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The Spanish Embassy in the Seventeenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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page vi note 1 His views may be found in Harl. MS. 1518, ff. 22–29 (British Museum).
page viii note 1 Hist. MSS. Commission. Marquess of Downshire's MSS., vol. I, p. 78. Dr. Owen Wynne to Sir William Trumbull. “The Venetian ambassadors are much disgusted with every step they made in their audience last Friday” (under date Dec. 21, 1685).
page viii note 2 Did the author know Sir Henry Wotton's definition: “legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa,” which is considerably improved by the translation, “an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country”? On the history of Wotton's definition and on the point in general, see Satow, Diplomatic Practice (2nd edn.), I, p. 181.Google Scholar
page ix note 1 The translator's preface says: “This small treatise is said to have been printed at Cologn, in the year 1684. But the book which I have was not printed there, but in Madrid, in the same year. I have some reason to believe it was writ here in England, by Don Pedro Ronquillo embassador of Spain at our court; but though I cannot be positive as to that, etc.”
page x note 1 See Recueil des Instructions données aux ambassadeurs et ministres de France, tom. XI, Espagne, A. Morel-Fatio, pp. 512–516. For Watteville, ibid., p. 165 f. Pepys' Diary, 09 30, 1661Google Scholar. Jusserand, J. J., A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II, London, 1892, p. 23Google Scholar f. Satow, , Diplomatic Practice, vol. I, p. 27.Google Scholar
page xi note 1 Hispania Illustrata, London, 1703, p. 53. See Satow, , Diplomatic Practice, I, pp. 285 and 320Google Scholar. Compare the case of the Venetian Embassy, Raymond's Memoirs, Camden Third Series, vol. xxviii, p. 58.Google Scholar
page xi note 2 Spain under Charles II, Correspondence of the Hon. Alexander Stanhope, London, 1840, p. 28.Google Scholar
page 4 note 1 i.e. obviaria.
page 6 note 1 Italianism.
page 10 note 1 Sic,
page 12 note 1 Corr. leer.
page 16 note 1 Corr. carcoma.
page 20 note 1 Corr. consexos.
page 32 note 1 Corr. y.
page 40 note 1 Marginal insertion in another hand; next four words underlined (expunctuated).