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 Bavaria, Lorraine, and Savoy. 1 For this journey a payment had already been made, May 29, "unto his Ma ties servants [John] Barclay and Robert Aytoun [the poet] gents, and of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber the sum of 300 li. to each of them, for their charge and expense, being sent unto divers forraine Princes with His M s L'res"; 2 and in No- vember Barclay obtained 200 in addition. 3 Later grants and gifts 4 may be recorded briefly as follows : January, 1610, pension of 200, on surrender of his former pension of 250 3 ; February, 1611, pension of 60 to Anne de Mala- ville, wife of William Barclay; 2 July, 1611, free gift of ioo 3 ; March, 1614, pension of 200 to Louise Barclay, wife of John Barclay; 2 August, 1615, "to John Barklay, Esq., the sum of 250 li. of his Ma ties free gift, in considera- tion of his services." 2 At the time of this last payment, Barclay seems to have been making preparations for his final change of residence to Rome, where he spent the last years of his life, for in this year he gathered together a second volume of poems, and there is a record of a transfer to a financial agent named Burlamachi of all three of the pensions which had been granted to him and his family. 5

In return for these rewards, Barclay assisted the King in translation 6 and in search for authorities, 7 published his

1 Ambassades, Vol. IV, p. 376. z Signet Office Docquets.

3 Cal. S. P. Dom.

4 September 2, 1610, he was seeking the grant of an escheat which had been promised him by the King; and December 21, 1611, he wrote Cecil from Paris for the payment of his pension. Cal. S. P. Dom.

8 September, 1615, "An annuity of 260 li. for Phillip Burlamacni during his life upon surrender of two several annuities, one of 200 li. granted to John Barclay, gent, stranger, and the other of 60 li. granted to Anne de Mala- ville widow of a William Barclay during her life. And also the grant of one other annuity of 200 li. . . . upon surrender of the like annuity granted to Louise Barclay, wife of John Barclay, after the disease of her said husband." —Docquets.

6 " Sir Henry Seville is appointed to correct the translation of the King's book, which was first done by Davies, then by Lionel Sharpe, by Wilson, and last by Barclay the French poet." Chamberlaine to Carleton, April 27, 1609, Cal. S. P. Dom.

7 In the Bodl. MS. of the Premonition there is a note in the King's hand, "to remember to speak with barclaye." Lusus Regius, p. x.