Cotton MS Otho E IV

This is the letter-book (1580-1582) of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (1537-1592), English Ambassador in France. (Cobham preferred to use the family title of Cobham as surname rather than the actual family name of Brooke).

The volume was badly damaged in the fire of the Cotton MSS in 1731, so names, dates and a significant amount of content are often missing, and every page has suffered loss. It is not always clear where one letter ends and the next begins.

The author of nearly all these letters is Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham himself (rather than these being letters which passed across his desk, and the evidence of, sometimes heavily, amended drafts confirms this. The letters themselves appear to be the work of several scribes. There is a further complication. The letters often adopt the form of e.g., 'To the earle of Sussex by Prun' (f. 19v), but as the content of the letter shows Edward Prun is the bearer, not the writer. The letters of intelligence were the ambassador's own, and the names attached to them bearers rather than writers. For another example, Nery, an agent of the Duke of Anjou's in the marriage negotiations with the Queen - was crossing and recrossing the English Channel in early 1581, so also carried letters for Brooke: this is supported by the apparent reference to Nery as 'this bearer' in a letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, 23 March (f. 18r). At the same time, Nery evidently also carried a letter to the Earl of Sussex (dated 24 March) (f. 19r). Beneath this letter is the ambiguous note 'here endeth the despatch by Nery', but the letter itself explicitly refers to de Nery's return, in the third person, and his having had an audience the previous evening with Catherine de Medici. Edward Bournham, another bearer of letters (and apricots, f. 54v) was a trusted servant of Walsingham's; Henry Adams was a servant of Brooke's (ff. 23r, 55r, 267v). Jean de Vicque was 'one of the ordinary postes' (f. 23r).

Many recipients' names have been lost, largely by fire damage but sometimes by clerical omission. Many of the letters of the now 'unnamed recipient' in catalogue entries, when not identified as a peer, are probably Sir Francis Walsingham, whom Brooke in his letters addressed as 'your honour'.

The volume is in broadly chronological order, which provides the suggestions for missing dates.

The bearer's names have been included in the entries.

Contents:

ff. 1r-2r: Content unclear, probably summary index of certain letters. Names of recipients include the Duke of Anjou. The clearest, but still incomplete entry, is evidently an address presented to the King on behalf of merchants interested in The Antelope of London, 25 May 1581.

ff. 3r-4v: Letter of intelligence from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, recipient lost [1580-1581?]. News of matters in France, including the doings of the Guise; the Catholic Swiss cantons; the Spanish force to relieve Cambrai. An amended draft.

ff. 5r-6r: Letter of intelligence from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, recipient lost [1580-1581?]. Intelligence includes discussion of relations between King Henri III and the Queen Mother Catherine de Medici with Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde (1552-1588). A heavily amended draft.

f. 6r: Letter from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Blois, 1 Feb 1581. By Henry Adames.

ff. 6v-8r: Letter of intelligence from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, recipient lost. This is possibly two letters in the same hand.

ff. 8v-9r: One or more letters of intelligence by Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham from Blois.

f. 9r: Letter from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to the Lord Chancellor (Sir Thomas Bromley), 5 Feb 1581. By Henry Ada[mes] (name struck out).

ff. 9r-10r: Letter from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretaries (Sir Francis Walsingham and Thomas Wilson), 12 Feb [1581]. By Thomas Wats. Possibly more than one letter.

ff. 10r-11r: Letter from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretaries (Sir Francis Walsingham and Thomas Wilson) [early 1581?]. By Jean de Vicque.

f. 11r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretaries (Sir Francis Walsingham and Thomas Wilson), 1 March [1581]). By Daniel Chabowe. Possibly lost section runs onto f. 11v.

ff. 11v-12r: Letter of intelligence from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, recipient and most of date lost, 12 [March 1581?].

ff. 12v-14v: One (or more) letters of intelligence from Henry Brooke alias Cobham, recipient and date lost [March 1581?].

