Chapter XLVIII: Appendix: XXIX

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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC

ADDENDA, ELIZABETH, VOL. XXI, NO. 58

[_French-English Alliance, 1572_]

Good m^[r] Hoggyns.... We allso here of a gret lege made w^[th] France w^[ch] ys thowghte that thereby the Frenche pretendith some further feche to serve there tourne: God of his goodnesse kepe the noble yle of Inglande to lyve w^[th]out givynge ower much credith to forren fryndshipe. Here ys gret preparation as ever I sawe for w^[th] in this xx dayes there wyll be x thousant horsmen & fyfty thousant fotmen: lykewyse by se 80. saylle of men of warre. Don Jhon de Austria ys come w^[th] his galles to Genova & the Venecians goith outwarde agaynst the tourke who hath augmentyd there forces. The deuke of Savoye armyth for the Kynge 8000 fottemen and as it ys sayd commyth hym sellf in parson. Flushynge saluted the deuk de Medina cely very vyle at his commynge & burnte iij shipes of marchantes onlye by treson of a Floshynge verlet that came out of Spayne w^[th] them & toke apon hym to led them in to the port of Sleuce & set then on grond hym sellf wente his waye yet the daye after the wynd beynge very good the rest of the deuks armey housted vp saylle, and in dyspite of the toune of Flushynge passed to the Raynykyns w^[th] out hurt more then one gonner slayne. The portyngall flyte of this contry lyke fallse trayters strok ancker before Flushynge w^[ch] ys lyk that many thereby ar undone. The gensys tok off the iij shyppes that wer bornet xxvj. spaynyardes & in the toune honge them. Lykewyse the Spayniardes aboute xv. dayes past toke xxx frenche horsmen commynge to Monsse amonge w^[ch] as yt ys sayd the sone of monsir Mongomvrey was one who offerryd for his ransome 5000 crounes he & the rest his compaynyons wer hanged at Flyford vj. dayes past so that here ys no favor but hangynge on both sydes. Our cuntrymen & wemen as my lade of Northumberland lieth at Maklynge & so doth m^[r] Daykeres where not dayes past [two] of my l. Setones sones wer lyk to have byn slayne in the tumolte w^[ch] standeth yet but in a mamerynge yet nowe they begyne to come coler & to obbey the maigestrates. The pore erle of Westmarland lieth at Lovayne & so doth my lade Hungerford my old knyght & otheres. Thoughe I begone, wryte I pray you to me & send yo^[r] letters to my l. to Brugys & in so doynge I wyll wryt to you wekelye from the campe of our occurrance, in hast wryten this present tewsdaye the xvij of Iune at Brugys 1572.

Yo^[r] lovynge frende
THOMAS PARKER

[_Addressed_] To his lovyng fryend m^[r] Robert
Hoggyns at m^[r] Edmunde Hoggyns
his house in Mylke Streete give
thes. At London.

[_Endorsed_]17 Iunii 1572.
m^[r] Tho. Parker to m^[r]
Hogans from Brugis.