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[Footnote 710: The date is variously given as the 25th or 26th of May.

The latter, adopted by the Histoire ecclesiastique, is probably correct.

See Triqueti, Premiers jours du protestantisme en France (Paris, 1859), 253, 254.]

[Footnote 711: ”Confession de Foy faite d'un commun accord par les Francoys, qui desirent vivre selon la purite de l'Evangile,” etc. In the Recueil des choses memorables (1565) this doc.u.ment is published with the preface and the supplicatory letter addressed to the king (Francis II.) after the ”Tumulte d'Amboise.”]

[Footnote 712: The proceedings of the first French National Synod are best given in Aymon, Tous les synodes nationaux des eglises ref. de France (La Haye, 1710), i. 1-12; Hist. univ. du sieur d'Aubigne, liv.

ii., c. iii., t. i., pp. 56-64. They are faithfully, although not always literally, translated in Quick's Synodicon in Gallia Reformata (London, 1692), i., viii.-xv., 2-7. See also Histoire ecclesiastique, i. 108-121; La Place, Com. de l'estat de la religion, et republique soubs les roys Henry et Francois Seconds, etc., 14-16.]

[Footnote 713: See the history of the Hotel des Tournelles and the plan of Paris in the reign of Francis I., in Dulaure, Hist. de Paris, iii.

355-357, and Atlas.]

[Footnote 714: ”Duquel lieu tous les prisonniers de leans pouvoyent ouir les clairons, hault-bois et trompettes dudict tournoy.” Discours de la mort du Roy Henry II., Recueil des choses memorables, p. 5; Memoires de Conde, i. 216.]

[Footnote 715: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 716: ”I am credibly enformed, that the Frenche King, after the perfection of the ceremonies toching his doughter and King Philip, and his suster to the Duke of Savoy, myndeth himself to make a journey to the countreis of Poictou, Gascoigne, Guyon, and other places, for the repressing of religion; and to use th' extremest persecution he may against the protestants in his countreys, and the like in Scotlande; and that with celerite, ymediatly after the finis.h.i.+ng of the same ceremonies.” Throkmorton to Cecil, May 23, 1559, Forbes, State Papers, i. 101.]

[Footnote 717: ”Paix blasmable, dont les flambeaux de joye furent les torches funebres du roy Henry II.” Mem. de Tavannes, ii. 242.]

[Footnote 718: ”The last of this present.” Throkmorton to Council, June 30 and July 1, 1559. Forbes, State Papers, i. 151. So in a subsequent letter, relating a message to him from the constable on July 1st, he speaks of ”the mischaunce happened the daie before to the king.” Ibid., i. 154.]

[Footnote 719: Hist. eccles., i. 123, 124. Catharine de' Medici's dream, in which the Huguenots saw a parallel to that of Pilate's wife, was not a fabrication of theirs. According to her daughter Margaret, Catharine had many such visions on the eve of important events. ”Mesme _la nuict devant la miserable course de lice_, elle songea comme elle voyoit le feu Roy mon pere blesse a l'il, comme il fust; et estant esveillee, elle le supplia _plusieurs fois_ de ne vouloir point courir ce jour, et vouloir se contenter de voir le plaisir du tournoi, sans en vouloir estre. Mais l'inevitable destin ne permit tant de bien a ce royaume, qu'il put recevoir cet utile conseil.” Memoires de Marguerite de Valois (edition of French Hist. Soc.), 42.]

[Footnote 720: Pierre de Lestoile, 14.]

[Footnote 721: Lettere di Principi, iii. 196, apud Ranke, Civil Wars and Monarchy in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, Am. tr., p. 167. Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, who alone of the diplomatic corps was an eye-witness, thus describes the scene in a letter written the same evening: ”Wherat it happened, that the King, after he had ronne a good many courses very well and faire, meeting with yong Monsieur de Lorges, capitaine of the scottishe garde, received at the said de Lorge his hands such a counterbuff, as, the blow first lighting upon the King's head, and taking away the pannage which was fastened to his hedpece with yron, he dyd break his staff withall; and so with the rest of the staff hitting the King upon the face gave him such a counterbuff, as he drove a splinte right over his eye on his right side: the force of which stroke was so vehement, and the paine he had withall so great, as he was moch astonished, and had great ado (with reling to and from) to kepe himself on horseback; and his horse in like manner dyd somwhat yeld.

