A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 2 of 2: François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
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A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 2 of 2: François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646
Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
Bassompierre, François de, 1579-1646; France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789
[88] In a letter to d’Herbault, Bassompierre gives details of this
agreement: “First, she [the Queen] has re-established--and this is
for her conscience--a bishop and ten priests, a confessor and his
coadjutor, and ten musicians for her chapel; that of St. Gemmes is
to be finished with its cemetery, and another is to be built for her
in her palace of Somerset, at the expense of the King her husband.
In attendance on her person she will have of her own nation, two
ladies of the bedchamber, three bedchamber-women, a sempstress, and a
clear-starcher. In regard to her health, two physicians, an apothecary
and a surgeon. For her household, a grand chamberlain, an equerry,
a secretary, a gentleman usher of the privy chamber and one of the
chamber of presence, a baxter-groom, (_i.e._, baker), a valet. All her
officers of the mouth and goblet will be French.” This was, in all
conscience, a sufficiently numerous foreign establishment; but it was
scanty in comparison with the army of more or less useless persons
located at the English Court on the strength of the first treaty,
which, including the servants of the higher officials, amounted to
more than four hundred.
It was further stipulated that all the priests detained in prison
should be set at liberty, and that the pursuivants, or officials whose
duty it was to prosecute Catholics who offended against the Penal
Laws, should be abolished.
[89] The Danes, like the Germans, were at this time proverbial
throughout Europe for their too great indulgence in the pleasures of
the table, and it would appear that Bassompierre’s guest was, as an
ambassador should be, a worthy representative of his country.
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