[364] Rel. vén., I, 534.
[365] The original letter is preserved in the Musée des Archives Nationales, No. 665. See the Mémoires de Condé, III, 395.
[366] Philip II to the constable, the cardinal of Lorraine, and Antoine of Navarre, April 14 and June 12, 1561, Archives nat., K. 1,495, B. 13, 33, 44. Admission of this step thus early is made in the Mémoires du duc de Guise, ed. Michaud et Poujoulat, sér. I, V, 464. The Huguenots were early apprised of it by the interception of a messenger of the Triumvirate near Orleans. Cf. Bref discours et véritable des principalles conjurations de la maison de Guyse, Paris, 1565, 5, 6.
[367] C. S. P. Ven., No. 259, May 16, 1561.
[368] Cf. De Ruble, Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d’Albret, III, 251 ff.
[369] On Palm Sunday (1561) Antoine went to mass, for which Pius IV hastened to congratulate him and the church (K. 1,494, No. 74, April 8, 1561), and for some time after Easter he continued to go to mass, and refrained from eating flesh on the days prohibited by the church (C. S. P. For., No. 248, May 18, 1561). But within a month, he is discovered having public preaching in his house by a Protestant minister, and “daily service in the vulgar tongue” (ibid., No. 265, §13, June 23, 1561).
[370] “Como todas actiones no se goviernan siempre con la razon.”—Granvella to Philip II, May 13, 1561, Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VI, 541.
[371] Chantonnay’s letter of April 18, 1562, is almost entirely given up to a report of a conversation between him and the marshal St. André upon this question. It is very interesting (K. 1,497, No. 24).
[372] K. 1,497, No. 33.
[373] See Vargas to Philip II, from Rome, September 30, 1561, in Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VI, 357, where he tells the king of one of Antoine’s speeches. One of the minor duties of Don Juan de Manrique’s mission to France in January, 1561, had been to give Antoine hope in that quarter, in which policy Spain’s grand master of artillery, and the papal nuncio worked together. The nuncio was Hippolyte d’Este, the cardinal of Ferrara. His correspondence is published in Négociations ou lettres d’affaires ecclésiastiques et politiques escrites au Pape Pie IV et au Cardinal Borromée, par Hippolyte d’Est, cardinal de Ferrare, legat en France au commencement des guerres civiles, Paris, 1658.