The compleat ambassador: . or two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France. Together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein, as clear as a mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of state, not at all mentioned in any history. Faithfully collected
Sir Dudley Digges(1583-1639)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3012559
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],232,231-414,419-434,439-441,[9]p. . ill.. . fol... Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clipping from dealer's catalogue, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Inscribed on pastedown: 'For The Honble Sir Edwd. Auster, of Boxley = abbey near Maidstone in Kent; Baronet this book . is with great esteem forwarded thither unto him, from Thomas Frewen of Brickwall in Northiam Lanchis[ ] [?]. A=D 1750'. [i.e. possibly from Thomas Frewen (1704-1791), of Northiam and Lewes, Sussex, physician and promoter of vaccination, son of the lawyer Thomas Frewen of Brickwall (who owned other books in Norris collection), to Sir Edward Auster of Boxley Abbey, Kent]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Loosely inserted: slip of manuscript notes by Norris. Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand:Howes 19/12 46. 25/=. Affixed to flyleaf: clipping from book dealer's catalogue, describing this copy.. Binding: Seventeenth-century full mottled calf over boards; rebacked in calf; red morocco spine label with title 'Digges' Compleat ambassador'; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Sir Dudley Digges(1583-1639) Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532 - 1590)