Note 1483 — Chapter XV
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The Queen to Walsingham: Directs him to express her great regret to the French king and the queen mother that she cannot assent to their proposal brought by M. de Montmorency for her marriage with the duke of Alençon, and to assure them that the only impediments arise from the great disparity in their age, and from the bad opinion that the world might conceive of her thereby (C. S. P. For., No. 496, July 20, 1572; cf. No. 375, May 25, instructions to the earl of Lincoln).