Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . ced youth wouldspend his months allowance in a day. Were the casedifferent, I should be ashamed to ask anything of you,but I have no land or private income, and scarcely meansenough to put my daughter into a convent, and this Ican assure the Rev. Cardinal and your Excellency. Hence his active agitation. Salvetti acted for himin London, but reported that his assumption of thetitle of Duke of Northumberland operated against hischances. I have not heard whether his Majesty hasyet been informed of this,- he wrote, but anyway Isee
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . ced youth wouldspend his months allowance in a day. Were the casedifferent, I should be ashamed to ask anything of you,but I have no land or private income, and scarcely meansenough to put my daughter into a convent, and this Ican assure the Rev. Cardinal and your Excellency. Hence his active agitation. Salvetti acted for himin London, but reported that his assumption of thetitle of Duke of Northumberland operated against hischances. I have not heard whether his Majesty hasyet been informed of this,- he wrote, but anyway Iseem to see him hurling his thunderbolts. So Dudley took other measures, applying to theCuria Ecclesiastica of Florence for a decree to enablehim to make reprisals against the English who usedthe port of Leghorn. By this means he proposed tomake English merchants pay him the debt which heconsidered that the King of England owed him. TheGrand Duke disapproved, but he persisted. The fol-lowing decree was actually posted on the doors ofthe Cathedral at Florence :— 408. From a photograph by L. C. Keighley Peach. THE TOMB OF SIR ROBERT DUDLEY, THE NOBLE IMPE, IN THE BEAUCHAMP CHAPEL, WARWICK, Warwick Castle <?- This letter of Gregorius Navo, Auditor-generalof the Camera Apostolica, commands by the same theGrand-Duke Ferdinand and all the other Ministersof Justice under pain of looo gold ducats, that theyshall confiscate, and sell all or any of the goods ofEnglish Parliamentarians and the English residents,in solidimi, excepting only professed Catholics ; to theend that they may give and re-pay to Robert Dudley,Duke of Northumberland, son of another RobertDudley; to Cosimo Dudley, Earl of Warwick, hisson ; and to Elisabeth Sathuella (Elizabeth Southwell),wife of the above-said Robert, . and to all otherchildren which are, or shall be born to the aboveconiugi, eight millions of Pounds sterling ; with othertwo hundred thousand pounds as interest for the same,by reason of the unfair o
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