JOACHIN, THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR

Your correspondent AMICUS will I fear find very little information about this mysterious person in the writers of French history of the time. {281}He is thus mentioned in Cavendish's *Life of Wolsey* (ed. 1825, vol. i. p. 73.):— "The French king lying in his camp, sent secretly into England a privy person, a very witty man, to entreat of a peace between him and the king our sovereign lord, whose name was John Joachin; he was kept as secret as might be, that no man had intelligence of his repair; for he was no Frenchman, but an Italian born, a man before of no estimation in France, or known to…