506 Extracis from MSS. in Imperial Library, Paris. [July 1, 
Il. 
MSS. On which is written that it belonged to 
™ Christina, Q. of Sweden, afterwards to the 
Vatican, and now to the Imp. library, con- 
taining original letters from Henry VIII. 
to Anne of Boulen. 
“NHE reasonable request of your last 
"I lettre, w'® the pleasure also that 
J take to know them true, causeth me to 
send you now this news; the legate whyche 
we mist desyre aryvyd att Parys on 
S*nday or M*nday, last past, so that I 
* 
trust by the next M*nday to kere off bys ; 
~ aryvall at Cales, and then I trust w in 
a wyle after to enjoy that whyche I have 
so long longyd for to God’s pleasur, and 
our both coforts; no more to you at thys 
present myne own darlynge for lake of 
tyme, but that I wold you were in myne 
aymes, or I in your's, for I thynk it long 
syns I kyst you; writtyn affter the kyllyng 
off my hart at xi off the kloke, myndyng 
wt God’s grace to-morow mytely to 
kyll another by the hand of him whyche 
1 trust shortly shall be yours. ¥ 
ERLYNG, thes shall wonly to adver- 
tyce you that thys bererand hysfelow 
be dyspecyd wthas many thyngs to co passe 
oure mater and to bring it to pas, as I 
trust by theyne dylygence it shail be 
schortly, you.and I shall have oure de- 
syryd ende, whyche shulde bee more to 
my hart’s ease, and more quiettnes to my 
mynd than any other thyng in_ thys. 
worlde, as w God’s grace shortly F trust 
shall be performed, but nott so soon as I 
wolde it were, yet I wyll ensure you ther 
shall be no tyme lost that may be wone, 
and farther cannot be done for ultra 
posse ng’ est cé kepe bym nott to long 
w' you, but desyre hym for your sake to 
make the more spede, for the soner we 
Shall have worde ‘frome hym, the soner 
shall oure mater come to pase, and thus 
upon trust off your short repayre to Lon- 
don, I make an ende off my letter myne 
owne swetté hart; wryttin w™ the hand 
off hym. whyche desyryth as muche to 
be your’s, as yau do to have hym. iH 
Ii. 
MSS. Lettres de Marie Stuart Reyne d’Ecosse 
veuve du Roy Fran¢. Il, a Monsieur le 
Duc de Nemours, &c. 
4 Au Duc de Nemours. 
AR Vadvertisement que jay eu dail- 
- lieurs les anglois ont bien fait men- 
tion de l’amitie que la Royne dangieterre 
. ae fe 
ma seeur me porte ce qué elle ma fait 
entendre par tant docasions que ie nen 
veulx ou ose plus doubter et iespere bien 
que elle men faira quelque plus seure 
desmonstiation si nous voions ce que iay 
difere pour ceste annee pour etre trop 
aduancee mays ie matends di recouvrer 
lautre quoyquil en soit ie me seuts os= 
bligee a vous du bien que me souhaites. 
Au Duo de Nemours. 
N ON cousin mestant permis meinte. 
nant ce que iavois ili along temps 
desiray cestoit de fayre mon devoir vers le 
Roye la Ruyne et tous messieurs mes bons 
amys et parans du nombre des quels ie 
vous ay tousiours tenu et trouvee des 
ptinsipaulx ie nay voullu faillir de vous 
fayre ce mot pour vous prier de donner. 
-eredit a ce porteur qui vous declarera 
locasion de son voiasge et lestat de mes 
affayres tant issi quen mon malheureulx 
pays et pour ce que ie le connois fidelle 
et doubte quel inconvemant pourroit 
venir aux lettres ie ne les feray plus lon- 
gues ayns me remetant sur lui a vous 
fayre ample discours du tout ie vous 
priray me fayre part de vous nouvelles 
que ie prie a dieu ettre tous jours aussi 
bonnes que les scauries souhayter et apres 
vous amiou besay les mains ie feray fir 
avoir. 
De Winkfield ce ix de Juin, 
vo® tre-affec. bon Cousine 
Marie. 
IV. 
EXTRAcT from MANUSeRIPY BOOK, No. 
7854, in the MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUE, 
A booke contayninge the most singulare 
secrets in the arte of distillation, whearby 
is easily brought to pass things of great 
moment, wht are obscuerely set down by 
. learned auethors of divers mations and 
tongs: but hear interpreted and layd @pen 
to the views of my mutch honored frende, 
and therefor caled hidden secrets revealed. 
By Robert Walemysley, P.M. a.d. 1609, 
To the right worshipful and mutch honored. 
knyght Sirr Barnard Greenvill, grace, 
mercy and peace, in oure Lord Jesus. 
Oe God hath cre» 
} ated medicins to tak away the 
gout, palsi, dropsie, quartan fevers, and 
other diseasis, which the trop of vulgar 
phisitions do indg incurable, but the caus 
whi phisitions know them not: is, first 
ther impieties and infidelitis; for the 
litill regard ther neghbours—next is ther 
absolut negligens in searctching the 
wounderous woiks of God and secrets 
