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[1084] These letters, and some others relating to the ma.s.sacre at Angers, contained in the archives of the munic.i.p.ality, are printed in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, xi. (1862) 120-124.

[1085] I know, however, of no letters of this kind signed by Charles IX.

himself. They all seem to have been written by his inferior agents, such as Puigaillard in the case of Saumur, or Ma.s.so and Rubys in that of Lyons.

The advantage of this course was apparent. The king could not be _proved_ to have ordered any ma.s.sacre; he could throw off the responsibility upon others. On the other hand, such politic governors as Mandelot were naturally reluctant to act upon instructions which could at any moment be disavowed. The verbal messages of Charles himself would seem, from the Mandelot correspondence, to have been less definite--perhaps going to no greater lengths than to order the arrest of the persons and the sequestration of the effects of the Huguenots. May we not naturally suppose that the king and his council counted upon such subsequent ma.s.sacres of the imprisoned Protestants as occurred in many places?

[1086] Memoires de l'estat, 132, 133. Compare De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 601.

[1087] Relation of Olaegui, Simancas MSS., Bulletins de l'academie royale de Belgique, xvi. (1849) 254, 255.

[1088] The names of nine are given. Archives curieuses, vii. 264.

[1089] The procureur Cosset did not neglect his own interests, if, as we are informed, his house and courtyard were so full of stolen furniture that it was scarcely possible to enter the premises.

[1090] Memoires de l'estat, _apud_ Archives curieuses, vii. 261-270.

[1091] See _ante_, chapter xviii., p. 432.

[1092] Recordon, le Protestantisme en Champagne (from the MSS. of N.

Pithou, seigneur de Chamgobert), Paris, 1863, 174-192; Mem. de l'estat, Archives curieuses, vii. 271-292.

[1093] Dr. Henry White, besides mistaking the Huguenot for the Papist, has incorrectly stated the circ.u.mstances. Ma.s.sacre of St. Bartholomew, 450.

See Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 295, and De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 601.

[1094] Memoires de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 295. ”Le mesme fut fait a Paris et en d'autres lieux aussi,” writes the same historian.

[1095] Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[1096] Ibid., 296.

[1097] Memoires de l'estat de France, _ubi supra_, 297.

[1098] Mem. de l'estat, 298, 299.

[1099] Ibid., 299, 300.

[1100] A horrible story is told of the discovery of some human relics several weeks later. Ibid., 305.

[1101] See _ante_, p. 502.

[1102] Mem. de l'estat, 309-315.

[1103] Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 349-351. ”Puigaillard ... homme au reste indigne de vivre pour l'acte detestable par luy commis en la personne de sa premiere femme tuee a sa sollicitation pour en espouser une autre qu'il entretenoit.” (P. 351.)

[1104] Registres consulaires, _apud_ ”La Saint-Barthelemy a Lyon et le gouverneur Mandelot,” by M. Puyroche, p. 311. This monograph which I quote from the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, in which it first appeared (vol. xviii., 1869, pp. 305-323, 353-367, and 401-420), is by far the most accurate and complete treatise on this subject, and contains a fund of fresh information based upon unpublished ma.n.u.scripts, especially the local records.

[1105] Charles IX. to Mandelot, Aug. 22, 1572, Correspondance du roi Charles IX. et du sieur de Mandelot, published by P. Paris, 1830 (pp. 36, 37). A portion of this letter has already been given.

[1106] Charles IX. to Mandelot, Aug. 24, 1572, Correspondance, etc., 39-42.

[1107] ”Monsieur de Mandelot, vous croirez le present porteur de ce que je luy ay donne charge de vous dire.” Ibid., 42.