The duke of Guise and his brother were in such fear that they wore shirts of chain mail underneath their vestments, and at night were guarded by pistoleers and men-at-arms. On the night of March 6, while at Blois, the alarm was so great that the duke, the cardinal, the grand-prior, and all the knights of the order there, watched all night long in the courtyard (C. S. P. For., No. 837, March 7, 1560).
[117] Castelnau, Book I, chap, viii; La Planche, 246, 247. He received one hundred écus and a judicial post in Lorraine (De Thou, II, 774, ed. 1740).
[118] “Among the prisoners was a Gascon gentleman, one baron de Castelnau, who considering himself ill-used by the cardinal and the duke of Guise, with many other captains and soldiers, dissatisfied on account of non-payment of their arrears and because they had been dismissed from the Court, finding themselves without salary or any other means, and being half desperate, joined the other insurgents about religion and conspired against the cardinal and the duke of Guise.”—C. S. P. Ven., No. 135, March 16, 1560. Sancerre had known Castelnau during the late war, and when he sought to arrest him and his companions, they resisted. Although the city of Tours took up arms in the king’s name against them, they made their escape into the château de Noizay (Indre-et-Loire), between three and four leagues from Amboise, which belonged to the wife of Renay (La Place, 33. She had been maid of honor to Jeanne d’Albret, C. S. P. Ven., No. 135, March 16, 1560). Cf. C. S. P. For., March 21, 1560, and note, on p. 462—the account of Throckmorton. The two versions substantially agree.
[119] C. S. P. Ven. For., March 16, 1560.
[120] C. S. P. For., No. 859, March 15, 1560; ibid., Ven., No. 135, March 16.
[121] Rev. hist., XIV, 102; La Planche, 247; Arch. de la Gironde, XXIX, 8. Vieilleville was sent to pacify the Beauce and M. de Vassey, another knight of the order, to Maune, near Angers, to subdue a commotion there (C. S. P. For., 902, March 26, 1560).
[122] His orders at this hour are printed in the Mém.-journ. du duc de Guise, 457; Mem. de Condé, I, 342; La Popelinière, I, 166; cf. La Planche, 225, who gives the gist of them.
[123] Lettres-patentes du Roi Francois II au sénéschal de Lyon “concernans la revelacion de grace que sa Mate veult faire à ceulx qui avaient conspiré contre l’estat de la religion et son royaume,” March 17, 1560.
[124] See the extended account in C. S. P. Ven., March 20, 1560; Nég. Tosc., III 412-15.
[125] His corpse was hanged March 20, 1560, upon a gibbet before the court gate, and left there for two whole days, with an inscription at his feet running: “C’est La Renaudie dict la Forest, capitaine des rebelles, chef et autheur de la sédition” (La Place, 35; D’Aubigné, I, 268, Book II, chap, xvii; C. S. P. For., 463, note, March 23, 1560).