[163] C. S. P. Ven., No. 149, 1560.
[164] Rel. vén., II, 139; Nég. Tosc., III, 417. La Planche, 217, gives a sample lampoon.
[165] C. S. P. Ven., No. 151.
[166] Ibid., For., No. 992, April 12, 1560. On one occasion the police of Paris, when pursuing a murderer, entered a house at a venture, into which they thought the culprit had made his escape, where they found and arrested the man who printed and placarded over the walls of Paris the writings against the Guise family and against the cardinal (ibid., Ven., No. 178, 1560; Nég. Tosc., III, 417, 418). The offending printer was hanged and then quartered (C. S. P. Ven., No. 186, July, 1560).
[167] C. S. P. Ven., No. 174; ibid., For., No. 232, June, 1560; No. 234, June 24, 1560; La Planche, 261. Francis II, during the course of this investigation, stayed at Maillebois, a house of D’O, the captain of the Scotch Guard, on the edge of Normandy (C. S. P. For., No. 233, June 24, 1560).
[168] D’Andelot and Coligny refused to make war upon the Scotch Calvinists (C. S. P. For., No. 168, June 7, 1560).
[169] “Rapport indiquant les preparatifs faits pour l’enterprise sur l’Ecosse, à Rouen, au Hâvre et à Dieppe,” K. 1,495, No. 2, 11 juillet 1560.
“The embarkment for Scotland hastens. Soldiers arrive daily from Dieppe and New Haven. At Caudebec, Harfleur, and New Haven there is exceeding great store of provision and munitions, sufficient for 25,000 men for six months.”—C. S. P. For., No. 233, June 24, 1560.
[170] Mundt to Cecil, from Strasburg, ibid., No. 52, May 7, 1560.
[171] Gresham to Cecil, ibid., No. 617, January 22, 1560: “The French king brings at least 20,000 footmen in Germany and he has taken up at Lyons as much money at interest as he can get.”