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262 These reports were not unfounded. Sultan Amurath had in fact written to Navarre promising protection against Spain, and offering to send a fleet of 200 sail to Aigues-Mortes.—Collection des Documents Inédits sur l’Histoire de France, Lettres Missives de Henri IV., iii. 364. Part of the letter is quoted by Motley, United Netherlands, iii. 48.

263 The citadel of Rouen was actually betrayed to the Royalists on February 19, but was recovered by Aumale four days afterwards.

264 The siege began on January 9, and was raised in the middle of February. Aubigné, Histoire, vol. iii. bk. iii. ch. iv; Thuanus, v. 41-3.

265 This letter is not dated, but from the mention of the Legate’s arrival and the siege of Meulan, it appears to have been written towards the end of the first half of January 1590. Busbecq was probably then at Mantes, the place from which the next letter was written. Mantes is about twenty-five English miles from Evreux, which corresponds roughly with ten of Busbecq’s miles. See vol. i. page 82, note.

266 Pierre d’Espinac was born in 1540, and became Archbishop of Lyons in 1574. He was Speaker, or Prolocutor, of the States-General held at Blois in 1576. Catherine de Medici, when the Leaguers first took up arms, sent him to negotiate with them (see p. 246.) However, he went over to that party, and was thenceforth one of the strongest partisans of the League. According to his own account, he was forced to take this step by the insults he received from Epernon, the King’s favourite; his enemies, on the other hand, asserted that his motive was the hope of gaining a Cardinal’s hat. After the assassination of Guise, at Blois, in December 1588, the Archbishop was one of those arrested, and he shared the prison of the Cardinal, the brother of the murdered duke. Each expected to meet the same fate, and each confessed to the other, and received absolution at his hands. The Cardinal was put to death the following day without trial, but the Archbishop’s life was spared. On his trial he refused to answer when interrogated by the judges, on the ground that, as Archbishop and Primate, he was subject only to the jurisdiction of the Pope, or of delegates appointed by him. He was then imprisoned at Amboise. On his release he again joined the League, and was Mayenne’s strongest partisan. He died in 1599, refusing to the last to acknowledge Henry IV.—Thuanus, v. 855.

267 Nanteuil-le-Haudoin, 49 kilometres, or about 31 English miles, from Paris. Busbecq’s ‘French miles’ must therefore be leagues. The château had been purchased by Schomberg from the Guises in 1578, and he derived from it his title of Comte de Nanteuil.

268 The appointment of these commissioners, and the seizure of Mayenne’s letters, are mentioned by Busbecq, and, as far as we have been able to discover, by Busbecq alone. These facts are not noticed by Sismondi. As has been already remarked (vol. i. page 64, note), these letters have apparently entirely escaped the notice of historians.

INDEX TO THE LETTERS.

AA, John Van der, member of Ferdinand’s privy council, presents Busbecq to Ferdinand, i. 78

Abbot of Turkish Monastery—his alleged miracles, i. 363-365

Achmet Pasha, appointed Grand Vizier, i. 118;

his character, 119;
Busbecq and his colleagues visit, 152;
strangled, 176;
details of his execution, 189-190;
many of his retainers join Bajazet, 275

Aconite or Napellus, used by Turkish pilgrim, i. 362

Acorus calamus, plant sent by Busbecq to Mattioli, i. 415

Adrianople, town of, i. 107;

Solyman’s winter residence, 198;
Busbecq summoned thither, 199;
earthquake there, 200

Affenstein, commander of German reiters, killed, ii. 104

Aga of the Janissaries, mentioned, i. 232, 285

Agiamoglans, name of a class among the Christian tribute children, i. 306, and note

Aigues-Mortes, seaport in Languedoc, surprised by the Huguenots, ii. 42, and note;

Italian nobles captured by the Huguenots taken thither, 155

Akschehr, town in Asia Minor taken by Bajazet, i. 273

Albacar, Spanish physician sent by Busbecq to Lemnos, i. 416

Albanians, a Georgian tribe, i. 246

Albanians or Epirotes, ii. 143, and note

Aldegonde, St., a prisoner in the hands of the Royalists, ii. 4;

said to be sent by the States as envoy to Alençon, 198;
made burgomaster of Antwerp, 210

Alençon, Francis, Duke of, afterwards Duke of Anjou, waiting at Lyons for his brother, ii. 7;

his constitution delicate, 43;
at the Cardinal de Lorraine’s funeral, 46;
at the ball given on the Marquis de Nomeny’s marriage, 81;
his restless spirit, 95;
supposed to have dealings with the Huguenots, 96;
accompanies the Queen to the gates of Paris, ib.;
his flight and his motives, 100-104, and note;
expected to return to Blois, 105;
demands that the negotiations be held at Blois instead of Poitiers, 114;
supposed to have instigated du Guast’s murder, 116;
interferes in his quarrel with Thoré, 118;
takes possession of Châtelherault, 120;
demands Bourges and other towns, ib.;
will probably come to terms, 131;
his expedition to the Netherlands, 141;
intends ravaging Hainault, 143;
sends to Italy to hire horse, ib.;
a champion of the Catholics, 144;
reinforcements for him, 147;
witnesses the battle at Ghent, 148;
disposition of his troops, 149;
expects to visit England 156;
prevails on citizens of Antwerp to admit 300 French noblemen, 162;
his attempt to seize Antwerp, 166;
retreats to the monastery of St. Bernard, 167;
and thence to Dendermonde, 168;
his probable course of action, ib.;
312 blackness of his conduct, 170;
excuses made for it, ib.;
complete breach with citizens of Antwerp, 173;
his ill-regulated mind, 174;
proposed compromise with him, 174-175;
chooses Dunkirk as his residence, 179;
reported to be concerned in fresh disturbances, 180;
ill at Dunkirk, 181;
presents Fervaques with an abbacy, ib.;
sends Pibrac to Antwerp, ib.;
writes to stop his mother from coming, 182;
meets her at La Fère, 185;
has lost everything in Netherlands but Cambrai, 186;
returns to France, ib.;
said to be going to marry the daughter of the Duke of Lorraine, 194;
said to have handed over Cambrai to his brother, 195;
his probable plans, ib.;
appointed by the king his Lieutenant with limited powers, 196;
at Cambrai in great want of money, 198;
envoys to him from the States, ib.;
likely to come to Paris, 199;
goes to Château Thierry, 201;
intends to winter at Angers, 202;
goes to Laon, ib.;
will not come to court, 203;
his rumoured negotiations with Spain for sale of Cambrai, 204;
changes his plans, will winter at Château Thierry, 206;
his humiliating position, ib.;
suspected attempt to murder, 209;
about to receive an embassy from the Netherlands, 210;
urges his claim to be made Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, 212;
visits his mother, 213;
by her advice approaches the king submissively, ib.;
advised to secure the favour of Joyeuse and Epernon, ib.;
returns to Château Thierry, 214;
his serious illness, 216;
reported to be in a decline, 217;
given over, 218;
confined to his bed, 219;
importance of his death for France, ib.;
his death, 221;
his character, ib.;
preparations for his funeral, ib.;
said to have bequeathed Cambrai to his mother, 222;
his funeral, 223

Ali Pasha, second vizier, and afterwards Grand Vizier, his origin and character, i. 157, 342;

banquet given by him to Persian ambassador, 157;
his foolish speech, 234;
becomes Grand Vizier, 334;
grants Busbecq’s request to leave his house, ib.;
sends a cavasse to him, 342;
contrasted with Roostem, 343-345;
his interviews with Busbecq, 345;
his policy, 346;
his accident, ib.;
conversation with Busbecq about the invasion of Moldavia, 349-351;
helps to procure the release of Busbecq’s servants, 368;
sends him sweetmeats, 375;
informs him of Bajazet’s death, 385;
his presents to him on his departure, 388;
what he wished in return, 391

Ali Pasha, the eunuch, appointed to the command in Hungary, i. 236;

visited by Busbecq and his colleagues, 237;
description of him, ib.;
his operations in Hungary, ib.;
his rashness checked by a Sanjak-bey, 238;
his discomfiture and death, 239;
his speech on the loss of Gran, 240

Alost, taken by Alençon, ii. 143

Alva, the Duke of, his death, ii. 162

Amasia, capital of Cappadocia, description of, i. 150-151;

Bajazet ordered thither, 267

Amber, great quantities of it exported to Turkey and Persia, i. 257

Amiens, attempt to surprise, ii. 88

Amurath I., Sultan, his death, i. 153, and note

Ancyranum Monumentum, account of the, i. 142-143, and note

Angers, town of, demanded by Alençon, ii. 120;

Alençon going to winter there, 202

Angers, citadel of, held by de Brissac, ii. 245;

surprised by Huguenots, 248;
its destruction ordered, 249

Angoulême, town of, demanded by Alençon, ii. 120

Angora, town of, description of the, i. 142;

313 Bajazet occupies and raises forced loan from merchants of, 275

Angora goats, i. 137, and note;

manufacture of mohair from their hair, 143

Annonay, town in the Vivarais, siege of, ii. 9, and note

Ant, Indian, as large as a dog, sent as a present by the Shah to Solyman, i. 375, and note

Antonio, Don, pretender to the crown of Portugal, his Constable killed, ii. 146;

returns to France, 161;
goes to Dieppe, ib.;
engaged in equipping a fleet, 178;
expenses of his household at Ruel, 183;
his new fleet reaches the Azores, 188;
said to be intended as the commander of the French forces in the Netherlands, 235

Antwerp, the French Fury at, ii. 164-168;

tumult against Orange there, 176;
strictly blockaded, 231;
hard pressed, 236;
equipment of fleet to relieve, 240;
cutting the dykes near, ib.;
the bridge destroyed, 247;
gunpowder sent to Paris from, 254

Antwerp, inhabitants of, their kind treatment of the prisoners, ii. 169;

their statement, 171;
demand ransom, 173;
complete breach between them and Alençon, ib.;
demand the execution of Fervaques, 175;
their confidence in Orange diminished, 185, 186;
ready to suffer the worst rather than submit, 217;
resolved to hold out, 229

Archery, Turkish skill in, i. 253

Aremberg, the Countess of, ii. 113, note;

writes to announce her arrival at Nancy, 114;
notice sent to her of date of the Queen’s departure, 126;
delayed in reaching Nancy by a mistake, 130

Arslan Bey, Sanjak-bey of Stuhlweissenburg, his feud with Veli Bey, i. 244

Arundel, Earl of, arrested for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 212;
will probably be pardoned, ib.;
again arrested, 247

Athenæus, his statement as to the pinna and pinna guard referred to, i. 339

Aubigny, Comte d’, and Duke of Lennox, reported to be besieged in Scotland, ii. 148, and note

Auger, Edmund, the king’s confessor, rebuked by Catherine de Medici, ii. 182

Aumale, the Duke of, accompanies the Queen to Bourg-la-Reine, ii. 96;

a leader of the League, 241;
seizes places in Normandy, 245

Aumont, Maréchal d’, with Navarre, ii. 262

Auxonne, town in Burgundy, its inhabitants charge their governor with treason and pull down the fortifications, ii. 248-249

Axylos, woodless tract in Asia Minor, i. 215

BABOCSA, a Hungarian fortress, i. 237

Baden, the Margrave of, meets the Queen, ii. 134

Bailen, the Comte de, Spanish ambassador, starts for Lyons, ii. 11;

arrives at Paris, 22;
leaves Paris, 28

Baily, title of the Venetian ambassador, i. 226, note;

his interposition, 226;
unable to help the imprisoned pilgrims, 352;
his surprise at the release of Busbecq’s servants without a bribe, 368

Bairam, the feast of, parents allowed to see their married daughters at, i. 229, and note;

description of its celebration by the Turkish army, 302-304

Bajazet I., Sultan, indignities he and his wife received from Tamerlane, i. 112

Bajazet II., Sultan, defeats his son Selim, i. 108

Bajazet, son of Solyman, his mother’s favourite, i. 179;

implicated in the rising of Mustapha, the Pretender, 180, 185;
his interview with his father, 187-189;
his story continued, 264-281;
conspires against his brother, 265;
314 removed from Kutaiah to Amasia, 267;
complains of his new government, ib.;
accuses his brother, 268-269;
prepares for war, 270;
sends back Pertau Pasha, 271;
his message to Solyman, 272;
takes town of Akschehr, 273;
occupies Angora, and raises a forced loan from the merchants, 275;
his appearance and character, 275-276;
marches on Koniah, 277;
his speech to his army, 277-278;
his gallant conduct, 278;
defeated at Koniah, retreats to Amasia, 279;
reputation acquired by him, 280;
sounds his father’s disposition, 298;
warned by his friends to beware of him, 301;
one of his spies executed, ib.;
starts on his flight to Persia, 302;
his rapidity, 304;
his stratagems to deceive the Pashas of Siwas and Erzeroum, 304-305;
offers double pay to soldiers joining him, 306;
crosses the Araxes and enters Persia, 306-307;
his speech to the Shah’s envoys, 307;
his reception by the Shah, 308;
his message to his father, 309;
atrocious speech of one of his officers, ib.;
is seized and thrown into prison, 311;
conjectures as to his probable fate, 311-312;
the end of his story, 375, 378-381;
his execution, 381;
his four sons share his fate, ib.;
execution of his infant son at Broussa, 382

Balagny, Governor of Cambrai, ii. 205, and note;

his tyrannical conduct there, 227

Baldi, Philip, an Italian sent to Busbecq by the Emperor, i. 259;

mentioned again, 263

Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Latin Emperor of Romania—taken and killed by the Bulgarians, i. 105, and note;

mentioned, 130, note

Balsam, given by Ali Pasha to Busbecq, i. 388;

its value, 389, and note;
doubts thrown on its genuineness, 416

Balsam-tree, not now to be found in Asia Minor, i. 142

Basilicus, John, Greek adventurer—his story, i. 347, note;

invades Moldavia, 347

Baths, intrigues carried on in them by Turkish women, i. 231

Bavaria, the Duke of, attends the coronation at Frankfort, i. 399, and note;

his health, ii. 134;
his handsome reception of the Queen, ib.;
thinks the Danube her best route, ib.;
presses her to remain, ib.