ff. 14v-15r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 12 March 1581.

ff. 15r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State, 12 March 1581. By Henry Adames.

ff. 15v-18r: Letter Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to 'Mr Sec' (Sir Francis Walsingham, Thomas Wilson or both). By Edward [...]corea. Due to the losses this letter may actually be more than one.

ff. 18r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Blois, 23 March 1581. By Nery.

f. 19r: Either postscript of ff. 18r-v. or a fresh letter by Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham [?]. Part of the despatch carried by Nery.

f. 19r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham [?] to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex. 24 [March 1581]. Carried by Nery. at the foot 'here endeth the dispatche by Nery'.

f. 19v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown peer (addressed as 'your Lordship'). n.d. (March 1581?].

f. 19v; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, 22 March 1581. By Edward Prun.

f. 20r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth [?]. The recipient is addressed as 'your highness'. n.d. [March-April 1581?]. By Paynter.

f. 20r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 8 [April 1581]. By Paynter.

f. 20r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Blois, 4 Apr 1581.

f. 20v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Blois, 6 Apr 1581.

f. 20v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Beale, Blois, 7 Apr 1581. By Paynter. In a PS, Brooke notes 'I doo send you by paynter a frenche booke intituled La sepmaine du Bartas'. [i.e. Guillaume de Salluste, Seigneur Du Bartas, La Sepmaine ou la Creation du Monde (Paris, 1578)].

ff. 20v-21r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, 17 April 1581. by Mr Bournham.

f. 21r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 27 Apr 1581. By Mr Bournham.

ff. 21r-v; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 20 Apr 1581. By Mr Bournham.

ff. 21v-22r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, n.d. [Apr-May 1581?].

ff. 22r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 6 May 1581.

f. 23r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, n.d. [May 1581?].

ff. 23r-24r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, 6 May 1581. By Brooke.

ff. 24r-26r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham and Thomas Wilson, Blois, 18 May 1581.

f. 26v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Blois, 18 May 1581.

ff. 27r-29v: One Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (possibly two) to unknown recipient(s), n.d [May-June? 1581].

ff. 29v-30r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, n.d. [May-June 1581]. The letter includes intelligence of Francois, Duke of Anjou, and concludes, 'Uppon this partinge of Mons[ieu]r [i.e. Anjou] I thought good to dispatche this bearer'.

ff. 30r-31r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham and Thomas Wilson, Blois, 3 June 1581. by Mr Smith.

ff. 32r-36r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, n.d. [June 1581]. This is an amended draft, and may be more than one letter. In a long letter, the Anjou marriage negotiations are discussed.

ff. 36v-37r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, n.d. [June 1581?].

ff. 37v-38r[?]: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient. n.d. [June 1581?]. Anything on f. 38r. is lost, and the text surviving on that folio appears to be a new letter in a different hand.

f. 38r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 12 Jun 1581.

f. 38v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown peer, Paris, 15 Jun 1581.

ff. 39r-40r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown peer, Paris, 14 Jun 1581.

f. 40v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown peer, Paris, 15 Jun 1581.

ff. 41r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, 15 Jun 1581.

f. 42r: Address to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [June 1581?]. In Italian. This proposes an attack on Spanish territory, and asks Sir Francis Drake to write to him.

ff. 42v-44v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, n.d [June 1581].

ff. 45r-v; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 29 Jun 1581.

f. 46r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 3 Jul 1581.

ff. 46v-47r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 3 Jul 1581.

f. 47r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 3 July. Postscript: 'I doe send your honner this inclosed frenshe booke of verses wherein the Ca[tholic] Kinges proceedinges are discovered wishing her Matie might some verses thereof' [sic].

ff. 47v-48r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, n.d. [July 1581].

f. 49v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 7 July 1581.

f. 50r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown peer, Paris, 13 July 1581.

f. 50v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 13 July 1581.

ff. 51r-52r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 13 July 1581. An amended draft.

