[260] The Chronique de François I. p. 121, mentions among the ambassadors those of the emperor, of the King of England, of Venice, and of other princes, lordships, cities, marquises, counts, and barons of Germany, Italy, and elsewhere.
[261] This speech of which Theodore Beza and Mezeray speak in their histories is found in the Chronique de François I., published by Guiffrey in 1860, and the Registers of the Hôtel de Ville quite bear out the Chronique.
[262] Chronique du Roi François I. p. 125.
[263] Ibid. p. 126.
[264] Garnier, Hist. de France, xxiv. p. 540.
[265] 'They shall perish, but thou shalt endure.'—'His enemies will I clothe with shame.'—'They shall look on him whom they pierced.'
[266] 'France flourishes above all nations.'
[267] Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, p. 447.
[268] Crespin, Martyrol. fol. 113 verso.
[269] 'Ad machinam alligati et in altum sublati, deinde in ignem e sublimi dimissi, et rursum adducti.'—Sleidanus, fol. 136.