Cotton MS Galba D XIII

Records and papers concerning England and Germany, mainly between 1558 and 1603.

f. 1r-1v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine. Commending his agent Philip de Hoghensax. Woodstock, July 29 1574. Latin.

ff. 2r-3v: Letter from George Michael Lingelsheim to Sir Henry Savile. On literary matters and the loan of mathematical books. Strasburg, January 29 1583. German.

ff. 4r-5v: Report, possibly by William Harley, of a private discourse with Count Edzard II of Friesland. Concerning the state of his country. August 17 1584. Latin.

ff. 6r-12r: Letter from John Herbert to Francis Walsingham. Reporting on his negotiations in Poland from August 10 to date. Elbing, November 6 1584.

ff. 13r-33v: Fragments relating to John Herbert’s negotiations in Poland. English and Latin.

ff. 34r-37v: Letter from Count Edzard II of Friesland to William Harley. Answering proposals made on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. Friedeburgh, December 7 1584. German.

f. 38r-38v: A letter or paper, almost obliterated. Dated Sunday, December 23 [c. 1584]. Dutch.

ff. 39r-40v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the magistrates of Elbing. Concerning the English merchants taking refuge there from Danzig. Greenwich, January 16 1585. Latin.

ff. 41r-77v: Papers concerning John Herbert’s negotiations in Poland. Including the settlement of the East merchants at Elbing, his credentials, commission and memorials. July 6 1583 to January 7 1585. With a table of contents at the end.

f. 78r-78v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine. Concerning some misconduct of the citizens of Danzig towards merchants from England and Elbing. Greenwich, January 1585. Latin.

ff. 79r-80r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to George Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg. Sending thanks for the refuge he had given at Elbing to the English merchants. Greenwich, January 1585. Latin.

ff. 81r-82v: Letter from Julius, Duke of Brunswick to the electors of Saxony and Brandenburg, and the Landgrave of Hesse. Following a message from Queen Elizabeth I, delivered by Thomas Bodley, calling upon them to join in resisting the encroachments of the Pope. Henrickstadt, May 22 1585. German.

f. 83r: Letter from Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Expressing thanks for the assistance of Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I, in the retaking of the town of Nuys. Honslerdyck, May 28 1585. Latin.

ff. 84r-84v: Paper of intelligence concerning a battle between Spanish forces and the troops of Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, between Arnheim and Nimeguen, and on the price of wine. July 1585. Latin.

f. 85r-85v: Letter from Vitus Winshemius J. U. D. to Thomas Bodley. Sending a letter fro Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, and requesting an interview. Brunswick, August 5 [1585]. Latin.

f. 86r-86v: Letter from one Johan de Ush[…] to Thomas Bodley. Promising to cooperate in his negotiation at the court of Brunswick. Wolfenbuttel, August 5 1585. Latin.

ff. 87r-88v: Discourse on troubles in Germany. [c. 1585].

f. 89r: List of the chapter of Cologne. During the time in which Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg was Elector.

ff. 90r-93v: Three letters, possibly from Robert Constable to Francis Walsingham. On a purchase of saltpetre, and intelligence from Germany and Holland. Embden, April 7, Hamburg, April 22 1590.

ff. 94r-95v: Letter from William IV, Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, to Queen Elizabeth I. Pofessing his zeal for the Protestant religion. Cassel, May 12 1590. Latin.

ff. 96r-104v: Five letters from Henry Engelstroem to Jellis de Vischer. Reporting his journeys and some bargains made for saltpetre. Embden, April 7, Stade, April 22, Lubeck, May 1 and 15, and Hamburg, May 21 1590. Low German.

ff. 105r-106v: Characters of several princes of Germany. Latin.

f. 107r-107v: Titles of instructions given to one Segur, sent to the princes of Germany. With answers to the legation. c. 1590.

ff. 108r-115v: Statement titled ‘Memoires concernans les entrecours faits par cidevant pour les pays de pardeça et d'Angleterre’. On the seven commercial treaties and negotiations between England and the Low Countries from 1495 to the accession of Queen Elizabeth I.

f. 116r-116v: Letter from John Casimir, Count Palatine, to Queen Elizabeth I. Responding to her request for his help in favour of English merchants trading to Stade. Heidelberg, July 27 1591. Latin.

ff. 117r-118v: Letter from William, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to Queen Elizabeth I. Applying for the pension granted by Queen Elizabeth I to his uncle John (Enno II), Count of East Friesland. Harburg, December 23 1591. French.

f. 119r-119v: Letter from Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to Queen Elizabeth I. Applying for the pension granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John (Enno II), Count of East Friesland, for his son William, nephew to the late Count. Harburg, December 24 1591. Latin.

