[489] Collection Godefroy (Bibliothèque de l’Institut), Vol. XCVII, folio 19, March 6, 1562.
[490] Inventaire des archives communales d’Agen, BB., “Inventaire sommaire,” XXX, 28 (April 17, 1562).
[491] D’Aubigné, II, 7, gives a long list of cities where disturbances occurred.
[492] Vassy was a little town in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne, in a dependency of Joinville belonging to the Guises.
[493] In the Mémoires de Condé, III, 124, there is an elaborate Protestant version of the massacre, preceded by a letter of the duke of Guise. The Guise account is in the Mémoires du duc de Guise, 471-88. Cf. D’Aubigné, 131; Arch. cur., IV, 103. The Spanish ambassador’s long letter of March 16 is in K. 1,497, No. 14. The quotation from Ranke is in his Civil Wars and Monarchy in France, 211.
[494] Correspondance de Chantonnay, March 20, 1562, K. 1,497, No. 16. Accounts of this event abound. See La Popelinière, I, 287; Claude Haton, I, 208; D’Aubigné, II, 10; a letter of Santa Croce in Arch. cur., VI, 55; La Noue, Mém. milit., ed. Petitot, 128—very interesting; and a letter of an eye-witness in Bull. de la Soc. de l’hist. du prot. franç., XIII, 5.
On March 16, 1562, an ordinance of the king of Navarre enjoined the captains and lieutenants of each quarter of Paris who were elected by the bourgeoisie to appoint ensigns, corporals, and sergeants, and to enlist all the men capable of bearing arms in their divisions, both masters and servants (Capefigue, 234, 235).
[495] L’Aubespine to his brother, the bishop of Limoges, French ambassador at Madrid (L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 22; C. S. P. Eng. For., No. 987, §7; manifesto of the prince of Condé to Elizabeth, April 7, 1562).
[496] This is D’Aubigné’s comparison, II, 14, and n. 2.
[497] Delaborde, II, 48; Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, I, 285, n.; C. S. P. For., No. 987, §12, March 31, 1562.