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[fol. 117r] [ ... ] [tempo] rizeng or differryng) for a playn re [ ... ] franckly expostulated with her, alledgeng [ ... ] his constant & loving devotion this long, [ ... ] by comyng hither, & meriteng sondry wayes [ ... ] delyng again, otherwise his frynds wolld observe [ ... ] wolld nott, as a notable wrong don to a soverai [gne] he had frely discowrsed he sayd, with her majestie & had [ ... ] whatt comodityes or discomodityes, the accepting o [f the] mariayge, might bring with it, with the offence ^herin^ [ deleted: of] to so grett a Prynce as his master, yf he sholld be co [ ... ] deluded with yndignityes./

First by maryeng with monsieur, he sayes, (who was [ ... ] generall to his brother, & had taken uppon hym the redresse [ ... ] of the Protestants Cawses in frawnce; And was close [ ... ] [ ... ] deffendor of the Belgick libertye, by the Stats of the Lowe [ ... ] [ deleted: brede] a constant & undowtted suretye, to all those of [ ... ] in christendom, under which subsisted specialye, the conserva [tyon of] Scottland & Englande. /

Next, the grettnes considred he sayd, that the K. of Sp: [ ... ] by covetting the inheritance of Portingall (the usurpi [ ... ] make hym suspect in justice to the worrld, & dredfull [ ... ] England, for his Ambicyon, joyned with suche an hable [ ... ] nott mett with before hand ^which^ urged the conjunction of [ ... ] the rather, as a fitt opposityon. [ deleted: therunto.] /

which ones agreed uppon, the K. of Navern sholld be in [ ... ] towards the frontiers of fowntrabye, to drawe the [ ... ] his intended [ deleted: higher] disseignes, to loke another way [ ... ] (according to his election) sholld enter the Lowe cont [ryes] [ ... ] Protector & deffendor, & be master of that State./ The D. [nott] withstanding his nere intelligence with spayn) [ ... ] be qwiett & colld, unles he wolld prove & se the f [ ... ] again, bi his contradiction, to marche as far as the [ ... ] The pope & Italye misseng frawnce (the Theater [ ... ] of their cowntenance & comodity) wolld utterlye qwayll [ ... ] [ ... ] jects pretended against England & the Religion & be [ ... ] [fol. 117v] [ ...fr] awnce, to be deprived of so soverayne [ ... ] terrible leage ^begon att Trent & contynewed synce^ [ deleted: & Conspiracye,] were qwite broken./ [ ... ] by this desired matche, [ deleted: ^begon at Trent^ ] be compelled, as a member that [ ... ] the humor, that feedes his necessity & faction, to yelld entyerlye to [ ... ] devotyon of England./ Thus sayth Du Vraye, by the consumating of [ ... ] most necessary & desired allyance, is peace & security browght to [ ... ] whole Ile: Assurance generally to Religion: Spayne devyded in his own strengthe, & restrayned from surfetting: Portingall preserved [ ... ] [ deleted: his] right: And contentment given to [ deleted: all] good subjects here: for here [ deleted: of eche syde] our State was (bien Bornee) [ deleted: was lymitted & neighbord [ ... ] &] in case to offend [ deleted: all] adversaries, & to destroy the verey roote [ deleted: of] [conspiracies &] ^all^ practises, ether new or ^olld^ [ deleted: inveterate.] / For her majestie migh [t] employe part of her navye, to the hellp of the Portingalles, & so bring the K. of Sp: this environed, to depose [ deleted: clerely] , nott only his vindicative [ deleted: & ambicyows] mynde, butt allso [ deleted: of necessity] to yelld to any prescriptyon of amitye & condicyons, that her majestie wolld ympose./

Here with he sayd, that he had assured her majestie that the matche which was bruted to have bin handled, ether with the dowghter of Loreyn (whom he term [ed] une poure coquine [ deleted: & trop] ^& trop^ prochaine en sang) or with the sister of Navern [ deleted: for his master,] were things untrew, but that indeede, the mariag [e] of Spayne, was ernestly pressed: wherin the sayd du Vraye had byn employed as a Comissioner of late from his master to sitt with the Popes Nuncio, the sp: ambassador, & on appoynted by the frenche K. to here their offers, which proceding by motyon from so highe personaygs cowd nott be butt harde./

