents of James to, 109, 144, 419.

(1614), delays French marriages, 98;

consents to English marriage negotiations, 100;

asks that Cornwallis may be sent to him, 146;

informed of Venetian dealings with governor of Milan, 169, 170;

kept ignorant of Pescina's mission, 183;

sends fleet to take Emden, 204;

desires peace, 241.

(1615), provides 1 ½ millions for Flanders and Germany, 326;

arbiter upon Duchies, 326;

revenues of, 327;

orders restitution of Wesel to please James, 342;

terms of, to Savoy, 402;

favours peace in Italy, 407;

urged to peace by Sarmiento, 419, 446.

promises to treat Savoy humanely, 433;

asks that Savoy be not fomented, 438;

French marriages promised to, 539;

cannot find employment for his troops, 551;

permits subjects to arm against pirates, 554;

protecting Neuburg, 559;

preparing for French marriages, 567;

promises to disband Milanese army, 568;

France unwilling to offend, 571.

influence of, in Germany, 127.

provides for Grand Master of Malta, 128.

will not suffer Juliers to remain in hands of Dutch, 136.

Ecclesiastical electors of Empire join forces with, 178.

receives promise of Mantua to demolish citadel of Casale, 182.

orders Spinola not to make terms without further instructions, 280.

called faithless by James, 300.

Philip Otto, count of Salm, Count Philip the Rheingrave, tries to engage John of Nassau for French services, 558.

Picardy, France, Spinola ready to enter, 550, 564.

Pickering, Sir Thomas, letters to, 166n., 167n., 171n.

Picquigny [Somme, France], Herestan takes, 564.

Piedmont, 11, 67, 250, 262, 293, 305, 312, 313, 324, 345, 347, 361, 423, 436, 450, 567.

-, evil plight of, 72.

-, Huguenots in, 137.

-, Spanish army in, 152, 207.

-, proposed Spanish invasion of, 256, 439;

invaded by Spaniards, 281, 282, 287, 289.

-, levies of troops from, 261.

-, value of, to Savoy, 398.

-, prince of. See Victor Amadeus.

Pietro, Don, a spy, 69.

Pindar, Paul, English ambassador at Constantinople, 367, 452.

-, -, made responsible for English piracy, 63.

-, -, attempts to remove carazo, 71, 75;

protests against alteration of capitulations, 102, 104, 105, 114.

Pinerolo, Pinarolo [Prov. Turin, Italy], 175.

Piombino [Prov. Pisa, Italy], 313.

Piracy on ships coming from Indies, 58.

-, upon Portuguese, 60.

-, of English in Red Sea, 63;

of English on Venice, 206;

of English in Spanish seas, 223.

-, plunder from, taken to Ireland, 120.

-, in the Adriatic, Venetian provision against, 128.

-, on the Spaniards in the Indies, 147.

-, on Barbary coast and round Corfu, 325, 484.

-, in Mediterranean, Spanish measures against, 484.

-, of ships of Bizerta, 552.

-, in Strait of Gibraltar, 565.

Pirana, Podestà of, 114.

Pirates, English, captured by Dutch, 154;

by French, 155;

received at Livorno, 229;

frequent Bizerta, 206;

ready to serve duke of Savoy, 347;

activity of, 367;

defeat Spanish squadron, 509;

at Tunis, 566.

-, French, at Malta, 155.

-, routed by king of Denmark, 167.

-, detained at Plymouth, 267.

-, detained at Livorno, 265,

and hanged, 275;

enter Livorno, 562.

-, adventurers generally become, 455.

-, Dutch, desire to serve Savoy, 504, 511.

-, seas swarming with, 554.

-, See Eston, Peter;

Mannering, Henry;

Montis;

Walsingham.

Pisa, 106.

Pisaulz, M. de, 469.

Piscina. See Pescina.

Pithan, governor of Juliers, takes Aldenhoven, Amnich and Hambach, 222;

takes Zoest, 562.

Plague, 30.

-, places suspected of, 31;

disappeared from England, 216;

at Wesel, 562;

at Constantinople, 566.

Plata, Rio della, Dutch plans against Spanish at, 208.

Plessen, Wolfrad von, lord of Plessen, first councillor of the Palatine, 410.

Plessis, du. See Mornay.

Plymouth [co. Devon], pirate ships detained at, 267.

-, Vice-Admiral of, ready to arm ships for Savoy, 300.

Po, River, 517.

Pocahuntas, capture of, 22, 40.

Poitiers [Vienne, France], Vendóme departs to, 152.

Poitou, France, Tremouille levies troops in, 553.

Poland, ambassadors and agents to, from England. See Dickenson, John;

Gordon, Patrick.

-, war with Sweden, James mediates, 97, 98;

war with Russia, 122.

-, king of, 512.

-,- See Sigismund III.

-, Turkish goods sent to, 156.

-, Patrick Gordon sent to, 239;

Anstruther to go to 370;

Dickenson sent to, 562;

conference with Sweden at Stettin, 562.

Polyphemus, treatment of Ulysses, 205.

Pomerania, 512.

Pont Remy [Somme, France] Herestan takes, 564.

Pontchartrain, M. de, sent by Louis to Condé, 560, 561.

Pontieba, silk taken by, exempt from duty, 146.

Pope, nuncio of, in France, proceedings against Novus homo, 28.

-, -, in Spain, 82.

-, - See Nuncio.

-, See Clement VIII.;

Paul V.

Porto, 51, 59, 61, 547.

Portugal, 7.

-, piracy upon ships of, 60.

-, Spanish fleet in, 201.

Portugese, defeat of, at Surat, 81n.

-, trade of, English hope to get, 268.

Posen [Poland], suspected of plague, 31.

Powatan, chief, 22.

Prague [Bohemia], suspected of plague, 31;

Calvinist Church at, 99.

-, despatches dated from, 509, 515, 546.

Préaux, French ambassador in Flanders, 400;

recalled, 479.

Prévost, Desmaretz demands banishment of, 550.

Prevotio, Dr. Giovanni, 261.

Princes of the Union. See Union.

Princes, the (France). See France.

Princes Possessioners. See George William, margrave of Brandenburg;

Wolfgang, William, duke of Neuburg.

-, -, agent of England to. See Dickenson, John.

Priuli, Pietro, Venetian Ambassador in Spain, despatches of, 12, 15.

-, -, -, letters to, 36.

Privy Council. See Council, Lords of the.

Profumiero, Ottavio, 483.

Protestant Princes. See Union, Princes of the.

Protestants, do not appear at Vienna diet, 103.

-, in Austria, suspected of arming against Catholics, 108.

Provele, M. de, sergeant-major of Amiens, assassination of, 552, 561.

Provence, French object to Spanish encroachments in, 321;

deputation from, to king, 546.

Puisieux. See Brûlart, Peter.

Puritans, feeling upon vestments, 119.

Purveyance limited, 101.