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Manuscript/Mixed Material Letter signed. To Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principal Secretarie to the Q:[ueen's] Ma[jes]tie."

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Title

  • Letter signed. To Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principal Secretarie to the Q:[ueen's] Ma[jes]tie."

Summary

  • A letter concerning the futile diplomatic negotiations between an English delegation (the Earl of Derby, Sir James Crofts, Lord Cobham, John Rogers, and Dr. Dale), and the Duke of Parma, representing the King of Spain. Meetings began late in 1587, but Parma had been instructed by Philip II to procrastinate and come to no agreement on any point, as the King intended the negotiations to be simply a cover-up for his war preparations. Dale reports a very threatening remark of the Duke of Parma, "a battail lost by the Queen was the loss of her crowne", to which Dale stoutly replied that "one battail was not enough to carie away the mater". He gives his opinion that if the Armada does not reach the Channel, the expense of keeping Parma's large army mobilized would make the Spaniards more inclined to peace. The Armada was in fact on its way to England at the date of this letter (July 25 new style, or 15 old style), it having put out from La Coruña on July 22 (new style).

Names

  • Dale, Valentine, approximately 1520-1589
  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • July 25, 1588

Headings

  • -  Dale, Valentine,--approximately 1520-1589
  • -  Elizabeth--I,--Queen of England,--1533-1603--Early works to 1800
  • -  Philip--II,--King of Spain,--1527-1598
  • -  Walsingham, Francis,--Sir,--1530?-1590
  • -  Armada, 1588
  • -  Diplomacy

Notes

  • -  1 page. Folio (350 x 225 mm.). With attached address leaf.
  • -  Dale (d. 1589) was a noted lawyer and diplomatist, being English ambassador to Flanders and France, and he acted for the Lord High Admiral of England while the post was temporarily in commission (1585).
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Description based on Global Gateway metadata.
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • 1 sheet

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021699430

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Dale, Valentine, Approximately, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Letter signed. To Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principal Secretarie to the Q:ueen's Majestie.". 1588. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699430/.

APA citation style:

Dale, V. & Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. (1588) Letter signed. To Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principal Secretarie to the Q:ueen's Majestie.". [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699430/.

MLA citation style:

Dale, Valentine, Approximately, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Letter signed. To Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principal Secretarie to the Q:ueen's Majestie.". 1588. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021699430/>.