Series 3 > Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland, from the originals in the Balcarres papers > Volume 7
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INTRODUCTION
The correspondence of Marie de Lorraine comprised in this
volume ends with the year 1557. In many places, there¬
fore, it leaves the story of her life unfinished ; there is no
allusion to the difficulties she had to face as Regent of
Scotland, nor to the arrangements for and accomplishment
of the marriage of Mary Stuart, nor to the further employ¬
ment of French troops in Scotland. The rest of the un¬
printed manuscript in the fifth volume of the Balcarres
Papers deals chiefly with accounts which concern the
Queen’s person and household, the expenditure on the
French armies in Scotland, and various smaller financial
transactions. The correspondence is largely of a different
character from the earlier letters, for comparatively few are
personal, and many deal in more or less detail with ques¬
tions of state both in France and Scotland : many with
the Queen’s money matters, which had become more diffi¬
cult with the need for a separate establishment for Mary
Stuart suitable to her rank, and the constant drain conse¬
quent on the upkeep of the French army in Scotland, for
which, judging from various letters and some lists of pay¬
ments in the fifth volume, the Queen herself was sometimes
responsible.
News of the family of Guise sent to the Queen Dowager
is less ample than during the previous ten years. This
difference may be explained by the visit of the Queen to
France, and also possibly by the suggestions given in later
letters that she might again return to France,1 perhaps,
i See Letters CLXXIX., CLXXXIIL, CC.
The correspondence of Marie de Lorraine comprised in this
volume ends with the year 1557. In many places, there¬
fore, it leaves the story of her life unfinished ; there is no
allusion to the difficulties she had to face as Regent of
Scotland, nor to the arrangements for and accomplishment
of the marriage of Mary Stuart, nor to the further employ¬
ment of French troops in Scotland. The rest of the un¬
printed manuscript in the fifth volume of the Balcarres
Papers deals chiefly with accounts which concern the
Queen’s person and household, the expenditure on the
French armies in Scotland, and various smaller financial
transactions. The correspondence is largely of a different
character from the earlier letters, for comparatively few are
personal, and many deal in more or less detail with ques¬
tions of state both in France and Scotland : many with
the Queen’s money matters, which had become more diffi¬
cult with the need for a separate establishment for Mary
Stuart suitable to her rank, and the constant drain conse¬
quent on the upkeep of the French army in Scotland, for
which, judging from various letters and some lists of pay¬
ments in the fifth volume, the Queen herself was sometimes
responsible.
News of the family of Guise sent to the Queen Dowager
is less ample than during the previous ten years. This
difference may be explained by the visit of the Queen to
France, and also possibly by the suggestions given in later
letters that she might again return to France,1 perhaps,
i See Letters CLXXIX., CLXXXIIL, CC.
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