| Administrative History | Michel de Castelnau, Sieur de la Mauvissière, c. 151-1592 French diplomat, ambassador to Mary Queen of Scots in 1561 and to Queen Elizabeth of England from 1576 to 1585 |
| Description | Short letter in French in scribe's hand from teh French ambassador in London. . De Castelnau is writing with a short plea for aid for a 'poor woman', not explicitly named:
'Monsieur, Il y a ceste paoure fenmme pleine de pitié qui dict auoir receu de vous grande ayde & faueur en la juste deliurance de son mary. Pour laquelle M[adam]e Crouch se deult et s'absené de la paoure femme'. She is being treated badly, and has appealed to de Castelnau for these few words of address, which he cannot deny her.
Ends: En Priant Dieu Monsieur qu'il vous donne un trespafait santé heureuse et longue vye
Date:d De Londres Ce xiime Octobre 1583
Signed Vostre bien affectioné a vous obeir et seruir M de Castelnau
Addresed: À Monsieur, Monsiuer Beele Con[...]r Secretarie et Clerc du Conseil de sa Majesté en Angleterre
Endorsed by Beale: 12 Octobris 1583 stilo nouo The french Ambassador
Michel de Castelnau had previously been French Ambassador to Scotland and had repeatedly attempted to achieve a reconciliation between Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth of England. |