_Pibrac_, Guy du Faur, Seigneur de, account of him, ii. 10, _note_; offends the Queen-Mother by advising the King to dismiss his Italian troops, 10; reported to be coming from Lyons, 23; arrives in Paris, 28; his conversation with Busbecq, 29; the advocate of peace, 50; starts for Poland as ambassador, 61; waylaid near Montbéliard, 62, and _note_; is to visit the Polish Palatines, 79; his opinion of Polish affairs, 81; his return expected, 122; his unpleasant position in Poland, _ib._; returns, 126; what he thinks the Poles have gained from France, 132; will probably be sent to the Netherlands as Alençon’s chancellor, 169; sent to Antwerp by Alençon, 181 _Pignerolo_, town and fortress in Piedmont, ceded by Henry III. to the Duke of Savoy, ii. 13 _Pigs_, Turkish prejudice against them turned to account by Busbecq’s friend, i. 205 _Pilgrimages_, fashion of making, in France, ii. 199 _Pilgrims_ to Jerusalem, seized by the Syrians and imprisoned at Constantinople, i. 352; their release procured by the French ambassador, 353; sent home by Busbecq, _ib._ _Pinnas_, a kind of mollusc, caught by Busbecq, i. 339; account of them and their guards, 339-340 _Plague_, the, Busbecq’s suite attacked by, i. 163; outbreak of, in Busbecq’s house, 330-335; death-rate from, at Constantinople, 341; appears in France, ii. 183; spreading, 188; raging in Paris, 199; prevents the King entering Paris, 201; carries off one of the ladies of the Queen’s bed-chamber, 230 _Plane-tree_, great, opposite Busbecq’s house, i. 227; the cavasse when shut out ties his horse to it, 260 _Pliny_, his statements as to the _pinna_ and _pinna-guard_ referred to, i. 339 _Poitiers_, attempt to surprise, ii. 88 _Poland_, account of affairs in, ii. 29; French hope to keep, 78, 92; affairs there, 81 _Pont-à-Musson_, Marquis of, eldest son of the Duke of Lorraine, goes to Flanders on his way home, ii. 255-256 _Pope_, the, offers the King 3,000 Swiss, ii. 122; urges him to accept the Tridentine Decrees, 184; visited by Joyeux, 185 _Portugal_, Sebastian, King of, account of him, ii. 30, _note_; marriage between him and Elizabeth spoken of, ii. 30, 76-78 _Portuguese Ambassador_ arrives in Paris, ii. 70; expected, 74; Busbecq’s interview with him, 76-77; suggests a marriage between Elizabeth and the King of Portugal, _ib._; takes a house in Paris, 82 _Poussin_, Huguenot fortress, besieged, ii. 21; taken, 23 _Predestination_, Turkish notions about, i. 341, 382-383 _Prinkipo_, the largest of the Princes’ Islands in the sea of Marmora, Busbecq allowed to retire thither, i. 334; account of it, 337-340