[1014] It was estimated that, beside footmen, captains, men-at-arms, there were 20,000 horsemen attached to the various factions (C. S. P. For., No. 470, May-June, 1566).

[1015] C. S. P. For., No. 667, August 21, 1566.

[1016] Ibid., No. 715, September 14, 1566.

[1017] Hugh Fitzwilliam to Cecil: “The constable is of great authority with the king and the queen mother; and being mortal enemy to the house of Guise is with his nephews and the Protestants for his life.”—C. S. P. For., No. 741, October 3, 1566.

[1018] Nég. Tosc., III, 515. “A man might easily perceive by the sour countenance the queen made that she liked not all that he had said. After he had saluted divers persons the king made him somewhat too short an answer for so long a demand.”—C. S. P. For., No. 444, June 1, 1566.

[1019] “The king has made peace with his treasurers for a certain sum by the constable’s means, whereof something cleaves to his fingers.”—C. S. P. For., No. 733, §2, September 28, 1566.

[1020] According to the estimate of this syndicate France had a population of from fifteen to sixteen millions (Rel. vén., III, 149).

[1021] C. S. P. For., Nos. 1,111-15, April 18-19, 1567.

[1022] Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, IX, 594, 595; Poulet, I, Introd., l-lii, n. 2; Gachard, Don Carlos et Philippe II, I, 303; C. S. P. For., No. 641, August 13, 1566. Coussemaker, Les troubles religieux du XVIe siècle dans la Flandre maritime 1560-70; Van Velthoven, Documents pour servir à l’hist. des troubles religieux du XVIe siècle dans le Brabant; Verly, La furie espagnole, 1565-95; Kervyn de Lettenhove, Les Huguenots et les Gueux: Etude hist. sur vingt-cinq annels du XVIe siècle (1560-1585), Bruges, 1883-85, 6 vols.; Poulet, Correspondance du cardinal de Granvelle, I, Introd., lvii-lxxvi; II, Introd., iv-vii; De Thou, V, 204-37; D’Aubigné, Book IV, chap. xxi.

[1023] The most notable of these was Francis Junius, who was driven out of Antwerp. The Spanish ambassador demanded his arrest but the prévôt de l’hôtel refused, alleging with right that Junius was the ambassador of the count palatine and entitled to immunity (Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, Introd., cviii).