Series 3 > Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland, from the originals in the Balcarres papers > Volume 7

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BALCARRES PAPERS
XXIX
From M. de Breze to M. d’Oysel, French Ambassador
in Scotland
1549. Vol. iii. 134.
He has received his letters of the 23rd February, and thanks him for
the news. As for news from France, he will refer him to M. de Four-
quevaulx, and only assure him of the good health of the King, of the
little Queen, and the Court. The Dauphin has been poorly, but has
recovered. The Prince of Spain made his entry into Brussels ; the day
after, the Duke of Arschot died suddenly. The writer commends him¬
self to the good graces of the Ambassador. Written from Saint Germain-
en-Laye on the 10th April.
A MONSIEUR, MONSIEUR l’aMBASSADEUR POUR LE ROY EN
ESCOCE.
M. I’ambassadeur, j’ayreceu voylettres du xxiij® febvrier,
vous remercyant bien fort des nouvelles que par icelles il
vous a pleu me departir; a quoy je vous prye voulloir
continuer et de ma part vous asseure vous faire le semblable
d’icelles de pardeca quant j’en auray le moyen. Lesquelles
pour le present vous remectray sur la suffisance du Sieur
de Fourquevaulx qui vous en pourra compter bien au long.
Qui sera occasion que ne vous en feray plus longue harangue
par ma lettre synon vous asseurer de la bonne sante du
Roy, de la petite Royne et de toute ceste compaignie.
Monseigneur le Daulphyn s’est trouve un peu mal ces jours
passez, mais, graces a Nostre Seigneur, il est bien guery.
Aussy que le prince d’Espaigne a faict son entree a
Brucelles,1 qui a este fort magnifique ; le landemain de
ladicte entree, le due d’Ascot 2 mourut subitement. Aude-
meurant, Monsieur I’ambassadeur, je vous suppliray me
1 le prince d’Espaigne a faict son entree a Brucelles. Gaspard de Saulx,
Seigneur de Tavannes, notes that in 1549 Charles v., being in bad health,
caused his son to come to be established in the Low Countries, 'hoping thereby
that he should be elected Emperor (Mtmoires, ed. Petitot).
2 le due dAscot. Philippe, Sire de Croy, ier Due d’Archot, father of the
Prince de Chimay, to whom Louise de Lorraine was married, who married Anne
de Lorraine, widow of the Prince of Orange, on the 9th July 1548, and died
at Brussels in April 1549.