Marc' Antonio Correr

Correr felt his news from Venice was urgent, concerning restrictions on the sale of An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance, and asked the Duke of Lennox as chamberlain, to arrange an audience.

[3] In October 1609 plague reached Hampton Court with death of one of the grooms of the wardrobe, and another servant, and threatened King James at Royston.

[4] Marc' Antonio Correr reported the doubly fatal duel in November 1609 between James Stewart, husband of Dorothy Hastings, and George Wharton.

He wrote that King James moved out of London back to Royston in response to the duel, to avoid any bad feeling against his Scottish courtiers.

[8] At the end of November 1610 he reported the death of one of Jean Drummond's maids from the plague in her lodgings at Greenwich Palace and Anne of Denmark returned to Whitehall for fear of infection.

[9] Correr noted that Anne of Denmark's masque Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly was twice postponed because of the delayed arrival of the French ambassador, the Marshal de Laverdin.