[1745] Nusse, “La donation du duché de Château-Thierry par le duc d’Alençon à Jean Casimir, comte palatin du Rhin,” Annales de la Société hist. et archéol. de Château-Thierry, Vol. XI (1875), p. 61.
[1746] The text of the Paix de Monsieur is in Isambert, XIV, 280. The sources for the history are many. The correspondence of Dale, the English ambassador in France, and the other English agents, Wilkes and Randolph, in C. S. P. For., 1876, for March, April, and May, is full and detailed (cf. D’Aubigné, Book VIII, chap. xxvii; De Thou, Book LXXII). La Popelinière, III, 360 ff., gives the text of the treaty and the letters-patent of the King. The act was registered in Parlement on May 14, 1576, though signed by the King on May 2.
[1747] Two days before this scene took place, the newly elected king of Poland Stephen Bathori, prince of Transylvania, had written informing the deposed Valois that he had assumed the Polish crown and desiring to know what Henry would have done with the household stuff he had left behind in Poland (C. S. P. For., No. 789, May 29, 1576). The Emperor had had numerous partisans, but refused to accept the condition that he fix his residence in Poland (Epist. secr., I, Part II, 143).
[1748] See the vivid details in Claude Haton, II, 834-40, 847, 851, 858.
[1749] Ibid., 855-60.
[1750] The words in brackets are faded and are supplied from No. 460.
[1751] Ellipses indicate places where the MS is faded or creased so as to be illegible.
[1752] The words in brackets are faded and are supplied from No. 455.
[1753] The date is in Burghley’s hand.
[1754] The MS is torn here.