asks for credentials, 34; goes to Lyons and sees the Spanish ambassador, _ib._; sails to Avignon, 35; visited by Bishop Montluc at Valence, 36; his interviews with the King and Queen-Mother, 36, 37; with the Bishops of Orleans and Limoges, 37; sees the siege of Livron, 44; draws up ciphers, 48; asks for his salary, 50, 58, 93, 112; hopes Maximilian will pardon his being addressed as ambassador, 50; asks for instructions and a speedy answer, 51, 52; intends going to Brussels, 52; at Brussels, 53; returns to Paris and delivers Maximilian’s letter to the King, 55; his audiences of the Queen-Mother, the Queen and the King, 59; recommends Hugo de Blot as librarian, 73; asks Maximilian in the Queen’s name to intercede for Montmorency, 75; his interview with the Portuguese ambassador, 76; suggests, if the Queen marries the King of Portugal, the economy of sending her direct from Paris, 78; suggests his recall, 83; asks for new credentials, 84; also for watches as presents, 84, 93; which are refused, 115; his audience of the King, 85; his interviews with Birague and de Morvilliers, 87; requested by Maximilian to remain in Paris, 93; his answer to the Duke of Brunswick’s envoy, 94; hopes the Queen will not be long in Paris, 97; his audiences of the King, 106, 107; is to accompany the Queen as her chief chamberlain, 128; complains of the non-payment of de Vulcob’s advances, 132; writes to Governor of Upper Austria, 136; obliged to go to Blois on the Queen’s business, 141; his audience of the King, _ib._; asks for settlement of the purchase of the Greek books, 163, 188, 200; his account of the French Fury at Antwerp, 164-168; asks for St. Hilaire’s discharge, 188; goes to Blois to condole with the King in the Queen’s name on Alençon’s death, 230; fears his despatches will be stopped, 247; some actually missing, 250; seldom has opportunity of sending a letter, _ib._; fears the town where he will be attacked, 255; calls the Emperor’s attention to the Queen’s position, 256; his description of Navarre and Parma and their respective armies, 261-264 _Busbecq’s house_ at Constantinople, description of, i. 201-203 _Busbecq’s servants_, their first taste of Turkish luxury, i. 84; wine as good as feather-beds to them, 100; their practical joke, 124; quarrel between them and some Janissaries, 295-296; quarrel of two of them with the Cadi of Pera, 365-368; scuffle of one with a Janissary, 393 _Bussy d’Amboise_, notorious duellist, his end, ii. 191, and _note_ _Cadi_ of Pera, his quarrel with Busbecq’s servants, and its consequences, i. 365-368