f. 52v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 13 Jul 1581. Asking for recipient to act as mediator with Lord Burghley over financial matters.

ff. 53r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 13 Jul 1581.

ff. 53v-54v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 14 Jul 1581. By Mr Edward Bournham. Amongst the political intelligence Brooke notes that he is sending Walsingham a basket of apricots ('Abricockes') delivered to Mr Bournham which he hopes 'which I hope will come to your honnors hands in better sort then the other'.

f. 55r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to a kinsman, Paris, 20 July 1581. A mixture of news from France, and family and business matters. He signs off as 'your loving Cosen and assured frend'.

ff. 55v-57r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, n.d. [Jul 1581?]. Evidently from the hand all one letter. A draft with a number of crossings out.

ff. 57v-58r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient [Sir Francis Walsingham?], Paris, Jul 1581. (It may be Walsingham as the letter notes that Mr Burnham brings very welcome news).

ff. 58r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 25 Jul 1581.

ff. 58v-59r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, 3 Aug 1581. 'by large'.

ff. 59r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 3 Aug 1581.

ff. 59v-60v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, 9 Aug 1581.

f. 60v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, Paris, 9 Aug 1581.

ff. 61r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 21 Aug 1581.

ff. 62r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, 3 Aug 1581.

ff 62v-63r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to the lord Chamberlain (Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex), 9 Aug 1681. By Jacques Corne[lost]. the letter clearly ran onto f. 63r., but that portion has been lost.

ff. 63r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, 16 Aug 1581.

ff. 63v-64r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Chamberlain. By Walsing[ham]. Text at top of f. 64r almost wholly lost.

ff. 64r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, Lord Treasurer, Paris, 26 Aug 1581.

f. 64v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, Lord Treasurer, Paris, 28 Aug 1581. By Pyne.

f. 65r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 12 Sep 1581.

f. 65v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 22 Sept 1581.

f. 66r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, n.d. Possibly a postscript to letter of 22 Sep 1581 (f. 65v).

f. 66r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 19 Sep 1581. By Cyprian Datede.

ff. 66r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretary (Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 22 Sep 1581. By Cyprian.

ff. 66v-67v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 3 Oct 1581. By Mr Bournham. Annexed is a letter in French that Cobham sent to George Hans, Elector Palatine, Oct 1581 (of which only a few words survive).

f. 67v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to the Lord Treasurer, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, Paris, 3 Oct 1581.

ff. 67v-68r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretary (Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 1 Oct 1581. By Bournham, [The secretary is definitely Walsingham, who had recently been on a diplomatic mission to France, and the letter explicitly refers to events since the recipient's parting].

f. 68v: Account by Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham of a masque at the court of Henri III, n.d. (Oct 1581?). This may well be a continuation of the letter to Walsingham of 1 Oct 1581, ff. 67r-68v.

f. 69r: Letter by Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient of political events, n.d. [Oct? 1581]. This may be a further continuation of the letter to Walsingham of 1 October, ff. 67v-68r.

ff. 69r-70v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 9 Oct 1581. By G. Paule. The letter itself (ff. 69r-70v) has enclosures, ff. 70v-71v:

f. 70v: Enclosure to letter to Walsingham 9 Oct 1581: 'The kynge showed a note in wrytinge wherein is specifyed the benefites he hath bestoed on Monsr. d'O as followeth'.

f. 71r: Enclosure to letter to Walsingham 9 Oct 1581: A note on the international situation: mainly Italy but also a reference to Brandenburg.

ff. 71r-v: Enclosure to letter to Walsingham 9 Oct 1581: 'The Kings order of cominge in unto the running of the rynge': an account of display and music in royal ritual.

ff. 71v-72r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris. 9 Oct 1581. By Paul.

ff. 72r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 10 Oct 1581. By Paul.

ff. 72v-73v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 21 Oct 1581. By Adams. The political intelligence includes an account of royal pageantry and mock battle.

