Jacques de Ségur de Pardaillan letter to Robert Beale

Digital Record

Identifier: VMSS457_I19_O1

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Image of Jacques de Ségur de Pardaillan letter to Robert Beale

Dates

Creation: 1583 September 3

Creator

Beale, Robert, 1541-1601 (correspondent, Person)
Ségur de Pardaillan, Jacques de (correspondent, Person)

Biographical / Historical

Robert Beale (1541-1601) served as ambassador to France starting in 1570, special envoy of queen Elizabeth to the German Lutheran princes 1576, Secretary of State 1578 and 1581-1583, and was in parliament from Dorchester in 1586 and 1588. In addition, he served under Leicester in 1588 in the Netherlands probably with the transport department. As a scholar he is known for two books which maintain the principle of toleration and for works glorifying marriage and women.

Biographical / Historical

Jacques de Ségur de Pardaillan was a French Protestant and Baron of Pardaillan, France. He served as superintendent of the household of King Henry of Navarre and a diplomat in 1583.

Extent

1 folded sheet (1 page) ; 31 x 40 cm folded to 31 x 20 cm

Language of Materials

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Additional Description

General Note

Letter signed by Ségur, Baron de Pardailhan (or Pardaillan), with address to Beale on second leaf. Written in French in London, England, 3 September 1583. Ségur was on a mission from the French Protestants to England, where he was informing the government of the desperate state of the "reformés." In this letter, he tells Beale how important it is that Queen Elizabeth use her influence with the continental Protestant sovereigns to have their clergy "behave more modestly" (translated from French) and not to utter insults towards their French co-religionists. He also asks that letters from the Queen to the Protestant sovereigns be phrased with great tact and cordiality.