[153] C. S. P. Ven., No. 193, August 30, 1560. The term “interim” was technically applied to a resolution of the sovereign, with or without the approbation of the diet or the estates of the country. By such an edict religious affairs were regulated provisionally, pending a final settlement by a general council of the church. The practice first obtained in Germany, where Charles V issued such a decree in favor of the Lutherans in 1548. See Rev. hist., XIV, 76, 77. “In modo che, restando ciascuno d’allora in dietro assicurato dalla paura che avea per innanzi, di poter esser inquisito, questo si può dir che fosse uno tacito interim.”—Rel. vén., I, 414.
[154] “La reyne mère du roy, monstrant une bonne affection à l’admiral, le pria de la conseiller et l’advertir par lettres, souvent, de tous les moyens qu’il sçauvoit et pourroit apprendre d’appaiser les troubles et séditions du royaume.”—Castelnau, Book I, chap. xi. Those of the Council who were unwilling to consent to such changes absented themselves. The marshals Brissac and St. André did so, the one alleging ill health as his excuse, the other hatred of the king of Navarre (Rel. vén., I, 549).
[155] Castelnau, Book I, chap, xi; Rel. vén., I, 415 and n. 2.
[156] Davila, I, 295; Rel. vén., I, 413. “In the rural portions of Normandy, for unknown reasons, ‘Lutheranism’ had spread so much that to one district of that province was given the name of ‘Little Germany.’”—Hauser, American Hist. Rev., January, 1899, 225.
[157] The Tuscan ambassador, as early as April, 1560, advised his government of the likelihood of this feud (Nég. dip. de la France avec la Toscane, III, 415-17 Rev. hist., XIV, 74).
[158] Nanteuil, near La Fère (Aisne).
[159] La Place, 38.
[160] C. S. P. For., No. 232, June 24, 1560; D’Aubigné, I, 276; Mém. de Condé, I, 151.
[161] La Place, 41; D’Aubigné, I, 277.
[162] La Place, 41.