ff. 73v-74r: 'The estate of Cambres [Cambrai] as Monseigneur [Francois Duke of Anjou] hath ordered the same at present'. A note of military dispositions there, after Anjou had relieved the town in Aug 1581. the note is undated, but may be an enclosure to the letter to Walsingham of 21 Oct 1581 [ff. 71v-72v].

ff. 74r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Francis Walsingham, Paris, 22 Oct 1581.

ff. 74v-75r: Letter of Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, 22 Oct 1581. By Adams.

ff. 75r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley, 22 Oct 1581. By Adams.

f. 75v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Philip Sidney, Paris, 22 Oct 1581. By Adams.

ff. 75v-76r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Edward Fenton, 22 Oct 1581. By Adams. Brooke addresses Fenton as 'cousin' and asks him to further Brooke's suit by talking to the Earl of Leicester. The end of the letter (f. 76r) has been lost. Edward Fenton may be the sea captain and soldier (d. 1603) of that name. ff. 76r-77r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 28 Oct 1581.

ff. 77r-78r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 29 Oct 1581. By Mathew de Quester.

f. 78r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 29 Oct 1581.

f. 78v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 22 Oct. 1581.

f. 79r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 10 Dec 1581.

f. 79v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 10 Dec 1581.

ff. 80r-81r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 11 Nov 1581.

ff. 81r-82v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 12 Nov. 1581.

ff. 83r-85r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 18 Dec 1581. A letter with a number of interlineated amendments.

ff. 85v-86r; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 20 Dec 1581. A postscript adds that Secretary Brulart has sent him this enclosed letter (not transcribed), from the Queen Mother (Catherine de Medici) for Queen Elizabeth, signifying that the King defers making his answer till his return on 24 Dec.

ff. 86r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to the Lord Treasurer (Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex), 20 Dec 1581.

ff. 86v-87r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 20 Dec 1581. By Bournham. With note at end: 'he endeth the dispatche by Bournham'.

ff. 87r-88r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Christopher Hatton, Paris, 23 Dec 1581. By Pyne.

ff. 88v-91r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 11 Dec 1581. #

ff. 91r-92v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 12 Dec 1581. 'Personal' By Rich [name lost]. Amended draft.

f. 92v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Philip Sidney, 12 Dec 1581. Amongst news, Brooke ('your Loving Cosen and assured frend') asks Sidney to commend him to Sir Thomas Parret, 'one of your Loving Fryndes wch hathe all power'.

ff. 93r-94r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 18 Dec 1581. Amended draft.

ff. 94v-98v; Letter(s?) of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham. these are drafts with heavy crossing out. It starts out as a letter to Queen Elizabeth but by the end the recipient is an unnamed commoner (addressed as your honour) in a letter dated 21 Feb 1582. The change occurs somewhere in ff. 96r-97v. It may be two letters, or given the nature of the letter Brooke may have changed its intended audience.

f. 98v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, n.d. [Feb 1582?]. By Mr Duke Cobham.

f. 99r: Letter Sir of Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, Paris, 28 Feb 1582.

ff. 99r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Christopher Hatton, Paris, 22 Feb 1582. By Mr Duke Cobham.

f. 99v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretary (Sir Francis Walsingham), 2 Mar 1582. By Mr Duncom.

f. 100r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 1 March 1582. Brooke originally amended the draft, the struck it out entirely.

f. 100r: 'A note of suche L[ette]rs as are sent by Mr Duncum and not entred in th[is] booke': seven letters listed, including one to the Lord Chamberlain (the Earl of Sussex).

ff. 100v-101v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 3 March 1582.

ff. 101v-103r/104r[?]: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham. By Mr Duncum. It is not clear when this letter ends: the very (and lost) tops of ff. 103r or 104r are possibilities.

ff. 103r/104r[?]-104v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, 30 Jan 1582. It is not clear where this letter starts and the preceding one ends.

