[334] C. S. P. For., No. 11, March 4, 1561; Despatches of Suriano (Huguenot Society), February 19, 1651. A letter of December 26, 1560, to the King, published in the Revue d’hist. diplomatique, XIII, No. 4 (1899), 604, “Dépêches de Sebastien de l’Aubespine,” states the real mission of Don Juan de Manrique.
[335] The queen mother to the bishop of Rennes, April 11, 1561, Correspondance de. Catherine de Médicis, I, 186. The latter’s reply is in Paris, Négociations, etc., 871, May 26, 1561. Cf. Castelnau, I, 555.
[336] Lacombe, Catherine de Médicis entre Guise et Condé, 108. The edict was actually a confirmation of the edict of Romorantin. See Mém. de Coudé, II, 266; text of the Edict of Romorantin in Isambert, XIV, 31.
[337] Letter of Charles IX, January 23, 1561, Opera Calvini, XVIII, 337. The reply of the senate under date of January 28 is at 343-45.
[338] C. S. P. Ven., Nos. 250, 272, April, 1561. Coligny’s house was a favorite rendezvous. He never went to mass, and when his wife gave birth to a child in the spring of 1561 he had it baptized openly in the popular tongue, according to the Calvinist form (C. S. P. For., Nos. 933, 984, 1561).
[339] For the rise of Protestantism in Normandy see Le Hardy, Histoire du protestantisme en Normandie depuis son origine jusqu’ à la publication de l’Edit de Nantes, Caen, 1869; Lessens, Naissance et progrès de l’hérésie de Dieppe, 1557-1609: Publication faite pour la Iére fois d’après le MS de la biblioth. publ. av. une introd. et des notes, Rouen, 1877; Hauser, “The French Reformation and the Popular Classes,” American Historical Review, January, 1899.
[340] Archives de la Gironde, XIII, 132; XVII, 256.
[341] “There is not one single province uncontaminated,” wrote Suriano, the Venetian ambassador on April 17, 1561 (C. S. P Ven., 272).
[342] See a. long letter of Hotman published by Dareste in Rev. hist., XCVII, March-April, 1908, p. 299.
[343] C. S. P. For., 857, January 1, 1561.