[176] Mezarai, Abrégé Chronologique in the year 1576.
[177] Crétineau pretends that Gregory XIII., the father of all Christians, wishing rather to pacify than excite their passions, refused to comply with their request. But Ranke affirms that his approbation was given, and refers, as proof thereof, to a letter of Father Matthieu himself to the Duke of Nerves, reported in the fourth volume of Capefique Réformé.
[178] Ranke’s Hist. of the Popes, vol. i. p. 505.
[179] See, for the first part, Crét. vol. ii. p. 392. As he does not quote the latter part, see for it Pasquier, or Histoire Générale de la Naissance et du Progrès de la Compagnie de Jésus, vol. i. p. 180.
[180] Crét. vol. ii. p. 391.
[181] Catéchisme des Jésuites, lib. iii. ch. 2.
[182] Crét. vol. ii. p. 396.
[183] Catéchisme des Jésuites, lib. iii. ch. 6.
[184] Mezarai, Abrégé Chronologique pour l’année 1594. Henry was naturally generous, as all gallant men are. The only revenge he took upon the corpulent Duke of Mayenne, the chief of the League, and his rival for the throne after the death of Cardinal de Bourbon, was to take him by the arm, and whilst engaged in friendly conversation, walking at a very smart pace two or three times round the garden. Henry smiled when he had walked Mayenne fairly out of breath, and all the Duke’s injuries were forgotten.
[185] See De Thou, L’Etoile, and all the historians of the time.