Sieur de Rendan mentioned in the text; the negotiators appointed to meet them on the English side were the Queen's great minister Cecil and Wotton, Dean of Canterbury. The French troops were withdrawn.
P. 13: The little Leith. (Cf. Jean de Beaugué, Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse, reprinted by Montalembert in 1862, Bordeaux.)
P. 13: Jacques de Savoie, Duke de Nemours, died in 1585.
P. 13: Charles de La Rochefoucauld, Count de Randan, was sent to England in 1559, where he arranged peace with Scotland.
P. 14: An imaginary king without authority.
P. 14: Philibert le Voyer, lord of Lignerolles and of Bellefille, was frequently employed as a diplomatic agent. He was in Scotland in 1567. He was assassinated at Bourgueil in 1571, because he was suspected of betraying Charles IX.'s avowal regarding Saint Bartholomew.
P. 15: Brantôme knew quite well that the woman the handsome and alluring Duke de Nemours truly loved was no other than Mme. de Guise, Anne d'Este, whom he later married.
P. 15: XVIth Tale. Guillaume Gouffier, lord of Bonnivet.
P. 16: Marguerite de Valois took Bussy d'Amboise partly because of his reputation as a duellist.
P. 17: Jacques de Lorge, lord of Montgomerie, captain of Francis I.'s Scotch Guard and father of Henri II.'s involuntary murderer.
P. 18: Claude de Clermont, Viscount de Tallard.
P. 18: Francois de Hangest, lord of Genlis, captain of the Louvre, who died of hydrophobia at Strassburg in 1569.
P. 19: It is undoubtedly Louise de Halwin, surnamed Mlle. de Piennes the Elder, who later married Cipier of the Marcilly family.
P. 20: It is to this feminine stimulation that King Francis I. alluded in the famous quatrain in the Album of Aix, which is rightly or wrongly attributed to him.
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