The Pope promised of his parte, that if Monsieur enclyned to this mariaige, to dispence with the nerenes of blood (she being his neece) To give hym the Cownty frely of Avignon, erected into a kyngd [om] & that he sholld have 300 m [crowns] owtt of his purse, in redy money The k. of sp: wolld give with his dowghter all the Lowe Contreyes, [ deleted: &] erect [ deleted: there] likewise to [ deleted: the state of] a kingdom, [ deleted: contributyng] with [ deleted: bothe] an Army [ deleted: & the expences] to conqwer the ^Rebelles^ [ ... ] [ deleted: the Rebelles to obeysance] which neded nott (du vray sayd) [ ... ] k. of sp: wolld parte with his interest, the States [ deleted: of them selves] wolld yelld willinglye ^their duty their Duke^ to Monsieur./

[fol. 118r] [ ... ] inconvenyencs of the other syde, [ ... ] by rejecting Monsieur, & by driveng hym [ ... ] were these, that the frenche K. wolld then agr [ee] that he is somuche intreated unto, with the Pope, [ ... ] the Dukes of Tuscanie & Savoye, & others, [ ... ] of the Protestants owtt of christendom, wherof mo [ ... ] the cheeff charge, as Champion of the Churche, & [ ... ] against the scismatickes./

Wheruppon her majestie of England sholld ^likewise^ be somoned [to a] leage, to delyver the scottish Q. & to retorne to the unio [n] otherwise the D. of Gwise [ deleted: sholld] be sent in [ ... ] with an Armye, & furnisshed of money & sondry [captaynes] to trayn men there, & from thenc owtt of on Continew [ ... ] the State of England dangerowslye, which wolld sturre [ ... ] within land, & the discontented sorte ot take parte, seing [ ... ] discharged by the leage of their Allegians: A matter [ ... ] charge, perill & confusion./

Herewith the K. of Sp: wolld be redy to employe his [navye] to intertayne the trobles in Ireland, to assiste the scott [ ... ] & to discend allso into England, diverting & entangl [ ... ] every syde. Wher ^by^ all traffick were taken awaye [ ... ] Artificers & merchants beggerd: gentillmen without [ ... ] the nomber of workmen appertayneng to the trade of [ ... ] for lack of employment, & even for foode sake, to [ ... ] with the decaye of shippeng & fissheng: & for [ ... ] lycentiowsnes [ deleted: that were offred, wherof] Ruy [ne] was to follow ./

ytt sholld seme by Du Vrayes [ deleted: speche] further speches, uttred, that (this spannissh course procedyng), the Loreyn [ Marginalia (by Herle): [ ... ] a blessing of [the] Q. mothers master uppon her)] sholld be reserved for the scottish K. mariaige [ ... ] another misterye, that yett hong in Clowdes: [ deleted: The] which premises, [ deleted: he had as frely as might be] in ver [ ... ] had as frelye ymparted with her majestie he sayde as ^ani might do^ , which she had recompensed with lyke playnesse, [ deleted: concluding] ^& had concluded^ ernestly that monsieurs motion [ ... ] [118v] [ ... ] mawgre the ympugners, & that she [ ... ] as [mischantly] ) that wolld ani more serve [ ... ] it required ./ To confirme the which, she assured du [Vraye] [ ... ] sholld ether the same sondaye, or the [ deleted: next] daye followeng [ ... ] his dispatche in eche poynt agreable to [ deleted: his masters desire] ^the state of the^ [ ... ] & that she sholld adjorne her parlement for [ deleted: the space of 3] wekes longer, to the end that the sayd Du Vraye might [ deleted: retorne] ^retorne^ [ deleted: a x daye before the begineng therof ] ^with^ [ deleted: his masters [estates] prepared with all things from hi master] hither a x dayes before the beginneng of the ^sayd^ parlyament, prepared from his master [ deleted: to receve the frute of his long negociatyon] to attend & Receve the yshew desired [ deleted: when we com to this [ ... ] whatt was] ^whatt principall ^ ^prince^ ^partes^ [ deleted: ymparteng] with me, [ Marginalia (by Herle): heruppon, to ymparte [ ... ] es were com] [ deleted: sondrye particularities] [ deleted: the parts that were] discended unto, [ deleted: & how ^in the partes of the^ [ ... ] his master] [ deleted: inform] ^in this latter treaty^ [ deleted: brawnches of this] [ deleted: treaty] & how sincerelye monsieur had handled the article of Religion, reserving lesse scope to [ deleted: hymself] his private exercise, (for he had comprised butt his frenche domesticalles theryn) than Ambassadors have, in som of whose howses ^naming the frenche Ambassador^ there might be [ Marginalia (by Herle): [ ... ] [affayres] ] fownd ^that present sondaye^ above 120. persons ^extended [ ... ] ^ englishe & strangers [ deleted: unsought for] att masse.