Passport for Sir William Constable, granting him license to travel "beyond the seas," for the purpose of gaining experience and knowledge in foreign languages. The passport permits him to bring with him two men and such trunks of clothes and other provisions that are not prohibited, but forbids him to go to the city of Rome without first obtaining King James I's special license. The document is signed by Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley; Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton; Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond; Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester; Sir Julius Caesar; and Sir Thomas Parry.
Description:
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Subject (Geographic):
England--Foreign relations--Italy and Italy--Foreign relations--England
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius, Sir, 1558-1638, Constable, William, Sir, d. 1655, Egerton, Thomas, Sir, 1540?-1617, James I, King of England, 1566-1625, Lennox, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond, 1574-1624, Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1540-1614, Parry, Thomas, Sir, d. 1616, and Worcester, Edward Somerset, Earl of, 1553-1628
