HISTORICAL VIEW

OF THE

NEGOTIATIONS

Between the COURTS of

England, France, and Bruffels,

From the Year 1592 to 1617.

Extracted chiefly from the MS. State-Papers of
Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt. Embaffador in
France, and at Bruffels, and Treasurer of the
Houshold to the Kings James I. and Charles I.
and of Anthony Bacon, Efq; Brother to the
Lord Chancellor Bacon.

To which is added,

A Relation of the STATE of France, with the CHA-
RACTERS of Henry IV. and the principal Persons of
that Court, drawn up by Sir George Carew, upon
his Return from his Embaffy there in 1609, and
addressed to King James I. Never before printed.

By THOMAS BIRCH, M. A. F. R. S.
And Rector of the United-Parishes of St. Margaret-
Pattens and St. Gabriel-Fenchurch.

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR, oppofite to Katha-
rine-Street, in the Strand.

M.DCC.XLIX.

BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA

MONACENSIS

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INTRODUCTION.

To the HONOURABLE

PHILIP TORKE.

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N the course of that friendship, which you have for feveral years honoured me with, our converfation has frequently turned upon the

fubject of antient and modern Hiftory, which you are master of to a degree of accuracy, unusual in an age fo little advanced, and in a rank and fortune attended with so many temptations and avocations. And indeed what study, next to that of the great and unalterable principles of Morality and Religion, the bafis of all found judgment and right conduct, is more suitable than this to the higher ftations of life? It has at once the particular advantage of being the best qualification for public business, and the more general one of opening