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Case 1: THE TREATY OF LONDON
Exhibition curator: Katie Sambrook
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| Title page of : Jacques Bernard [editor]. Recueil des traitez de paix, de trêve, de neutralité ... Amsterdam: chez Henry et la veuve de T. Boom; La Haye [The Hague]: chez Adrian Moetjens, Henry van Bulderen, 1700. Vol. 3. [Rare Books Collection C17 FOL. JX120.B4] |
Jacques Bernard [editor]. Recueil des traitez de paix, de trêve, de neutralité ... et d'autres actes publics ... ; servant a établir les droits des princes, et de fondement d'histoire. Amsterdam: chez Henry et la veuve de T. Boom; La Haye [The Hague]: chez Adrian Moetjens, Henry van Bulderen, 1700. Vol. 3.
Rare Books Collection C17 FOL. JX120.B4
Bernard's monumental compendium of treaties, which contains the Latin text of the 1604 Treaty of London, was first published in 1700 and is an immensely valuable resource for students of international history.
The principal items under negotiation at the treaty discussions were English support for the Dutch United Provinces in their revolt against Spanish rule, English trading rights in the Indies and other areas of Spanish rule and the treatment of English merchants in Spain by the Spanish Inquisition. Robert Cecil was the chief English negotiator, assisted by Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire and Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Spain was represented by six commissioners, three of whom were Spaniards and three Flemish. The resulting treaty probably represented the best terms that England could hope to achieve, though some of the most vexed issues, such as Indies trading rights, were not resolved.
John Stow. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster ... corrected, improved, and very much enlarged ... by John Strype. London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock ... [et al.], 1720. Vol. 2.
Rare Books Collection ESTC FOL. DA680.St71
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Somerset House, from : John Stow. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster ... corrected, improved, and very much enlarged ... by John Strype. London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock ... [et al.], 1720. Vol. 2. [Rare Books Collection ESTC FOL. DA680.St71] |
Somerset House, the setting for the 1604 peace negotiations, had been appropriated by the English crown after the execution for treason of its owner, Thomas Seymour, Duke of Somerset, in 1552. Elizabeth I had made little personal use of the building, preferring her palaces at Whitehall and St. James's when in London, but Somerset House was often used as accommodation for visiting foreign diplomats. James I, however, liked Somerset House and wished it to become one of the more important of his palaces. He gave it to his queen, Anne of Denmark, who used it both as a residence and as a venue for elaborate royal entertainments. Later in his reign it was renamed Denmark House in her honour, a name which it retained for much of the seventeenth century. In 1609 Anne of Denmark commissioned the architect Inigo Jones to undertake a considerable remodelling and expansion of the palace.
This view of Somerset House is by Jan Kip, a Dutch topographical artist who
provided most of the illustrations for John Strype's 1720 revision of Stow's
Survey of London, which had originally been published in 1598. It shows
Somerset House as it appeared in the early eighteenth century, by which time
a number of alterations had been made to Inigo Jones's design.
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Stow's entry regrding the Treaty of London from his The abridgement of the English Chronicle ... continued with matters forreine and domesticall, unto the end of the yeare 1610 by E. H. [i.e. Edmund Howes]. London: imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1611. [Rare Books Collection DA30.St71] |
John Stow. The abridgement of the English Chronicle ... continued with matters forreine and domesticall, unto the end of the yeare 1610 by E. H. [i.e. Edmund Howes]. London: imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1611.
Rare Books Collection DA30.St71
Stow's famous Chronicle, first published in 1580, went through a number of editions in his lifetime. A few weeks before his death in 1605 he updated it to include recent events and these additions are largely retained in Edmund Howes's 1611 revision.
Stow records the signing of the Treaty of London in August 1604 on page 441.
Later on the same page he also notes two subsequent events: Spanish success
against the Dutch at Ostend after a lengthy siege and the elevation of Robert
Cecil to the Viscountcy of Cranborne by James I, in part as a reward for his
leading role in the successful negotiations with Spain.
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