Volume I Part 44 (2/2)

[Footnote 754: La Planche, p. 208; Tumulte d'Amboise, _ubi supra_; Languet, Epist. secretae, ii. p. 2.]

[Footnote 755: La Planche, p. 212; La Place, 26; De Thou, ii. 684.]

[Footnote 756: ”Rex Navarrorum animum in corpore virili gerit muliebrem.” J. C. Porta.n.u.s, Oct. 30, 1559, Languet, Epist. secretae, ii.

4.]

[Footnote 757: The Bishop of Mende was to become a member of the privy council; D'Escars to be made a knight of the order of St. Michael, and to command fifty men-at-arms. La Planche, 213.]

[Footnote 758: The Guises did not fail, however, to take precautions against a surprise. If Throkmorton was well informed, the duke had ”caused two thousand corselets to be laid up in the house of Burbone (Bourbon), nere to the court, to serve in case of innovacion; if that any such matter shuld happen upon the arrivall of the King of Navarre.”

Desp. of Aug. 8, 1559, Forbes, State Papers, i. 194.]

[Footnote 759: La Planche, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 760: Idem, 213, 214.]

[Footnote 761: Throkmorton to the queen, Aug. 15, 1559, Forbes, i. 202.]

[Footnote 762: ”Qu'il n'est point pet.i.t compagnon en France.”]

[Footnote 763: Instruction of Montluc to La Tour, already cited, Mem. de Guise, 450.]

[Footnote 764: Antoine did, indeed, continue his protestations of his firm intention ”not to fail to do the best he could to advance G.o.d's true religion and cause.” He made secret appointments with the English amba.s.sador, at one time about eleven o'clock at night, near the abbey of St. Denis, at another time in disguise in the cloisters of the Augustinian friars, and had much to say about his satisfaction ”that he had so good a colleague” as Elizabeth ”in so good a cause.” But the diplomatic correspondence does not show a single step which Navarre ever ventured to take in behalf of that ”good cause.” See Throkmorton's despatch of Aug. 25th, Forbes, State Papers, i. 213, 214.]

[Footnote 765: ”Navarrus ad quem jure ipso et more majorum hactenus inviolata pertinebat regni administratio, quamvis a plerisque Ecclesiis salutatus et rogatus ne tam praeclaram et divinitus oblatam occasionem negligeret, quamvis summo et aperto ludibrio a Guisianis exceptus, tamen omnibus annuit et suo exemplo confirmavit Christi dictum; Difficile est divitem ingredi in regnum clorum.” Beza to Bullinger, Sept. 12, 1559, _apud_ Baum, ii., App., 1, 2; La Place, 27; La Planche, 213-216; De Thou, ii. 686, 687.]

[Footnote 766: Held Sept. 18th. See a description in Forbes, State Papers, i. 232. Navarre, as one of the six temporal peers, represented the Duke of Burgundy; Guise represented the Duke of Normandy; Nevers, the Duke of Guyenne, etc.]

[Footnote 767: La Planche, 218; De Thou, ii. 688. That the promise of a.s.sistance was only given in order to frighten Navarre was patent to all who were cognizant of Philip's projected African campaign.]

[Footnote 768: De Thou (ii. 722, 723) gives an account apparently correct, save in one or two particulars, of these two missions. The slavish letter of Antoine to D'Audoz or D'Odoux, as De Thou writes the name of the second messenger, may be read in the Negociations relatives au regne de Francois II. (drawn from the papers of the Bishop of Limoges, French amba.s.sador to Philip, and published by the French government, under the editorial care of M. Paris, 1841), pp. 164-166.

Compare Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 91.]

[Footnote 769: La Planche, 209.]

[Footnote 770: Throkmorton to Cecil, July 13, 1559, Forbes, State Papers, i. 161.]

[Footnote 771: La Planche, 221; Beza to Bullinger, Sept. 12, 1559, Baum, ii., App., 3.]

[Footnote 772: La Planche, 221; Mem. de Castelnau (Eng. tr. of 1724, p.

23), bk. i. c. 5; Declarations of Sept. 4th and Nov. 14, 1559, in the Memoires de Guise, 450, 451. These declarations were registered by parliament, with the proviso that no house should be razed unless the owners were privy to the crime or guilty of inexcusable negligence.

Memoires de Conde, i, 310.]

[Footnote 773: La Planche, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 774: Arret du parlement, of September 6, 1559, in Memoires de Conde, i. 308, 309.]

[Footnote 775: In August there were nineteen Protestants in Parisian dungeons, sentenced to be executed for heresy, some in one place, some in another. A man and a woman were rescued, on the twenty-first of this month, while on their way to execution at Meaux. Forbes, State Papers, i. 211, 212.]

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