Archivio di Stato, Venezia,
VIII Inghilterra 1609, Marco Antonio Correr Amb., Senato III,
Secreta
Plans for
Prince Henry
's tilt in a dispatch sent home by
the Venetian ambassador
Marc Antonio Correr on 17 [i.e. 7] Dec. 1609. It numbered 61 and occupies pp. 323-325
(extract
on p. 324).
Il Principe e’ giunto hoggi in Londra per metter’in ordine un torneo, che intende
far’il mese di Febraio prossimo o, et sara’ la prima uolta che si ha pubblicamente mostrato in tali essercitij. Ha prouato un poco di difficoltà nell’ ottenire licenza
del Re’: tuttauia la Maesta’ Sua non lo ha’ uoluto discompiacere.
Translation
Today
the Prince
has arrived in
London
in order to arrange a tournament, which he intends to give the next February. It will
be the first time he has appeared in public in such exercises. He had some difficulty
in obtaining the King
’s consent, but His Majesty did not want to displease him.
Bibliography
CSPV 1607-1610, 400-1
H&S, 10.511