Antoine de Noailles

[3] Noailles helped to equip the ships at Brest and Le Havre which sailed to Scotland to carry Mary, Queen of Scots from Dumbarton.

[9] He sent news to Guise and Cleutin in Scotland including the fall of Vercelli in Piedmont and the death of Şehzade Mustafa, a son of Suleiman the Magnificent.

[10] In December 1553, Noailles discussed the issues of the Scottish border with William Kirkcaldy of Grange, and understood that the financing of some French troops in Scotland was partly the responsibility of an Italian banker Timothy Cagnioli who kept an account of the expenses of the soldiers.

[12] Noailles described the costume worn at Mary's court, in French style with wide sleeves and rich fabrics, which he claimed was in contrast to the fashion in the time of Edward VI, which had been influenced by religious considerations which he called "superstitions".

Women of court dressed in French style in silver and gold rode with horses covered with crimson "cramoisy" velvet (this detail appears to differ in other accounts).

[16] In September 1553, Noailles wrote to Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici that Mary delighted in clothes and would appreciate gifts of costume including "crespes, collets, manches et sembables petites choses", head dresses, collars, sleeves and other suchlike small things.

These included; a French painter at court known as "Nicholas"; one of Mary's chamberers; and an exiled Scottish physician, Michael Durham, who had attended James V of Scotland in 1542 and came to be suspected of poisoning him, and had been imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle.

[25] According to Hugues Cousin le Vieux, a courtier and quartermaster at the Imperial court, Noailles was prominent in orchestrating opposition to the marriage and fomenting rebellion.

[29] Henry II of France sent a special envoy, La Marque, offering a fleet of ships commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon to be a presence off the coast of Devon and Cornwall.

[31] A Scottish agent employed by Noailles called Broughton was said to have induced and suborned the captains of the London militia, the "Whitecoats", to desert Mary's service near Rochester.

[33] Noailles thought the executions of Wyatt's supporters in February 1554 after the rebellion failed would be counter-productive for the Spanish marriage plans, and came to realise that the opposition had been silenced.