Footnote 175: Renard to Charles V., November 28: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 176: "Elle l'a faict quelquefois aller apres la Comtesse de Lennox, que l'on appelle icy Madame Marguerite, et Madame Françoise, qu'est la susdicte Duchesse de Suffolk."—Noailles to the King of France, November 30.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 177: Noailles to the King of France, December 6.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 178: "La Reine a tres bien dissimulée, en son endroict."—Renard to Charles V., December 8: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 179: Noailles.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 180: Renard to Charles V., December 8: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 181: Renard to Charles V.: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 182: "Le dict Paget me respondict qu'il n'estoit ja besoing d'entrer en si grande jalousie, et que tout ainsi que nous les avions faicts amys avecques les Escossoys, ce marriage seroit aussy cause que nous serions amys avecques l'Empereur."—Noailles to the King of France, December 26. Compare also the letter of December 23, Ambassades, vol. ii. pp. 334-356.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 183: Renard to Charles V.: November 14, November 28, December 3, December 8, December 11: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 184: Renard to Charles V.: Rolls House MSS. The queen wrote to Wotton to learn his authority. The Venetian ambassador, Wotton said, was the person who had told him; but the quarter from which the information originally came, he believed, might be relied on.—Wotton to the Queen and Council: MS. State Paper Office.[(Back to Main Text)]