It was considered expedient that the embassy should make as stately an appearance as that of royal or imperial envoys.

He engaged an upholsterer by the King's command to furnish, at his Majesty's expense, the apartments, as the Baron de Gondy, he said, had long since sold and eaten up all the furniture.

He likewise laid in six pieces of wine and as many of beer, "tavern drinks" being in the opinion of the thrifty ambassador "both dear and bad." He bought a carriage lined with velvet for the commissioners, and another lined with broadcloth for the principal persons of their suite, and with his own coach as a third he proposed to go to Amiens to meet them.

They could not get on with fewer than these, he said, and the new carriages would serve their purpose in Paris.

He had paid 500 crowns for the two, and they could be sold, when done with, at a slight loss.