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12. Letters and ciphers from the nuncio. 1687. 
June 21. On the raising of treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon. (Sir 
William Phips?.) 
Aug. 15. On the negotiation between England and Spain with regard to 
English privateers in America. 
Dec. 12. On differences between England and France with regard to 
Hudson's Bay. 
13. Letters and ciphers from the nuncio. 1688. 
Jan. 16. On the English and Spanish rivalry in America. 
The volumes which were not examined and which may possibly contain 
material, follow: 77 
1 . Letters, minutes, and references, Inghilterra, 1575-1585; Fiandra, 
1574-1577.1578,1579- 
2 . “ Diversi al Capitano Bastiano Sanioseffi.” 1578-1584. 
14 . Letter and ciphers from the nuncio. 1689. 
15. Ciphered correspondence with the nuncio. 1686-1689. 
16 . Register of letters to the nuncio. 1686-Apr. 9, 1689. 
17 . Minutes of letters to the nuncio. 1686-1689. 
18 . Letters of the Patriarch of Antioch. 1702-1704. 
NUNZIATURA DI PORTOGALLO. 
This collection is inventoried in indice 134 , De Pretis, pp. 61-64. It con¬ 
sists of a total of 220 numbers ; 1 - 204 , and 1 A, 85 A, 86 A-E, 87 A, 96 A, 
98 A, 104 A, 110 A, 119 A, 122 A, 158 A, 169 A. The extreme dates are 1535 
and 1809. There is comparatively little material prior to 1580 when Philip II. 
became king. In fact during the sixteenth century Portugal was but a col- 
lectorship. 78 During the eighty years of union with Spain, documents prop¬ 
erly belonging to Portugal were very apt to stray into the Nunziatura di 
Spagna, and are still to be found there. For the period of recovered inde¬ 
pendence, the series seems complete, but as the collection seems not to have 
been examined by students since the opening of the archives, it is impossible 
to say that lacunae may not exist. 
Although the bull of Alexander VI. confined Portuguese interests in Amer¬ 
ica to the southern continent, Lisbon was, in the sixteenth century, and espe¬ 
cially after its absorption into the .Spanish empire, the greatest centre for news 
of the ocean and of the Indies. On March 8, 1586, the Bishop of Lodi wrote 
Cardinal Rusticucci that he supposed that the collector of Portugal had already 
written of Drake, as he would have information first: 79 and on Aug. 23 of the 
same year the Bishop of Novara wrote: “ ordinariamente le nuove vengono 
di Portugallo ”. 80 
Four volumes, 1 A, 4 , 12 , and 16 , were examined, and of these, 16 was 
found to contain no pertinent material. Owing to the decline of Lisbon in 
the later period when the collection is richest, it did not seem probable that 
other volumes would contain more than casual items of interest. 
77 Copies from some of these are found in the British Public Record Office. 
,s Richard, “ Origines des Nonciatures Permanentes ”, in Revue d’Histoire Ecclesias- 
tique, VII. 56-59. 
79 Nun. di Spagna XXXII. 66 . 
89 Ibid., XXXII. 255. 
