[953] See the letter of the president Viglius to Granvella, April 17, 1564, in Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VII, 476; cf. 481. On this whole question, so far as England is concerned see Brugmans, England en de Nederland in de eerste Jaren von Elizabeth’s regeering (1558-67), Groningen, 1892; cf. English Historical Review, VIII, 358-60.
[954] Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VII, 496, 497. Cf. the observation of Assonleville in a letter to Granvella, Poulet, I, 570. The cardinal’s prophecy was partially fulfilled (Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 40, 41).
[955] “Qui est autant que couper la gorge aux marchands.”—“Mémoire envoyé pour le roi de France à St. Sulpice,” January, 1564, in L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 210.
[956] See “Note du Ministère de France en réponse aux griefs presentés par l’ambassadeur d’Espagne” in Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 584-86. Other references to this commercial matter are in VII, 62, 164, 375, 411, 476, 481, 495-97, 584, 668; L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 175, 181, 188, 191, 193, 194, 200, 206, 209, 210, 213, 217, 221, 224, 304, 350, 351; Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 6-15, 514, 515; Gachard, Correspondance de Philippe II sur les Pays-Bas, I, 244, 246, 247; Poulet, I, 567, and n. 2. There is a memoir on the mission of Assonleville to England, April-June 6, 1563, in the Bulletin de la commission royale d’histoire, sér. III, I, 456 ff.
Undoubtedly Spain’s harsh commercial policy toward France was also influenced in part by jealousy of the commercial relations of France and England, for the treaty of Troyes established freedom of trade between the two nations. For the great importance of this treaty in the history of commerce see De Ruble, Le traité de Cateau-Cambrésis, 193-95.
[957] St. Sulpice sent this important information in a letter of January 22, 1565 (L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 338).
[958] Ibid., 366. Catherine de Medici pushed her insistence perilously far, asserting that Alava, the Spanish ambassador in France, had intimated that objection would not be made to the presence of the prince of Condé, since his exclusion might endanger the peace. Philip II promptly declared that if Alava had made Catherine believe so, he had acted in violation of instructions. “Mémoire envoyé à Catherine sur les réponses du roi catholique,” May 7, 1564, in L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 375.
[959] Egmont passed through Bordeaux on his way to Spain while the court was there (R. Q. H., XXIV, 479).
[960] The reasons for the selection of Bayonne are set forth in R. Q. H., XXXIV, 472.
[961] “Les lenteurs ... qui sont habituelles en Espagne.”—L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 363.