[1255] Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 207; Coll. Godefroy, CCLVI, No. 7, Marshal Cossé to the King, June 20, 1568.
[1256] See Haag, La France protestante, art., “Cocqueville.” The admiral Coligny disavowed any complicity in the enterprise. For the fate of the other columns see Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 212, 220, 227.
[1257] Ibid., 239, 255. The prince of Orange anticipated the disaster of Jemmingen, for he disapproved of the rash policy of his brother. See a letter on this head written by him to Louis of Nassau in July, 1568 (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 257, and the latter’s reply, July 17, ibid., III, 264, 265). Alva had been so certain of Spanish victory that in advance of it he offered Charles IX the use of Spanish troops (C. S. P. For., No. 2,379, §2, July 29, 1568).
[1258] “They (Huguenots) attend the success of the war in Flanders.”—Ibid.
[1259] In September, 1568, a royal edict was promulgated forbidding the public profession of any but the Catholic religion, and revoking all former edicts. Text in Recueil de Fontanon, IV, 294. Montluc claims that he was the author of the idea and that he sent a rough draft of such an edict to Charles IX (De Ruble, Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, V, 153, 154). In intimation of this policy, in August an oath of allegiance and obedience had been exacted by Charles IX of all the Huguenot leaders (C. S. P. For., No. 2,419, August 9, 1568; cf. No. 2,407, August 7 and Duc d’Aumale, Hist. des princes de Condé, II, 9).
[1260] Rel. vén., II, 123.
[1261] Claude Haton, II, 532; Coll. des autographes de M. de L—— de Nancy (Paris, 1855), No. 477; Henry, duke of Anjou to Matignon, King’s lieutenant in Normandy, October 8, 1568, recommending him to distribute the gendarmerie in places most suitable to protect the country.
[1262] C. S. P. For., Nos. 2,352, 2,379, July 14 and 29, 1569.
[1263] Ibid., No. 2,379, July 29, 1568; on the calculative policy of the French crown see Languet, Epist. secr., I, 92 and La Noue’s comments in Mémoires militaires, chap. xii.
[1264] C. S. P. For., No. 2,379, July 29, 1568.