[197] “En termes prolixes.”—De Thou, Book XXV, 525. It is printed in Œuvres complètes de L’Hôpital, ed. Dufey, I, 335.
[198] “They might see all states troubled and corrupted, religion, justice, and the nobility, every one of them ill-content, the people impoverished and greatly waxed cold in the zeal and good will they were wont to bear to their prince and his ministers.”—C. S. P. For., No. 442.
[199] La Planche, 352; Castelnau, Book II, chap. viii; the statement of the debt given by La Planche agrees exactly with C. S. P. For., 442.
[200] Castelnau, loc. cit.; La Planche, 352.
[201] See Reynaud, Jean de Montluc, evêque de Valence, 1893.
[202] “Les derniers et plus jeunes conseillers opinent les premiers, afin que la liberté des advis ne soit diminuée ou retranchée par l’authorité des princes ou premiers conseillers et seigneurs.”—Castelnau, Book II, chap. viii. He made a typically episcopal, not to say unctuous, address. Cf. La Place, 54; La Planche, 352; printed in Mém. de Condé, I, 555; La Popelinière, I, 192.
[203] La Planche, 352-61; La Place, 53-65.
[204] Reform in the collation of benefices was one of the important deliberations of the Council of Trent (Baguenault de la Puchesse, “Le Concile de Trente,” R. Q. H., October, 1869, 339).
[205] Nég. Tosc., III, 424, August 29, 1560.
[206] Castelnau, Book II, chap, viii; La Planche, 361.