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

LETTERS TO MARY OF LORRAINE 171
Rene notre maistresse que nous avons acoustume et n’est
novelles d’aargent, vous scavez que I’aultre fois je vous
en he diet. M. le connestable est guery de sa maladye 1;
il couche aujourdhuy a Compiegne et s’en va a Chantilly.
Le Roy ne bougera de ceste Toussains de ce lieu de Villiers
Cotteretz et fera le demeurant de Tyver a Fontenebleau.
C’est tout. Monsieur sy ne me recommande humblement
a vostre bonne grace, priant Dieu qui vous doint tres
bonne vye et longue. De Yilliers Cotterelz, ce xiiij®
octobre.
vostre humble serviteur
PuiGUILLON DE BeAUQUERE.
Endorsed, M. de Puiguillon du xiiij octobre.
CXIX
From Jacques Girard to the Queen Dowager
1553. Yol. iv. 41.
He has given to M. d’Oysel the money the Queen asked for. The
Ambassador will also tell the pains the writer took to advance the
money till January, when her pension is due. Then he will pay the
most necessary claims, as the Cardinal desires. The Cardinal has
ordered the writer to meet him at Christmas to discuss the arrangements
for the household of the Queen of Scots. It will be hard to arrange
without another source of income ; M. de Puiguillon has told the Cardinal
so. The writer thinks it better to wait a year, and, during that time,
to find how to raise the necessary money. The Cardinal has calculated
that the Queen’s income from the Longueville estates will be 32,000
livres. But of that, 25,000 livres are accounted for already, and another
7000 livres are owed to the writer. He is in no hurry for repayment, but
such a sum is too small to start the new establishment. The King may
help a little. The writer hopes that the business of Laval and Orange
will be settled soon. Since the Queen has not been pleased to raise his
wages, he begs her to continue to pay him 200 livres until she can
increase it; he finds it hard to keep his family with all the expenses he
has. It is not that he wishes to ask anything, as he counts it an honour
to be in the Queen’s service. He has been able to obtain for her a large
sum of money from Normandy, part of the revenue from Longueville,
which he will show to the Marquise de Rothelin. He has had much
1 M. le connestable est guery de sa maladye. See Letter CXVI.