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[Footnote 924: Geneva MS., _apud_ Baum, Theodor Beza, ii. 110.]
[Footnote 925: See the interesting pa.s.sage in the Hist. eccles. des egl.
ref., i. 204.]
[Footnote 926: ”As touching the occurrents of this Court, it may please your Majesty to be advertised, that the King of Navarre being on his way to this Court, hath had letters, as I am informed, written unto him, of great good opinion conceived of him by this King, with all other kind of courtesies, to cause him to repair thither.” Despatch of Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, Orleans, Nov. 17, 1560, Hardwick, State Papers, i. 138.]
[Footnote 927: The portrait of this personage is painted in no flattering colors by Calvin in two letters, to Sulcer, Oct. 1, 1560 (”whose mind is more lumpish than a log, unless when it is a little quickened by wine”), and to Bullinger, of the same date (”one whom you might easily mistake for a cask or a flagon, so little has he the shape of a human being”). Bonnet, Eng. tr., iv. 131-135.]
[Footnote 928: The despatches that pa.s.sed between the court and the French amba.s.sador in Spain reveal the general alarm. Oct. 4th, Cardinal Lorraine expects Navarre and Conde within the first half of the month, ”dont je suis fort ayse.” Oct. 5th, Francis writes that, within two days, he has heard that they intend carrying out their enterprise. Oct.
9th, the secretary of state complains of ”fresh alarm daily.” Negoc.
sous Francois II., 604-607, 610, 650. Others were, in the end, as much astounded as the Guises at Navarre's pacific att.i.tude. Throkmorton, writing to the privy council that this king was looked for shortly at Orleans, adds that all bruits of trouble by him were clean appeased, _which caused great marvel_. Despatch to privy council, Paris, Oct. 24, 1560, State Paper Office.]
[Footnote 929: Letter of Bishop of Limoges to the Cardinal of Lorraine, Sept. 26, 1560, _apud_ Negotiations sous Francois II., 562: ”Je vous supplie de croire que le roy et mes seigneurs de son conseil [_i. e._, Francis and the Guises] ne feront rien pour extirper un tel mal qui ne soit icy [in Spain] bien pris et receu _a_ _l'endroict de qui que ce soit_ [sc. Navarre and Conde]: tant ceux-cy craignent qu'il y ait changement en notre religion et estat.” Cf. also pp. 551, 552.]
[Footnote 930: Negociations sous Francois II., 553, 554.]
[Footnote 931: Instructions of the king to M. de La Burie, commanding in Guyenne, Sept., 1560, _apud_ Negociations sous Francois II., 578-580; also Ib., 644.]
[Footnote 932: La Planche, 377.]
[Footnote 933: La Planche, 375; Baum, Theodor Beza, ii. 120-123, whose account of this episode in the reformer's life is well written and interesting. For the general facts above stated the best authority is, as usual, La Planche, 373-377; see also La Place, 71; De Thou, ii. 807, 827; Hist. eccles., i. 205; Castelnau, l. ii., c. 9; Davila, 34, 35; Calvin's Letters (Bonnet), iv., pp. 132, 137, 143, 147-151.]
[Footnote 934: Calvin to Bullinger, Dec. 4th, and to Sulcer, Dec. 11, 1560 (Bonnet, iv. 149 and 151).]
[Footnote 935: La Planche, 377; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. ii., c. 19.]
[Footnote 936: La Planche, _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 937: Sommaire recit de la calomnieuse accusation de M. le prince de Conde, in the Recueil des choses mem. (1565), 722-754, and Memoires de Conde, ii. 373-395--a contemporaneous account by one who speaks of himself as ”ayant a.s.siste a la conduicte de la plus grand part de tout le negoce.”]
[Footnote 938: ”Nevertheless, upon his coming, being accompanied with his brethren, the Cardinal of Bourbon and Prince of Conde, after they have [had] done their reverence to the king and queens, the Prince of Conde was brought before the council, who committed him forthwith prisoner to the guard of Messrs. de Bresy and Chauveney, two captains of the guard, and their companies of two hundred archers.” Despatch of Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 939: ”The King of Navarre goeth at liberty, but as it were a prisoner.” Despatch of Sir Nich. Throkmorton, _ubi supra_. ”Tanquam captivus.” Same to Lord Robert Dudley, same date, State Paper Office.]
[Footnote 940: La Place, 73; La Planche, 380, 381; Castelnau, 1. ii., c.
10.]
[Footnote 941: La Place, 74: La Planche and Castelnau, _ubi supra_; Sommaire recit, _ubi supra_. ”Madame de Roy (Roye), the Admiral of France his sister ... is taken and const.i.tuted prisoner.” Despatch of Sir Nich. Throkmorton, Orleans, November 17, 1560, Hardwick, State Papers, i. 139.]
[Footnote 942: ”The Dutchess of Ferrara, mother to the Duke that now is, according to that I wrote heretofore to your Majesty, is arrived at this Court, the 7th of this present, and was received by the King of Navarre, the French King's brethren, and all the great Princes of this Court.”
_Ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 943: Brantome, Femmes ill.u.s.tres, Renee de France; La Planche, 381; La Place, 74; ”que si elle y eust este, elle l'eust empesche, et que ceste playe saigneroit long temps apres, d'autant que jamais homme ne s'estoit attache au sang de France, qu'il ne s'en fust trouve mal.”
De Thou, ii. 830.]
[Footnote 944: ”He remaineth close in a house, and no man permitted to speak with him; and his process is in hand. And I hear he shall now be committed to the castle of Loches, the strongest prison in all this realm.” Sir Nich. Throkmorton, November 17, 1560, _ubi supra_, i. 138.]
[Footnote 945: La Place, 75, _ubi supra_; De Thou, ii. 832, 833 (liv.
26); Sommaire recit, _ubi supra_.]