Bavaria, the Duchess of, sends messages and letters to the Queen, ii. 3

Bavaria, Ferdinand, Duke of, meets the Queen, ii. 134

Bavaria, William, Duke of, with his wife meets the Queen at Nancy, ii. 129;

consulted as to her route, 133, 137;
his kindness to her, 135;
goes to Vienna, 137

Belgrade, town of, described, i. 93;

sieges and capture of, by the Turks, 94;
fertility of the neighbourhood, 165

Bellegarde, Roger de Saint-Lary de, Marshal, sent as ambassador to Poland, ii. 61, and note;

said to have fallen sick, 66

Bellièvre, Pomponne de, Ambassador of Charles IX. in Poland, ii. 49, and note;

likely to be sent to the Netherlands, 169;
sent to Alençon, 172;
stays behind to arrange matters, 174;
returns from Antwerp, 181;
sent to King of Navarre, 203

Belon (Bellonus), Pierre, French traveller and physician, his mistake about the hyena, i. 140;

referred to for figure of the pinna, 339

Bergen, town in Brabant, taken by the Hollanders under their protection, ii. 217

Bernard, Monastery of St., outpost established there by garrison of Lier, ii. 148;

Alençon passes the night there after the French Fury, 167

Berry, Duchy of, the Queen’s dower partly charged on it, ii. 109

315 Besançon, attempt to surprise, ii. 88

Besme, murderer of Coligny, taken prisoner by the Huguenots, ii. 99, and note

Beyler-bey of Greece, the, sent to Selim’s assistance, i. 271;

sent in pursuit of Bajazet, 305;
in command of the troops on the Persian frontier, 378

Billy, Seigneur de, killed at the Antwerp bridge, ii. 247

Birague, Cardinal de, Chancellor of France, ii. 39;

Busbecq’s interview with him, 87;
contributes to forced loan, 98;
his death and character, 208, and note

Biron, Marshal, the probable commander in the Netherlands, ii. 147;

takes the command there, 149-150;
asks for more cavalry, ib.;
halts on the Somme, 154;
joins Alençon, 156;
his army, 157;
going to the Campine, 162;
said to be the author of the attempt on Antwerp, 165;
clears himself of all blame, 175;
his letter pressing Alençon to abandon the scheme discovered, 181;
retakes some small forts, 182;
defeated at Steenbergen, and wounded, 184;
at Antwerp pressing for money, 186;
returns to France, 195;
his attack on Cateau Cambrésis repulsed, 202;
with Navarre, 262

Black Sea, Busbecq’s visit to it, i. 129, 131;

Polybius wrong in supposing it was silting up, 132

Blaye, town near Bordeaux, garrisoned by the younger de Lansac, ii. 245

Blois, Busbecq obliged to go thither, ii. 141;

king there, 229;
Busbecq goes thither to condole with him in the Queen’s name on Alençon’s death, 230

Blot, Hugo de, recommended by Busbecq to Maximilian as librarian, ii. 73-74, and note

Bodin, Jean, paper relating to French Fury attributed to him, ii. 171, and note

Bokhara, city of, visited by Turkish pilgrim, i. 360

Bonnivet, de, defends Endhoven, ii. 182

Bosphorus, description of the Thracian, i. 129, 131;

for distinction between it and the Cimmerian Bosphorus, see 111, note

Bouchain, taken by Alençon, ii. 144

Bouillon, Godfrey de, first King of Jerusalem, mentioned, i. 250

Bouillon, the Duc de, warns the King of the Guises’ preparations, ii. 241, and note

Bourbon, Charles, Cardinal de, claims to be successor to the throne, ii. 228;

reported to intend to give up his orders and to marry the Duchesse de Montpensier, ib.;
joins the Guises, 239;
nominally their chief leader, 241;
claims the succession to the throne, 242;
changes his cardinal’s robes for a soldier’s dress, 243;
with the Duke of Guise, 246;
a prisoner, 253, and note;
Parliament issues decrees in his name as Charles X., 256;
the Legate summons the people of Langres to acknowledge him as their king, 257

Bourbon, House of, its position, ii. 40;

will be heirs presumptive to the crown on Alençon’s death, 218

Bourges, demanded by Alençon, ii. 120;

likely to surrender to Navarre, 255

Brabant, people of, pronounce sevene differently from the Flemings, i. 358;

arrival of ambassadors from them, ii. 214;
all except Antwerp and Bergen likely to submit, 217

Breda, peace negotiations opened there, ii. 54

Brissac, de, a Leaguer, seizes the citadel of Angers, ii. 245, and note

Broussa, execution of Bajazet’s infant son there, i. 382

Bruges, obliged to call in garrison of Menin for its protection, ii. 194;

said to have submitted, 219;
receives a Spanish garrison, 222

Brussels, to be Alençon’s residence, ii. 175;

declined by him, 179;
318 threatened by Parma, 182;
inclined to go over to him, 183;
thinking of surrendering, 229;
surrenders, 236

Buda, city of, description of the, i. 89;

hot springs there, 90

Buda, the Pasha of, Busbecq’s interviews with, i. 169, 396;

see also Touighoun Pasha

Bulgarians, their bread, i. 103;

dress of their women, ib.;
their origin, history, and language, 105, and note

Buren, town in Gelderland, taken, ii. 90, and note

Burgundian secretary, letter from him to Busbecq, i. 233

Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de, at marriage of Philip and Mary, i. 77;

summoned to Vienna, ib.;
bids his family farewell, ib.;
sees Don Pedro at Brussels, ib.;
travels to Vienna, ib.;
interview with Ferdinand, 78;
visits Malvezzi, ib.;
returns to Vienna, 82;
prepares for journey and starts, ib.;
reaches Komorn, ib.;
Gran, 83;
Buda, 85;
makes acquaintance with the Janissaries, 86-87;
his interview with the Pasha, 91;
embarks for Belgrade, 92;
collects coins, 93, 94, 139, 141;
journeys through Servia, 95;
disgusted with Turkish inns, 98;
lodges in a stable, 99;
how he got wine, 100;
reaches Sophia, 102;
Philippopolis, 106;
Adrianople, 107;
Constantinople, 111;
visits the ex-vizier Roostem, ib.;
sees the sights of Constantinople, 122, et seq.;
has a dead giraffe dug up for examination, 128;
visits the Bosphorus and Black Sea, 129, 131;
starts for Amasia, 133;
passes through Nicomedia, 134;
Nicæa, 135;
Angora, 139;
enjoys sherbet and preserved grapes, 147;
reaches Amasia, 150;
visits Achmet Pasha and the other viziers, 152;
his first audience of Solyman, 152-153;
his second, 158;
leaves Amasia, 159;
ill of fever, 161;
reaches Constantinople, ib.;
leaves, 162;
finds scordium, 164;
has another fever, 166;
in danger from brigands, 167-8;
visits Pasha of Buda, 169;
compensates a Turk for his nose, 171;
recovers from his fever, ib.;
reaches Vienna, ib.;
effects on him of his hardships, ib.;
sent back to Constantinople, 175;
arrives there, 176;
unfavourably received by the Pashas, 176-178;
left alone at Constantinople, 193;
his politic conduct, 194-197;
summoned to Adrianople, 199;
alarmed by an earthquake, 200;
returns to Constantinople, 201;
hires a house, ib.;
sent back to his former lodging, ib.;
his menagerie, 204;
shoots kites, 212;
his partridges, ib.;
his horses, 214;
his camels, 218;
complains of his letters being intercepted, 234;
Roostem tries to convert him, 235;
his interview with Ali Pasha, the eunuch, 237;
his amusements and occupations, 252;
practises the Turkish bow ib.;
his visitors, 257;
his retort on Roostem, 264;
sees the Sultan leave Constantinople, 281-287;
his retorts on his cavasse, 287;
summoned to the Turkish camp, ib.;
his sojourn and observations there, 287-297;
presents Ferdinand’s gifts to the Sultan, 297;
witnesses the celebration of the Bairam, 302-304;
his policy influenced by Bajazet’s fortunes, 313;
apologises for his long letter, 314;
overwhelmed by the news of the Spanish defeat, 316;
rescues the standard of the Neapolitan galleys, 322;
becomes surety for Don Juan de Cardona, 325;
his charity to the Spanish prisoners, 326-330;
fears he will lose the money advanced to them, 329;
good effects of his example, 330;
the plague in his house, ib.;
allowed to import wine for his private use, 332;
his request to leave his house on account of the plague refused by Roostem, 333;
317 granted by Ali, 334;
visits Quacquelben on his death-bed, 335-336;
erects a monument to him, 337;
goes to Prinkipo, ib.;
his fishing there, ib.;
his walk with the friar, 340;
his acquaintance with the Metropolitan Metrophanes, 341-342;
Pashas afraid he may escape, 342;
returns to Constantinople, ib.;
interview with Roostem, 343;
Ferdinand’s bounty to him, 344;
his inquiries for Ali, 347;
alarmed by the invasion of Moldavia, 349;
interview with Ali on the subject, 349-351;
sends home the released pilgrims, 353;
accused by Lavigne as a Spanish spy, 354;
his interview with Goths from the Crimea, 355-359;
with Turkish pilgrims, 359-364;
feats of a mountebank he saw at Venice, 365;
his confinement relaxed, ib.;
refuses to appease the Cadi by a bribe, 368;
writes to encourage de Sandé, 372;
asks Ferdinand to intercede for the Spanish prisoners, 373;
argues with his cavasse on predestination, 383-384;
fears the effect of Bajazet’s death on his negotiations, 385;
hears of his death from Ali, ib.;
makes inquiries of his friends, ib.;
his precautions in concluding peace, 387;
his presents from Ali, 388-389;
starts for home, 390;
a good walker, 391;
recovers his appetite, ib.;
his application to Ibrahim, 395;
reaches Buda, 396;
visits the Pasha, ib.;
reaches Gran and Vienna, 397;
informs Ferdinand of his arrival, ib.;
is graciously received by him, 398;
longs for home, 399;
prefers retirement to a court, 399-400;
his high opinion of Hannibal, 408;
books, plants, animals, &c.,
brought back by him, 414-417;
sent a physician to Lemnos, 416;
his journey to Paris, ii. 3;
stays at Speyer from illness, ib.;
his second visit to Spain, 4, note;
reaches Paris, 5;
his interviews with Queen Elizabeth, 5-7;
dissatisfied with the dower business, 14;
asks for instructions, ib.;
his forecast of the future, 15;
his conversation at Kaiserslautern, ib.;
complains of Paris prices, 19;
intends going to the Netherlands, ib.;
his interview with Pibrac, 29;
his conversation about the dower with the Bishop of Paris and others, 33;
asks for credentials, 34;
goes to Lyons and sees the Spanish ambassador, ib.;
sails to Avignon, 35;
visited by Bishop Montluc at Valence, 36;
his interviews with the King and Queen-Mother, 36, 37;
with the Bishops of Orleans and Limoges, 37;
sees the siege of Livron, 44;
draws up ciphers, 48;
asks for his salary, 50, 58, 93, 112;
hopes Maximilian will pardon his being addressed as ambassador, 50;
asks for instructions and a speedy answer, 51, 52;
intends going to Brussels, 52;
at Brussels, 53;
returns to Paris and delivers Maximilian’s letter to the King, 55;
his audiences of the Queen-Mother, the Queen and the King, 59;
recommends Hugo de Blot as librarian, 73;
asks Maximilian in the Queen’s name to intercede for Montmorency, 75;
his interview with the Portuguese ambassador, 76;
suggests, if the Queen marries the King of Portugal, the economy of sending her direct from Paris, 78;
suggests his recall, 83;
asks for new credentials, 84;
also for watches as presents, 84, 93;
which are refused, 115;
his audience of the King, 85;
his interviews with Birague and de Morvilliers, 87;
requested by Maximilian to remain in Paris, 93;
his answer to the Duke of Brunswick’s envoy, 94;
hopes the Queen will not be long in Paris, 97;
his audiences of the King, 106, 107;
is to accompany the Queen as her chief chamberlain, 128;
318 complains of the non-payment of de Vulcob’s advances, 132;
writes to Governor of Upper Austria, 136;
obliged to go to Blois on the Queen’s business, 141;
his audience of the King, ib.;
asks for settlement of the purchase of the Greek books, 163, 188, 200;
his account of the French Fury at Antwerp, 164-168;
asks for St. Hilaire’s discharge, 188;
goes to Blois to condole with the King in the Queen’s name on Alençon’s death, 230;
fears his despatches will be stopped, 247;
some actually missing, 250;
seldom has opportunity of sending a letter, ib.;
fears the town where he will be attacked, 255;
calls the Emperor’s attention to the Queen’s position, 256;
his description of Navarre and Parma and their respective armies, 261-264