ff. 104v-105v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham his brother, Paris, 30 Jan 1582. By Anthony Frogmorton [Throckmorton?]. In the letter, Brooke tells his brother of Traite de la Verite de la Religion Chretian by Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, seigneur of du Plessis-Marly): given its author and publication at Antwerp he assumes he has it, but if not will send it when he pleases.

ff. 105v-107r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 8 Feb 1582. Ordinary post.

f. 107v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unknown recipient, Paris, 8 Feb 1582. Beneath the letter notes, 'ending of John Le Roys dispatche'.

f. 108r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of Wales, Paris, 18 Feb 1582. He refers toTraite de la Verite de la Religion Chretian by Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, seigneur of du Plessis-Marly), which will send to Sidney.

ff. 108r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 19 Feb. 1582. by Peter Tune, ordinary post.

f. 108v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, 21 Feb 1582. This ends abruptly and there may be an ending lost at the top of f. 109r. In the margin is a list of 5 or 6 letters evidently also sent in the diplomatic box, including to Brooke and to Lord Cobham.

f. 109r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient, Paris, 24 Dec 1581.

f. 109v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient, Paris, 24 Dec 1581. This may be an enclosure of f. 109r.

ff. 110r-111v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient, Paris, 30 Dec 1581.

ff. 111v-112r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 5 Feb 1582. By Peter Tune.

ff. 112v-114r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient, Paris, 5 Jan 1582. In a postscript to a lengthy letter of intelligence, Brooke notes that John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, is seeking a benefice from the king of France; Brooke encloses 'the booke in frenshe of Campion and the other Jesuites death the wch is puplykly sold in this towne'.

ff. 114v-115r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient, n.d. [Jan-Feb 1582?].

f. 115r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient, 18 Jan 1582: letter recommending the bearer John Morley.

f. 115r: Note that 'There was an other [letter] sent to Mr Secretary [i.e. Sir Francis Walsingham] Wherein was inclosed a L[ett]re sent to me by from Don Ant[oni]o'.

ff. 115-116r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unknown recipient (probably Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 15 Jan 1582. By Large (and note at the foot of the letter that here endeth Large's despatch).

ff. 116-118r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, 20 Jan. 1582. By Jacques Cornelis.

f. 118v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed peer, Paris, 21 Jan 1582.

ff. 118v-120r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, 22 (possibly 21) Jan 1582. By Jacques Cornelis. At the foot of the letter, a hote that here endeth Cornelis's packet: he went hence Monday night about 7.

ff. 120r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Paris, 23 Jan 1582. By Mr Needam.

ff. 121r-124v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed recipient, Paris, 19 Feb 1582. f. 125r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed peer, Paris, 21 Feb 1582. f.; 125v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 21 Feb 1582.

ff. 126r-128v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed recipient, Paris, 3 March 1582.

ff. 128v-129r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, Lord Treasurer, Paris, 3 March 1582. By Mr Duncome and note at the foot of the letter that this is the end of Mr Duncom's despatch, dated 3 March.

ff. 129r-131v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 12 Mar 1582. By Mr Asheley.

ff. 131v-132v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed recipient, n.d. [March 1582?]. A letter of intelligence which is wholly struck out.

f. 133r; Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed peer, Paris, 13 March 1582.

ff. 133r-v; Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 13 March 1582.

f. 134r: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to unnamed recipient, Paris, 13 March 1582. Note at foot that here endeth Mr Asheley's despatch, who parted on Thursday afternoon, 13 March.

ff. 134r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Cobham alias Brooke to Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother of France, 3 Apr 1582. In French. Concerning the Sieur de Semiers.

ff. 134v-137r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 19 March 1582. By Fant. In a lengthy letter, with some amendments to the draft, Brooke notes enclosing a book on Don Antonio's claim to the Portuguese throne.

ff. 137r-138v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 20 March 1582. Also sent with the letter a book of the entering of Monseigneur (the duke of Anjou) into Antwerp.

