[1133] “Lettre addressée aux échevins de Rouen par un de leurs délégués,” Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de Normandie, 1875-80, p. 279. The whole letter is of interest.
[1134] Alva’s reply October 24, 1567, is in Correspondance de Philippe II, II, 594. Cf. Gachard, La Bibliothèque Nationale à Paris, I, 395; II, 459; and Histoire des troubles des Pays-Bas, ed. Piot, I, 293 (chap. xlvi).
[1135] C. S. P. For., No. 1,789, October 27, 1567.
[1136] These demands were presented in writing to the queen’s emissaries. De Thou, Book XLII; Claude Haton, I, 447; D’Aubigné, II, 232-34, have summarized them. La Popelinière, Book XII, 41-43 gives the text. There is a monograph by Baguenault de Puchesse: Jean de Morvillier, évêque d’Orléans: Etude sur la politique française au XVIe siècle, d’après des documents inédits, Didier, Paris, 1870.
[1137] La Popelinière, Book XII, 50 bis; C. S. P. For., No. 1,856, October 10, 1567.
[1138] Davila, I, 195.
[1139] C. S. P. For., No. 1,777, October 22, 1567.
[1140] A list of officers and the number of horsemen commanded by each who were sent to the king of France by the duke of Savoy.—C. S. P. For., No. 1,735, September, 1567.
[1141] He wrote to Philip II, to Emanuel Philibert of Savoy, and the Venetian government urging them to succor Charles IX “against the rebels and heretics” within his kingdom, and to the duke of Lorraine to stop the reiters.—Potter, Lettres de St. Pie V sur les affaires religieuses de son temps en France, Paris, 1828. To Philip II, October 13, 1567—Potter, p. 1 (ed. Gouban, Book I, No. 22, p. 50); to the duke of Savoy, October 18, 1567—Potter, p. 8 (ed. Gouban, Book I, No. 25, p. 54); to Priuli, Venetian ambassador in France, October 18—Potter, p. 6 (ed. Gouban, Book I, No. 24, p. 53). At the same time the Pope wrote to the duke of Nevers in terms of rejoicing that Charles IX had escaped at Meaux.—Potter, p. 3 (ed. Gouban, Book I, No. 23, p. 51), October 16, 1567. Within a month the Pope’s word began to be made good, for 10,000 pieces of gold were en route to France in the middle of November.—Potter, p. 10 (ed. Gouban, Book I, No. 26, p. 56), letter to the duke of Savoy of November 16, 1567. In it the Pope says he has written the duke of Lorraine to stop the reiters about to enter France.
[1142] The question of payment of the Swiss still remained to be settled and Charles IX was at his wits’ end and actually offered a mortgage of his frontier towns, save Lyons and the frontier of Burgundy, paying 5 per cent. interest in order to quiet the importunate demands of the cantons.—Revue d’histoire diplomatique, XIV (1900), 49, 50.