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[1291] La Mothe Fenelon to Charles IX., June 3, 1573. Corresp. diplom., v.

339.

[1292] Jean de Serres (iv., fol. 87) states the length of the siege of Sommieres as _four_ months, and the loss of men as five thousand killed.

The Recueil des choses memorables, 1598 (p. 485), ascribed to the same author, reduces the loss one-half. Cf. De Thou, iv. 746-748.

[1293] Jean de Serres, iv., fols. 88, 89; De Thou, iv. (liv. lvi.) 749, 750.

[1294] ”In ipso regni umbilico.” Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 92.

[1295] Ibid., iv., fols. 72, 77, 79; Ag. d'Aubigne, ii. 40, 41; De Thou, iv. (liv. liv.) 660-663.

[1296] Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 93, 94.

[1297] ”Ut Ierosolymitanae, Samaritanae, Saguntinae famis memoriam exaequare, nisi et exsuperare videatur.” Ibid., iv., fol. 92.

[1298] ”Discours de l'extreme famine, cherte de vivre, chairs, et autres choses non acoustumees pour la nourriture de l'homme, dont les a.s.siegez dans la ville de Sancerre ont ete affligez.” 1574. Reprinted in Archives curieuses, viii. 19-82.

[1299] Edward Smedley, History of the Reformed Religion in France (London, 1834), ii. 88.

[1300] ”Fade et douceastre,” p. 24.

[1301] De Thou, iv. (liv. lvi.) 796. As early as on the twelfth of April, such was the discouragement felt in Paris, that orders were published to make ”Paradises” in each parish, and to inst.i.tute processions, to supplicate the favor of heaven, in view of the repulses experienced by the Roman Catholics before La Roch.e.l.le. Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), p. 158.

[1302] Histoire du siege de La Roch.e.l.le par le duc d'Anjou en 1573, par A.

Genet, capitaine du genie; _apud_ Bulletin de la Societe de l'histoire du prot. francais, ii. (1854) 96, 190.

[1303] Memoires de Claude Haton, ii. 722.

[1304] At Troyes, for instance, where the poor who had flocked to the city were invited to meet at one of the gates, to receive each a loaf of bread and a piece of money. This done, they saw the gates closed upon them, and were informed from the ramparts that they must go elsewhere to find their living until the next harvest. Claude Haton, ii. 729.

[1305] _Ante_, chapter xix., p. 552.

[1306] Here is his letter to Henry: ”Mon frere. Dieu nous a fait la gra.s.se que vous estes ellu roy de Poulogne. J'en suis si ayse que je ne scay que vous mander. Je loue Dieu de bon coeur; pardonnes moy, l'ayse me garde d'escrire. Je ne sceay que dire. Mon frere, je avons receu vostre lestre.

Je suis vostre bien bon frere et amy, CHARLES.” MS. Bibliotheque nationale, _apud_ Haton, ii. 733.

[1307] The edict says expressly (Art. 5th): ”Et y faire seulement les baptesmes et mariages a leur facon accoustumee sans plus grande a.s.semblee, outre les parens, parrins et marrines, jusques au nombre de dix.” Text in Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 98, etc., and Haag, France protestante, x.

(Doc.u.ments) 110-114. Jean de Serres (iv., fol. 107, etc.) and Von Polenz (Gesch. des Franz. Calvinismus, ii. 632) give a correct synopsis; but Soldan is wrong in including among the concessions ”den Hausgottesdienst”

(ii. 536), and De Thou still more incorrect when he speaks of ”les preches et la Cene” (iv., liv. lvi. 796).

[1308] According to Davila, Sancerre was _not comprehended_ in the terms made with the Roch.e.l.lois, ”because it was not a free town under the king's absolute dominion as the rest, but under the seigniory of the Counts of Sancerre.” London trans. of 1678, 193.

[1309] Jean de Lery, Discours de l'extreme famine, etc., 25-27.

[1310] Jean de Lery, 38.

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