[382] Suriano definitely says the edict of July was the work of the chancellor. He gives a summary of the edict in a despatch of July 27, 1561 (Huguenot Society).
[383] Cf. C. S. P. For., 1561, No. 237; Despatches of Suriano (Huguenot Society), June 25, 1561.
[384] Chantonnay to Philip II, July 24, 1561, K. 1,495, No. 52; C. S. P. For., No. 321, §2, Paris, July 16, 1561.
[385] Isambert, Anc. lois franç., XIV, 109 (Edit sur la religion, sur le moyen de tenir le peuple en paix, et sur la répression des séditieux).
[386] Suriano, August 25; Nég. Tosc., III, 453-58; Castelnau, Book III; C. S. P. For., No. 357; Beza, Hist. ecclés., I, 294 (ed. 1841); La Place, 130; D’Aubigné, I, 309.
[387] Castelnau, Book III, chap. iii; he admirably depicts the divided state of mind of the Parlement which resulted in the edict taking this neutral form. Suriano pithily observes: “Con questi dispareri le cose del Regno patiscono assai, et non si può far niuna deliberatione d’importanza che sia ferma et rissoluta, et di quà hanno havuto origine tanti editti nel fatto di Religione che sono stati publicati li mesi passati, li quali non solamente sono ambigui, ma diversi l’uno dall’altro et spesse volte contrarii, donde li heretici hanno preso tanto fomento che sono fatti più indurati et più ostinati che mai” (June 26, 1561).
Charles IX sent the Sieur d’Ozances to Spain to soften Philip’s anger as much as possible. In a letter of July 18, from St. Germain to his ambassador in Spain, after stating the motives which have led him to dispatch D’Ozances, he adds: “Au demeurant, je ne doubte point qu’on sème de beaulx bruictz par delà, touchant le faict de la Religion, et qu’on ne nous face beaucoup plus malades que nous ne sommes; et, pour ceste occasion il m’a semblé qu’il serait fort à propos que le Sr. d’Auzances feist entendre au Roy, mon bon frère, les termes en quoy nous en sommes.” Then follow details upon the edict of pacification. This letter was sold at auction in 1877. It is catalogued in the Inventaire des autographes et des documents historiques composant la collection de M. Benjamin Fillon, Paris, Charavay, 1877 (Series I, 34, No. 132—“Lettre de Charles IX contre-sig. Robertet, à l’évêque de limoges, ambassadeur en espagne; St. Germain, 18 juillet, 1561”).
[388] Claude Haton, I, 122.
[389] Ibid., I, 129. In consequence of this state of things we find numerous ordinances passed in the summer of 1561 in restraint of violence; cf. “Edit sur la religion, sur le moyen de tenir le peuple en paix et sur la répression des séditieux, July 1561,” Isambert, XIV, 109; “Edit pour remedier aux troubles, et sur la répression des séditieux,” October 20, 1561, ibid., XIV, 122; “Edit sur le port d’armes à feu, la vente de ces armes et les formalités à suivre par les fabricants,” October 21, 1561, ibid., XIV, 123.
[390] C. S. P. Ven., No. 237, February 17, 1561, says: “one representative with absolute authority to treat and conclude what might be approved by the majority of votes.” But La Place, III, 121, says two representatives were chosen from each bailiwick. Cf. De Crue, Anne de Montmorency, 300.