[1] [2] [3] The marques of Baden re|turneth into his owne countrie.The marquesse of Baden and the ladie Cicilie his wife, sister to the king of Swethen, who came into this land in the moneth of September last past (as before is declared) being then by the quéenes especi|all appointment at their arriuall honorablie recei|ued by the lord Cobham, an honorable baron of this realme, and the ladie his wife one of the quéenes ma|iesties priuie chamber, now in the moneth of Aprill 1566 departed the realme againe, the marquesse a few daies before his wife, being both conducted by a like personage the lord of Aburgauennie to Do|uer.Ground for the Bursse in Cornehill first purchased. Certeine houses in Cornehill, being first pur|chased by the citizens of London, were in the mo|neth of Februarie cried by a belman, and afterward sold to such persons as should take them downe, and carie them from thence: which was so doone in the moneths of Aprill and Maie next following. And then the ground being made plaine at the charges also of the citie, possession thereof was by certeine aldermen in the name of the whole citizens, giuen to the right worshipfull sir Thomas Gresham knight, agent to the queenes highnesse, there to build a place for merchants to assemble in, at his owne proper charges: who on the seuenth daie of Iune laid the first stone of the foundation (being bricke) and foorth|with the workemen followed vpon the same with such diligence,The first stone of the Bursse laid. that by the moneth of Nouember, in An. 1567. the same was couered with slate. The com|missioners before named, appointed for the matters of Flanders, kéeping their diet at Bruges, agreed to refer the whole matter to the princes on both sides: and if they could not agrée, then the merchants to haue fortie daies to repare home with their mer|chandize, and in the meane time all things to stand as they were then. Our commissioners departed from Bruges about the six and twentith of Iune.