Busbecq’s house at Constantinople, description of, i. 201-203

Busbecq’s servants, their first taste of Turkish luxury, i. 84;

wine as good as feather-beds to them, 100;
their practical joke, 124;
quarrel between them and some Janissaries, 295-296;
quarrel of two of them with the Cadi of Pera, 365-368;
scuffle of one with a Janissary, 393

Bussy d’Amboise, notorious duellist, his end, ii. 191, and note

CADI of Pera, his quarrel with Busbecq’s servants, and its consequences, i. 365-368

Caen, seaport in Normandy, held by the Marquis of Elbœuf, ii. 245

Cæsar. See Julius Cæsar

Calloo, fort of, near Antwerp, held by Parma, ii. 226

Calvi, of Genoa, and Capello, of Milan, sent out of France on suspicion of sending money to Parma, ii. 151

Cambrai, its restoration demanded by the States, ii. 173;

besieged by Parma, 183;
hard pressed, 186;
said to be handed over to the King of France, 195;
Alençon there, 198;
its unsafe state, 202;
reported disturbances there, 203;
origin of reports, 204;
Alençon thinks of selling it to Philip, ib.;
held by Balagny, 206 and 205, note;
King about to take it under his protection, 214;
said to be bequeathed by Alençon to his mother, 222;
a thorn in the side of Artois and Hainault, ib.;
said to be made to swear allegiance to the Queen-Mother, 225;
its restoration to Spain one of the terms demanded by the League, 246

Camelopard, dead, dug up and described by Busbecq, i. 128

Camels, description of, i. 218;

numbers of them in the Sultan’s baggage-train, 219

Campine, district in the Netherlands, Biron going to the, ii. 162

Cape Sheep, i. 138, and note

Capello. See Calvi

Caravanserai, description of a, i. 97

Carestran, the meeting-place between Bajazet and his father, i. 187

Cardona, Don Juan de, Spanish officer, manages to get left at Chios, i. 323;

is ransomed by his brother-in-law, with Busbecq’s help, 325

Casimir, John, son of the Elector Palatine, sketch of him, ii. 15, note;

king undertakes to pay him 500,000 francs, 127;
his covenant for mutual defence with Condé, ib.;
sends one of his officers to Elizabeth, 130;
will not hear of a truce, 131;
sends to Queen of England about the Cologne business, 184;
application to him suggested in congress of Middelburg, 202

Castella, Don Juan de, Spanish officer, his gallant conduct, i. 320

Cat, the, preferred by Turks to the dog, i. 225;

Mahomet’s, ib.

Cateau Cambrésis, treaty of, Turks indignant at, i. 369

Cateau Cambrésis, town of, taken by Parma, ii. 157;
annoyance caused by its garrison, 162;
319 Biron’s attempt on it repulsed by Parma, 202

Cathay, or China, account of, given by a Turkish pilgrim, i. 359-362

Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, waits for her son at Lyons, ii. 7;

offended at Pibrac’s advice, 10;
supposed to favour war in order to keep her power, 11, 50;
threatens execution of Montmorency, if his brothers invade France, 16;
grants Busbecq an audience, 36;
her power over the King, 37;
given good advice by Maximilian, 38;
her illness from walking in a procession at night, 45;
fancies she sees the Cardinal’s ghost, 46, and note;
offers the Queen her services, 55;
her unpopularity, 57;
her regard for Maximilian, 59;
tries to keep Alençon quiet, 95;
follows him, 102;
interview between them, 103;
regrets she cannot bid Elizabeth farewell, 122;
concludes a six months’ truce with Alençon, 126;
intends visiting certain towns to persuade them to admit him, 127;
invested with the government in the King’s absence, 145, 183;
grants Don Antonio an audience, 161;
her claims on Portugal, ib. and note;
her exclamation on hearing of the French Fury, 167;
intends visiting Alençon, 180;
indignant at his folly, 181;
disgusted at the King’s neglect of his duties, 182;
rebukes his confessor, ib.;
Alençon puts off her visit, ib.;
goes to Boulogne to see him, 184;
meets him at La Fère, 185;
incensed with her daughter for her conduct, 193;
returns to La Fère, 194;
goes to Alençon at Château Thierry, 202;
and then to Laon, ib.;
returns to Paris, 203;
again goes to Alençon, 209;
visited by him, 213;
her advice to him, ib.;
visits him, 217;
said to be sick with grief, 218;
her grief for Alençon genuine, 221;
importuned by Netherland ambassadors, 224;
strongly supports their appeal to the King, 225;
resolved to keep Cambrai, 228;
goes to the Loire, ib.;
her hatred of Spain, 235;
her answer to the Netherland ambassadors, 237;
with the Duke of Guise, 246

Cavasses, nature of their office, i. 85, 201;

Busbecq’s cavasse induces the Pashas to confine him in his old quarters, 201;
their general behaviour to Busbecq, 258;
rudeness of one, and Busbecq’s retaliation, 259-260;
one tries to prevent Busbecq seeing the Sultan’s departure, 281;
Busbecq retorts on him, 287;
Busbecq’s argument with his cavasse on predestination, 383-384.

Champagny, M. de, brother of Cardinal Granvelle, in danger at Ghent on account of alleged conspiracy ii. 209

Chanvallon, M. de, former favourite of Alençon, and lover of the Queen of Navarre, flies to Germany, ii. 193;

his manners and appearance, ib.

Charité, La, town of, demanded by Alençon, ii. 120

Charlemagne, the Emperor, dispersed the Saxons, i. 359;

House of Guise said to be descended from him, ii. 238

Charles V., the Emperor, his truce with the Turks, i. 78;

Turkish recollection of his victories, 318;
standard with his arms rescued by Busbecq, 322-323;
etiquette at his court, ii. 159-160

Charles IX., King of France, questions as to his leaving a will, ii. 33;

had appointed his brother Henry his Lieutenant, 104

Charlotte de Bourbon, daughter of the Duke of Montpensier, her marriage with the Prince of Orange, ii. 66, and note;

her death, 142

Chartres, attempt on town of, ii. 98;

Nevers’ head-quarters, 102;
said to have gone over to Navarre, 255

320 Chattes, M. de, a Knight of Malta, commanding Don Antonio’s fleet, ii. 188

Chederle, fabulous hero identified by the Turks with St. George, legend of, i. 148-150

Chios, tame partridges from, i. 212;

how reared, 213;
its Genoese inhabitants, and its form of government, 323, and note;
Spanish officers left there, ib.

Cicero, his statements as to the pinna and pinna-guard referred to, i. 339

Ciphers, Pashas puzzled by supposed, i. 233;

Busbecq draws some up, ii. 48

Claudius, the Emperor, the story of his murder alluded to, i. 172

Clervant, M. de, Huguenot leader, taken prisoner, ii. 104, and note

Cocq, Jerome de, Busbecq asks his salary to be paid to, ii. 50

Codignac, M. de, French Ambassador at Constantinople, his quarrel with his successor, i. 370

Coins, ancient, found by Busbecq, i. 94, 139, 141

Colchians. See Mingrelians

Cologne, disturbances at, ii. 162, and note;

King hopes to profit by them, 185

Compiègne, attempt to surprise, ii. 88

Condé, Prince de, expected to take the field, ii. 32;

messenger from him at Avignon, 41;
some wish him sent to Hungary against the Turk, 49;
likely to invade France, 68;
terms of peace to be referred to him, 70;
suggestion that he should go to assist Orange, 72;
said to be coming with an army, 88;
Mezières appointed as his residence, 127;
his covenant for mutual defence with Casimir, ib.;
will not hear of a truce, 131;
spoken of for the command in the Netherlands, 233;
marriage reported between him and Navarre’s sister, ib.;
report of a bull declaring him disqualified to succeed to the throne, 243, 249;
marches on Angers, but fails in his enterprise, 248

Constantinople, description of, and its antiquities, &c., i. 122-127;

the Sultan’s sons not allowed to enter, 187;
entry of Turkish fleet into, 321

Cossé, Maréchal de, imprisoned in the Bastile, ii. 8;

sketch of him, ib., note;
his illness, 19;
will probably go with Montmorency to Alençon, 105

Crane, story of a Balearic, i. 207

Cratevas, a Greek herbalist, fragments of, in Busbecq’s MS. of Dioscorides, i. 417, and note

DADIAN, King of the Mingrelians, his appearance and character, i. 245;

his capture and escape, 246-247;
his presents to Solyman, 251-252

Dalmatian horseman, his objection to fire-arms, i. 241-242

Damville, Comte de, afterwards Duc de Montmorency, sketch of him, ii. 11, note;

summoned by the King, ib.;
said to have caused Montpellier to revolt, 22;
to have made an attempt on Avignon, 23;
prepares to defend himself, 32;
carries war through Languedoc and Guienne, 56;
report of his death, 68, and note;
terms of peace to be referred to him, 70;
comes to life again, 77;
King wishes to deprive him of his government, 187;
intended campaign against him, 214;
pronounced contumacious by the Parliament, ib.;
campaign given up, 218;
said to be appointed Constable of France by Navarre, 255.

Dantzic, amber merchant of, at Constantinople, i. 257

Dauphin, the Prince. See Montpensier

Delegates from the rebels expected in Paris, and their demands, ii. 57, 60;

sent back with the King’s answer, 60

321 Dendermonde, Alençon withdraws thither, ii. 168;

attacked by Parma, 226

Denmark, King of, application to the, suggested in Congress of Middelburg, ii. 202;

his eldest daughter married to King James of Scotland, 258

Derby, Earl of, comes to Paris as the bearer of the Order of the Garter from Queen Elizabeth to the King, ii. 234;

his magnificent reception, 237;
his departure, ib.

Diest, town belonging to Prince of Orange, blockaded by Parma, ii. 157;

surrenders to him, 162;
recovered by him, 183

Dietrichstein, Adam von, Austrian Baron, i. 325, note;

ransoms his brother-in-law, ib.

Dijon, the Pope’s legate summons people of Langres to, ii. 257;

transfers their bishopric to, ib.

Dioscorides, famous MS. of, found by Busbecq at Constantinople, i. 417, and note

Divan, custom of entertaining ambassadors on leaving in the, i. 159, 387;

meaning of the word, 197;
Busbecq and his colleagues summoned thither, ib.;
scene there, 232-234;
de Sandé brought before, 325;
debate there as to whether Busbecq should be allowed to bring wine into Constantinople, 332

Divorce, Turkish laws about, i. 230

Dixmude, hard pressed, ii. 194

Djerbé, account of the Spanish defeat at, i. 317, note, and 317-321

Dodona, the oak of, alluded to, i. 272

Dorothea, sister of the Duke of Lorraine, her marriage, ii. 124, 129

Dower, the Queen’s, Duchy of Berry said to be assigned as, ii. 20;

further reports about it, 26;
Pibrac’s statement about it, 30;
impossible to get the whole charged on Crown Lands, 53, 56;
two proposals as to settlement thereof, 85;
valuation made of property assigned for it, 108;
final arrangement about it, 109

Duck, species of, whose cry was like a post horn, i. 139

Duel, a, in France, ii. 188-191

Duelling, Turkish opinion about, i. 244

EARTHQUAKE, at Adrianople, i. 200;

at Constantinople, ib.

