While he was at _Salon_ he received there the Duke of _Savoy_, and the Lady _Margaret_ of _France_, Sister to _Henry_ the II. who was to Marry the said Duke according to the treaty of the general Peace made at _Cambresis_, both entertained him very familiarly, and honoured him often with their presence. The Duke came in _October_ and the Lady in _December_. When _Charles_ the IX. went a progress through his Kingdom, he came into _Provence_, and did fail not to go to _Salon_ to visit our Author, who in the name of the Town went to salute him, and make a Speech, this was in the year 1564. the 17 of _November_. The extraordinary satisfaction that the King and the Queen Mother received from him was such, that being both at _Lion_, they sent for him again, and the King gave him 200 Crowns in Gold, and the Queen almost as much, with the quality of Physician in Ordinary to the King, with the Salaries and profits thereunto appertaining. Being come back to _Salon_ he lived about 16 Months longer, and died upon the 2 of _July_ 1566. in his Climacterical year of 63. having all his senses about him: His Disease was a Gout at first, which turned into a Dropsie; the time of his death it seemeth was known to him; for a friend of his witnesseth, that at the end of _June_ in the said year he had writen with his own hand upon the Ephemerides of _John Stavius_ these Latine words, _Hic prope mors est_; that is, near here is my death, and the day before his death that friend of his having waited on him till very late took his leave, saying, I shall see you again to morrow morning, you shall not see me alive when the Sun riseth, which proved true. He died a _Roman_ Catholick, having received all his Sacraments, and was solemnly buried in the Church of the _Franciscan_ Friers at _Salon_, on the left hand of the Church door, where his Widow erected him a Marble Table fastened in the Wall with this Epitaph, with his Figure to the Life, and his Arms above it. The Inscription of his EPITAPH is in imitation of that of _Titus Livius_, and is thus. _D. M._ _Ossa clarissimi ~Michaelis Nostradami~, unius omnium pene mortalium digni, cujus Divino calamo totius Orbis ex astrorum influxu futuri eventus conscriberentur. Vixit annos ~LXII.~ menses ~VI.~ dies ~X.~ Obiit. Salonæ ~CIↃ IↃLXVI~. ~Anna Pontia Gemella~, conjugi optimo. ~V. E.~_ Which may be rendred thus: Here lies the Bones of the most famous _Nostradamus_, one who among Men hath deserved by the opinion of all, to set down in writting with a Quill almost Divine, the future Events of all the Universe, caused by the Cœlestial influences; he lived 62. years 6. Months and 10. days, he died at _Salon_, in the year 1566. O Posterity do not grudge at his rest. _Anna Pontia Gemella_ wisheth to her most loving Husband the true Happiness.