[256] ] Varin’s Archives Administratives de Reims.
[257] ] Ibid.
[258] ] Victor Fiévet’s Histoire d’Epernay.
[259] ] Francisque Michel’s Histoire du Commerce et de la Navigation à Bordeaux.
[260] ] Published in 1615.
[261] ] That of 1574. Surflet’s translation appeared in 1600.
[262] ] Venner’s Via recta ad longam Vitam, 1628.
[263] ] Writing to Sir Walter Mildmay in 1569, the Earl of Shrewsbury, who had charge of the royal prisoner, complains that his regular allowance of wine duty free is not enough. ‘The expenses I have to bear this year on account of the Queen of the Scots are so considerable as to compel me to beg you will kindly consider them. In fact, two butts of wine a month hardly serve for our ordinary use; and besides this, I have to supply what is required by the Princess for her baths and similar uses.’
[264] ] Clarendon’s Memoirs.
[265] ] Letter of Guy Patin, 1660.