ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As in the preceding volume (C.R.S. 64, 1973 ) which described the first half of the reign of James I the documents here presented are
largely from the Archivo General de Simancas, whose Director Señor Amando Represa Rodriguez has kindly granted permission for their publication . As always the entire staff at Simancas has maintained its tradition of generous assistance to visiting scholars . I am also indebted to Dr. Richard Blaas, Director of the Haus Hof und Staatsarchiv in Vienna, for permission to publish two documents from the original collection of the Low Countries. A letter from the Fondo Gesuitico deposited in the Roman Archive of the Society of Jesus is printed with authorization of the Archivist, Fr. Edmond Lamalle , S.J. Original documents from the Biblioteca del Palacio Oriente in Madrid have been transcribed with permission from Señor Fernando Fuertes de Villavicencio , the Consejero Delegado Gerente of the Patrimonio Nacional. The transcripts from Manuscritos Varios in the Biblioteca in Madrid are printed by courtesy of the Secretary General of that library. My previously published translation of a letter of Francis Bacon is included with the authorization of the Renaissance Society of America. A document from the Westminster Cathedral Archives is transcribed with the kind permission of His Eminence , the Cardinal of Westminster . Transcripts of Crown Copyright documents from the Public Record Office appear with the permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Once again would like to express my sincere gratitude for support I provided by the Directors of the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation while gathering materials for this collection. As always Fr. Basil Fitzgibbon, S.J. has placed his wide scholarship at my disposal . Mr. Philip Harris of the Catholic Record Society has been particularly generous of time and patience in guiding the manuscript through the press .
Fordham University
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