LETTER XVIII.
[A business letter with reference to the dower, and therefore omitted. It is dated June 1575.]
[LETTER XIX.]
[Another business letter. It is dated June 1575. To it is attached the following postscript.]
News has lately come to Paris that Mademoiselle de Bourbon,[68] daughter of the Duke of Montpensier, who ran away from the nunnery of which she was abbess, and took refuge in Germany, has married the Prince of Orange; the report finds credit everywhere.
LETTER XX.
I sent quite lately, by Peter the courier, such statements as seemed necessary, and I think my despatches must have already reached your Majesty.