Excerpt from History of Mary Stuart, Vol. 2: Queen of Scots, Translated From the Original and Unpublished Ms. Of Professor Petit

In the month of April, a French embassy came in great state to London, to ask the hand of Elizabeth. It was greeted with loud cheers by the people and by the nobles. Boats, splendidly decorated, went, as far as the mouth of the Thames, to meet the diplomatists. There were rejoicings throughout England, and London threw off its cold and dull nature to give way to the most noisy enthusiasm. Gradually, as the embassy advanced, there was loud shouting, drowned, at intervals, by the roar of the Tower guns. That gorgeous reception made the French envoys look forward to a full and definite success, which was not to be realised.

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