BL MSS Cotton Galba c. i, 39(b)

From Waalt

BL MSS Cotton Galba, c. i, 39

(Minutes of Chaloner's Correspondence)

Wright Vol 1, 4 Page 7

Transcribed by Thomas Wright, ‘Queen Elizabeth and her times,’ London, 1838

(8 Augusti, 1559.) The Queene's letter to Sir Thomas Challoner into the Low Countries, ymporting that he should feele the king of Spaine whether he were willinge to have him goe into Spaine after him, or to staie there. Secondlie, to signify the Queene was sorry that she shold loose the king's soe neere neighbourhood. She offereth all the good meanes for furthering his voiage (1) that her coasts and ports could afford.

(1) Philip set sail from the Netherlands with a fleet of near seventy ships, on the 20th of August, and arrived at Loredo in Biscay, the 29th of the same month.