Series 1 > Papal negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots during her reign in Scotland, 1561-1567

APPENDIX I
FRENCH DOCUMENTS
No. 1.
LETTER BOOK OF GIOVANNI FERRERI ON SCOTTISH
AFFAIRS (Catalogue and Extracts). Paris, 1547 to 156l.
This fragment, which is perhaps itself made up of two fragments, is imperfect both
at the beginning and at the end. It is now in Paris, Bib. Rationale, Fonds Moreau,
tom. 847, ff. 45-57 [olim 19-34). It is a contemporary, perhaps autograph, transcript.
The writer’s name does not appear on the manuscript, but the internal evidence
(Ep. 16) shows that he was editing Hector Boece; and a comparison of Ferreri’s
introductory letter to his edition of that work with the letters here described will
leave no doubt about the identification. For Ferreri’s life in Scotland, see Muirhead’s
preface to his Historia Abbatum de Kynloss (Bannatyne Club, 1839, p. 42, et seq.).
fol. 47. Gul° Gordonio, Ep. Aberdonen. 27 April 1548.
Commends the nuncio Lippomani.
Marcello Cervino, Cardinali Stae. Crucis. Cal. Mail 1548.
Lippomani leaves Paris to-day, and requests me to forward a book
to you.
... [A new fragment of the register begins here.] . . .
Ep. 4, fol. 48. Imperfect. Last line and date only. 31 August 1547.
Ep. 5, fol. 48. Aloysio Lippomani. 30 June 1548.
Commends the bearer, Gul. Langlois.
Ep. 6, fol. 48. Roberto Reid, Ep. Orchadum. 26 December 1548.
The unfortunate death of your king should make us careful to
provide for his issue.
Prospiciendum imprimis est Reginae vestrae puellulae, quae ut
auguror et maxime cupio, utrumque parentem aliquando relatura est
magno cum utriusque regni Gallic! et Scotici emolumento. De
medico hie inquiritur qui de more principum illius valetudinis
studiosus sit. Multi e Gallia reperiuntur qui id muneris ambiant,
sed ut mihi videtur, parum prudenter, nec magno eius Reginae com-
modo: nam major pars eorum vel non intelligit artis suae pondus,
vel parum apta est ad agnitionem temperaturae Scoticae, ut potius
damnum sint allaturi omnes, quam prospecturi reginae puellulae.
Unus solum [sic] est Scotici generis Guillelmus Bog, Doctor medicus,
et eruditione tantus ut possit cum quovis Gallo conferri, et cognitione