Egmont, Count, Louise de Vaudemont his niece, ii. 51;

his brother compromised by Salceda’s evidence, 154

Egypt, eggs artificially hatched in, i. 214;

disaffected to the Turks, 273

Elbœuf, Marquis of, cousin of the Duke of Guise, one of the leaders of the League, ii. 241;

seizes Caen, 245

Elephant, that danced and played ball, i. 128

Elizabeth, Queen of England, peace renewed between her and France, ii. 60;

anecdote of her, 61;
said to have sent Alençon money, 143;
conspiracy against her, 212;
sends the Garter to the King, 235;
reported attempt on her life, 240;
offers the King 6,000 horse, 246;
fresh conspiracy against her, 247;
openly takes Holland and Zealand under her protection, 251

Elizabeth, daughter of Maximilian, widow of Charles IX., sends her carriages for Busbecq, ii. 5;

her proposed marriage to Henry III., 6;
the general topic of conversation, 11;
her uncomfortable position in Paris, 14;
difficulties about her dower, ib.;
her illness apprehended, 22;
her recovery, 24;
questions as to her future arrangements, 25;
report of her marriage to Henry III. discredited, 27;
her health, 29;
marriage with King of Portugal talked of, 30, 77;
arrangements as to her establishment and return, 31, 32;
wishes Busbecq to go to the King, 33;
her escort home, 47;
322 consults Busbecq as to her conduct to the new Queen, 51;
shows him the Queen-Mother’s letter, ib.;
suggested for the governorship of the Netherlands, 54;
how her current expenses are to be provided, ib.;
intends going to Amboise after Easter, 58;
anxious to see her daughter, but prevented by want of funds, 64;
no money to pay her servants, 65;
her position intolerable, 67;
longs to return and also to see her daughter, 78;
her poverty, ib.;
her illness caused by anxiety, 79;
arrangements about her journey, 84, 115, 119, 123;
the municipality of Paris inclined to defray her expenses, 91;
requires money, 92;
receives proposal from Duke Eric of Brunswick, 94;
starts for Amboise, 96;
arrives there, 97;
the date of her departure, 109;
questions about her route, 110-111;
her anxiety to leave, 113;
sends Orleans wine to her father, 124;
starts from Paris, 128;
arrives at Nancy, 129;
present at the Duke of Brunswick’s wedding, ib.;
sends courier to Madame d’Aremberg, 130;
arrives at Bâle, Augsburg, and Munich, 133, 134;
whether her route is to be by land or water, 133;
her health, 135; anxious to reach her father, 136;
her life and character, ib. note;
business relating to her, 141;
her rights disregarded, 172;
curtailment of her income from the troubles in France probable, 256

Elizabeth, daughter of the preceding, probably will not be allowed to leave France, ii. 56;

is delicate, 58;
description of her, 97, and note

Elkass Mirza, assisted by Solyman against his brother, Shah Tahmasp, i. 301

Endhoven, town in Brabant, capitulates, ii. 182

English ambassador suspected of intriguing with Alençon, ii. 99-100.;

See also Derby, Earl of

Epernon, Duke of, favourite of the King, applies for governorship of Brittany, ii. 172;

King wishes the Duke of Lorraine to give him his daughter, 176;
description of him, 177;
King wishes to make him governor of Metz, 184;
Alençon advised to secure his interest, 213;
escorts Alençon on his departure, 214;
sent to the King of Navarre, 220;
honourably received by him, 223;
ill of scrofula, 230;
his reported marriage to Navarre’s sister, 242;
finds out where his hat is, 246;
sent to his command at Metz, 251

Eric, Duke of Brunswick, proposes for Elizabeth, ii. 94, and note;

reported preparations for his marriage to Dorothea, the Duke of Lorraine’s sister, 124;
his wedding, 129

Ernest, the Archduke, suspected of being concerned in the affair of Antwerp, ii. 168;

Philip II.’s daughter said to be betrothed to him, ib.

Erzeroum, the Pasha of, how deceived by Bajazet, i. 304-305;

afterwards put to death by Selim, 305

Espinoy, Prince of, accompanies the Netherland ambassadors to France, ii. 234

Essek, town of, famous battle there, i. 166

Este, the Cardinal of, applies for the honour of escorting the Queen, ii. 55, and note;

accompanies her to Bourg-la-Reine, 96;
appointed to escort her, 126;
returns to Paris on account of plot to waylay him, 130

Estrées, d’, family of, banished from Court, ii. 13

Etampes, town of, taken by Navarre, ii. 252

Eunuchs of Solyman’s bed-chamber, the chief of the, procures Pialé Pasha’s pardon, i. 324;

de Sandé recalled at his wish, 326.
See also Hassan Aga

Evreux, town of, threatened by Navarre, ii, 258

323 FAST, the Turkish, how kept, i. 290-291

Ferdinand, King of Hungary and Bohemia, King of the Romans and afterwards Emperor, summons Busbecq to Vienna, i. 77;

Busbecq’s interview with him, 78;
sends Malvezzi to the Porte, ib.;
recovers Transylvania, 79;
sends Zay and Wranczy to the Porte, 80;
engaged at the Imperial Diet, 172;
sends Busbecq back to Constantinople, 175;
his bounty to Busbecq, 344;
at Frankfort, 397;
receives Busbecq graciously, 398;
panegyric on him, 401-414;
his Fabian tactics, 409;
his difficulties, 411

Ferdinand, the Archduke, sees Busbecq at Vienna, i. 171-172;

commands at the relief of Szigeth, 237;
honour he thereby acquired, 239;
declines to give Ibrahim an audience except incognito, 398

Ferrara, the Duke of, a candidate for the Polish crown, ii. 43

Ferrier, M. de, formerly Ambassador at Venice, sent by the King to the King of Navarre, ii. 182

Fervaques, officer of Alençon, said to be the suggester of the French Fury, ii. 169;

a prisoner, ib.;
his execution demanded by the Antwerp citizens, 175;
presented by Alençon with an abbacy, 181;
attempt to assassinate him, 209

Fiesco, the Comte de, account of him, ii. 26, and note;

mentioned 33;
refuses to leave the Queen’s service, 52

Fire-arms, objection of the Turks to, i. 242-243

Flagellants, guilds of, ii. 45;

new guild of, instituted by the King, 179;
punishment of footmen who mocked, 180

Flushing, town of, bought by Orange, ii. 183

Foix, François de, Comte de Candale and Bishop of Aire, dedicates a translation of Hermes Trismegistus to Maximilian, ii. 17, and note

Fontenay, town in Poitou, besieged, ii. 10;
taken, 12

Forez, county of Le, the Queen’s dower partly charged on, ii. 109

France, M. de, the Queen’s first steward, ii. 33

France, state of, ii. 38-42, 48-50, 67-68, 70-73, 77, 87-89;

no money but French or Spanish allowed in, 151;
dreadful weather in, 163;
on the brink of war, 241

Francis I., influences the Sorbonne to decide in Henry VIII.’s favour, ii. 27

Franciscan friar, story of a, i. 340

Frederic III., Emperor, his alliance with the House of Portugal, ii. 77, and note

Frederic III., Elector Palatine, his reception of Henry III., ii. 15 note

Fregosi, a great Genoese family, ii. 89, and note

French gentlemen, their characters, ii. 72, 92

Fünfkirchen, Bishop of, defeated by Ali Pasha, i. 236

GANNAT, town in the Bourbonnais, added to the Queen’s dower, ii. 109

Gaston, Don. See Medina-Celi, Duke of.

Genoa, a safety-valve for restless Frenchmen, ii. 89

George, St., identified by the Turks with their hero, Chederle, i. 148;

how painted by the Greeks, 150;
greatly venerated by the Mingrelians, 251

Georgians, their prudent answer when asked to attack the Shah, i. 377

Germain, St., en Laye, King at, ii. 211;

reforms of assembly at, ib.;
King returns thither, 230

German reiters, report that 2,000 are coming to join Damville, ii. 96;

defeated by Guise, 104;
more reported to be coming, 110, 113, 119;
said to have crossed the Rhine, 127;
324 scouring the country, 129;
seen from the ramparts of Nancy, 131;
1,500 hired by Alençon, near Cambrai, 143;
Navarre said to be hiring, 212;
rumours of some being brought to France, 239;
much dreaded in France, 249

Ghent, battle before, ii. 148;

alleged conspiracy detected there, 209;
Parma’s envoys courteously received there, 217;
said to have come to terms with him, 219;
admits the troops of Orange, 222;
submits to Parma, 229

Ghourebas, name of a regiment of the Imperial guard, i. 154, and note;

mentioned, 283

Gienger, Cosmo, governor of Upper Austria, ii. 138, and note

Gilles, or Gyllius, Peter, French traveller, referred to, i. 132, and note

Goatsucker, cruel treatment of a, by a Venetian goldsmith, i. 226, and note

Goigny, Seigneur de, officer of King of Spain, seen at Cambrai, ii. 204

Goldfinches, tricks of trained, i. 228

Goldsmith, story of a Venetian goldsmith and a bird, i. 226

Goths remaining in the Crimea, i. 355-359, and 355 note;

vocabulary of their language, 357-359

Gotzen, Dr. Joachim, sent by Duke Eric of Brunswick to propose for the Queen, ii. 94

Gran, city of, description of, i. 83;

surprised by the Imperial troops, 239

Grapes, Turkish mode of preserving, i. 147-148

Greeks, their superstitions about unclean food, i. 124;

test Solyman’s prohibition of wine, 332-333

Guadagni, an Italian in the French service, seneschal of Lyons, ii. 40;

sent to Maximilian, 31;
his statement to him, 47

Guast, Louis du, one of the King’s favourites, his murder, ii. 116. and note;

his quarrel with Thoré, 117;
his splendid mode of life, 118;
debts left by him, 119

Guise, Henry, Duke of, le Balafré, hostile to Alençon, ii. 95;

accompanies the Queen to the gates of Paris, 96;
appointed the King’s Lieutenant, 98;
defeats the German reiters, 104;
wounded, 105;
his triumphal return to Paris, 121;
offers to go to Alençon’s rescue, 167;
one of the leaders of the League, 241;
declares he is simply a private gentleman fighting for the League, 246;
takes Verdun, 247

Guise, the young Duke of, a prisoner, ii. 253, and note

Guise, House of, its position, ii. 40;

its hereditary feuds with House of Navarre, 176-177;
sets the League on foot, 238;
its claims to the throne, ib.;
understanding with the Pope and the King of Spain, 239;
prepares for a campaign, 241;
its reasons for offence, 242

Guises, their party striving to make themselves masters of France, ii. 224

Güns, town in Styria, taken by Solyman, i. 409

HALYS (Kizil Irmak), the river, fishing in, i. 145

Harrach, Rodolph von, a minister of Ferdinand’s, i. 412

Hassan Aga, chief of the eunuchs of the bed-chamber, sent as ambassador to Persia, i. 380;

and again as Bajazet’s executioner, 381

Havre de Grâce, likely to surrender to Navarre, ii. 255

Hawking, Solyman’s taste for it, i. 198

Hebrus, or Maritza, the river, i. 106, 107

Henry, one of Busbecq’s servants, his quarrel with the Janissary of Tolna, i. 392-396;

does not take de Sandé’s remonstrance in good part, 394

325 Henry VIII., King of England, decision of the Sorbonne on the validity of his marriage, ii. 27, and note

Henry III., King of France, his obligations to Maximilian, ii, 6, note;

