The letters are all in French.

Five letters, 1538-1541, of Antoinette de Bourbon, Duchesse de Guise (items 1-5).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4). Page 1: for ‘Vol. ii. 2’ read ‘Vol. ii. [1]’; page 2: for ‘Vol. ii. 3’ read ‘Vol. ii. [2]’; page 60: for ‘Vol. ii. 4’ read ‘Vol. ii. [3]’.

Letter, [1541], of Antoinette de Bourbon to James V (item 6).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Thirty-seven letters, 1538-1555, of Antoinette de Bourbon (items 7-43).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4). Page 218: for ‘Vol. ii.’ read ‘Vol. ii. [21]’;

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7). Page 24: for ‘Vol. ii. 82’ read ‘Vol. ii. [32]’; page 168: for ‘Vol. ii. 34’ read ‘Vol. ii. [33]’);

- ‘Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland’, volume iii, page 22 (item 7 only);

- Item 34 is not included in the above publications and is summarized here:

Mary`s financial affairs in France are going well, and her mother advises her to make use of the money. Mary`s goddaughter [Catherine of Lorraine] is very pretty. Antoinette is hoping for the return of the Duc d`Aumale; otherwise, all is well. Joinville, 3 May [1553].

Twenty-seven letters, circa 1540-1549, of François d`Orléans, Duc de Longueville (items 44-70).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4);

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7);

- ‘Letters and Papers foreign and domestic of the reign of Henry VIII’, volume xxi, part 1, number 1076 (item 60 only);

- ‘Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland’, volume iii, page 30 (item 61 only).

Copy, 1538, of a letter, [?1536], of Louis d’Orléans, Duc de Longueville, to the bailly of Longueville (item 71).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4). Page 217: for ‘Vol. ii. 72’ read ‘Vol. ii. [71]’.

Copy of the marriage contract, 1540, of Louise de Lorraine and Charles, Prince de Chimay (item 72).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Letter, 1544, of the citizens of Neufchâtel to François d`Orléans, Duc de Longueville (item 73).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Two letters, 1548, of François d’Orléans, Duc de Longueville, to Mary, Queen of Scots (items 74-75).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Three letters, undated, of François d’Orléans, Marquis de Rothelin (item 76-78).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4);

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7). Letter II: ‘Vol. ii. 78’.

Three letters, 1553, of Léonor d`Orléans, Duc de Longueville (items 79-81).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7). Pages 157-158: for ‘Sainct Quentin’ read ‘Sainct [Germain]’.

Letter, [circa 1542], of the Vicomte de Longueville (item 82).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4). Page 208: for ‘Vol. iii. 82’ read ‘Vol. [ii]. 82’.

Six letters, 1539-1544, of Antoine, Duc de Lorraine (items 83-88).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Two letters, 1556, and undated, of Claude de Lorraine, Duc d`Aumale (items 89-90).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).

Two letters, 1546-1548, of François de Lorraine, later Duc de Guise (items 91-92).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4). Page 149: for ‘Vol. ii. 81’ read ‘Vol. ii. [91]’.

Letter, 1550, of François de Lorraine, Grand Prior of France (item 93).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).

Fourteen letters, 1543-1554, of François de Lorraine, Duc de Guise (items 94-107).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4). Page 189: for ‘Vol. iii. 100’ read ‘Vol. [ii]. 100’.

Copy of instructions given by Pierre d`Espinac, Archbishop of Lyons, to Henri, Duc de Guise, on his return to court after the barricades of Paris in 1588 (item 108). He is to establish himself at court by maintaining the King`s favour, and should try to obtain the office of Constable. He is to win the affection of the courtiers, especially of Bellegarde and Lognac, and respect the Queen Mother. The secretaries of state are about to retire, and the new men will be afraid of him, thus making his task easier.

- This has been partly printed from another version in De Bouillé, volume iii, page 291.

Three letters, 1551-1552, of Anne d`Este, Duchesse de Lorraine (items 109-111).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7). Page 91: for ‘Vol. i. 109’ read ‘Vol. [ii]. 109’;

- ‘Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland’, volume iii, page 33 (item 111 only).

Letter, undated, of Anne d`Este to the Duchesse de Guise (item 112).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).

Two letters, [before 1544], of François de Lorraine, Duc de Bar (later Duc de Lorraine) (items 113-114).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Three letters, 1542-1548, of Louis, Cardinal de Bourbon (items 115-117).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4), pages 101, 178 and 227.

Nineteen letters, 1538-1547, and undated, of Jean, Cardinal de Lorraine (items 118-136).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Eleven letters, 1544-1556, of Charles, Cardinal de Lorraine (items 137-147).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4);

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7). Page 59: for ‘Vol. iv. 139’ read ‘Vol. [ii]. 139’; page 190, footnote: for ‘Vol. ii’ read ‘Vol. [iii]’;

- Stoddart, pages 430, 437, 442, 446;

- ‘Lettres, instructions et mémoires de Marie Stuart’, volume i, pages 9, 20, 33.

Letter, [?1552], of Charles, Duc de Lorraine (item 148).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).

Letter, 1552, of Louis de Lorraine, Bishop of Albi (item 149).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).

Letter, 1540, of Antoine, Duc de Lorraine to James V (item 150).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Two letters, 1553-1554, of Antoinette de Lorraine, Abbess of Faremoutiers (items 151-152).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7). Page 202: for ‘Vol. ii. 15’ read ‘Vol. ii. [152]’.

Letter, [1541], of Louise de Lorraine, Princesse de Chimay (item 153).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4).

Letter, 1553, of Renée de Lorraine, Abbess of Saint Pierre, Rheims (item 154).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).

Three letters, [?1541-1551], of Anne de Lorraine, Duchesse d`Arschot (items 155-157).

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 4);

- ‘Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine’ (SHS, 3rd Series, volume 7).