[224] Ibid., For., No. 411, August 9, 1560.
[225] Ibid., No. 502, September 8, 1560; Chantonnay of Philip II, same date, K. 1,493, No. 83.
[226] Ibid., No. 619, §§ 13, 15, October 10, 1560. The gendarmerie is appointed to remain in divers countries according to an edict. Has been informed that there is a league in hand between him (the king of France) and the king of Spain. On the 16th there departed out of Paris ten cartloads of munitions and artillery, but whither it is to be conveyed and how it is to be employed he cannot learn (C. S. P. For., No. 655, October 22, 1560). On the 30th Du Bois passed bringing with him out of the places and forts in Picardy 1,000 footmen, who marched between this town and Rouen toward Anjou; but where they shall go is only known to himself and the duke of Guise. They keep together strong, as if they were in an enemy’s country. After them come 500 more (ibid., No. 692, Oct. 31, 1360). The Tuscan ambassador notices the ardor of Paris to contribute blood and treasure (Nég. Tosc., III, 436).
[227] “From Strasburg: Frequent negotiations between the French King and the German princes. The Rhinegrave has departed into Hesse ... with Count John of Salm, who is also a French pensioner; where, by the landgrave’s permission and the dissimulation of the Saxon duke of Weimar, they have levied 2,000 cavalry to take into France, which they have partly collected in the territories of the abbot of Fulda on the boundaries of Hesse. The prefect of the Rhenish Circle, the count of Salm, being informed of this preparation of cavalry, assembled his captains at Worms, where it was decided that they would not be permitted to transport their cavalry into France. For a warning had been given in the Imperial Diet that no assembling or travelling of soldiers would be allowed unless by the express permission of the Emperor; for wherever they went they did great damage to the inhabitants.”—Ibid., No. 736, November 26, 1560.
[228] For the organization of Paris at this time see Livre des marchands, 423, 440-43.
[229] C. S. P. For., No. 665, October 22, 1560. The Venetian ambassador says 400,000 francs—twice the amount given by Throckmorton (C. S. P. Ven., 220, October 15, 1560).
[230] Ibid., No. 726, November 18, 1560.
[231] Ibid., No. 619, October 10, 1560.
[232] “The goods of divers Protestants have been seized and divers men dispatched by night and sent by water in sacks to seek heaven.”—Ibid., No. 726, November 18, 1560. Cf. La Planche, 226, 227, 233.
[233] D’Aubigné, Book II, chap, xx; Nég. Tosc., III, 424; for details see La Planche, 366-73.