[[1]] Purchas, viii, 258.
[[2]] A. Schaube: "Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Ständigen Gesandtschaften," in vol. 10 of Mittheilungen des Instituts für oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung, 1889. What follows is mainly from "Les Commencements de la Diplomatie," three articles by Ernest Nys in Revue de Droit International, vols. 15 and 16, 1883-84. Cf. also V. E. Hrabar's De Legatis et Legationibus, 1906, a collection of treatises on the subject up to 1625, some unpublished ones printed in full, with summaries of those better known.
[3] Harleian MS. 3822, fol. 599. And Viaggi of Gian Vincenzo Imperiale, p. 149, vol. 29 of Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, 1898.
[[4]] Cf. Antonio de Beatis, pp. 156, 157.
[[5]] George Chapman, Tears of Peace.
[[6]] Cf. especially the beginning of Jacopo Soranzo's narrative in Albéri's Relazioni Venete, Series III, ii, 212.
[[7]] Life and Letters, i, 319.
[8] First Fruits, p. 18.
[9] Calendars of State Papers, Ven., v, 109 and 382.
[[10]] Hist. MSS. Com., 1899, vol. 46 (Duke of Buccleugh's Winwood Papers, i), 120, 121.