With my very best thanks for your own and Salisbury's goodness in this matter, I remain, faithfully yours, "J.

A.FROUDE." A few days later he writes: "I have seen Stewart and looked through the catalogue.

There appear to be about eight volumes which I wish to examine.

The volumes which I marked as containing matter at present important to me are Vols.

2 and 3 on the war with France and Scotland from 1559 to 1563, Vols.