[1051] Poulet, I, 509; Gachard, Don Carlos et Philippe II, 354; La Bibliothèque Nationale à Paris, II, 213. The disastrous news reached the King on September 5. For ten days he was ill with a high fever in consequence. Fourquevaux, writing from Segovia on September 11, to Charles IX, gives some details of Philip’s illness and how he was treated by the physicians and then adds: “Les Espagnols sont bien marriez d’entendre que les Lutheriens dud. pais (Flanders) ont commencé s’empoigner aux eglises et reliques, et à fere marier les prebtres et nonnains, avec infiniz autres maulx qu’ilz font, qui est le semblable commencement des doleurs qui advindrent en votre Royaume du temps des troubles.”—Dépêches de M. Fourquevaux, I, 124, 125.
[1052] The Austrian lands were invaded by the Turks in the autumn of 1566 (Négociations dans le Levant, II, 721; Languet, Epist. secr., I, 15).
[1053] It was a pose of Philip’s that the expedition was purely political; cf. Gachard, Les bibliothèques de Madrid et de l’Escurial, 94 ff., based on the correspondence of the archbishop of Rossano.
[1054] Dispatch to Charles IX, December 9, 1566 (Fourquevaux, I, 147-52). He waited in great anxiety for instructions from Paris, daily growing more suspicious because the Spanish King said not a word to him on the subject, although he sent for him in audience on January 14, 1567 (ibid., 167-72; dispatches of Jan. 5 and 18, 1567). The tremendous financial operations of the Spanish government (consult Gachard, Don Carlos et Philippe II, II, 369, 370) filled him with alarm, and he made an unsuccessful effort to bribe the secretary of one of Philip II’s ministers. He gathered that the Spanish forces would likely sail for Barcelona and disembark at Nice or Genoa (ibid., 176, 177, February 13, 1567).
[1055] Forneron, I, 347, on authority of Alva’s dispatch in K. 1,507, No. 2; cf. Nég. Tosc., III, 527.
[1056] Gachard, La Bibliothèque Nationale à Paris, II, 228. The dispatch was delayed on account of the illness of the courier and the heavy snows he encountered in the Pyrenees, and did not reach the ambassador until January 15, 1567 (Fourquevaux, I, 168). The correspondence of Bernardo d’Aspremont, viscount of Orthez, governor of Bayonne—unfortunately much scattered in the volumes of the Bibliothèque Nationale—shows the standing danger the southern provinces of France were in from Spanish invasion (Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, III, 400, note).
[1057] Poulet, II, 183.
[1058] D’Aubigné, II, 229, note.
[1059] Poulet, II, 495.
[1060] D’Aubigné, II, 228; Zurlauben, Hist. milit. des Suisses, IV, 335.