ff. 138v-139r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Chamberlain, Paris, 21 March 1582. Noted at the foot that this is the end of Fant's dispatch, who parted the morning of 22 March.

f. 139v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 26 March 1582. Brooke signs off as 'your assured faythfull and Loving frynd'. f. 140r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 26 March 1582. Brooke signs off as 'your assured Loving frynd'. ff. 140r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Killigrew of the Privy Chamber (i.e William Killigrew), Paris, 26 March 1582. Brooke signs off as 'your assured frynd to dispos[e]'.

ff. 140v-141r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to John Fortescue, Master of the Standing Wardrobe, Paris, 26 March 1582. Brooke addresses Fortescue as 'my Loving Cosen'.

ff. 141r-141v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Frances Radcliffe, Countess of Sussex, Paris, 26 March.

f. 141v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Newcome, n.d. [March-April 1582]. Newcome is the tutor or schoolmaster of Brooke's son. The letter is incomplete but the line or two on f. 142r has been lost.

ff. 142r-143r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, Paris, 4 Apr 1582.

ff. 143v-144v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 9 Apr 1582.

ff. 144v-147v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 10 Apr 1582.

ff. 147v-148v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 10 Apr 1582. 148v-149r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Walsingham, n.d. [Mar-Apr 1582?].

ff. 149r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Paris, 26 Mar 1582. Brooke sends with the letter a book on Don Antonio's claim to the Portuguese throne.

ff. 149r-150v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Edward Stafford, Paris, 26 March. Brooke addresses Stafford as 'my Loving frynd', and at the foot of the letter and notes he encloses with this other letters from French correspondents.

ff. 150r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh, Paris, 26 Mar 1582. Brooke sends the book recently printed on Don Antonio's claim to the Portuguese throne.

f. 150v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 26 Mar 1582. Brooke sends the book recently printed on Don Antonio's claim to the Portuguese throne.

f. 151r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 27 Mar 1582. Brooke sends the book recently printed on Don Antonio's claim to the Portuguese throne, and the book describing the Duke of Anjou's entry into Antwerp.

f.151r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 27 Mar 1582.

ff. 152r-154v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 21 Apr 1582.

ff. 155r-156r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 22 Apr 1582.

ff. 156r-158r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 23 Apr 1582. Headed 'To sys' .

f. 158: Passage by Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, possibly a postscript to letter to Walsingham, ff. 156r-158r.

ff. 158r-159r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 23 Apr 1582. The recipient may again be Walsingham.

ff. 159r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Paris, 23 Apr 1582. Note at the foot that this is the end of Mr George's despatch.

f. 159v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Lady Chandos, n.d. [Apr 1582?]. Only the existence of this letter is recorded.

ff. 160r-163r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 3 May 1582. There is a marginal note in French on f. 160v, a page heavy with emendations.

ff. 163r-164r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, April 1582 (day of the month lost). At the foot of this letter, note that here endeth Mr Myldmay's despatch and note that the first letter was written of Lord Hunsdon's son and Mr Darsey out of Flanders.

ff. 164r-165r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 13 May 1582.

ff. 165r-168r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 14 May 1582.

f. 168v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 14 May 1582.

ff. 168v-169r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 14 May 1582. By the head of the letter, a note of a box and a great packet of French[?] books sent.

f. 169v: Note of letters from Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham by[?] Adams: two letters, a receipt of his expenses, a letter to my wife and two others to my friends.

f. 169v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 14 May 1582. At its foot, 'here endeth Jackson despatche'.

ff. 170r-171r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 19 May 1582.

ff. 171r-172r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient (probably Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 18 May 1582. This is possibly two letters: there is a change of writing at f. 172r (which is the folio bearing the date) but a change of writing can happen within one letter.

ff. 172v-173v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient (probably Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 26 May 1582.

f. 174r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient (probably Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 29 May 1582.

