[1152] On the identity and career of Robert Stuart, see Claude Haton, I, 458, n. 2.
[1153] C. S. P. Ven., No. 410, November 11, 1567. Montmorency lingered two days and died on November 12.
[1154] There are accounts of the battle of St. Denis in La Noue, Mémoires, chap. xiv; Mém. du duc de Bouillon, 379; D’Aubigné, Book IV, chap. ix; Claude Haton, I, 457; Nég. Tosc., III, 551 ff. The editor has subjoined a note (2) giving the literature of the subject.
[1155] Claude Haton, I, 495; Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, III, Introd., xv.
The duke of Guise was criticized for not having pursued the Huguenots more hotly and cut the road by Charenton, or Corbeil, or at the ford of Lagny, which might have been done, for their army was in great disorder and depressed on account of the losses which it had suffered. The reason of the delay is probably to be found in the fact that the breach between the Guises and the Montmorencys was wider than ever at this moment. For the duke of Montpensier and the duke of Montmorency each claimed command of the vanguard. The King finally decided in favor of the former, whereupon Montmorency laid down his command. See Claude Haton, I, 461, 462 and note; Bulletin de la Societé d’histoire de Normandie, 1875-80, p. 279; C. S. P. For., No. 1,833, November 24; No. 1,837, November 29, 1567; Nég. Tosc., III, 557.
[1156] Claude Haton, I, 495 and note.
[1157] The admiral sent Teligny to the King on November 13 for this purpose.—C. S. P. For., No. 1,822, November 16, 1567; cf. No. 1,836. We know, from a letter of Charles IX to his brother, what the King’s terms would have been: (1) in the case of nobles, authorization of Protestant worship to those possessed of high justice or possessors of “pleins fiefs de haubert” i. e., fiefs that were noble, yet did not confer title, provided it were conducted within their own dwellings in the presence of their families and not more than fifty outside persons, and without arms; (2) absolute limitation of other worship to the places specifically granted in the edict of Amboise; (3) surrender of places and property seized by the Huguenots; (4) suppression of the Protestant cult within the walls of Lyons, but permission to worship at two leagues’ distance from the city; (5) interdiction of levies of money or men in the future and the discontinuance of Protestant associations and synods.—Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, Introd., xiv. It is a very remarkable fact that these precise terms had been recommended to Charles IX as a basis of settlement by Montluc in a memoir sent to the King in February 1565. See Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, V, 3-9. Montluc made the further recommendation that the governments be divided by sénéchaussées instead of by rivers, on the ground that rivers sometimes divided towns into two jurisdictions. His friction with Damville (cf. ibid., 103-6) probably accounts for the proposed change. Montluc also advised abolition of the vice-sénéchaux (ibid., 8).
[1158] See the proclamation of Charles IX commanding the provost Paris to search out all gentlemen who have retired to their homes since the battle of St. Denis; and ordering them to return to the army under pain of forfeiture of their fiefs and property. Printed in Appendix XII. In the second part of Coll. de St. Pétersbourg, Vol. XXI, is a group of letters from Charles IX to the duke of Anjou running from December 2, 1567. In every page the question of the military operations of the second civil war comes up. It is evident that the gentlemen of the maison du roi complained loudly of the service required of them, especially because they were so ill lodged.—La Ferrière, Deux ans de mission à St. Pétersbourg, 24.
[1159] During the occupation of the army all Protestant children who had been baptized in the Reformed religion by preachers were rebaptized according to the rites of the Roman religion, and godfathers and godmothers were given them and new names which were approved by the church.—Claude Haton, I, 512 and note.
[1160] Claude Haton, I, 504-12.