Wherupon with all expedition he was unarmed in the field, even against the place where I stode.... I noted him to be very weake, and to have the sens of all his lymmes almost benommed; for being caryed away, as he lay along, nothing covered but his face, he moved nether hand nor fote, but laye as one amased.” Letter to the Council, June 30 and July 1, 1559, Forbes, State Papers, i. 151.]

[Footnote 722: Discours de la mort du Roy Henry II., _in fine_. Recueil des choses memorables, and Mem. de Conde, i. 216.]

[Footnote 723: Hist. eccles., i. 123, 124. The singular coincidence is no invention of the Protestants. It is confirmed by a contemporary pamphlet by the ”king-at-arms of Dauphiny” (Paris, 1559), _Le Trespas et Ordre des Obseques, ... de feu de tresheureuse memoire le Roy Henry deuxieme_, etc., which says: ”La dicte salle, ensemble lesdicts theatres, estoient tendus tout autour d'une tap.i.s.serie d'or et de soie a grandes figures, _des actes des apostres_.” (Reprint of Cimber et Danjou, iii. 317.)]

[Footnote 724: De Thou, ii. 674. Yet Francis II., in the preamble to the commission as lieutenant-general given to Guise, March 17, 1560, seems incidentally to vouch for the contrary: ”Voire de telle sorte que nostredit seigneur et _pere, a son decez_, ne nous auroit rien tant recommande, que d'user a nosdits subjets de toutes gracieusetez,” etc.

Recueil de choses mem., 20. Card. Santa Croce speaks of him as ”ita ex vulnere concussus, ut primo die sensum fere omnem amiserit.” De civilibus Galliae dissentionibus commentaria (Martene et Durand, Ampliss.

Collectio), v. 1438, 1439.]

[Footnote 725: Discours de la mort du Roy Henry II., Recueil des choses mem., _in initio_, and Mem. de Conde, i. 213-216; La Planche, 202; La Place, Commentaires, etc., 20; J. de Serres, De statu rel., etc. (1570), i., fol. 18; Hist. eccles., i. 123; De Thou, ii. 674; Davila (Cottrell's tr.), p. 11; Santa Croce, v. 1438, etc. It is characteristic that so important a date as that of the fatal tournament should be differently stated; La Place, the Hist. eccles., and De Thou making it June 29th.

The confusion is increased by subsequent writers. Motley (Rise of the Dutch Republic, i. 204) making Henry die on the 10th of July of the wound inflicted _eleven_ days before, and Prescott (Philip the Second, i. 295) representing him as lingering _ten_ days and dying on the _ninth_ of July.]

[Footnote 726: Professor Baum published the ”Maniere et Fa.s.son,” on the occasion of the Tercentenary of the French Reformed Church, in 1859, in an elegantly printed pamphlet, itself a fac-simile of the original in all respects, except the use of Roman in place of Gothic letters. This pamphlet in turn is out of print, and it is to Professor Baum's kindness that I am indebted for the copy of which I have made use.]

[Footnote 727: Printed with marginal notes giving all modifications in other early editions in Joh. Calvini Opera (Baum, Cunitz, et Reuss), 1867, v. 164-223--a work which is the result of almost incredible labor and research. In February, 1868, the distinguished senior editor wrote to me: ”Nous avons deja maintenant copie de notre main et collationne a Neufchatel, a Geneve et autres endroits, quelque chose comme _six mille pieces, lettres et consilia et autres calviniana_.”]

[Footnote 728: The beautiful pet.i.tions for ”all our poor brethren who are dispersed under the tyranny of Antichrist,” and for prisoners and those persecuted by the enemies of the Gospel, were not in the original edition, but appear in that of 1558. Calv. Opera, Baum, Cunitz and Reuss, vi. 177, note.]

CHAPTER IX.