[401] C. S. P. For., No. 265, §9, June 23, 1561; La Place, 131.
[402] Paris, Négociations relatives au règne de François II, 550, 615-22; Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VI, 137; Klipfel, Quis fuerit in Gallia factionum status, Paris 1863, 23.
[403] Theodore Beza, “the Huguenot pope,” did not reach the court until August 23, where he was cordially received by the prince of Condé, before whom he preached “in open audience, whereat was a great press” (C. S. P. For., No. 461, August 30, 1561). For the active agency of Beza at court before the assembly at Poissy met, see La Place, 155-57.
[404] The Sorbonne protested against the whole proceeding, but its request was not granted (La Place, 154; cf. C. S. P. For., No. 458, August 28, 1561, No. 485, September 8, 1561).
[405] C. S. P. For., No. 492, September 10, 1561.
[406] “Far diventar questo Regno cantoni di Svizzeri” ... (Despatches of Suriano [Huguenot Society], Aug. 15, 1561; cf. English Hist. Review, VIII, 135). Elsewhere the Venetian ambassador says: “E cosi si va alla via di redurre quella provincia a stato populare, come Svizzeri; e distruggere la monarchia e il regno.”—Rel. vén., I, 538. De Thou, Book XXV, observes: “Qui primam, quam Deo debebant, fidem irritam fecissent; qua semel violate, minime dubitaverint regem ipsum petere quo regnum everterent, et confusis ordinibus, in rei publicae formam, Helvetiorum exemplo, redigerent.”
[407] C. S. P. For., No. 421, August 19, 1561; ibid., Ven., No. 280, September 8, 1561.
[408] Despatches of Suriano (Huguenot Society), September 18, 1561.
[409] “Demandes des ministres protestantes au roi,” K. 1,494, No. 95.
[410] Upon the personnel of the assembly, see the references in D’Aubigné, I, 315, n. 4.