. [Publications]. y weather put intoPlimmouth, which comes well to passe for the vitailing of Duke of Florence hath barred our nation from trafficke in histerritories, and it is feared the Venetians and the French king willserve us in the same sort. The Quene is very angry with Sir Tho-mas Gerrard for the escape of one Blackwell, an arch-priest, out ofthe Marshalsea. There was a plot laide by certain Jcsuites andpreistes to murther or poison the Scottish kinge, as it is confessedby some that are taken. Here be many Englishmen come out ofSpaine that were delivered at the younge king
. [Publications]. y weather put intoPlimmouth, which comes well to passe for the vitailing of Duke of Florence hath barred our nation from trafficke in histerritories, and it is feared the Venetians and the French king willserve us in the same sort. The Quene is very angry with Sir Tho-mas Gerrard for the escape of one Blackwell, an arch-priest, out ofthe Marshalsea. There was a plot laide by certain Jcsuites andpreistes to murther or poison the Scottish kinge, as it is confessedby some that are taken. Here be many Englishmen come out ofSpaine that were delivered at the younge kinges a comming to thecrowne. They say that the king had a sore bruise with the fall ofan horse in running at the ring:, for the which he was let bloudefower times. It is said likewise (how truly I know not) thatthe very same day his Quene was so_ skarred with a fire that tookeplace in the house where she lay in Milan that she was driven torun into the street in her petticote. The newes comes now very • Philip 40 chamberlains letters during the hot that Sebastian the king of Portingale, that was said to be slainein the battell in Barbarie, is at Venice, and hath made so goodetriall of himself that the Venetians allowe him, and maintainealmost fowrescore persons about him at theire charge. They say hetells very straunge stories, how he with fowreteene more escapedfrom the battaile, and got up into the mountaines, and so, by manyadventures, he went and he went till he came into Ethiopia, orPrester Johns lande, meaning from thence to have gon into theEast Indies, but, understanding that they were yeelded and sworneto the King of Spaine, durst not proceed, but turned backe again,and per tot discrimina in this longe pilgrimage (wherin he hath bentaken, bought, and sold twelve or thirtene times), got at last toVenice, where he tells them all that was negotiated twixt him andthem either by Letters or Ambassadors since he was of any gooderemembraunce, and that with so many particu
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