ff. 120r-123v: Letter from the magistrates at Hamburg to Queen Elizabeth I. Concerning a seizure made in England by George Lekins [George Leck?] of some goods belonging to some of their townsmen. August 24, 1592. Latin.

ff. 124r-126v: Letter from Philip Louis, Count Palatine, to Queen Elizabeth I. Responding to her letter concerning the administration and religious state of the electorate. Neuburg, December 13 1592. Latin.

ff. 127r-128v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Emperor Rudolph II. Declaring that she had not encouraged the Turks to go to war. London, April 2 1593. Latin.

ff. 129r-133v: Letter from Philip Edward and Oelric Fugger to Queen Elizabeth I. Requesting the restitution of some goods they had shipped on board a Spanish vessel. Augsburg, April 15 1593. Latin.

f. 134r-134v: Letter from Ernest, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to Queen Elizabeth I. Answering her letter concerning the Turkish war. Zell, August 7 1593. Latin.

ff. 135r-139v: Letter from Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, to Queen Elizabeth I. Explaining a difference between himself and Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg, in which she interfered. Heidelberg, August 18 1593. Latin.

f. 140r-143v: Letter from George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg Anspach and administrator of Prussia, to Queen Elizabeth I. Requesting she intercede with Turkish forces to abate their demands upon Sigismund Bathori, Prince of Transylvania. Erlang, October 30 1593. German.

ff. 144r-146v: Summary of proposals made by Emperor Rudolph II. Concerning the diet of Ratisbonne and the Turkish war. June 2 1594.

ff. 147r-148v: Letter from Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, to Queen Elizabeth I. Sending intelligence concerning the diet of Ratisbonne and the Turkish war. Heidelberg, 1594. Latin.

ff. 149r-158v: Paper discussing how Queen Elizabeth I and the French king may proceed to deal with the princes of Germany about the recent league. Possibly by Robert Beale. September 22 [no year].

f. 159r-159v: Paper of reasons given by the committees in London for the removal of companies’ authority from Stade to Middleburg. London, February 4 1595.

f. 160r-160v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine. Sending compliments and credentials. Greenwich, July 1596. Latin.

ff. 161r-162v: Letter from Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, to Queen Elizabeth I. Sending compliments, and wishing her to be godmother to his newborn son. Amberg, September 18 1596. Latin.

ff. 163r-164v: Letter from Charles, Duke of Sudermania, later King Charles IX of Sweden, to Queen Elizabeth I. Defending himself against false aspersions. Nicoping, July 6 1597.

f. 165r-165v: Letter from the magistrates of Embden to Queen Elizabeth I. Desiring to keep the English merchants adventurers, notwithstanding the Imperial mandate. October 8 1597. Latin.

f. 166r-166v: Letter from the magistrates of Groningen, possibly to the Privy Council. Offering to receive the merchants adventurers who had been banished from Stade. October 30 1597.

ff. 167r-168v: Letter from John Adolph, Duke of Holstein Gottorp and Bishop of Lubeck, to Queen Elizabeth. Blaming the Imperial mandate for the expulsion of the English merchants. Gottorp, December 1 1597. Latin.

f. 169r-169v: Letter from Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to Queen Elizabeth I. Concerning the Imperial mandate for the proscription of some English merchants from Stade. Harburg, December 21 1597. Latin.

ff. 170r-172v: Information concerning the Imperial mandate for the proscription of English merchants. 1597. Latin. This paper post-dates 1610.

ff. 173r-178r: Abstracts of various letters, chiefly between Queen Elizabeth I and several German princes, from 1589 to 1597.

ff. 179r-180v: Two letters from Benjamin Buwinckhausen de Wallmerode, an agent for a German prince, possibly to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. London, May 1598. French.

f. 181r: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg. Sending congratulations on the marriage of his daughter to the King of Denmark. Greenwich, June 2 1598. Latin.

ff. 182r-183r: Discourse on the transfer of the trade from the Stade into the United Provinces. 1598.

f. 184r-184v: Letter from the magistrates of Embden to Queen Elizabeth I. Concerning commercial matters and the treaty with the Hanseatic towns. November 10 1599. Latin.

ff. 185r-186v: Draft of four principal points of a French edict concerning English cloth. With answers. April 21 1600.

ff. 187r-188v: Letter from the magistrates of Stade to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. Concerning the return of the English merchants into their city. February 3 1601. Latin.

f. 189r: Letter from Emperor Rudolph II to the town of Stade. Sending a credence in favour of Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz. Prague, November 3 1601.

f. 190r-190v: Letter from the magistrates of Lubeck to the English commissioners. Complaining of the seizure of one of their ships by the English. December 19 1601. Latin.

f. 191r-191v: Reasons given by the merchants adventurers for not accepting the decree or last answer of the senate of Hamburg, given them for a ‘vale’. No date.

