[291] La Place, 85, 87.
[292] Castelnau, Book III, chap. ii. In this connection the following observation is of interest: “A disputation has lately been at Rome among the cardinals, and the Pope has had the hearing of what is the cause that France is thus rebelled from them. The Romans would conclude that the dissolute living of the French cardinals, bishops and clergy, was the cause; but the French party and the bishop, who is ambassador there, say that nothing has wrought so much in France as of late the practice in Rome of divers of the nobility of France where they have seen such dissolute living of the clergymen as returning into France they have persuaded the rest that the clergy of Rome is of no religion.”—C. S. P. For., No. 822, December 28, 1560.
[293] The address is printed in extenso in Œuvres complètes de l’Hôpital, I, 375 ff.
[294] Suriano, December 20; D’Aubigné, I, 303, 304; La Place, 88, 109. “The estates assembled on December 13, but have done little or nothing; divers of them will not put forth such things as they were instructed in, now the king is dead.”—C. S. P. For., No. 832, December 31, 1560.
[295] La Planche, 389-96; D’Aubigné, I, 305, 306.
[296] Cf. C. S. P. Ven., No. 237, February 17, 1561.
[297] La Place, 93.
[298] Ibid., 93-109.
[299] La Place, 109; La Planche, 397; D’Aubigné, I, 307.
[300] Castelnau, Book III, chap. ii.