Kings MS 119

(ff, 344). 'Memoires, Actes et Traités concernans les affaires entre les Roys de France et d'Angleterre'; 1572, 1587, 1627-1630. The whole MS. (except art. II) is duplicated in Add. MS. 30665. Contents:-

1. 'Sommaire discours de la negociation de Messieurs [Francois, Duc] de Montmorency, [Paul] de Foyx [Foix] et [Bertrand de Salignac] de la Mothe Fenneton [Fenelon] en Angleterre, et principalement de ce qu'ils y ont traicté sur le faict du mariage de Monseigneur [François] le Duc [d'Anjou] avecq la Royne d'Angleterre'; ' [1572]. Printed by J. Laboureur in his additions to the Mémoires de Michel de Castelnau, Brussels, 1731, i, p. 652. f. 2.

2. 'Aduis de Londres', a relation of the transactions between [Guillaume de l'Aubespine,] Baron de Châteauneuf, French Ambassador in London, and [Leonard] Destrappes his secretary, with William Stafford [brother to Sir Edw. Stafford, Ambassador at Paris] respecting an alleged conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth (cf. Froude's History, xii, pp. 228-233) ; Jan. 1587. f. 50.

3. ' Lettre de Monsieur de Chasteauneuf à Monsieur [Pomponne] de Bellièure' on the same subject; 10 March. 1587. f 59.

4. 'Memoire de ce qui s'est passé en la conference entre Monsieur de Chasteauneuf et de Valsinghain [Sir Francis Walsingham]'; 13 Apr. 1587. f. 80.

5. ' Lettre de Monsieur de Chasteauneuf au Roy'; 13 May, 1587. f. 95.

6. Translation into French of three proclamations of Charles I, viz.: (a) To explain the proclamation of the 28 April against import of goods by French ships; Whitehall, 12 May, 1627. f. 115 ;-(b) Against Jesuits, priests, and recusants; 3 Aug. 1628. f. 138 ;-(c) For the apprehension of Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon ; 11 Dec. 1628. f. 233. The British Museum press-mark of the original printed proclamations is 506 h 11 (92, 108, 114).

7. Translation into Latin of the Remonstrance of Parliament to Charles I on the disorders of the State and against [George Villiers] Duke of Buckingham; June, 1628. With (f. 137) the Kings reply, 12 June. f. 118.

8. 'Memoire des choses les plus remarquables qui se sont passées en la derniere assemblée du Parlement tenu en Angleterre l'an 1628.' f. 143.

9. ' Memoire pour traicter par les Ministres du Roy [Louis XIII] avec les Ministres d'Angleterre' ; [1629]. f. 237. Followed by ' Considerations sur le precedent Memoire' [1629]. f 255.

10. Papers, letters, &c., relating to the peace made between France and England at Suze, 24 Apr. 1629, to the ceremonies at the confirmation of the same in the following September, &c. Fr. and Lat. ff. 261-324.

11. Articles of peace between Charles I, Philip IV Spain, and Isabella Clara Eugenia, Archduchess of Austria: French translation of the treaty of 15 Nov. 1630, artt. 1-29. For the Latin see Rymer, Foedera, Hague ed., viii, pt. iii, P. 142. f. 325.