ff. 192r-194r: Letters patent of Emperor Rudolph II. Sent to all the states of the empire, to assist Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz, in the execution of the mandate against the English merchants adventurers. Prague, 1602.

f. 195r: Notes of materials to be collected for the treaty with the Hanseatic towns. No date.

ff. 196r-197r: Draft letter from the English commissioners to the Imperial commissioners. On accelerating their meeting. With corrections. 1602.

f. 198r: Letter from Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg, to Queen Elizabeth I. Sending congratulations on the new year. Neuburg, January 10 1602.

ff. 199r-200v: Propositions made by the Imperial ambassador to the senate of Stade. February 5 1602.

f. 201r-201v: Extract of a letter from Otho, Duke of Brunswick, to Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz. Arguing against the Imperial mandate. Harburg, February 7 1602.

f. 202r-202v: Petition from the English merchants at State to the emperor’s commissioners. Requesting indulgence. February 10 1602.

ff. 203r-213v: Extract of the answers given by the magistrates of Stade to Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz, commissioner of the emperor. February 10 1602.

ff. 214r-223v: Paper with which Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz, suspended the execution of the Imperial mandate, concerning the English merchants at Stade. February 11 1602. Latin and English.

ff. 224r-225v: Reply from the senate of Stade to the resolution of the emperor’s commissioners. February 11 1602. English translation.

f. 226r-226v: Extract of a letter from John Frederick, Duke of Holstein and Bishop of Bremen, to Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz. Protesting against the Imperial mandate. Verden, February 26 1602.

ff. 227r-229v: Letter from Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to Queen Elizabeth I. Reporting some proceedings at Stade, following the Imperial mandate. Harburg, February 28 1602. Latin.

ff. 230r-231r: Paper by John Buckhurst and Robert Cecil appointing two merchants from each of the chief companies in London as commissioners for the causes of strangers’ employments and the export of coin. Sackville House, March 20 1602.

ff. 232r-249r: Two journals of the conferences at Bremen, the second incomplete. March 1602. Latin.

f. 249v: Letter from Emperor Rudolph II to Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, and the magistrates of Stade. Concerning the intended treaty between England and the Hanseatic towns. Prague, August 3 and July 31 1602. English translation.

f. 250r-250v: Commission of Emperor Rudolph II to the Bishop of Lubeck. To act at the congress of Bremen. Prague, August 3 1602. English translation.

f. 251r-251v: Letter from Emperor Rudolph II to Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz. Ratifying a recess published at Stade, and appointing him a commissioner for the congress at Bremen. Prague, August 3 1602. Translated in English.

f. 252r-252v: Letter from the magistrates of Stade, possibly to Stephen Lesieur. Concerning a meeting to be held at Bremen for a treaty. August 21 1602. Latin.

f. 253r-253v: Letter from the magistrates of Lubeck to Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz. Concerning a congress for a treaty between England and the Hanseatic towns. August 22 1602. English translation.

f. 254r-254v: Letter from the English commissioners to Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg. A letter of acknowledgement. Bremen, September 26 1602. Latin.

ff. 255r-256v: Letter from Ralph Eure, John Herbert, Daniel Dun and Stephen Lesieur, commissioners, to Robert Cecil. Requesting a letter from Queen Elizabeth I to the Imperial commissioners, and acknowledging receipt of a packet. Bremen, October 1 1602.

f. 257r-257v: Letter from Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to the English commissioners. Concerning a congress to be held. Harburg, October 7 [1602]. Latin.

f. 258r: Letter from Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz, to Daniel Dun, commissioner. Reporting that the Bishop of Lubeck objected to Bremen as the location for the meeting. Hamburg, October 27 1602. Latin.

f. 259r-259v: Letter from Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, to the English commissioners. On the location of the intended meeting. Harburg, October 29 1602. Latin.

f. 260r: Letter from the English commissioners to the magistrates of Stade. Acknowledging the receipt of a friendly letter. Bremen, October 30 1602. Latin.

f. 261r-261v: Note of the people who came into a city, possibly Bremen, on behalf of the Hanse. 1602.

ff. 262r-266r: Two copies of a letter from Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz, to Queen Elizabeth I. Stating his conduct with regard to the Imperial edicts concerning the English merchants. Bremen, November 19 1602. Latin.

f. 267r: Letter from John Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz. Reporting that he has declined the emperor’s commission. Gottorp, November 26 1602. English translation.

f. 268r: Letter from the English commissioners to Otho, Duke of Brunswick Luneburg. Acknowledging his letter above (f. 259r-259v) and discussing the meeting. Bremen, November 1602. Latin.

ff. 269r-271r: Three letters from Stephen Lesieur to the other English commissioners at Bremen. On the friendly conduct of Ehrenfried, Baron de Munckwitz, and his going to Prague. Hamburg, December 26, 28 and 31 1602.