FOOTNOTES:[1]The bull is printed in full for the first time in Döllinger’sBeiträge.[2]The destination of Drake was kept so secret that the first hint that he might attack Cadiz was only made by Stafford, the English ambassador in Paris (who was a traitor in Philip’s pay), to Mendoza on April 9. He told Mendoza that not a living soul but the queen and Cecil really knew what the design was, the lord admiral himself being kept in the dark, “as the queen considered him a frank-spoken man.” It was only by chance hints that Stafford surmised that Cadiz might be the destination. In the letter by which Philip conveyed the news of Drake’s ravages in Cadiz to Mendoza he says that he grieves not so much for the actual harm done, as for the daring insolence of the thing.[3]Immediately after Drake had sailed from Plymouth, André de Loo arrived in London with a peaceful proposal from Farnese, and the queen was much distressed that her efforts to recall Drake were ineffectual.[4]This evidence will be found printed at length in the fourth volume of theCalendar of Spanish State Papers of Elizabethnow (August 1897) in the press.
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[1]The bull is printed in full for the first time in Döllinger’sBeiträge.
[1]The bull is printed in full for the first time in Döllinger’sBeiträge.
[2]The destination of Drake was kept so secret that the first hint that he might attack Cadiz was only made by Stafford, the English ambassador in Paris (who was a traitor in Philip’s pay), to Mendoza on April 9. He told Mendoza that not a living soul but the queen and Cecil really knew what the design was, the lord admiral himself being kept in the dark, “as the queen considered him a frank-spoken man.” It was only by chance hints that Stafford surmised that Cadiz might be the destination. In the letter by which Philip conveyed the news of Drake’s ravages in Cadiz to Mendoza he says that he grieves not so much for the actual harm done, as for the daring insolence of the thing.
[2]The destination of Drake was kept so secret that the first hint that he might attack Cadiz was only made by Stafford, the English ambassador in Paris (who was a traitor in Philip’s pay), to Mendoza on April 9. He told Mendoza that not a living soul but the queen and Cecil really knew what the design was, the lord admiral himself being kept in the dark, “as the queen considered him a frank-spoken man.” It was only by chance hints that Stafford surmised that Cadiz might be the destination. In the letter by which Philip conveyed the news of Drake’s ravages in Cadiz to Mendoza he says that he grieves not so much for the actual harm done, as for the daring insolence of the thing.
[3]Immediately after Drake had sailed from Plymouth, André de Loo arrived in London with a peaceful proposal from Farnese, and the queen was much distressed that her efforts to recall Drake were ineffectual.
[3]Immediately after Drake had sailed from Plymouth, André de Loo arrived in London with a peaceful proposal from Farnese, and the queen was much distressed that her efforts to recall Drake were ineffectual.
[4]This evidence will be found printed at length in the fourth volume of theCalendar of Spanish State Papers of Elizabethnow (August 1897) in the press.
[4]This evidence will be found printed at length in the fourth volume of theCalendar of Spanish State Papers of Elizabethnow (August 1897) in the press.