| Administrative History | August, Elector of Saxony, 1553-1586
Elizabeth, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603 |
| Description | Thanks the Queen for exempting a representative whom the Duke had sent to Portugal to make certain purchases for his personal use from customs and port-dues when he put into the port of London on his return journey, and freeing purchases for him within the Queen’s dominions from taxes and port-dues. He sent a representative to deal for 4000 or 5000 cwt of lead with the English traders at Antwerp, which is necessary in melting and refining the ore-bearing veins of silver from his mines. Asks that any lead shipped from England to Hamburg accordingly during the coming summer by English merchants and later purchases be exempted from taxes and port-dues. He would reciprocate if he could. [Abstract by James D. George]
Signed 'August'
Titles in margin: Augustus Dei gratia, Dux Saxoniae sacri Romani Imperii Archimarescallus et Elector, Landgravius Thuringiae, Marchio Misnae, et Burggravius Magdeburgensis
Augustus Dux Saxoniae Elector
(August by the grace of God Duke of Saxony, Chief Marshal and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, count of the land of Thuringia, the march of Meissen, and the castle of Magdeburg)
On back in comntemporary hand: 'To the right worshipfull Mr Beale one of the Clerkes of her Ma[jest]tes most honnorable Privy Councell' |