https://www.british-history.ac.uk/thurloe-papers/vol5/pp572-587#h3-0015
The letter:
... I gave you an account of the queen of Swead's returne. She is now at Casale, and by reason of her somewhat scandalous levities in Italie, and more wit then discretion, many cannot believe she comes as an efficacious agitatrix of peace generall, but rather as a curious traveller, who in a whimsie rather intends Venice then Rome; yet as we heare, the Venetians are so employed and charged to mentaine and encrease their late victories against the Turke (who through shame now threatens them more than ever) that they excuse themselves from all publique complement to that queen; yet her journey over the snowie Alpes in winter season argues some business to his holines, concerning which here I can learne little as yet. She was sumptuously receaved in Turino, by surrender of keys, te Deums, and such like solemn entertainments; her intentions, as also the resolutions of the two English in her companie as state informers of cardinal Francisco Barberino I shall get here little and too stale knowledge, unless I were in Rome.
Above: Kristina.
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