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16 Loomie, The Spanish Elizabethans (New York , 1963 , London, 1964 ), pp. 182-218 . 17 H. Thomas , Anti-English Propaganda in the Time of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford University Press for the Hispanic Society of America, 1946 ) , pp . 15-18 . 18 Loomie, art. cit., Rev. Bel. Phil. Hist. , pp. 512-13 . 19 James VI had written in 1602 : A liberum commercium betwixt these nations would so soundly conciliate and extinguish all former rancours as it would no more be thought odieuse for any Englishman to dispute upon a Spanishe title J. Bruce, Correspondence of King James VI of Scotland , (London, 1961), p . 31.
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22 See A. Loomie, Toleration and Diplomacy: The Religious Issue in Anglo-Spanish Relations , 1603-5 (Transactions , AmericanPhilosophicalSociety, Philadelphia , 1963 ) , vo . 53 , part 6 . 23 J. Paz and R. Magdaleno, Secretaria de Estado, Documentos Relativos a Inglaterra, 1265-1834 (Archivo de Simancas, Catálogo XVII , Madrid, 1947 ) provides a summary of the principal subjects of each legajo, which the earlier archivists judged to pertain to England . However, bundles which deal with the Low Countries , Italy and France do in fact have documents of considerable interest to English affairs. 24 Francis Cottington recorded a useful impression of the two secretaries: Arostegui ys reputed to be a very honest gentleman and my late lord Cornwallis] ever noted in him an extraordinary respect and affection not onlyto himself and our whole nation but unto the service of his majestie [James] in all occasions Prada besides that he is a single manys of an extraordinary quicke apprehension , long practiced in our busyness and incredabellylaborious. Arostegui ys maryed , of a safe or rather dull constitution... P.R.O. , S.P. 94/17/43. Cottington to Cecil , 18 February 1609/10. 25 A convenient survey of the Council's activities is found in A. de la Plaza, Guia del Investigador : Archivo de Simancas (Madrid, 1962 ), pp. 12-36. The more recent study of J. A. Escudero , Los Secretarios de Estado y del Despacho, 1474-1724 (Madrid, 1969 ) , vol. 1 , has much information on the Secretariate and the conciliar system of the Spanish Habsburgs. 26 The memoranda of the Council's meetings were also labeled "de officio , from the Secretariate (no . 20 below) or "de parte" if from the initiative of the individual ( no. 7 below ).
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