[870] Challoner, English ambassador to Spain, to the queen: “Hardly shall a stranger by his countenance or words gather at any great alteration of mind, either to anger, or rejoicement, but after the fashion of a certain still flood;” quoted by Forneron, I, 319, n. 2, from Record Office MSS No. 466.
[871] See the extremely interesting account of the passing of the Turkish embassy through Provins, in Claude Haton, I, 342-44.
[872] On the conspiracy of Bajazet and his flight to Persia see D’Aubigné, Book III, chap. xxviii.
[873] Négociations dans le Levant, II, 729.
[874] Ibid., 730.
[875] Spain suspected the Sultan was desirous of securing a French roadstead for his fleet during the siege of Malta. See Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, V, 38, note; D’Aubigné, 221, and n. 1; Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 162; L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 398; R. Q. H., XXXIV, 473-78.
[876] Corresp. de Cath. de Méd., II, Introd., lxxxvi, lxxxvii; R. Q. H., XXXIV, 470.
[877] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 14, Letter of March 27, 1562.
[878] Perez writes to Granvella on November 15, 1563: “La reine mère de France tourmente sa majesté catholique pour la déterminer à une entrevue.”—Papiers d’état du card, de Granvelle, VII, 256; and two weeks later (December 4, 1563) we find Philip II writing to Alva, saying that “L’ambassadeur de St. Sulpice lui a proposé une entrevue avec la reine de France,” and desiring the duke’s opinion in the matter (Gachard, Correspondance de Philippe II sur les Pays-Bas, I, 277). The actual text is in Philip’s correspondence, No. XXVI.
[879] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 226.