ff. 174v-177r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 30 May 1582. At the end of this letter, 'six lres to Syr Francis Walsingham'. This evidently applies to the preceding letters, so all the letters ff. 171r-177r are to Walsingham. but also that two letters have silently run into each other through the sections of lost pages. ff. 171r-172r is one candidate; this letter, ff. 174v-177r is another possibility because of its length. But the sixth letter could be the next one, f. 178r.

f. 178r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 30 May 1582. Brooke encloses a small book in Spanish on the affairs of Portugal.

ff. 178r-v: Letter of Don Antonio, claimant to the Portuguese throne, to Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, Tours, 25 May 1582. In French. Entered by a clerk of Brooke's.

ff. 179r-180r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 30 May 1582.

f. 180v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 30 May 1582. Note at the foot of the letter that here endeth John Girling's despatch.

ff. 181r-183v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, Paris, June 1582 (day of month left blank). This is a heavily amended text.

ff. 184r-185r; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 5 June 1582.

f. 185v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 5 June. Brooke signs off as 'your assured frynde to commande'. He is sending him 'a new set forth booke' on the prophesy of Daniel and the day of Ezekiel (this is presuably Louis de Montjosieu, Les Semaines de Daniel, et les Jours d'Ezechiel, touchant le temps, & le nombre des années que Jesus Christ le Messie devoit estre en ce monde, Paris, 1582). At the foot of this letter is a note that this is the end of John de Vigne's letters.

ff. 185v-188r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 13 June 1582.

ff. 188r-189r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 13 June 1582.

ff. 189r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Chamberlain, Paris, 13 June 1582. Crossed through and 'not sent' written in the margin.

ff. 189v-190r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Chamberlain, 26 June 1582.

ff. 190r-192v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 27 J[une?] 1582.

ff. 192v-194v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 27 June 1582. At the foot is the note this is the end of 'Dams' despatch.

ff. 195r-198v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 12 July 1582. This may be two letters, with the new letter starting at f. 197r (where there is a slight change in handwriting style). The date comes from the end of the letter.

ff. 199r-200v; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 12 July 1582.

ff. 200r-201v; Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 11 July 1582. At the foot of the letter a note that this is the end of Paul's despatch, and a further note, 'Torne too leaves for a Lre to Sir Francis of this dispatche of Pauls'.

ff. 202r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 16 July 1582. By Mr Ferdinando Stanton.

ff. 202v-203v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 17 July 1582. By Stanton.

ff. 203v-204r Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 12 July 1582. by Paul. 'touching my lords particular cause'.

ff. 204r-205v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 22 July 1582. By Mr Cooke.

ff. 206r-209r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris. 21 July 1582. This may be two letters; there is a blank page f. 206v. Date from the end of the letter.

f. 209v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 21 July 1582. Brooke send a book enclosed. f. 210r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peer, Paris, 21 July 1582.

ff. 210r-211v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 22 July 1582. Noted at the foot of this letter that this is the end of Mr Cooke's despatch.

ff. 211v-212r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris 26 July 1582. Note at the end of the letter that this is Jackson's despatch, [2]6 July 1582.

ff. 212v-213r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 26 July 1582. Noted at the foot as the end of Jackson's letters.

ff. 213v-216r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 1 Aug 1582. ff. 216r-217v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 1 Aug 1582. By Brooke. This is noted as the end of Brooke's despatch.

ff. 217v-223r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 7 [Aug?] 1582. By Mr Bournham.

ff. 223r-224r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 7 Aug 1582. By Mr Bournham. At the foot noted as the end of Mr Bournham's despatch.

ff. 224r-225r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 11 Aug 1582. By Barwick.

ff. 225r-227v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to the Lords of the Privy Council, n.d. [Aug? 1582].

ff. 227v-231r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, n.d.. [Aug 1582?]. With emendations and two pages crossed out. This is probably continued as a letter in ff. 231r-v.

f. 231r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 21 [Aug] 1582. Noted as 'beginning of the dispatch by Paynter'.

f. 231v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 15 Aug 1582.

