[143]. Lansdowne MSS., 170, f. 156 b.

[144]. Ibid., ff. 200, 217 b.

[145]. Kervyn de Lettenhove, Relations Politiques des Pays-Bas et de l’Angleterre, Brussels, 1882, i. 128, 144, 161, 184, &c.

[146]. Foreign Cal., 1553–8, pp. 393–4.

[147]. Ibid., p. 396.

[148]. Cal. of Cecil MSS., i, 164.

[149]. Foreign Cal., 1558–9, No. 922.

[150]. Cotton MSS., Claud E vii. 240, f. 250.

[151]. The Portuguese shipped a considerable quantity of their East Indian merchandise to Antwerp, which formed the distributing centre for northern Europe.

[152]. Letters and Papers, i, p. 464.