f [1v] (12 July)
the spanish ambassador is much delighted in beare-baiting, He was the last weeke at Paris-garden where they shewed him all the pleasure they could both with bull beare and horse, besides, Iackanapes and then turned a white beare into the thames where the dogges baited him swimming which was the best sport of all...
Record title: John Chamberlain's Letter to Dudley Carleton
Repository:
TNA
Shelfmark: SP 14/148
Repository location: Kew
John Chamberlain's frequent letters to his friend and diplomat, Sir Dudley Carleton (1574–1632), first Viscount Dorchester, are a well-known source for news of the royal court and current gossip. Chamberlain (1553–1628) lived in London near St Paul's Cathedral and maintained a long correspondence with Carleton. According to P.J. Finkelpearl, 'no diary of the period and no series of letters can equal Chamberlain's for its many-sided view of Elizabethan and Jacobean London and England'; see 'Chamberlain, John (1553–1628, letter writer,' ODNB, accessed 21 November 2022.
12 July 1623; English; paper; bifolium; 200mm x 320mm; unnumbered; good condition; remains of red wax seal in several places on f [2v] and addressed 'To the right honorable Sir | Dudley Carleton Right | Lord Ambassador for | his maiestie with the states | of the Vnited Provinces | at the Hagh.' Autograph letter now foliated 99–100, mounted on a binding strip and bound in red leather with other domestic state papers, title on spine: 'STATE | PAPERS | DOMESTIC | JAMES I | 148.'