[1265] Letter of August 23, 1568 analyzed in De Thou, Book XLIV.
[1266] See the complaints of the prince of Condé to the King, under date of June 29 and July 22, 1568 in Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, App. I.
[1267] See the gist of the prince of Condé’s petition, summarized in C. S. P. For., No. 2,451, August 23, 1568. As an instance of the care of the government to b forehanded, agents of the crown secretly measured even the height of the wall in the case of towns of doubtful allegiance. Coligny complained of the attacks which his gentlemen and those of his brother D’Andelot suffered. At Dijon the prince of Condé prosecuted a person whom he accused of secretly having measured the walls of Noyers (Claude Haton, II, 537, note).
[1268] C. S. P. For., No. 2,464, August 25, 1568; cf. No. 2,484.
[1269] Claude Haton, II, 539; Le Laboureur, II, 593.
[1270] C. S. P. For., No. 2,441, August 20, 1568; Condé was at Noyers, Coligny at Tanlay (Yonne): D’Aubigné, Book III, 5, note; Duc d’Aumale, Hist. des princes de Condé, II, 367.
[1271] Languet, Epist. secr., I, 64, 69.
[1272] Ibid., I, 75; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 284-86. The prince of Orange at this time was near Cleves having an army but no money. See a letter of the prince of Orange to the duke of Württemberg and the margrave of Baden asking for pecuniary assistance. September 17, 1568 (ibid., III, 291). His plans again failed. He tried to enter Picardy for the purpose of uniting with the Huguenots. But the alertness of the marshal Cossé again prevented Genlis as it had foiled Cocqueville, and the prince was compelled to abandon his purpose. At Strasburg his army was dissolved (ibid., III, 295, 303, 313-16; Languet, Epist. ad Camer., 89; Epist. secr., I, 75).
[1273] Even La Noue, 804 and Beza, II, 277, assert this.
[1274] Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Spain, had died October 3, 1568.