[15] A compagnie d’ordonnance was composed of from seventy-five to three hundred men, one third being men-at-arms, or heavy cavalry, the rest foot-soldiers.
[16] La Noue, “Mémoires.”
[17] Saint-André had also been taken prisoner, but among his captors was a Huguenot gentleman named Bobigny whom he had deeply injured, and who proceeded to revenge himself by blowing out the unfortunate marshal’s brains with a pistol.
[18] It was here that Lord Grey de Wilton had been incarcerated after being made prisoner at Guines, in 1558. His captor, the Comte de la Rochefoucauld, treated him most harshly, and he only recovered his liberty by the sacrifice of practically the whole of his fortune.
[19] Smith to Cecil, March 12, 1563, State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series.
[20] The post of Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom.
[21] Henri Martin, “Histoire de France jusqu’en 1789.”
[22] D’Aubigné, “Histoire Universelle.”
[23] Brantôme.
[24] M. Henri Bouchot, “les Femmes de Brantôme.”