[315] Castelnau, Book III, chap. ii.
[316] La Planche, 112; C. S. P. For., No. 990, February 12, 1561.
[317] La Planche, 113.
[318] C. S. P. For., No. 889, January 16, 1561; No. 890, February 12, 1561.
[319] C. S. P. Ven., No. 237, February 17, 1561.
[320] La Place, 121.
[321] “They mean to levy the greatest subsidy that was ever granted in France. The chief burden rests with the clergy, who give eight-tenths; the lawyers, merchants, and common people are highly rated also. They reckon to levy 18,000,000 francs.”—C. S. P. For., No. 483, September 3, 1560.
[322] “The Pope has given faculty to the King to sell of the revenues of the church by the year, and has granted the like to the French King, meaning to serve them to execute ... the order now to be taken at the General Council.”—Ibid., No. 777, December 7, 1560, from Toledo. A similar arrangement was made in Spain with Philip II, in order to restore his depleted finances.
[323] Ibid., No. 850, January 1, 1561.
[324] The ordonnance of the King proroguing the estates did not appear until a month later, March 25, 1561.