[1181] C. S. P. For., No. 1,890, January 4, 1568.
[1182] Ibid., No. 1,919, January 4, 1568.
[1183] Gachard, Correspondance de Philippe II sur les Pays-Bas, II, 7, to Alva, January 22, 1568.
[1184] C. S. P. Ven., No. 430, September 11, 1568; “A Florentine merchant greatly esteemed by these majesties and very useful to them in money matters called upon me today and gave me information concerning the king’s inability from want of money to continue the war.” Account of the sums of money paid to the troops, native and foreign, in the French king’s service during the month of January 1568, amounting to 987,052 livres, or 116,646£ 9s. sterling. The amounts reduced from French to English money by Cecil (C. S. P. For., No. 1,978, January 1568).
[1185] Ibid., No. 1,914, January 3, 1568. For an amusing instance see No. 1,670.
[1186] Ibid., No. 2,024, February 12, 1568.
[1187] C. S. P. For., No. 2,024, §1, February 24, 1568.
[1188] “The King’s army, finding what disorder the want of a good head has bred hitherto, are now content to accept any, be it not a marshal of France. It is now said that Mons. de Tavannes shall be M. d’Anjou’s lieutenant” (ibid., No. 2,024, February 24, 1568).
[1189] Some of them were captured by the King’s forces in a skirmish near Châtillon between the duke of Nevers and Montgomery, and broken upon the wheel. The poor wretches under the torture compromised twenty-five others of the Guard, who on March 6 were also horribly put to death (ibid., No. 2,062, March 12, 1568). After the peace of Longjumeau the Scotch captains who had joined the prince of Condé were deprived of their commissions, although the action was contrary to the edict. In fact a reorganization of the whole maison du roi was made (ibid., No. 2,135, April 18, No. 2,178, May 12, 1568). The vacancies were filled by Swiss instead (ibid., Nos. 1,981, 1,987, February 1 and 6, 1568), so that the famous Scotch Guard in the end became the King’s Swiss Guard, which lasted down to the Revolution.
[1190] Ibid., No. 1,981, February 1, 1568.