[1005] Ibid., No. 136, February 25, 1566. “The constable lies at Chantilly ill at ease.”—Ibid., No. 406, May 21, 1566. Poulet, I, 190, Morillon to Granvella, March 5.
[1006] C. S. P. For., anno 1566, Introd. The text of the ordonnance is in Isambert, XIV, 189; De Thou, Book XXXIX, 178-84, has much upon it. It is he who records the speeches of the King and the chancellor. It is interesting to observe that very similar conditions prevailed in Germany at this time. See the account of the Diet of Spires (1570) in Janssen, History of the German People, VIII, 75 ff.
[1007] Cf. Cheruel, Histoire de l’administration monarchique de la France, I, 196-203; Glasson, Histoire du droit et des institutions de la France, VIII, 170 ff.
[1008] The clergy of Guyenne were so incensed at this prohibition that they threatened to leave the country (Archives de la Gironde, XIII, 183).
[1009] See the case of the magnificence of the house of a Parisian shoemaker, who had purchased the estate of a king’s treasurer and enormously enriched himself with gold and silver. Under a pretext the queen mother secured entrance to the house. Claude Haton, I, 412, gives a detailed description of its magnificence.
According to an estimate of January 15, 1572, the income from the “Parties Casuelles,” that is to say, from offices vacated by the death of particular possessors thereof, and from the “Paulette,” was two million francs and yet the corruption in the administration was so great that the King received but a quarter of this amount (Cheruel, I, 208).
[1010] De Thou, V, Book XXXVII, 185; D’Aubigné, II, 224; C. S. P. For., Nos. 343, 344, 347, 387, April 28; May 3-4, 16, 1566; Forneron, Hist. des ducs de Guise, II, 59.
[1011] “On ne sait encore quant on délogera d’icy, combien que les laboureurs des champs ayent ja faict présenter deux requestes au Roy pour se retirer et sa suite à Paris jusques à ce que la récolte soit faict.”—Tronchon to M. de Cordes, July 4, 1567; quoted by the duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, I, Appendix XVI.
[1012] “Politique de bascule,” R. Q. H., XXVII, 274.
[1013] C. S. P. For., No. 275, April 12, 1566.