expected at Lyons, 7;
hires Swiss and other troops, 8;
arrives at Lyons, 9;
resolves to continue the war, 12;
and begins it with a light heart, 13;
offers an amnesty, ib.;
cedes certain towns to the Duke of Savoy, ib.;
his reception by the Elector Palatine, 15, note;
his return to Paris uncertain, 20;
publishes a second edict, 23;
report of his marriage to his brother’s widow discredited and why, 27;
likely to go to Avignon, 28;
said to have fallen in love with Louise de Vaudemont, 32;
gives Busbecq an audience, 36, 55, 59, 85, 106, 107;
under his mother’s influence, 37;
sets out for Rheims, 38;
his character, 43;
wishes to keep Poland for one of his children, ib.;
at the Cardinal de Lorraine’s funeral, 46;
orders his ambassador at Constantinople to support Maximilian’s interests, 49, and note;
about to marry Louise de Vaudemont, 51;
his unpopularity 57;
gives away all Damville’s offices, 69;
cannot digest the rebel demands, 70;
suffering from influenza, 74;
raises fresh cavalry, 81;
promises an escort for Elizabeth, 84, 86;
his goodwill to Maximilian, 86;
hopes Montmorency is innocent, ib.;
convenes a mock States-General, 87;
orders the crops in Languedoc to be burnt, 88;
his amusements, 91;
wishes to keep Poland, 92;
accompanies the Queen to the gates of Paris, 96;
his military preparations, 97;
appoints Guise his lieutenant, 98;
orders the ambassadors to move into Paris, 100;
sends Nevers in pursuit of Alençon, 102;
his remarks on Alençon’s conduct, 107;
his interference in the quarrel between du Guast and Thoré, 118;
regrets the Queen’s departure, 123;
sends Maximilian a present of grey-hounds and lime-hounds, 124;
undertakes to pay Casimir and his troops 500,000 francs, 127;
pledges jewels to Duke of Lorraine, ib.;
his unwilling consent to the truce, 128;
disclaims all responsibility for Alençon, 141;
goes to Lyons, 145;
his fondness for pilgrimages, 145, 156, and note;
goes to Bourbon-les-Bains, 149;
more favourable to Alençon’s enterprise, 150;
witnesses Salceda’s execution, 153;
his interview with him, 154;
his reply to the Spanish ambassador, 155;
makes a pilgrimage to Nôtre Dame de Liesse, 156;
commands the Bretons to build fifty galleys, ib.;
orders money to be paid to Alençon, ib.;
expected in Paris, 158;
sends commissioners through France, ib.;
who returned without success, 172;
his financial expedients, 160;
his extravagance, 172, 178;
his conduct unfavourably criticised, 173;
moves troops to the frontier, ib.;
presses the Duke of Lorraine to betroth his daughter to Epernon, 176;
his affection for Joyeuse and Epernon, 178;
institutes a new order of Flagellants, 179;
orders footmen who mimicked the Flagellants to be whipped, 180;
his devotion to religious observances, 182;
sends M. de Ferrier to the King of Navarre, ib.;
going to Foullenbraye to drink the Spa waters, 183;
in bad health, ib.;
urged by the Pope to accept and publish the decrees of the Council of Trent, 184;
wishes to make Epernon governor of Metz, ib.;
hopes to profit by the troubles at Cologne, 185;
will go to Lyons, ib.;
sends a courier with an autograph letter to Joyeuse, 187;
hurries back to Paris, ib.;
going to Lyons, ib.;
his outbreak against his sister, 192;
326 writes to Navarre accusing her, 193;
sets out for Lyons to meet Joyeuse, 194;
his demands from the Pope through Joyeuse, 197;
refused, 198;
goes to Saint-Germain en Laye on account of the plague, 201;
his financial difficulties, ib.;
not sorry for Alençon’s absence, 203;
regrets his outburst against his sister, ib.;
said to have written to Alençon cautioning him, 205;
holding assemblies at Saint-Germain, 206;
attempts to enforce his sumptuary laws about dress, 207;
intends to reform, 210;
in retirement at Saint-Germain, 211;
returns to Paris, 213;
meets Alençon, ib.;
going to take Cambrai under his protection, 214;
resolved to make Joyeuse’s father governor of Languedoc, ib.;
his attack on the Prior of Champagne, 215-216, and note;
gives up his campaign against Damville, 218;
estranged from his wife, 219;
said to be thinking of a divorce, 220;
sends Epernon to Aquitaine, ib.;
intends going to Lyons, ib.;
wears black mourning for Alençon, 221;
goes to Lyons, 224;
asks Navarre to come to him, offering to make him Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, ib.;
returns from Lyons, 227;
building a church for himself and his penitents, ib.;
his campaign against vice, ib.;
goes to the Loire, 228;
is driven away from Blois by the plague and returns to Saint-Germain, 230;
has a chance of trying his power of healing scrofula, 231;
undecided as to assisting the Netherlanders, 232;
grants their ambassadors a private audience, 234;
invested with the Garter, 235;
reluctant to take up the cause of the Netherlands, ib.;
distressed at attempt to assassinate Navarre, 236;
his final answer to the Netherland ambassadors, 237;
suspected of secretly approving of the Guises’ plans, 240;
neglects the Duke of Bouillon’s warning, 241;
difficulties of his position, 244;
sends deputies in vain, 246;
on condition of receiving 100,000 crowns a month from the clergy, orders the Huguenots to leave France within fifteen days, 247-248, and note;
recalls his army, 248;
sequestrates Navarre’s property, 249;
resolves not to let a Huguenot remain in France, 250;
sends some Huguenot women to England under his safe conduct, ib.;
given up to his devotions and living like a hermit, ib.;
Parliament removed to Tours by him, 256

Henry, King of Navarre and Duke of Vendôme, afterwards King of France, his position and family, ii. 7, note;

waits at Lyons for the King, 7;
attends the Cardinal of Lorraine’s funeral, 46;
accompanies the Queen to the gates of Paris, 96;
receives his wife courteously, 203;
demands her punishment if guilty, otherwise that of her accusers, 204;
said to have sent to Germany to hire reiters, 212;
given the duchy of Alençon, 222;
receives Epernon honourably, 223;
well qualified to lead an army to the Netherlands, 233;
likely to give his sister to Condé, ib.;
attempt to assassinate him, 235-236, and note;
his accession dreaded by the Guises, 238;
on his guard, 240;
reported Bull declaring him disqualified for the throne, 243, and note;
offers assistance to the King, 246;
Bull declaring him and Condé disqualified to succeed, 249, and note;
his property sequestrated by the king, ib.;
attacks the faubourgs of Paris, 251;
retreats after offering battle, 252;
retakes Etampes, ib.;
his plans for the winter, 253;
takes Vendôme and Le Mans, 254;
his reported coronation, ib.;
his declaration about religion, 255;
said to have made Montmorency Constable, ib.;
convenes the States-General at Tours, 257;
327 attacks Evreux, 258;
summons Rouen, 259;
besieges Paris, ib.;
Cardinal de Gondi and the Archbishop of Lyons sent to him, 260;
threatens to break off negotiations, 261;
places his cannon at St. Denis, ib.;
contrasted as a general with Parma and comparison of their armies, 262-264

Hermes Trismegistus, reputed work of, translated by François de Foix, ii. 18, and note

Heydons, kind of banditti, i. 92;

Busbecq escapes an attack from them, 167;
their insolence inveighed against by Solyman, 390

Hilaire, St., French cadet in Rodolph’s service, his discharge requested, ii. 188

Horses, Busbecq’s, i. 214;

account of Turkish, how they are reared, trained, &c., 215-217

Humayoum, Mogul Emperor of Delhi, i. 299, and note

Hungarian nobles, certain, go over from the Voivode to Ferdinand, i. 386

Hungary, its great fertility, i. 165;

events there, 236-242

Hyena, account of the, i. 140;

used for love-charms, ib.;
story about it, 141

IBRAHIM Pasha, a eunuch, governor of Constantinople, i. 111;

sent to Ghemlik to execute Mustapha’s son, 120-121;
his escape from the women of Ghemlik, 122

Ibrahim, the interpreter, a Polish renegade, his notion of a cipher, i. 233;

disgraced by Lavigne’s and restored by Busbecq’s influence, 370;
his gratitude, ib.;
encourages Busbecq to ask for de Sandé’s release, 372;
appointed to go to the Emperor with Busbecq, 387;
rates the Janissary of Tolna for his conduct, 395;
is to go to Frankfort, 398;
wishes to visit the Archduke Ferdinand, ib.;
witnesses the coronation, has an audience of the Emperor, and is sent home, 399

Ilsing, ii. 64, note;

notice of the Queen’s departure to be given to him, 120;
notice sent to him, 124

Imaret, Turkish word for hostel, i. 110

Imbize, accuses nobles at Ghent of conspiracy against the authorities of the city, ii. 209, and note

Imeritians, a Georgian tribe, i. 246;

their feuds with the Mingrelians 246-247

Isabella, widow of John Zapolya, returns to Transylvania, i. 236

Ismael, son of Shah Tahmasp, a deadly enemy of the Turks, i. 300-301

Italian merchants of Pisa, their charity to the Spanish prisoners, i. 330

Italian-Greek, his reasons for refusing to help the prisoners, i. 330

Italian renegadoes, i. 294-296

Italians, strong feeling in France against Italians in the French service, ii. 39-40

JACKALS, i. 135

Jagodin, Servian village, Busbecq sees a Servian funeral there, i. 95

James, King of Scotland, said to be a prisoner, ii. 148;

said to be about to attack England, and also to marry a Spanish princess, ib.;
marries daughter of the King of Denmark, 258

Janissaries, account of the i. 86-87, and note;

a few stationed in each town as police, 86, 392;
employed as firemen, 151;
suspected of incendiarism, ib.;
how Busbecq put his escort of Janissaries in good humour, 199;
their tents, 222;
their equipment and mode of fighting, 223;
help Busbecq to get out, 282;
procession of, 285;
defend their conduct against Busbecq’s cavasse, 287;
frugal dinner of one, 289;
their punishments, 293;
quarrel of some with Busbecq’s servants, 295-296;
how they are regarded by the Sultan, 296;
328 entitled to the Sultan’s dinner on the day of Bairam, 304.

Janissary stationed at Tolna, his quarrel with Busbecq’s servants, i. 392-396

Jehangir, Solyman’s youngest son, his appearance, character, and death, i. 178-179

Jews, Busbecq finds himself in a house full of, i. 282;

two sent by Janissary of Tolna to Busbecq, 395

Jorneton, mentioned, ii. 74

Joyeuse, account of the Duke of, a favourite of the King, ii. 177-178;

his pilgrimage to Loreto, and visit to the Pope, 185;
given the governorship of Normandy, 188;
his instructions on going to Italy, 197;
Alençon advised to secure his interest, 213;
escorts Alençon in his departure, 214;
King wishes to make his father governor of Languedoc, ib.;
his quarrel with the Duc de Mercœur, 219;
its origin, 220, 245;
marches to recover places seized by the Duc d’Aumale, 245

Juliers, Duke of, at the coronation at Frankfort, i. 399, and note

Julius Cæsar, his opinion of his soldiers, i. 223;

his intention in mounting the tenth legion, 224;
his despatch of Veni, vidi, vici, 408

Junius, secretary to the late Elector Palatine, sent by the States to Alençon, ii. 198, and note

Juppenbier (spruce beer), a barrel of, presented to Busbecq, and its effect on his guests, i. 257-258

KANÛNS, or Turkish Domesday Book, i. 142, and note

Katzianer, Austrian General, his defeat alluded to, i. 166

Kevi, Island in the Danube, i. 167

Khodja, story of a, at a Pasha’s table, i. 377-378

Khuen, Don Rodolph, Master of Horse to Maximilian, Busbecq asks his salary to be paid to him, ii. 58, and note

Kinsky, John, his business with Schomberg, ii. 112, 125

Kites, the scavengers of Constantinople, i. 212;

Busbecq shoots, ib.

Kizilbash, name given by Turks to the Shah, i. 219

Koniah, the ancient Iconium, Selim ordered to, i. 267;

its strategic importance, 273;
Selim posts himself there, 274;
battle of, 278-279

Koran, any Christian sitting on a, punished with death, i. 111;

copy of the, presented to the Sultan by the Persian Ambassador, 157, 375

Kurds, their origin, i. 275, and note;

body of, hired by Bajazet, 274;
their sham fight, 275

LANGRES, Guise raises troops near, ii. 98;

bishopric of, removed to Dijon, 257

Languedoc and Guienne, the chief Huguenot region, ii. 41;

the crops in, ordered to be burnt, 88

Lansac, de, seizes Blaye, ii. 245, and note

La Noue, Huguenot leader, account of him, ii. 21, note;

at Rochelle, 21;
a prisoner, 155, and note;
attempts to surprise Paris, 252, note;
with Navarre before Paris, 262

Laon, Alençon goes there, ii. 202

Lasso de Castilla, Don Pedro, Ambassador of Ferdinand at the marriage of Philip and Mary, urges Busbecq to hasten to Vienna, i. 77, and note

Laval, the Comte de, son of d’Andelot, and nephew of Coligny, goes to the Netherlands, ii. 147, and note;

Orange intends giving him his daughter, 179;
to be governor of Antwerp, ib.

Lavigne, the French Ambassador, procures the release of the Venetian prisoners, i. 353;

had formerly calumniated Busbecq, ib.;
dreaded by Roostem on account of his bluntness, 354;
329 story of an interview between them, ib.;
hates Ibrahim the interpreter, and procures his disgrace, 370;
his quarrel with de Codignac, ib.

