[491] Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. iii., pt. i., p. 342. “At this time there was so many Spaniards in London, that a man should have met in the street for one Englishman, above four Spaniards, to the great discomfort of the English nation” (Chronicle of Queen Jane, etc., p. 81). For want of other accommodation, they were lodged in the halls of the city companies.
[492] Venetian Calendar, vol. v., 966. St. Mark’s Library, Cod. xxiv., Cl. x.
[493] Venetian Calendar, vol. vi., pt. i., 37.
[494] Acts of the Privy Council, vol. v., pp. 157, 159, 171, 173, new series. The disturbances here mentioned were the direct consequence of the liberation of the disaffected.
[495] De Noailles, Ambassades, vol. iii., pp. 262, 263.
[496] Miss Strickland is wrong in supposing that she was at court in December 1554, returning afterwards to Woodstock. Renard, de Noailles, Foxe, Holinshed, Stow and others only mention her appearance there on her release in April 1555.
[497] Bedingfeld Papers, p. 225.
[498] Archives des Affaires Etrangères, Angleterre, vol. i., p. 827, Paris: “Mémoires et Instructions du sieur de la Marque allant vers M. le Connestable.” Froude is also inaccurate in fixing the date of Elizabeth’s departure from Woodstock in July, and in saying that the Princess was received at Hampton Court by Lord William Howard, and that the courtiers flocked round her, offering her their congratulations (vol. vi., p. 357).
[499] Foxe, vol. viii., p. 620.
[500] Heywood, p. 156.