_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;
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;
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;
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;
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
_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
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;
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;
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