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164 PAPAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH MARY [16 MARCH
such punishment inflicted on the vanquished, that she now
finds herself at peace as she was before. She is doing all that
she can to bring back her erring subjects to the way of the
Church, in which she wishes to live and die. This you can see
from the letter of SO January, which she writes with her own
hand.1 I send it to you in order that you may show it to the
emperor, as also a copy of her letter to the Pope, of which she
makes mention in her said letter, and which you will return
to me. . . . From Trent, this 16th day of March 1562[-3].
Your good brother and friend,
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine.
No. 46
THREE VERSIONS OF THE CHATELLAR
INCIDENT
(i.) The Nuncio with the French Court. (Summary.)
Vatican Archives, Cone, di Trento, vol. cxxxviii., fol. 198b. An official summary.
The despatch is missing from the register of the nuncio’s letters in their
unabridged state, ibid. Pio, vol. cxxxiii.
II Vescovo Santa Croce a 28 tTAprile, di Tampes2
Che fu trouato un gentilhuomo Francese sotto il letto de la
Regina di Scotia; et se ben disse che da principio haueua fatto
cio per amore, nondimeno essendo dipoi condennato a la morte
ha confessato d’hauerlo fatto di ordine espresso di Madama di
Cursol,3 la quale Fhaueua mandate in quel Regno per dar
qualche mala fama a quella Regina.
1 Lethington’s autograph draft for this letter was acquired by the British
Museum (Egerton, 1962, 1), but unfortunately perished in a fire on the binder’s
premises, 10 July, 1865.—B. M. Catalogue of MSS.
2 This date suggests that the news is somehow connected with Lethington’s
presence at the French court at that time. The tenor of the letter too is similar
to that which de Quadra wrote from London on the 28th of March containing
Lethington’s version of the incident (Spanish Calendar, p. 314). See Lethington
to Mary, 9 March 1563, printed in Philippson, Eigne de Marie Stuart, iii. 458-
465 ; Teulet, Relations, v. 3; Venetian Calendar, 1558-80, p. 355.
3 Mme. de Cursol, or Crusolles, a lady of Catherine de Medici’s court,