Pièce 4 - Lettre d’Edward Stafford, ambassadeur d’Angleterre en France, à Walsingham mentionnant des travaux au château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

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« I am now going to horse to meet the King, or at least the Queen Mother, at Chenonceaux. The King would not give me audience at Bois de Vincennes, but referred me and all the ambassadors to his meeting with the Queen Mother at Blois, on the 10th or 12th of this month at farthest. But she having sent him word that “there was no coming to Blois nor thereabouts, the plague being so rife,” he appointed to see her at Chenonceaux, “and not tarry past a night or two and so bring them away with him to Montargis, and so roving about and staying in no place till Saint Germains house be ready, where he meaneth to make his rendezvous”, desiring us all to wait until then.
But knowing that he hath so pulled down and patched at Saint Germains that it cannot be ready a good while, and his humour so changeable that God knoweth whether he will keep that deliberation or no, and desirous to have her Majesty served to her contentment,” though it is above seven score miles hence and will be a great charge, I mean to go to Amboise, within two leagues of the Court, and be there before the King, and speak with them both. If he comes not within ten days, I will speak with the Queen Mother, and stay till she has sent to him, rather than leave her Majesty's will undone. »

Calendar of State Papers, Elizabeth, t. 19, 1584-1585, éd. Sophie Crawford Lomas, Londres, The Hereford Times limited, 1916, p. 71.

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