Mademoiselle Rallay

[3] Raullet administered Mary's dowry and jointure estates in France, and was intended to come to England to report on her finances in 1569.

One of her first tasks in Scotland in September 1561 was to make an inventory, with the wardrobe servant Servais de Condé, of the goods and furnishings that had belonged to the queen's mother Mary of Guise.

According to Knox, when the Catholic mass was interrupted at Holyrood Palace by Protestant townspeople in August 1563, she fetched the comptroller John Wishart of Pitarrow from St Giles' Kirk to help.

In January 1562, she lined marten and ermine fur for the queen to wear about her neck with red frieze cloth.

She was given fabric to make pouches and holders to keep the queen's rings and jewelled girdles, and an old black damask gown with wide sleeves bordered with velvet for herself that had belonged to Mary of Guise.

She brought her niece Renée Rallay, also known as Beauregard (the name of the family estate in France), who was also employed in Mary's household in England.

[23] In July 1578, Mademoiselle de Rallay, said to over 70 years old, had been ill in bed at Sheffield Manor since Easter, troubled with a great catarrh.

[24][25] In 1585 woollen fabric bought in Coventry called "dornix" was used to make a canopy for Rallay at Tutbury Castle.

Rallay died soon after, and Ralph Sadler delayed giving Mary letters from Queen Elizabeth because the loss of her old servant troubled her mind so.

[27] In a letter to the French ambassador Michel de Castelnau, Mary described Rallay as 'one of the principal consolations of my captivity'.