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

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avez de mon retour en France, que je vous ay incontinent
escrit, sachant bien que ce vous seroit chose fort agreable.
Se petit mot servira seullement, Madame, a vous dire que
bien tost voz gens de guerre d’Escosse seront mis au
champs;1 aus quelz je m’esserais faire tout plaisir et faveur
pour I’amour de vous. Et quant aux autres nouvelles, je
ne vous en feray plus longue lestre, saichant bien que MM.
mes freres vous en feront assez ample discours et plus que
me vous en saurois dire. Mais je ne fauldray toutes les
commoditez qui suffiront a mon debvoir de vous mander
les qui se presenteront, aydant Dieu, Madame, que je prie,
apres m’estres tres humblement recommende a votre bonne
grace, vous donner en tres bonne saute, tres longue vie.
A Nyse, ce xije jour de juing.
votre tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur
Claude de Lorraine.
Endorsed, Monseigneur d’Aumale du xije juing.
CLXXXV
From Rasseteau to the Bishop of Ross
1556-7. Vol. iv. 150.
He received by Mr. William Gray the letter which the Bishop had
written on the 7th October last, with his blank sheet signed and sealed
to receive the money of the last three quarters for the rents of the
abbey, and gives details of the payments. Having heard by the same
gentleman that the Bishop’s nephew was a student at the College de
Navarre and owed money for his board, as well as for that of Mr. Gray him¬
self, he advanced them 130 livres without asking if Mr. William Gray
held the Bishop’s authority for so doing. He asks for further authority
touching the rents of the abbey, as difficulties have been made by the
farmers. He informs the Bishop that he lost his wife and was ill of a
quartan fever; but that he has married again, a niece of the late M. Prevost,
lieutenant-general of Poitou. He and all the Bishop’s other servants
1 voz gens de guerre d’Escosse seront mis ati champs. This might be an allusion
to Jean Stuart d’Aubigny and his forty men-at-arms who fought in Italy under the
Marshal de Brissac in 1553. See Mtmoires de Boyvin de Villars (Ed. Petitot,
Series I. xxix), but it more probably alludes to the Italian campaign of 1556-7.