[944] Ibid., VII, 281.
[945] The counselor d’Assonleville wrote to Cardinal Granvella after the peace of Troyes, “Adieu, Callais! combien qu’elle nous duiroit bien hors de mains des François!”—Poulet, I, 570.
[946] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 191, 194, 209, 221. Each state appointed a commission in 1563 to adjust this difficulty and other border complications on the edge of Artois and Luxembourg (for instances, see L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 224, 227, 228, 240, 254), whose conferences were prolonged through the years 1564-65. See the long note in Gachard, Philippe II sur les Pays-Bas, I, 270.
In Collection Godefroy, XCIV, No. 16, will be found a “sommaire de la négociation de Calais, entre le président Séguier et le conseiller du Faur, députés de Charles IX, et les ambassadeurs de Philippe II;” original, signed by Séguier and Du Faur. In the same collection, XCVI, No. 6, is a delimitation treaty pertaining to the Picard frontier, signed by Harlay and Du Drac, at Gravelines, December 29, 1565. Charles IX refused to ratify it.
[947] Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 18.
[948] “Un eslavon tan importante desta cadena.”—Ibid., VII, 215.
[949] For Granvella’s opinion of the demand for the Estates-General, see his letter to Philip II, April 18, 1564 (ibid., 492-94).
[950] Ibid., 294, note, and especially 495-97; cf. L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 188, 193.
[951] “Non admettre à couleur de la peste.”—Granvella to the duchess of Parma, Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VII, 411.
[952] This was a mere threat, however, as such a course would have injured France as much as the Netherlands.