In Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 600-2, is an account from the pen of Don Louis del Rio, an attaché of the Spanish embassy at Paris; and on pp. 655, 656 is the “Harangue de l’admiral de France à MM. de la court du parlement de Paris du 27 janvier 1565 avec la réponse.” The baron de Ruble has written the history of this incident in Mém. de la Soc. de l’hist. de Paris de l’Ile-de-France, Vol. VI.

According to a letter of Mary Stuart to Queen Elizabeth, February 12, 1565, the resentment due to the old law-suit over Dammartin flashed out at this time. But it must have been a conjecture on her part, for she adds: “I have heard no word of the duke of Guise or monsieur d’Aumale.”—C. S. P. Scot., II, 146. The prince of Condé’s Catholic leanings at this critical moment are manifested in a letter to his sister, the abbess of Chelles, in which he states that he is annoyed at the outrage committed on the cardinal of Lorraine by the marshal Montmorency; that the union of these two houses is more than necessary; that if he had been with the cardinal, he would have given proof of his good-will by deeds. See Appendix VII.

[899] “Les confraires du Sainct-Esprit et autres reprenoient plus de viguer, et les provinces ne pouvoient plus souffrir les ministres ny les presches publics et particulièrs, et se séparoient entièrement des huguenots; qui estoient argumens certains qu’en peu de temps il se verroit quelque grand changement.”—Castelnau, Book VI, chap. ii.

[900] Ardent Catholics, like Cardinal Granvella, believed both the marshal Montmorency and Damville to be Protestants at heart (Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 278).

[901] “Des catholiques formèrent des ‘unions’ pour défendre l’honneur de Dieu et de la Sainte Eglise, et ces unions, en se rapprochant constituèrent la Ligue.”—Beulier, “Pourquoi la France est-elle restée catholique au XVIe siècle,” Revue anglo-romaine, January 11, 1896, 257. The Jesuits worked hard in France for Philip II. Forneron, II, 304, quotes an interesting letter to this effect from a Jesuit working in France.

[902] The procès-verbal of this league is in Mémoires de Condé, ed. London, VI, 290-306. For the court’s sojourn at Agen see Barrère (l’abbé), “Entrée et séjour de Charles IX à Agen (1565),” Bull. du Com. de la langue, de l’hist. et des arts de la France I (1854), 472.

For the King’s sojourn at Condom (1565) see Barrère (l’abbé), ibid., 476.

[903] Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, III, 80, 81; De Thou, V, Book XXXVII, 32; Anquetil, I, 213.

[904] Collection Godefroy, CCLVII, No. 7, July 18, 1564.

[905] De Thou, IV, Book XXXVII, 32.