[640] C. S. P. Eng., No. 228, 229, January 3, 1562; the admiral to Montgomery (Delaborde, Gaspard de Coligny, II, 180), December 28, 1562, from the camp at Avarot; cf. C. S. P. Eng., No. 181, January 2, 1563—the admiral to Queen Elizabeth; Forbes, II, 247.
[641] De Thou, Book XXXIV, and Le Laboureur’s additions to Castelnau, II, 81.
[642] “They did not strike a stroke” and “were defeated in running away.”—C. S. P. For., January 3, 1563; Forbes, II, 251.
[643] Claude Haton, I, 311.
[644] For contemporary accounts of the battle of Dreux, see: “Discours de la bataille,” in Mém. du duc de Guise, ed. Michaud, 497 ff.; Beza, Histoire des églises réformées, I, 605 ff.; D’Aubigné, Book III, chaps. xiii, xiv; Tavannes, 392 ff.; La Noue, Mém. milit., chap. x; De Thou, Book XXXIV; C. S. P. Eng., No. 1,282, abstract of a printed pamphlet; No. 1,316, December 21; No. 1,323, December 22, 1562—letter of the admiral to the earl of Warwick; to Queen Elizabeth, Delaborde, II, 178, 179. For details as to the number of prisoners, etc., see C. S. P. For., Nos. 1,286-88, 1,316, 1,317, 1,335, §§4-6; 1,334, 1,353, §6; 1,563, Nos. 12, 22, 28, narrative of Spanish troops. Excellent accounts of the battle are to be consulted in De Ruble, Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d’Albret, II, 366 ff.; Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, 140-45; and the duke of Aumale’s History of the Princes of Condé (Eng. trans.), I, 150-68. The standard treatment of the subject is Coynart, L’Année 1562 et la bataille de Dreux: étude historique et militaire; extraits divers, correspondance officielles du temps (1894).
Montaigne has an interesting essay upon some peculiar incidents of the battle. Two curious occurrences happened. The duke of Guise was the first to alight from his horse and courteously receive the prince of Condé (C. S. P. For., No. 1,326, December 26, 1562); the two slept in the same bed that night (ibid., Ven., December 21, 1562). The duke of Aumale was unhorsed and nearly the whole army rode and trampled over him, yet he was unhurt, owing to the heavy suit of armor he wore (ibid., For., No. 375, §3, 1563; cf. No. 400, §2).
[645] The Parlement ordered the bishops of France to declare that in all parishes those who knew who were Huguenots should denounce them within nine days to their priests under pain of excommunication. This practice led to a large exodus of the Huguenots in many of the towns (Claude Haton, I, 312, 316, 317, and note, 318).
[646] The German form of the name was Bessenstein.
[647] C. S. P. For., No. 14, §2, January 3, 1563.
[648] Ibid., No. 16, §2, January 3, 1563, and No. 32—D’Andelot to Elizabeth from Orleans, January 5, 1563; cf. Forbes, II, 263.