[498] “La mala reputacion que el chancellerio ne quanto à la fé.”—Correspondance de Chantonnay, K. 1,497, No. 16, March 20, 1562.
[499] Tavannes, 271; C. S. P. For., No. 943, March 20, 1652.
[500] Paris, Négociations relatives au règne de François II, 880.
[501] “Monsieur le conestable ayst d’opinion que l’on (fasse) une lètre patente par laquelle le roy mon fils déclère qu’i ne voult poynt ronpre l’édist dernier.... Ne distes rien deset que je vous dis de l’ambassadeur (Chantonnay) qui ayst yci, mès au contrère distes qu’i comense à se governer mieulx et plus dousement qu’i ne solet en mon endroyt.”—Catherine de Medici to St. Sulpice, circa April 11, 1562, in L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 15, 16. This is a characteristic example of the queen’s eccentric spelling.
[502] D’Aubigné, II, 15.
[503] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 22; C. S. P. For., No. 967, March 31, 1562. Elizabeth wrote to Condé to “remember that in all affairs second attempts be even more dangerous than the first.”—C. S. P. For., No. 965, March 31, 1562. On the political theory of the Huguenots that the King was a captive and that they were struggling for his relief, see Weill, 66.
[504] C. S. P. For., No. 969, March 31, 1562.
[505] Correspondance de Chantonnay, March 25, 1562, K. 1,497, No. 17. He reports also that a boat was captured coming down the Seine loaded with 4,000 arquebuses and other ammunition, all of which was taken to the Hôtel-de-Ville.
[506] Correspondance de Chantonnay, K. 1,497, No. 17, March 25, 1562.
[507] C. S. P. For., No. 967, §12, March 31, 1562.