[1236] Montmorency continually threw his influence in favor of peace and moderation, slapping the Guises, however, in his utterances. “The Duke Montmorency said there was nothing more necessary for the maintenance of the king’s estate than the sincere observance of the edict of pacification, and such as labour to the contrary are neither friends to the king nor his crown; and for his own part if the king did not foresee in time with due execution of justice this growing mischief, he was resolved with his leave to depart the court with his friends and allies, and so to withdraw himself from such as under the pretext of maintenance of their religion, continually nourished this division, and in the end put out the glory and renown of the French empire.”—C. S. P. For., No. 2,177, §1, May 12, 1568.
On June 17 Norris wrote to Cecil: “Montmorency has come to the court. The process between him and the duke of Guise for the county of Dammartin will in the end break into open enmity.”—Ibid., No. 2,273.
[1237] “The four marshals agree all in one against the Cardinal.”—Ibid., No. 2,235, May 31, 1568.
[1238] “All things are ruled now by M. d’Anjou, who though young is a most earnest and cruel enemy against the favourers of religion, and has his privy counsellors, the cardinal of Lorraine being the chiefest, and further has his chancellor, who seals all such things as the good old chancellor of the King refuses to seal; who neither for love nor dread would seal anything against the statutes of the realm.”—Ibid., No. 2,178, May 12, 1568. On the whole affair, see ibid., No. 2,177, §2, May 12, 1568.
[1239] Ibid., No. 2,115, §2, April 8; No. 2,177, §3, May 12, 1568.
[1240] Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, App. I.
[1241] C. S. P. For., No. 2,235, May 31, 1568.
[1242] “The garrisons in the Ile-de-France are thought to attend no other thing but till the corn be off the ground to begin where they left off.”—Ibid., No. 2,178, May 12, 1568.
[1243] C. S. P. For., Nos. 2,235, 2,243, 2,248, May 31, June 2-4, 1568.
[1244] As to localities see Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, 284.