[1245] C. S. P. For., No. 2,296, June 22, 1568. They feared a plot to capture them by trickery, as Egmont and Hoorne had been trapped in Flanders. According to report, Lavallette was to have seized the prince, Chavigny the admiral, and Tavannes D’Andelot. The warning was probably given by some secretary whom Coligny had corrupted, for shortly after this time several secretaries to the Catholic leaders were dismissed (ibid., No. 2,256, June 7, 1568; cf. D’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, 12, n. 2, and p. 287). Coligny also bribed the secretary of Don Francesco de Alava, Spanish ambassador in France (see C. S. P. For., No. 1,230, May 24, 1568 and Introd., p. xxvi).
[1246] Ibid., Nos. 2,256, 2,304, 2,323, June 7, 28, July 5, 1568. For an instance of the feeling between the prince and the cardinal see Sir Henry Norris to the queen, ibid., No. 2,248, June 1, 1568 and Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, 12 and n. 1.
[1247] This was the time the word first appeared (D’Aumale, II, 12, note 3).
[1248] C. S. P. For., No. 2,295, Norris to Cecil, June 23, 1568. On the whole negotiation see Robinson, “Queen Elizabeth and the Valois Princes,” Eng. Hist. Rev., II, 40; Hume, Courtships of Queen Elizabeth, 114-49. Hume, however, is in error, p. 115, in believing that the negotiation arose after the peace of St. Germain in 1570. The intercourse must have been kept very much in the dark, judging from the obscure allusions in the following: Sir Henry Norris to the earl of Leicester, C. S. P. For., No. 2,241, August 20, 1568—Marshal Montmorency is very desirous to have answer to the letter which he wrote to Leicester; the queen to the duchess of Montmorency, ibid., No. 2,472, August 27, 1568—Thanks her for her courteous and honorable entertainment in her house, and near her person of the daughter of her chamberlain, Lord Edward Howard. Walsingham warned his government at this time against spies of the cardinal of Lorraine in London. See Appendix XVI.
[1249] “More have been murdered since the publishing of the peace than were all these last troubles. Daily murders are committed without any punishment to the offenders, others violently taken out of their houses in the night and led to the river being without remorse drowned.”—C. S. P. For., Nos. 2,383, 2,339, 2,407, July 31-August 7, 1568.
[1250] The proceedings here on both sides are measured by the success in Flanders (ibid., No. 2,273, June 17, 1568; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, II, 47; Dépêches de Fourquevaux, II, 24).
[1251] In February, 1568 the wholesale condemnation of the people of the Low Countries had been pronounced by the inquisition and confirmed by the Philip II, (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 171).
[1252] C. S. P. For., No. 2,432, August 17, 1568, Mundt to Cecil from Strasburg.
[1253] Languet, Epist. secr., I, 60; Epist. ad Camer., 79 and 84.
[1254] Languet, Epist. secr., I, 64; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 208.