[826] Rel. vén., I, 35-37.
[827] A letter of his published by La Ferrière, Deux années de mission à St. Pétersbourg, Paris (1867), 56, 57, casts an interesting light upon the state of the city at this time.
[828] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 266.
[829] La Cuisine, Histoire du parlement de Bourgogne, I, 60; Castelnau, Book V, chap. vi, says the petition was printed. The bishop of Orleans, Jean de Morvilliers, in a letter dated August 21, 1563, called the queen mother’s attention to this growing prejudice (Frémy, Les diplomates de la Ligue, 30-32).
[830] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 129-31. Philip II, as has been observed, expressed his disapproval of this practice (ibid., 152), and when the French government endeavored to make it apply to the property of the French church in the Low Countries, he set his foot down hard (ibid., 188). An endeavor was made to restrain speculation in church property by law.
[831] For details see ibid., 152, 156, 165, 185, 186, 226.
[832] Castelnau, Book V, chaps. vi and x is very clear in the statement of various motives.
[833] Claude Haton, I, 368.
[834] See the wonderful word-picture drawn by Castelnau at the beginning of Book V, and Montluc, Books V, VI, passim. For the brigandage that prevailed see Montluc, IV, 343 (letter to the King from Agen, March 26, 1564).
[835] Franklin, “La vie d’autrefois,” Hygiene, chap. ii, especially pp. 67-75. For the plague of 1563-64 in Languedoc see Hist. de Languedoc, XI, 447 (Toulouse), 464 (Montpellier, Nîmes, Castres, etc.). It was at its height in July, 1564. It seems to have come into Languedoc from Spain. See also Papiers d’état du card. de Granvelle (March 11, 1564), VII, 387, 401; VIII, 36, 382, 470; C. S. P. For. (1564), Introd., xi-xii, and Nos. 544-53, §2; No. 592; Claude Haton I, 332. Those exposed to the infection were required to carry white wands as a sign (C. S. P. Ven., No. 824, November 20, 1580).