Calendar of Letters, Despatches and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations between England and Spain Preserved in the Archives of Simancas and Elsewhere, VOLUME 6.1: HENRY VIII, 1538 – 1542

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by  Pascual de Gayangos

Calendar of Letters,
Despatches and State Papers
Relating to the Negotiations
between England and Spain,
Volume 6.1: Henry VIII,
1538–1542
Edited by
Pascual de Gayangos
TannerRitchie Publishing
CALENDAR OF
LETTERS, DESPATCHES AND STATE PAPERS
RELATING TO THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND SPAIN
PRESERVED IN
THE ARCHIVES OF SIMANCAS, VIENNA, BRUSSELS AND ELSEWHERE
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VOLUME 6.1: HENRY VIII, 1538 – 1542
EDITED BY
PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS
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CALENDAR
LETTERS, DESPATCHES, AND
STATE PAPERS,
RELATING TO
THE MGOTIATMS BETWEEN ENGLAND AM SPAIN,
PRESERVED IN
THE ARCHIVES AT SIMANCAS, YIEMA, BRUSSELS, AND
ELSEWHERE,
Vol. VI. Part I.
HENRY VIII.
1538-1542.
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ABBREVIATIONS.
S , Arehivo General de Simaneas.
t, .legajo of bundle."
Bid. SueL ....Bnlas Saetoa. -
Pat. Ke - Patronato Real.
E .Roma.
Cap. e. 1. oas. d'AustEia.CapitoIaciones oofl la oasa de Austek.
A , .Alemauia (Germany).
B. -, ..Brussels.
B ...Estado, or Affi»r£ of State.
It; ,.,.£. .....Kandes (Flanders).
•.'Sr.% .'. ......S'rancia. '
I, ,. Inglaterra (England).
W. ........Wien or "Vienna,
J;. deBer,,...% :.,Libros de Berzosa, or copies from the "Vatican, inade by order
of Philip II.
Sec. de Guer, ...Secretaria de Guerra,
Mary T , Mary Tierra.
P. ,..,,., Paris, ArchiTes de l*Baipire, no.w Archives Rationales.
INTRODUCTION,
IN July 1538, when the present volume begins, Eustace
Ghapuys "was still at his post as the Emperor's representa-
tive in England, being assisted in his task by Don Diego
de Mendoza, who some months before had arrived in
London for the express purpose of "promoting king
'• Henry's marriage with the dowager duchess of Milan,
" that of his daughter, Mary the Princess, with the Infante
" Dom Luiz of Portugal, and at the same time cementing
" a firm and lasting alliance between England and the
" Empire."* Mendoza's extraordinary mission failed com-
pletely ; he left London for Flanders in September of the
same year, wrote there a report of the long negoeiafcions
carried on with Henry's ministers with regard to the above
points, and left Chapuys to fight alone his diplomatic
battles with Cromwell.
In March 1539, when the political horizon grew darker
and darker, and Paul had almost persuaded the Emperor
and king S'rancis to undertake a campaign against the
" excommunicated Defender of the Faith," as king Henry
is intitled by some Spanish and French writers of that
time; when the intercourse of trade with the Low Countries
• was virtually suspended, and the political relations of
* Tvfo different satsof Instaictkms seem to have been given to Mendoza
for bis extraordinary mission to England, one on the Slsf; of June i5S6,
from Asti, for treatlngj conjointly with Ckapuys, of the Princess' marriage
•with the In&nte Dom laiiz; another in March 158?, from Yalkdolid in
Spain, for a similar purpose. These test are addressed to Mai tw& to a
certain Orion, sieur d'Arbois, who, however, never came to Sagland,
Mendoza himself did not arrive aatil January 1538, See Vol. TW,,
part II., pp. 165,336, and 429.
56730, ' b
ii INTRODUCTION.
England with. Spain, France, and the Pope had become
strained to excess, Chapuys received orders from Flanders
to ask for his passports, at the same time that Thomas
Wriothesley, Cromwell's secretary and Henry's ambassador
in Brussels, was peremptorily commanded to return home.
Most likely the sudden departure of that ambassador's
colleagues for Grhelders, of which the duke of Cleves
[Gtrillaume de La Mark], Henry's future brother-in-law,
had just taken unlawful possession, awakened the sus-
picions and fears of Mary, the regent of the Low Countries,
for she politely requested Wriothesley not to quit Brussels
until she herself had heard of Ghapuys' departure from Eng-
land,* Meanwhile " that the Emperor's affairs should not
" suffer in England; that the amicable relations between
" the two countries should continue without interruption;
" and last, not least, in order to remove any scruples or
'* fears arising from the withdrawal of the Imperial am-
" bassador, the Dean of Oanxbray, Mary's own first almoner,
" Philip Maioris by name, was appointed." Kot till after
Chapnys had landed at Calais (19th March) did the Dean
sail for Dover.f His first dispatch from London to the
Queen Eegent is dated the 28th of April, but previous
letters of Ms must be missing, or else the Dean must have
' reckoned his time erroneously, for the QHQ alluded to begins
thus: " Although, since my arrival here, nearly two months
" ago, I have written of whatever has come under my
" notice," &o. On the 23rd the Dean was still at Calais
waiting for a fair wind to cross a,nd therefore, in writing
?
from London on the 28th of April, he could not say that
he had been two months in England. In his second letter
to the Qneen, dated 4th May, the Bean writes that the
ITrench. ambassador had shown him letters from the High
* The precautions taken by Mary to prevent Wriottasley from reaching
Calais, for fear of Chapnys liaviug been arrested in Londou according to
the rumour then prevalent, are fully detailed in her Instructions to Esquire
Whynaeourt. See Kb. 50, pp. 185-7.
f On the 23rd of March he wrote to the Queen Eegeat that" in obedience
"to her Majesty's commands he would embark for England -with the first
See BTo. «, p. 137,