Lazarus, an Albanian chief, recaptured after escaping, and impaled, i. 131-132

Legate, from the Pope (Cardinal Caietano), summons people of Langres to Dijon, ii. 257;

lays them under an Interdict for refusing to acknowledge the Cardinal de Bourbon, ib.;
encourages the Parisians to hold out, 260

Le Mans, town of, taken by Navarre, ii. 254, 255

Lemnian Earth, a medicine used by Quacquelben, i. 164;

how procured, 256, and note;
Busbecq sends a physician to Lemnos to make inquiries about it, 416

Lenoncourt, Cardinal de, said to have crowned Navarre at Tours, ii. 254, and note

Leonora, sister of Charles V., widow of Francis I., difficulties about arranging the settlement of her dower, ii. 53, 83

Leyden, reports about the siege of, ii. 4

Leyva, Don Sancho de, Spanish Admiral, commander of the Neapolitan galleys, brought prisoner to Constantinople, i. 321;

imprisoned in the tower of Pera, 326;
how Busbecq procured his release, 369-373;
hates de Sandé, 373;
asks permission to return by Ragusa and Venice, 390

Lier, its garrison erect an outpost at the monastery of St. Bernard, ii. 148

Lillo, fort near Antwerp, besieged, ii. 224

Limoges, de l’Aubespine, Bishop of, ii. 37

Listhius, John, Hungarian noble, Bishop of Wessprim, ii. 73, and note

Livron, siege of, ii. 44;

turned into a blockade, 46

Livy, thought Alexander would have been defeated if he had attacked Rome, i. 408

Lorraine, Charles, Cardinal de, his illness, death, and character, ii. 45, and note;

his funeral, 46;
blamed as the cause of the war, 50;
formerly absolute master of France, 53

Lorraine, Cardinal de, brother of the Duke of Guise, one of the chiefs of the League, ii. 241

Lorraine, Christina, Duchess Dowager of, her portrait taken for Henry VIII., ii. 63, note;

sends a message to Maximilian, 132

Lorraine, Duke of, expected in Paris, ii. 63, 70;

at the Marquis de Nomeny’s marriage, 80;
asked to allow the passage of Spanish troops through Lorraine, 91;
accompanies Elizabeth to Bourg-la-Reine, 96;
his conversation with Busbecq at dinner, ib.;
notice of the Queen’s departure sent to him, 124;
jewels sent by Henry III. to induce him to be security to Casimir, 127;
comes to meet Elizabeth, 129;
expected in Paris, 158;
arrives, 163;
demands Navarre’s sister for his son, ib.;
his horror at the notion of giving his daughter to Epernon, 176;
his subterfuges, ib.

Lorraine, House of, King devoted to, ii. 32;

its connection with Maximilian, 59, and note

Luc, St., his outrageous behaviour in Alençon’s chamber, ii. 159, and note;

his repartee to Orange, 160

Lusignan, castle of, account of the, ii. 12, note;

its siege expected, ib.;
commenced, 21;
continues, 28;
raised, 32;
surrenders, 46

Luxembourg, M. de, mentioned as likely to escort Elizabeth, ii. 126

Lynx, story of an Assyrian, i. 206

Lyons, inhabitants of, demolish their citadel, ii. 249

Lyons, Pierre d’Espinac, Archbishop of, ii. 260, note;

sent as ambassador to the Guises, 246;
sent by the Parisians to treat with Navarre, 260

330 MAHOMET, story of and his cat, i. 225;

why he forbade the use of wine, 292-294

Mahomet II., Sultan, builder of the castle of Europe on the Bosphorus, i. 131

Mahomet, son of Solyman, who died young, i. 178

Malvezzi, John Maria, former ambassador to the Porte, Busbecq visits him, i. 78;

his embassy and imprisonment, 79-80;
his death, 81

Mamelukes, their ancient dominion in Egypt, i. 273, and note

Mancup, town of Goths in the Crimea, i. 356

MSS., Greek, collected by Busbecq at Constantinople, i. 416-417

Marasch, the Pasha of, sent as ambassador to Persia, i. 380

Marche, La, the Queen’s Dower partly charged upon, ii. 109

Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry of Navarre, catches cold when walking in procession of Flagellants, ii. 45;

Alençon’s confidante and on bad terms with Henry III. and her husband, 96;
as yet childless, 176;
assailed by the King, 192;
leaves Paris for Vendôme, ib.;
King said to intend to imprison her, 193;
declares she and the Queen of Scots are the most unhappy beings in the world, 194;
joins her husband, 203;
to live apart from him till her case has been investigated, ib.;
expected to revenge the insult, 204;
said to be reconciled to her husband, 212;
refuses to see Epernon, 223

Marseilles, attempt to seize, ii. 245

Martigues, the Vicomte de, his daughter about to marry the Marquis de Nomeny, ii. 64

Mary, sister of Henry VIII. and widow of Louis XII., her marriage with the Duke of Suffolk, ii. 76

Mary, Queen of England, her marriage, i. 77

Mary, Queen of Scots, her pension so settled as to be worthless, ii. 34;

expenses of her return home defrayed by Charles IX., 48;
her whole dower not secured on crown lands, 53;
remark of Marguerite de Valois about her, 194;
in danger for conspiring against Queen Elizabeth, 212

Matarieh, gardens of, near Cairo, the true balsam grown there, i. 416

Mattioli, Italian physician and botanist, specimens sent him by Busbecq, i. 415, and note

Maximilian, King of Bohemia, afterwards King of Hungary and Emperor, receives Busbecq graciously on his return to Vienna, i. 171;

his election as King of the Romans, 397;
his coronation, 399;
his advice to Henry III., ii. 50;
asked to intercede for Montmorency, 75;
his views as to the settlement of the Dower, 85;
wishes Busbecq to remain in Paris, 93

Mayenne, the Duke of, accompanies Elizabeth to Bourg-la-Reine, ii. 96;

likely to escort Elizabeth, 126;
a Leaguer, 241;
hurries to relieve Angers, 248;
his troops in contact with the enemy, 250;
enters Paris, 252;
has large forces embodied but no means to pay them, ib.;
attacks the fort of Meulan, 258;
arrives at Meaux, 259;
his letters intercepted, 261;
an unlucky general, 262

Medina Celi, Duke of, commander of the expedition to Djerbé, retires to citadel and escapes by night, i. 319;

his son Don Gaston a prisoner, 323;
his agents search for Don Gaston unsuccessfully, 324;
Don Gaston probably murdered by Pialé Pasha, ib.

Medina de Rio Sicco, Duke of, coming from King of Spain to congratulate Henry III. on his marriage, ii. 74

Mehemet Sokolli Pasha, third of 331 the Vizierial Pashas, afterwards Grand Vizier, despatched by Solyman to Selim, i. 270;

returns and is sent to Asia, 271;
sent in pursuit of Bajazet, 305;
in command of the troops on the Persian frontier, 378

Melun, town of, said to have surrendered to Navarre, ii. 255

Menagerie, Busbecq’s, stories of animals in, i. 204-208

Mendoza, Don Bernardino de, implicated in conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 212;

ordered to leave England, 213;
arrives in Paris, 216;
appointed Spanish ambassador to France, 230;
induces the Parisians to hold out, 260

Menin, evacuated, and then plundered and sacked, ii. 194

Meninx, island of. See Djerbé

Mercœur, Duc de and Marquis de Nomeny, the king’s brother-in-law, ii. 244, note;

his approaching marriage, 64;
his marriage, 80;
accompanies Elizabeth to Bourg-la-Reine, 96;
governor of Brittany, 172;
report of his death, ib.;
untrue, 173;
his quarrel with the Duke of Joyeuse, 219;
its cause, 220;
a Leaguer, 241;
his ingratitude, 244

Méru, M. de, younger son of the Constable Montmorency, ii. 16, note

Metrophanes, the Metropolitan, a friend of Busbecq’s, anxious for a union between the Greek and Latin churches, i. 341-342

Metz, great Protestant disturbances at, ii. 251

Meulan, fort on the Seine, attacked by Mayenne, ii. 258, 259

Mezières, appointed as Condé’s residence, ii. 127

Michel, Giovanni, Venetian ambassador, visits Busbecq, ii. 121, and note

Middelburg, Congress of Netherland States at, ii. 202

Milan, useful as a training school for French soldiers, ii. 72, and note

Minarets, serve the purpose of our belfries, i. 291

Mingrelians, account of the, i. 245-252;

their monarch, 245;
their feuds with the Imeritians, 246

Mirambeau, brother of Lausac, sent to Alençon, ii. 171;

thinks there is little hope of an arrangement, 173

Mohacz, battle of, i. 167, 407, and note

Mohair goat. See Angora goat

Mola, of Augsburg, a courier, ii. 119

Mondragon, Spanish officer, his projects, ii. 90, and note

Montal, notorious bravo, his end, ii. 190, and note

Montbéliard, Pibrac waylaid near, ii. 62, and note

Montbrun, Vicomte de, Huguenot chieftain, said to be with Damville, ii. 23;

seizes towns in Dauphiny, 41;
throws reinforcements into Livron, 44;
defeats Swiss in Dauphiny, 78, and note;
wounded and taken prisoner, 79-80;
his character, 80, and note;
beheaded at Grenoble, 99

Montluc, Jean de, Bishop of Valence, i. 389, note;

ii. 35, and note

Montmorency, Duc de, Marshal of France, his imprisonment in the Bastille, ii. 8;

account of him, ib. note;
his execution threatened, 16;
guarded more strictly, 67, 68, and note;
better treated, 77;
offers to stand his trial, 86;
considered innocent by Vaudemont, 91;
his release decided on, 103;
sets out to Alençon, 114;
a notable instance of the fickleness of fortune, 115

Montmorency, Madame de, asks Elizabeth to request Maximilian to intercede for her son, ii. 75;

contributes to the forced loan, 98

Montpellier, said to have revolted at Damville’s instigation, ii. 22

Montpensier, Louis de Bourbon, Duc de, account of, ii. 9, note;

besieges Fontenay, 10;
332 and Lusignan, 21, 32;
his son the Prince Dauphin, 147;
his death, 152

Montpensier, Duc de, son of the preceding, intends going to the Netherlands, ii. 147;

in spite of his father’s death, 152;
joins Alençon, 156

Morvilliers, Jean de, Bishop of Orleans, ii. 37, note;

his interview with Busbecq, 87;
arrangement by which Busbecq receives his salary through him, 93, 112, 122;
contributes to the forced loan, 98

Mufti, Turkish chief priest, consulted by Solyman, i. 116, 272, 374

Mustapha, Solyman’s eldest son, his high character and popularity, i. 113;

summoned to appear before his father, 115;
his execution, 117-118;
his only son shares his fate, 119-122;
many of his retainers join Bajazet, 275

Mustapha, the Pretender, his first appearance, i. 179;

his story, 181-182;
threatening aspect of his rising, 183;
deserted by his followers, 184;
taken prisoner and executed, 185

NANTEUIL, fortress of, appointed for the meeting of the Peace Commissioners, ii. 260

Napellus. See Aconite

Napoli di Romania, its surrender by the Venetians, i. 261-263

Navarre. See Henry IV.

Netherland Ambassadors with Alençon, ii. 212;

try to gain the King’s support, 225;
their offers, ib.;
come with fresh proposals to the King, 231;
granted a private audience, 234;
attend the investiture of the King with the Garter, 235;
return home, 237;
the King’s reply to them, ib.

