As  soon  as  Castillo  heard  that  Don  Antonio  had  been  proclaimed
king,  and  that  the  Governors  had  gone  to  salute  your  Majesty,  he
said  that  he  was  no  longer  a  minister,  and  I  have  consequently  not
taken  any  steps  to  get  the  Queen  to  refuse  to  acknowledge  him,  he
having  anticipated  the  need  for  it.  I  have  sent  to  ask  for  audience
in  order  to  renew  the  offices  your  Majesty  has  commanded  in  view
of  the  coming  of  this  Portuguese.  I  am  to  see  the  Queen  to-morrow
and  will  advise  the  result  of  the  interview.  Hitherto  no  notice
has  beeu  taken  of  the  man  (i.e.,  Rodriguez  de  Souza),  nor  has  he
stirred  from  London.  Besides  the  ship  which  I  advised  some
months  ago  left  here  with  arms  and  munitions  for  Portugal,  two
hulks  have  left  with  munitions,  but  they  are  still  detained  off  the
coast  by  contrary  weather.
Augustine  Clerk,  as  I  have  written  several  times,  corresponds
with  the  Council  here,  he  having  been  sent  by  them  as  a  spy,  and
I  am  now  told  by  a  man  who  has  seen  his  letters  that  he  says  your
Majesty  has  employed  him  and  given  him  1,000  crowns,  ordering
him  to  stay  with  the  fleet  to  be  raised  in  Galicia,  whence  they  were
to  go  with  800  Italians  to  Ireland,  and  that  he  would  trj'  to  get
possession  of  one  of  the  best  of  the  ships  and  go  over  with  it,  and
with  his  own  vessel,  to  the  Queen's  side.  He  also  gives  full  details
of  your  Majesty's  fleet  and  forces,  and  of  everything  that  is  being
done  in  Galicia.
Stafford  came  three  days  since  from  France,  only  bringing  news
that  the  commissioners  from  Alen^on  would  come ;  but  he  does  not
say  when,  nor  who  they  are  to  be.