f. 232r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed peeress, Paris, 21 Aug 1582.

ff. 232v-234r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 21 Aug 1582.

ff. 234r-235r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 21 Aug 1582. He explains his servant Barwick with dispatches on 15 Aug because he had heard of delays of packets passing into England and Flanders.

ff. 235r-237r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Mr Secretary (Sir Francis Walsingham), Paris, 27 Aug 1582. By Stephen Dams.

f. 237r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, n.d.. This is most plausibly a postscript added to the preceding letter to Sir Francis Walsingham of 27 Aug 1582. At its foot is a note that this is the end of Dams' letters.

ff. 237r-240v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 28 Aug 1582. By John Johnes.

ff. 240v-241r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 4 [Sep] 1582.

ff. 241r-242r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 4 [Sep?] 1582. Noted as the end of John Jones's despatch, who left the afternoon of the 4th.

ff. 242r-243r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, 11 Sep 1582. By Peter T[une]. Heavily amended text.

ff. 243r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, 11 Sep 1582. This may be an addendum to the letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, ff. 242r-243r. At the foot noted as the end of Peter Tune's dispatch.

ff. 244r-247r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 14 Sep 1582. At the foot noted as the end of Mr Edward Georges' despatch.

ff. 247r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 15 Sep 1582. ff. 247v-248r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 17 Sep 1582. ff. 248r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 17 Sep 1582.

ff. 248v-250r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 18 Sep 1582. Notes as the end of Large's despatch.

f. 250v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 26 Sep 1582. This relates a meeting with the Catholic exile Charles Paget where Brooke took down some of his words (f. 251r).

f. 251r: Words of Charles Paget to Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, at his lodgings, 26 Sep 1582.

ff. 251r-252r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 26 Sep 1582.

f. 252r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Paris, 26 Sep 1582.

ff. 252v-254r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 23 Sep 1582. Noted at the foot of this letter that this is the end of Mr Duke Cobham's despatch.

f. 254v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 4 Oct 1582. A letter on dealings with Charles Paget, and a note by Brooke's scribe, 'Sent wth this a lre from Mr Paget to Her Matie one to Mr Secretary and one to my Lord'.

ff. 255r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 4 Oct 1582.

ff. 255v-256v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 4 Oct 1582. Noted at the foot as the end of Thomas Buckton's despatch.

f. 257r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Queen Elizabeth I, Paris, 7 Oct 1582.

ff. 257r-v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Paris, 7 Oct 1582. By his footman.

ff. 257v-258r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 13 Oct 1582.

f. 258v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 13 Oct 1582.

ff. 258v-259v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 17 Oct 1582. by James Paynter.

ff. 259v-261v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 17 Oct 1582. By Paynter.

ff. 262r-262v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 27 Oct 1582.

ff. 263r-264r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 27 Oct 1582.

ff. 264v-266v: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 25 Oct 1582.

f. 267r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to unnamed recipient, Paris, 25 Oct 1582.

f. 267r: Letter of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham to Sir Francis Walsingham, Paris, 24 Oct 1582. By Thomas Walsingham.

f. 267v: Mandate to Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham, n.d. In French. The text is too incomplete to make much of, but the formulation of the date, '...jour de[Blank] 158' is the same as in the next entry, so possibly linked to Francois, Duke of Anjou.

f. 267v: Military summons on behalf of Francois Duke of Anjou, to Lieutenants-General, provincial governors and others, n.d.. Day and month left blank, and for year only 158. In French.

f. 267v: Grant by Sir Brooke alias Cobham of Sutton, Kent, on behalf on himself and his wife to his 'trustie sarvant' Henry Adams to sell the parsonage of Horton Kirby by Eynsford, Kent, n.d [1579-1583]. Incomplete date, '158', but the grant, itself probably a sale, was made whilst Brooke was ambassador in France.

f. 268r: Damaged list of Swiss lords at the French Court who are to be stayed until they conclude with the French king, January 1582.