The Earl of Bristol's Defence of His Negotiations in Spain

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: but was no way admitted to the eonsultyve parte of his imployment then, nor in many yeares after. And that a matehe with Spayne seemed by the minsters of those tymes so muehe to bee desired that the Infanta Dona Ana, that King's eldest daughter (for whome hee made the firste motion) being already promised to the Kinge of Franee, the Earl of Bristol had order, by a dispatehe bearing date the 25th of January, 1611, stilo vet., signed by the Earl of Salisbury in his Majesties name, to propound that Kinge Phillipp the 3rd would adopt a nieee, one of the daughters of Savoy, and treate a marriage for Prinee Henry, whieh not being approved in Spayne, and answeare being made that that King had daughters of his owne, notwithstanding that there was sueh a strong disparitie in yeares (Prinee Henry being then neare twenty, and the Infanta Dona Maria about seven yeares of age), yet the desire of those tymes seemed to be so muehe set upon a matehe with Spayne, that the Earl of Bristol had order by seeond letters, bearing date the laste of Mareh, 1612, signed by the Lords of Salisbury, Northampton, Lennox, Suffolk, Woreester, and Pembroke, to propound a matehe for Prinee Heury with the sayd youngest daughter. The whieh aeeordingly he did, and reeeived answeare that the King of Spain would willingly hearken unto the matehe, so that Prinee Heury would beeome a Roman Catholiek. To whieh unequall and dishonorable motion the Earl of Bristoll made answer that the King his master desired to refer it to that King's own judgement, what eensure that King should deserve, both from the hands of God and the world, that, having so many wayes expressed his eonstaneie and love to the faythe and religion whieh he professed, should showe himselfe so full of impietie and dishonour as to persuade his sonne...