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

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bien merite et merite tous les jours. II luy sert fort bien
a la chambre, luy faisant les livres de exemples et beaucoup
d’aultre honneste service. II est requis qu’il en aye deux,
comme vous povez bien penser. Madame, je prie Notre
Seigneur qu’il vous donne sante tres bonne et longue vie.
De Paris, ce xxiiij6 d’octobre.
votre tres humble et tres obeissante servante
D’Estamville.
Endorsed, Madame de Parroy.
CLXVIII
From the Bishop of Ross, not to the Queen Dowager
1554. Vol. iv. 149.
The writer is only detained by the question of the marriage of the
Earl of Arran ; in regard to this he has told how the eldest daughter of
the Duke of Montpensier is betrothed to the eldest son of the Duke of
Bouillon. This was the reason he could do no more, as his instructions
were limited to arrangements for her. Since then he has received a
letter saying that it has never been distinctly said whether it was the
elder. To convince him, the writer has sent a copy of the King’s
promise to the Duke of Chatelherault, which shows that it was the elder.
He prays him to discuss the matter with the Queen and with the Duke,
so that the writer may learn and carry out their desires. He thanks
him for his kindness to him in his affairs, as the writer’s brother, Robert
Lesley, has told him, and begs to know if there is anything he can do in
France for his pleasure. Written from Chatelherault on the 31st
October 1554. fThe bearer of this letter is the only son of the Sieur of
Brouston who died in the King’s service, who begged the writer to
intercede for him that he might be shown what favour was right, which
the writer could not refuse to do for the friendship he bore to his father
and the hope that he might serve the King.f
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Monsieur, vous scavez qu’il n’y a rien qui me tienne icy
que le faict du mariage de Monsieur le Conte d’Arran,1 sur
t t inserted.
1 le faict du mariage de Monsieur le Conte at Arran. See Letter CLXIII. by
the same writer. There is a hint that the second daughter of the Duke of
Montpensier, Anne de Bourbon, might have been considered, but she was
married to Franjois de Cleves, Duke of Nevers.