vol. viii (ff. .382). 6 May-26 Oct. 1605. 1. James I to Henri IV ; [Apr. 1605]. f 8. 2. Villeroy to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury; [May, 1605]. f. 100b.
'Negociation de Monsieur [Antoine Lefèvre] de la Boderie, Ambassadeur en Angleterre': official papers of his two embassies-(1) as Ambassador in Ordinary, Apr. 1606- July, 1609;-(2) as Ambassador Extraordinary on business relating chiefly to the Clèves and Juliers succession dispute, Jan. 1610-Jan. 1611. Four volumes. Another copy is in Add. MSS. 30642-30644. Printed in Ambassades de .M. de La Boderie, 5 vols., 1750. In the edition the dispatches are in one continuous series. In the MS. the f...
vol. 1 (ff. 467). 9 Jan. 1623/4-18 July, 1624. 1. ' Memoire de ce qui s'est passé en Angleterre depuis la rnort du Duc de Lenox', being chiefly proceedings in Parliament from the opening of the session, 29 Feb.-May, 1624, including (f. 106) an Italian version of the Duke of Buckingham's speech...
Recueil de Lettres, de Memoires, d'Actes d'instructions et de Contracts, faits pour parvenir all Traité de Mariage d'entre Madame Honriette Marie soeur du Roy, et Charles Premier Roy de la Grande Bretagne'; 1624-1625. Four volumes, each with table of contents at the end. Other copies are Harley MSS. 4593-4596, Add. MSS 4150-4154, 30646-30649. These and many other transcripts probably originate in the large collection of state papers (now in the Bibliotheque Nationale and known as the fonds d...
vol. ii (ff. 516). 14 July, 1624-8 Apr. 1625, &c. (the arrangement is not strictly chronological). 1. Letters of Louis XIII on the occasion of Père [Pierre] Bérulle's special mission to Pope Urban VIII (cf. artt. 2, 13), dat. 31 July, 1624, to (a) [Philippe], Comte de Béthune, Ambassador ...
vol. iii (ff. 561). 26 Apr. 1624-26 May, 1625. 1. Briefs of Urban VIII in Latin to (a) Louis XIII; 28 Dec. 1624. f. 1 ;-(b) Henrietta Maria; same date. f.527 b. 2. Papers relating to Count Ernest Mansfeld's project for recovery of the Palatinate, viz. (a) Powers from James I to command 10,00...