Pour ce est-il que nous, les choses susdites considérées, et sur icelles eu l’advis de noz chers et féaux les lieutenant et autres officiers de nostre gouvernance de Lille, voulans en ceste partie préférer au dit Jehan Dael, suppliant, grâce et miséricorde, ut in forma. Interrinement de la dite gouvernance de Lille, &c. Donné en nostre ville de Bruxelles, le 27^e de janvier l’an 1643, signé Robiano, de nos regnes xxii^{eme}. Au bas estoit, pour le Roy en son conseil et ceste visue. Chambre des comptes de Lille, Registre des chartes de l’audience. B. 1817, fo. 11. FOOTNOTES: [1] Albert III., Duke of Bavaria, married in 1546 Anne, daughter of Ferdinand, and had by her two sons, William, the hereditary Prince, his successor, and Ferdinand. [2] For details of these negotiations, see Motley, _Rise of the Dutch Republic_ Part IV., ch. iii. [3] See Motley, _Dutch Republic_, Part IV., ch. ii. The siege was eventually raised on October 3rd. [4] In the original the place is given as ‘Augustæ’ = Augsburg; but from the first line of the letter it appears it was written at Speyer. ‘Augustæ’ is probably a mistake caused by ‘Augusti’ following immediately. [5] Nearly twelve years have elapsed since we parted company with Busbecq on his return from Turkey. A sketch of his life during this interval will be found in vol. i. pp. 59-64. We there expressed some doubt as to whether there was any trustworthy authority for his visit to Spain in attendance on the younger Archdukes; we have, however, since obtained evidence of it in the Archduke Albert’s decree, creating the Barony of Bousbecque. In it are recited Busbecq’s services, and amongst them this visit is mentioned. The date of the decree is September 30, 1600, and it states that the visit took place twenty-five years before. This is obviously an error, as we can account for his time from August 1574 to February 1576; in all probability the true date of the visit lies between the years 1570, when Albert and Wenceslaus went to Spain with their sister Anne on her marriage to Philip II., and 1572, when we find Busbecq residing at Vienna. See vol. i. p. 62. [6] That is, about thirty-five English miles. See note, vol. i. p. 80. [7] For an account of this interesting lady, who was at this time barely twenty years of age, see note to Letter XXXVI.