Note 515 — Chapter I · SUMMARY.
Reading edition
This fact is certified by a document in the Archives of the kingdom of France, dated January —, 1536, by which James V., King of Scotland, acknowledges to having “received from the treasurers of his Majesty Francis I. of France the sum of a hundred thousand livres, in twenty thousand gold crowns of the sun, as the first installment on the hundred thousand crowns promised to him by the King on the occasion of his marriage with Marie de Bourbon, daughter of the Duc de Vendôme.”