Catalogue description ARDOUIN DE BAGNIOUX to LORD WILLOUGHBY.*

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Details of 8ANC7/11
Reference: 8ANC7/11
Title: ARDOUIN DE BAGNIOUX to LORD WILLOUGHBY.*
Description:

--Since your Lordship left this town, there is arrived from France M. the Vicomte de Turayne, the Baron de Salignac, and a Gascon gentleman named M. de Villemore, with a great train. They are lodged at York House, have been very well received, and are served by the people of the Earl of Essex. One of their gentlemen has informed me that the King had left his infantry, which is in Normandy, and was journeying into Champagne. Since then he had been at Chateau Thiery, and was pushing forward against the Duke of Lorraine, who had besieged Ste. Manhoue. The King took with him only fifteen or sixteen hundred horse, but meant to join M. the Comte de Grandprey and M. de Tinteville, governors in those parts. The Baron de Guytrie is marching with another army towards Savoy to fight the Duke of Savoy, who wishes to advance into the Lionnais. The Duke of Parma keeps his men and his camp near Meaux. Some Spaniards have arrived in Brittany, but not so many as rumour reported. It is said here that our people in the Low Countries have taken Bois le Duc. God grant it!

 

*This letter must be dated O.S., for Henry was not at Chasteau Thierry until Nov. 9, N.S. The Ambassador's letter below is probably also O.S., as Corbeil was not retaken until the night between Nov. 10 and 11, N.S. Also it seems unlikely that a letter, if written in London on Nov. 4, should not reach Grimsthorpe until the 21st.

Date: 1590, November 5. London
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: French
Physical description: 1 page.

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