Note 338 — Chapter X

Renard apud Griffet, xii., pp. 106, 107. De Noailles, vol. ii., pp. 138, 141, 160. Record Office, Belgian Transcripts, i., pp. 360-62. Père Griffet, who now becomes one of the chief authorities for this part of the reign, discovered, in the middle of the last century, a number of Renard’s despatches in the royal library at Besançon, and wrote, in answer to David Hume’s gross libel and caricature of Queen Mary, a volume 12mo, of 197 pages, which was published at Amsterdam in 1765. Its title, Nouveaux Eclaircissements sur le règne de Marie Tudor reine d’Angleterre, shows the importance of the book, which is now scarce. There is no copy of it in the British Museum.