Netherlands, news from the, ii. 4, 90, 195;

dykes opened in the, 205

Nevers, Louis Gonzaga, Duc de, ii. 82, note;

suggestion of placing Elizabeth’s affairs under his protection, 82;
sent in pursuit of Alençon, 102;
asks for governorship of Brittany, 172;
indignant at being refused, 173;
brings reinforcements to Navarre, 261

Nicæa (Isnik), description of, i. 136

Nicomedia (Ismid), ruins of, i. 134

Nicopolis, battle of, i. 407, and note

Niort, town of, given to Alençon, ii. 126

Nissa or Nisch, town of, i. 96

Nocle, Beauvois de la, deputy from Condé, ii. 89, and note

Nogarola, Count, Commander of German horse, ii. 44;

returns to Vienna, 58

Nomeny, Marquis de. See Mercœur, Duc de

Northumberland, Earl of, arrested for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 212, note

O, Monsieur d’, holds the citadel of Caen for the League, ii. 245

Olympus, Mount, in Asia, view of, from Constantinople, i. 123, 202;

Busbecq travels along its slopes, 136;
furnishes Constantinople with snow, 291

Orange, William, Prince of, peace negotiations opened with him, ii. 4;

his plan of misleading the Spanish fleet by false beacons, ib.;
his marriage to Mademoiselle de Bourbon, 66;
suggestion that Condé should lead troops to his assistance, 72;
if beaten, will hand over the Netherlands to a foreign power, 90;
recovers from his wound, 142;
likely to secure Holland and Zealand for himself, 145;
rebukes St. Luc, 159;
prayed for during his illness by the reformed churches in France, 162;
excused himself from going with Alençon to the camp, 169;
to be appointed Alençon’s Lieutenant, 175;
mobbed in Antwerp, 176;
intends to marry Teligny’s widow, and to give his own daughter to Laval, 179;
buys Flushing, 183;
his influence declining, 185, 196;
tries to arouse the men of Antwerp, 186;
333 crosses to Zealand, ib.;
reinforces Ostend, 194;
in retirement at Flushing, 196;
likely to be soon made Count of Holland and Zealand, 205;
schemes to recover Zutphen, 208;
Hollanders said to have sworn allegiance to him, 210;
assassinated, 224

Orchan, son of Bajazet, a marriage suggested between him and the Shah’s daughter, i. 308

Orleans, declares for the Guises, ii. 245

Ostend, resists Parma, ii. 194;

said to have come to terms with him, 219

Othman, founder of the Turkish royal family, i. 137

Oudenarde, besieged, ii. 143;

surrenders, 144

Ouloufedgi, name of a regiment of the Imperial guard, i. 154, and note;

mentioned, 283

PALYNA, Paul, fails to keep his appointment with Busbecq, i. 82;

overtakes him at Buda, 86

Paper, Turkish reverence for, and the reason of it, i. 110

Paris, proposal in the municipality of Paris to defray Elizabeth’s expenses, ii. 91;

regret of the inhabitants at her departure, 128, and note;
émeute there in consequence of the King’s enforcing his sumptuary law, 207;
the faubourgs taken by Navarre, 251-252;
besieged, 259-261;
dreadful famine in, 259

Paris, Pierre de Gondi, Bishop of, and Chancellor to Elizabeth, ii. 33;

his views about the dower, 85;
likely to escort the Queen, 126;
starts home from Nancy with an escort, 130;
wounded in the council-chamber, 216;
sent as ambassador to Rome, 249;
sent by the Parisians to treat with Navarre, 260

Parma, Alexander Farnese, Prince of, besieges Oudenarde, ii. 143;

takes it, 144;
encamps at Arras, 149;
threatens to attack St. Quentin in case of a French invasion, 150;
sickness of his troops, 157;
retakes Cateau Cambrésis, and blockades Diest, ib.;
takes Diest, 162;
prepares to besiege Alost and threatens Brussels, 182;
besieges Cambrai, 183;
sends the governor of Namur to the King, 184;
takes Dunkirk, 186;
checked at Ostend, 194;
relieves Cateau Cambrésis, 202;
master of nearly all the country but Ghent and Antwerp, 205;
receives overtures from Flanders, 217;
removes to Dendermonde, 226;
said to be dangerously ill, 256;
in retirement, 258;
comes to the relief of Paris, 260;
he and his army contrasted with Navarre and his army, 262-264;
his devices for encountering the French cavalry, 263

Partridges, from Chios, i. 212;

how reared, 213

Pashas, keep open house before Ramazan, i. 376

Patriarch of Constantinople, consulted in vain by the Pashas, i. 234

Pax, John, commander at Komorn, i. 83

Pernantius, of Lorraine, said to have reconciled the Queen of Navarre to her husband, ii. 212

Persia, its barrenness, i. 219;

creates a diversion in favour of Christendom, 221-222;
account of the country and its monarchs, 298-301, and note

Persians, their religious differences with the Turks, i. 161-162, and 236, note;

complain of the violation of their territory, 307

Persian Ambassador, his arrival at Amasia, i. 156;

peace concluded with, 157;
and honours paid to him, ib.;
his departure from Amasia, 160

Persian Ambassadors bring presents to Solyman, i. 156-157, 375

Pertau Pasha, fourth Vizierial Pasha, and married to the widow of Mahomet, the Sultan’s son, i. 183;

despatched by Solyman against Mustapha the Pretender, 183-184;
334 despatched by Solyman to Bajazet, 270;
sent back by him, 271

Pescara, Marquis of, report of his brother’s capture by the Huguenots, ii. 155

Peter, the courier, mentioned, ii. 58, 65, 67, 112, 119

Philip II., King of Spain, his marriage, i. 77;

Turkish reports of his power, 318;
said to have promised his daughter to the King of Scotland, ii. 148;
supports the League, 239;
sends money to Paris, 254

Philippopolis, town of, i. 106

Pialé Pasha, the admiral, sent in command of the Turkish fleet to Djerbé, i. 318;

sends a galley to Constantinople to announce his victory, 319;
conceals Don Gaston in hopes of a large ransom, 324;
his consequent peril, ib.;
is forgiven by Solyman, ib.

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

335 Puygalliard, M. de, acting governor at Cambrai for the King of France, ii. 195;

leaves the town, 205

Quacquelben, native of Courtrai, Busbecq’s physician, attends the Pasha of Buda, i. 86;

shares Busbecq’s taste for ancient coins, 94;
his treatment of intermittent fever, 161;
of the plague, 164;
is attacked by the plague, 335;
his opinion of the plague, ib.;
Busbecq’s last visit to him, 335-336;
his death, 336;
his high character and abilities, ib.;
examines aconite brought by Turkish pilgrim, 362

Quesnoy, Le, town in Hainault, failure of Alençon’s attempt on, ii. 198

Quentin, St., town in Picardy, garrisoned against any attack by Parma, ii. 150;

Marshal de Retz there, 227

RAAB, Busbecq’s escort attacked by soldiers from its garrison, i. 170

Rakos, plain near Pesth, the former meeting-place of the Hungarian Diet, i. 168

Rambouillet, family of, ordered to leave the Court, ii. 13, and note

Ramée, Pierre de la, his method, i. 99, note

Rascians, their language, i. 105;

extent of their country, 166;
their character, ib.

Remorantin, a château, suggested by Busbecq as a residence for Elizabeth, ii. 25;

assigned as part of her dower, 109

Requesens, Don Berenguer de, Spanish Admiral, commander of the Sicilian galleys, brought a prisoner to Constantinople, i. 321;

imprisoned in the tower of Pera, 326;
how Busbecq procured his release, 369-373;
asks leave to return by Ragusa, 390;
his death, ib.

Retz, Comte de, Marshal of France, ii. 39, note;

some of his troops cut to pieces by Damville, 32;
supports Elizabeth’s interests, 82;
attends the Queen-Mother to Boulogne, 184;
commands in Picardy, 223;
makes the people of Cambrai swear allegiance to the Queen-Mother, 225;
at St. Quentin negotiating with Balagny, 227;
still in Picardy, 228

Retz, Comtesse de, likely to be one of Elizabeth’s escort, ii. 126

Rhodope, Mount, i. 106

Richardot, Councillor, sent to King of Spain, on account of Parma’s conduct, ii. 258

Richebourg, Marquis of, formerly resident at the Court of Maximilian, ii. 234;

killed at the Antwerp bridge, 247

Rimini, the Bishop of, the Apostolic Nuncio, his death, ii. 198

Rochefoucauld, goes to the Netherlands, ii. 147

Rodolph II., Emperor, suspected of being concerned in the affair of Antwerp, ii. 168;

said to be betrothed to Philip II.’s daughter, ib.

Roland, mythic Carlovingian hero, the legend said to be known to the Mingrelians, i. 250, and note

Roostem, Grand Vizier, Busbecq and his colleagues visit him, i. 111;

his origin, character, and abilities, 113-114, 343;
sent in command against the Shah, 115;
his dismissal from office, 118;
restored to office, 176, 190;
urges Busbecq to remain, 196;
complains of Hungarian raids, 199;
his opinion of Busbecq, 234;
tries to convert him, 235;
his orthodoxy suspected, ib.;
his conversation with Busbecq, 235-236;
his exultation at his kinsman’s raid, and sorrow at his death, 240-241;
raises a troop of dragoons from his household servants, 242;
failure of the experiment, 243;
his remarks on Busbecq’s obstinacy, 261;
his emblematic present, 263-264;
336 warns Busbecq not to quarrel with the Janissaries, 296;
excites Solyman’s wrath against Pialé, 324;
his conversation with de Sandé in the Divan, 325;
refuses to let Busbecq leave his house on account of the plague, 333;
his death, 334;
contrasted with Ali, 343, 345;
story of him and Busbecq, 344;
dreaded interviews with Lavigne, 354;
scene at one, 355;
his conduct towards Busbecq’s servants when falsely accused, 367-368

Rouen, threatened by Navarre, ii. 257, 259

Roxolana, Solyman’s wife, her real name Khourrem, account of her, i. 111-112, and note;

her intrigues against Mustapha, 113;
and his only son, 119;
her affection for Bajazet, 179;
appeases his angry father, 185;
encourages him, 187;
how she induced Solyman to marry her, 229, and 112, note;
her death, 265

Ryhove, Flemish noble, accused by Imbize of conspiracy, ii. 209

SALCEDA, implicated in a plot, ii. 148;

a prisoner, 149;
his terrible execution, 152-153, and notes;
his wickedness and audacity, 154;
his head sent to Antwerp and stuck on the highest pinnacle, 154, 155

Saluzzo, the marquisate of, proposal to sell or pawn, ii. 61;

200,000 crowns borrowed on security of it, 79

Salviati, his mission to procure de Sandé’s release, and its failure, i. 371, 374, note

Samarcand, city of, visited by a Turkish pilgrim, i. 360

Sandé, Don Alvaro de, commander of the citadel at Djerbé, attempts to escape and is captured, i. 320;

exhibited on Pialé’s galley, 321;
before the Divan, 325;
imprisoned in the fortress of Caradenis, 326;
how Busbecq procured his release, 369-373;
his hatred of Leyva, 373;
his speech to the steward of the French representative, ib.;
his journey home with Busbecq, 390-397;
his jokes, 391;
fears he will be sent back to Constantinople, 393;
chides Busbecq’s servant for his temper, 394;
his gratitude to Busbecq, 397

Sanjak-bey, derivation of the word, i. 84, and note;

Turkish army preserved by the advice of a Sanjak-bey, and his subsequent treatment, 238-239;
story of a Sanjak-bey and a Khodja, 377-378

Sanjak-bey of Gran, Busbecq’s interviews with the, i. 84, 170

Saumur, town of, given to Alençon, ii. 126

Savigliano, town and fortress in Piedmont, ceded by Henry III. to the Duke of Savoy, ii. 13

Savona, reported capture of, by the Duke of Savoy, ii. 74

Savoy, Emanuel Philibert, Duke of, receives Savigliano, and Pignerolo from Henry III., ii. 13 and 14, note;

death of his wife, 14;
said to have taken Savona, 74;
lends 200,000 crowns on security of Saluzzo, 79

Savoy, Charles Emmanuel, Duke of, son of the preceding, said to be estranged from Spain, and likely to marry Navarre’s sister, ii. 148;

about to be betrothed to the Duke of Lorraine’s daughter, 163

Saxon colonists in Transylvania, i. 359

Saxony, the Elector of, attends the coronation at Frankfort, i 399, and note

Schomberg, Gaspard de, Comte de Nanteuil, ii. 124, note;

his dealings with Kinsky, 112, 125;
going to Germany, 155;
his château of Nanteuil mentioned, 260, and note

Schwartzenberg, Count von, meets Elizabeth at Nancy, ii. 129;

consulted by Busbecq about her route, 133, 137

337 Schwendi, Lazarus von, an Alsatian seigneur, a scholar and a soldier, ii. 73, and note;

prevented by illness from coming to Nancy, 129

Scivarin, Gothic town in the Crimea, i. 356

Scordium, or water germander, a remedy for the plague, i. 164, and note

Scotland, news of disturbances in, ii. 148;

King of Scotland. See James, King of Scotland

Scutari, town of, i. 133

Scuter, Lawrence, a courier, ii. 119

Sebastian, King of Portugal. See Portugal, Sebastian, King of

Selim I., the father of Solyman, his defeat by his father at Tchourlou, i. 108, and note;

picture of his defeat of the Persians at Tschaldiran, 129;
referred to, 299;
his conduct alluded to, 276-277, 279, 383

Selim, Solyman’s son, afterwards Sultan Selim II., destined by his father as his successor, i. 179;

warns his father against Bajazet, 265;
removed to Koniah from Magnesia, 267;
marches on Ghemlik, 268;
occupies Koniah, 273;
his appearance and character, 275-276;
awaits his brother’s attack, 277;
puts the Pasha of Erzeroum to death, 305;
his succession advantageous to the Shah, 312;
procures Pialé Pasha’s pardon, 324

