Quentin Durward
Scott was able to draw on his historical sources for "Quentin Durward", notably the "Mémoires" of Philippe de Comines. He also made use of modern studies of Switzerland, Provence, and the Secret Tribunal, of the recently published history of the Dukes of Burgundy by Barante, and of manuscript material deriving from continental journeys by his friend James Skene of Rubislaw. For Margaret of Anjou and King René, Scott largely follows the Elizabethan "Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland".