viernes, 3 de agosto de 1554

Edad:
27 años

Carta de la Princesa Regente a Maria I

Valladolid,

I have received your Highness's letter of June 12th, presented to me by your agent, Thomas Gresham. In it you speak of a sum of money to be paid over to you in Spain, and of leave to export it in conformity with a letter from the Emperor. This is the first time you have asked anything of me, and I would very much have liked to grant your request without reservation, but I hear that when your ambassadors mentioned the matter to his Highness at Corunna he gave them permission to export 200,000 ducats, and had great difficulty even so, for the representatives (i.e. in Cortes) of these kingdoms have implored me to forbid all exportation of coin, because of its great scarcity here.

I therefore beg your Highness to excuse me for not sending you the rest, for God knows I would have liked to please you and despatch the whole amount; but it was impossible for the above reasons. I shall write again to your Highness to congratulate you on your marriage and assure you of my desire to serve you, so I will only say here that your agent shall receive all possible favour, according to your wish.

Minute. Spanish.

Fuentes

Simancas, E.104.

Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 13, 1554-1558

Edited by Royall Tyler.

Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1954.

 


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