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  OGIER GHISELIN

  DE BUSBECQ

  VOL. II.

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  THE

  LIFE AND LETTERS

  OF

  OGIER GHISELIN DE BUSBECQ

  SEIGNEUR OF BOUSBECQUE

  KNIGHT, IMPERIAL AMBASSADOR

  BY

  CHARLES THORNTON FORSTER, M.A.

  _Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge: Vicar of Hinxton_

  AND

  F. H. BLACKBURNE DANIELL, M.A.

  _Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: Barrister-at-Law_

  Πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω

  _IN TWO VOLUMES_

  VOL. II.


  LONDON
  C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE
  1881




CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.


                                                 PAGE

  LETTERS FROM FRANCE TO MAXIMILIAN—I.-XXXVII.      3

         ”      ”     ”     RODOLPH—I.-LVIII.     141

  APPENDIX                                        265

  INDEX                                           311




  LETTERS FROM FRANCE.




  BOOK I.

  LETTERS TO MAXIMILIAN.


In illustrating Busbecq’s letters from France reference is frequently
made to contemporary writers, and it may be useful to the reader to
have some idea of their different characters, and positions, and of the
historical value of their statements.

  (1). J. A. de Thou, the historian, son of Christopher de
  Thou, President of the Parliament of Paris. Jurist and
  statesman. Busbecq’s intimate friend and warm admirer.
  Quoted as _Thuanus_. Edition, Geneva, 1620, &c.

  (2). Pierre de l’Estoile. Audiencier de la Chancellerie
  de Paris. A quiet man, who took no part in politics.
  He kept a diary which is generally known as _Journal
  de Henri III._ and _Henri IV._, but is really _his own
  private diary_ during the reigns of those monarchs.
  Quoted as _De l’Estoile_. Edition, Paris, 1875, &c.

  (3). Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé and Seigneur of Brantôme.
  Soldier and courtier. Gentleman of the Chamber to Charles
  IX. and Henri III. His ideas are those of the French
  Court of that period, and consequently his standard of
  morality is very low. He was a friend of Alençon, du
  Guast, Bussy, de Viteaux, La Noue, &c., and a great
  admirer of Marguerite, to whom he dedicated several
  of his works. Having been disabled by a fall from his
  horse, he devoted his last years to writing memoirs of
  the celebrated men and women he had known, a treatise on
  duelling, &c. Quoted as _Brantôme_. Edition, Paris, 1822.

  (4). Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry of Navarre,
  sister of Charles IX., Henri III., and Alençon, wrote an
  autobiography which she addressed to Brantôme. Quoted as
  _Mémoires de Marguerite_. Edition, Paris, 1842.

  (5). Theodore Agrippa d’Aubigné. Friend and adherent of
  Henry of Navarre. He wrote a _Histoire universelle_ and
  _Mémoires_. Quoted as _Aubigné, Histoire_. Edition S.
  Jean d’Angely, 1616, &c. The _Mémoires_ are quoted from
  the Panthéon Littéraire. Paris, 1836.

  (6). Louis Gonzaga, Duc de Nevers. Soldier and statesman.
  The compilation known as his Memoirs is quoted as
  _Mémoires de Nevers_. Edition, Paris, 1665.

  (7). Venetian ambassadors:—John Michel, sent in 1575 to
  congratulate Henri III. on his coronation and marriage.
  Jerome Lippomano, ambassador in 1577-1579. Their reports
  are contained in _Collection de Documents inédits
  sur l’Histoire de France, Première Série, Relations
  des Ambassadeurs Vénitiens_. Quoted as _Ambassadeurs
  Vénitiens_.

  (8). Guillaume and Michel Le Riche. Avocats du Roi at
  Saint-Maixent in Poitou. Their Journal is quoted as _Le
  Riche_. Edition, Saint-Maixent, 1846.

  (9). Famianus Strada. A Jesuit priest who wrote the