Selimbria, town of, i. 109

Selles, M. de, a prisoner in Zealand, ii. 233, and note

Semendria, formerly a fortress of the despots of Servia, i. 95

Servians, the, their funeral customs, i. 95;

their marriage customs, 96;
their language, 105;
extent of their country, 165

Seure, Michel de, Prior of Champagne, his quarrel with the King, ii. 215-216, and note

Sforzia Palavicini, defeated by Ali Pasha at Fülek, i. 236

Shad, the common Danube, found also in the Halys, i. 145

Sherbet, mode of making, i. 147

Silihdars, name of a regiment of the Imperial guard, i. 153, note;

mentioned, 283

Siwas, the Pasha of, deceived by Bajazet, i. 304

Slavery, its advantages discussed, i. 210-211, and note

Slaves, Christian, met by Busbecq, i. 162

Slaves, use made by the Turks of the numerous slaves captured by them, i. 209-211

Sluys, town of, holds out against Parma, ii. 219

Snakes, in Busbecq’s house, i. 203-204

Solyman, Sultan, takes Belgrade, i. 94;

induced by Roxolana to marry her, 112;
goes to the army and summons Mustapha, 115;
consults the mufti, 116;
rebukes the mutes for their slackness, 117;
mohair his usual dress, 144;
Busbecq’s first and second interviews with him, 152, 158;
his appearance and character, 159-160;
avenges an insult, 162;
sends Pertau Pasha against the false Mustapha, 183;
his anger against Bajazet appeased by Roxolana, 185-186;
interview with Bajazet, 187-188;
goes to Adrianople, 198;
remonstrates with Bajazet, 266;
changes his sons’ governments, 267;
refuses to listen to Bajazet’s complaints, 270;
consults the mufti about him, 272;
his appearance, 285;
his opinion of the Janissaries, 296;
is presented by Busbecq with Ferdinand’s gifts, 297;
pretends to be inclined to pardon Bajazet, 298;
orders the execution of one of his spies, 301;
orders his army to return to Constantinople, 302;
orders Bajazet’s child to be brought up at Broussa, ib.;
sends Pashas and Sanjak-beys in pursuit of Bajazet, 305;
removes Pasha of Erzeroum from office, ib.;
alarmed at Bajazet’s flight to Persia, ib.;
wishes to pursue him, but is restrained by the Pashas, 306;
deeply hurt at the loss of Djerbé, 318;
338 sends an armament thither, ib.;
sees the triumphal entry of his fleet, 321;
his demeanour, 322;
his increasing superstition, 331;
his prohibition of wine tested by some Greeks, 332-333;
his reply to Busbecq’s request to leave his house, 333;
releases pilgrims at Lavigne’s request, 353;
his letter to the King of France, 369;
tries to induce the Shah to surrender Bajazet, 378;
sends messages to the Georgians and Turkomans, 379;
persuades the Shah to permit Bajazet to be executed, 380-381;
orders Bajazet’s child to be executed at Broussa, 382;
his parting speech to Busbecq, 390;
a terrible enemy, 405-407;
his attacks on Hungary and Austria, 409;
his three wishes, 410

Sophia, town of, i. 102

Sorbonne, decision of the, about Henry VIII.’s marriage, ii. 27, and note

Spahis, name of a regiment of the Imperial guard, i. 154, and note;

mentioned, 283

Spain, the posts to, stopped, ii. 151;

threatens the liberties of Europe, 226

Spaniards, the, take Djerbé, i. 317-318;

their fleet defeated by the Turks, 318;
their sufferings during the siege, 320-321;
their sufferings in prison alleviated by Busbecq, 326-328

Spanish ambassador, his remonstrances about Salceda’s head, ii. 155

Spanish officer employed as gooseherd, i. 209

Stag, fierceness of a, i. 208

Standing armies, dangers of, i. 296-297

States-General, their meeting demanded, ii. 57;

mock States-General convened, 87;
summoned, 257

Sterckenburg, officer sent by Casimir to Elizabeth, ii. 130

Strasburg, the Bishop of, notice of Elizabeth’s departure sent to him, ii. 124, and note;

prevented from coming to Nancy by fear of the German reiters, 129;
his return home, 133;
remains at Bâle, 135

Strozzi, Philippe, Marshal of France, ii. 39;

killed at the Azores, 146

Sunnites and Schiis, the two great sects of Mohammedans, i. 161, note

Sweden, marriage between the daughter of the King of, and Henry III. spoken of, ii. 43;

her portrait, 63

Swiss Ambassadors at Paris, ii. 63;

entertainments and presents to them, 158, 160

Swiss troops defeated by Montbrun, ii. 78

Symplegades or floating islands at the mouth of the Bosphorus, i. 132

Szigeth, fortress in Hungary, attacked by Ali Pasha, i. 236;

relieved by the Archduke Ferdinand, 237-238

TAHMASP, Shah, at war with Solyman, i. 115;

his character and mode of life, 300;
sends envoys to Bajazet, 307;
invites him to visit him, 308;
his treachery towards him, ib.;
and his motives, 309;
causes him to be arrested at his table and his followers to be murdered, 311;
prefers that Selim should succeed to the throne, 312;
his treacherous conduct, 378;
consents to Bajazet’s execution, 381

Tamerlane, indignities inflicted by him on Bajazet and his wife, i. 112;

his descendants, 379

Tartar, a, his hair his only head covering, i. 85

Tartars in the Crimea, account of the, i. 356

Tashkend, city of, visited by Turkish pilgrim, i. 360

Tassis (or Taxis), J. B., Spanish ambassador in Paris, superseded and sent to the Netherlands, ii. 230, and note

339 Taxis, Leonhard de, Postmaster-General in the Netherlands, ii. 28, and note

Tchekmedjé, Buyuk and Kutchuk, bays near Constantinople, i. 109, note

Tchourlou, town of, famous for the defeat of Selim, i. 108

Thoré, M. de, younger son of the Constable Montmorency, ii. 16, note;

escapes from the defeat of Germans and reaches the Loire, 106;
joins Alençon, 115;
his quarrel with du Guast, 117

Tolna, a Hungarian town, its good wine and civil inhabitants, i. 93;

quarrel between the Janissary there and Busbecq’s servant, 392-396

Tortoises, i. 134

Touighoun, Pasha of Buda, meaning of the name, i. 85;

his illness and reputation, 85, 86;
Busbecq’s interview with him, 91

Tours, attempt on, ii. 98;

reported coronation of Navarre there, 254;
Parliament removed thither by Henry III., 256;
the States-General convened there by Navarre, 257

Trajan’s Bridge, remains of, i. 95

Trajan’s Gate, or pass of Ichtiman, i. 106, and note

Transylvania, recovered by Ferdinand, i. 79, 80;

Hungarian nobles revolt from the Voivode of, 386;
the Voivode’s ambassadors try to hinder the conclusion of peace, 387

Transylvanian, the most popular candidate for the Polish crown, ii. 43, and note

Trautson, John von, Ferdinand’s minister, i. 412

Tschaldiran, battle of, alluded to, i. 299

Tulips, i. 107

Turenne, the Vicomte de, brings reinforcements to Navarre, ii. 261

Turkish ambassador intervenes at the Polish Diet. ii. 29

— army at Amasia, described, i. 155-156
— beggars, i. 209
— camp, described, i. 288, 289

Turkish cavalry, Busbecq’s first sight of, i. 83

— commissariat, i. 219-221, 289
— fanatics at Buda, i. 396
— fleet, reported arrival of a, ii. 257
— horseman, a, described, i. 283-284
— horses, their rearing, training, &c., i. 215-217
— hostels, described, i. 98
— inns. See Caravanserai
— military punishments, i. 293-294
— officer induced by Busbecq to give up the royal standard of the Neapolitan galleys, i. 322
— old woman, her romantic story, 231-232
— pilgrim gives Busbecq an account of his journey to Cathay and of that country, i. 359-362;
- feats performed by another, 362-363
— soldiers contrasted with Christian, i. 221;
- their clothing and its distribution, 222
— women, their treatment and mode of life, i. 228-229

Turkoman chiefs invited to attack the Shah, i. 379

Turks, their notions about wine-drinking, i. 88;

about houses, 90;
consider the left-hand the place of honour, 92;
their methods of dividing time, 101;
attach no distinction to birth, i. 104, 154;
their fondness for flowers, 108;
and money, ib.;
their reverence for paper and the reasons for it, 110;
their superstitions as to unclean food, 124, 134;
their favourite colours, 144;
their notions about omens, ib., 269;
surprised at the Germans’ fishing, 145;
their frugal fare, 146;
their notions of chronology, 149;
how promotion is regulated among them, 155;
their dress, ib.;
their horror of pigs, 205;
slavery among them, 209-211;
their kindness to animals, 224;
prefer cats to dogs and why, 225;
ransom birds from bird-catchers, 227;
340 some think it wrong to keep birds in cages, ib.;
their marriage laws, 229;
do not inquire closely into crimes, but punish them severely if detected, 232;
think it their duty to make one offer to a Christian of conversion to their religion, 235;
their religious differences with the Persians, ib.;
their skill in archery and mode of shooting and practising, 253-255;
their readiness to accept foreign inventions and to adopt various Christian customs, 255-256;
their Parthian tactics, 257;
their treatment of ambassadors, 261;
believe that the souls of those killed in battle ascend to heaven, 289;
their notions of the Carnival, 290;
their fast, ib.;
dislike to eat or drink standing, 291;
their endurance under the bastinado, 294;
their reverent behaviour at their prayers, 303;
impression made on them by the Spanish successes, 318;
their exultation at their victory, 319;
their taunts of the prisoners, 322;
how they treat prisoners, 326;
their recklessness about infection, 341;
disturbed at Basilicus’ invasion of Moldavia, 349;
at dinners carry off things for their wives and children, 375;
their notions about predestination, 341, 382-383;
pray for Busbecq’s conversion, 384;
league against them suggested to divert the restless spirits of France, ii. 49;
their victories over the Persians render them formidable, 243-244, and note;
offer to assist Navarre, 257, and note

UZES, Duc de, commands for the King at Aigues-Mortes, ii. 42

VARNA, battle of, i. 407, and note

Vaudemont, Louise de, afterwards Queen of France, Henry III. in love with her, ii. 32;

about to marry her, 51;
is a niece of Count Egmont, ib.;
Elizabeth’s attendants ordered to enter her service, 52, and note;
no favourite with the Queen-Mother, 57;
congratulated by Busbecq in Maximilian’s name, 59;
estranged from her husband, 219

Vaudemont, Nicolas, Comte de, the King’s father-in-law, a probable peacemaker, ii. 63;

his arrival expected, 63, 70;
at his son’s marriage, 80;
visits Montmorency and thinks him innocent, 91

Veli Bey, Sanjak-bey of Hatwan, his feud with Arslan Bey, i. 244

Veltwick or Velduvic, Gerard, ambassador of Charles V. to the Porte, i. 79, and note;

his detention by the Turks referred to, 263

Vendôme, Cardinal de, brother of Condé, Navarre’s sequestrated property placed in his hands, ii. 249

Vendôme, Duc de. See Henry IV.

Vendôme, House of, its position, ii. 40

Vendôme, retaken by Navarre and the governor executed, ii. 254

Vendôme’s sister Catherine, rumours of her intended marriage to Alençon, ii. 51, and note;

to the Duke of Savoy, 148, 194;
to the Duke of Lorraine’s son, 163;
to Condé, 233;
to Duke of Epernon, 242;
her great prospects, 176

Venetian Baily. See Baily

Venetian goldsmith, adventure of a, i. 224

Verdun, town of, taken by Guise, ii. 247

Vimioso, the Count of, Don Antonio’s Constable, killed off the Azores, ii. 146

Viteaux, the Baron de, a famous duellist, murders du Guast, ii. 116, note;

account of his death, 189-191, and notes

Vopiscus, quoted, i. 214

Vulcob, M. de, French Ambassador at Vienna, ii. 36, and note, 85;

341 arrangement by which Busbecq received his salary through him, 112, 122

WEASELS, stories of, i. 203

Wranczy or Verantius, Antony, Bishop of Fünfkirchen, afterwards of Erlau and finally Archbishop of Gran, sent as ambassador to the Porte, i. 80;

Busbecq finds him at Constantinople, 111

Wyss, Albert de, comes with presents from Ferdinand to the Sultan, i. 297

YPRES, given up for lost, ii. 194;

still blockaded by Parma, 199

ZAY, Francis, commander of the Danube flotilla known as Nassades, afterwards governor of Kaschau, sent as ambassador to the Porte, i. 80;

Busbecq finds him at Constantinople, 111;
his fishing in the Halys, 145

Zutphen, town in Gelderland, taken by the Spaniards, ii. 208