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[1357] Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 118; De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.) 19, 20; Arcere, Histoire de la ville de la Roch.e.l.le, i. 533-540; Languet, Letter of Feb. 8, 1574, i. 229.

[1358] See the list of members in the protocol of the proceedings first published in the Bulletin de la Societe de l'hist. du prot. francais, x.

(1862) 351-353.

[1359] In this, as in other particulars, the political a.s.sembly of Milhau merely re-enacted the provisions of the a.s.sembly of Realmont. For the dates of the early political a.s.semblies of the Huguenots, which must of course be carefully distinguished from their synods or ecclesiastical a.s.semblies, see the list in the Bulletin, etc., xxii. (1873) 508.

[1360] Text of the doc.u.ment embodying the resolutions of the political a.s.sembly of Milhau, in Haag, La France protestante (vol. x.), Pieces justificatives, 121-126. The correct date seems to be Dec. 17th, instead of 16th; Bulletin, as above, x. 351. Cf. also Leonce Anquez, Histoire des a.s.semblees politiques des reformes de France (1573-1622), Paris, 1859, 7-11.

[1361] Lettres d'Auger Gislen, seigneur de Busbec, amb. de l'emp. Rodolphe II. aupres de Henri III. Cimber et Danjou, Archives curieuses, x. 115.

[1362] ”Dict.i.tabat se Religionem reformatam minime probare; ensis tantum sui mucronem esse Religiosum: id est, se non Religionis doctrinam, sed Religiosorum causam sequi. Hujusmodi exemplis magnae offensiones adversus Religiosos conflabantur.” Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 118. The reader needs perhaps to be reminded that _Religiosi_ here stands as the equivalent for the French designation of the Huguenots as ”ceux de la Religion.”

[1363] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 113, 114 (liv. ii., c. 4); Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 117. Of ”La Grande Chartreuse,” which lies ten miles north of Gren.o.ble, see a good account in R. Topffer, Voyages en Zigzag, seconde serie.

[1364] Languet, Epistolae secretae, i. 214, etc.

[1365] E. Arnaud, Histoire des protestants du Dauphine aux xvie, xviie et xviiie siecles, Paris, 1875, i. 277-281; Ch. Charronet, Les guerres de religion et la societe protestante dans les Hautes-Alpes (1560-1789), Gap., 1861, p. 75, etc.

[1366] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 113; De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.), 30.

[1367] ”Fere omnes qui non fuerunt participes caedis Amiralii et aliorum, dic.u.n.t, Huguenotos merito corripere arma ad tutandam suam salutem, c.u.m nihil observetur eorum quae hactenus fuerunt ipsis promissa.” Languet, letter of April 14, 1574, Epistolae secretae, i. 239.

[1368] ”Et parmy leurs discours se representoient a chacun coup la journee de St. Barthelemy.”

[1369] The interesting particulars of the conference we obtain from two long and very important despatches of Biron to Charles IX., dated, the one, Ernandes, April 24th, the other, April 26th and 27th, 1574, MSS.

Imperial Lib. of St. Petersburg, communicated to the Bulletin de la Soc.

de l'hist. du prot. fr., xxii. (1873) 401-413, by M. Jean Loutchitzki.

[1370] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 117. Shrove Tuesday fell, in 1574, on March 9th.

[1371] Ten miles from the chateau de St. Germain, and about the same distance from the palace of the Louvre. A part of the old forest yet remains.

[1372] I follow Agrippa d'Aubigne, who here must be regarded as excellent authority, for not only was he present, but it was by his means (”par ma conduitte”) that Guitry was introduced into Navarre's chamber. Hist.

univ., ii. 119.

[1373] Jean de Serres (iv., fol. 138) and the Memoires de l'estat (Archives curieuses, ”Discours de l'entreprise de St. Germain,” viii.

107-118) give the last of February for the date of the discovery of the undertaking of Alencon; but, from a comparison of letters, Prof. Soldan has shown (ii. 580) that it really was March 1st.

[1374] It is Agrippa d'Aubigne (Hist. univ., ii. 119) who depicts the scene. As he seems to have been present on the occasion, we may rely upon the truthfulness of the groundwork of his sketch, while ascribing a little of the coloring to the free hand of the artist.

[1375] The testimony of Navarre and others is preserved, and has been published, together with the interrogatories, in the Archives curieuses, viii. 127-221.

[1376] Pierre de Lestoile, Memoires (ed. Michaud et Poujoulat), 30.

Languet, letter of May 11, 1574, ii. 7, 8.

[1377] Jean de Serres, iv. 136; Languet, letter of May 11, 1574, ii. 8.

[1378] ”Je scais bien que ce sont des chats que vos huguenots, qui se retrouvent tousjours sur leurs pieds.” Mem. de Pierre de Lestoile (ed.