[1275] C. S. P. For., Nos. 2,640, 2,666, November 22, December 8, 1568.

[1276] C. S. P. For., No. 2,441, August 20, 1568.

[1277] Tavannes, chap. xxi.

[1278] C. S. P. For., No. 2,477, August 29, 1568. Norris states the fact that Condé and the admiral were warned by the letters they intercepted. The duc d’Aumale (Hist. des princes de Condé, II, 13) has shown the deliberate intention of Tavannes so to do.

[1279] D’Aubigné, III, 24: “Le prince ... fit publier les loix militaires.” Issued from La Rochelle, September 9, 1568. Summary in C. S. P. For., No. 2,514. De Serres gives the text at p. 158. Delaborde gives the admiral Coligny the credit for these regulations (III, 522). Cf. C. S. P. For., No. 2,486, discourse of the cardinal Châtillon, who attributes the evils of France to the cardinal of Lorraine and refutes the charge of ambition brought against the Huguenot leaders. The cardinal fled to England at this time (see La Ferrière, Le XVIe siècle et les Valois, 217; D’Aubigné, III, 12, note 31). He died in 1571. There was a rumor that Coligny, too, had gone to England (Languet, Epist. secr., I, 109).

[1280] Fontanon, IV, 292, 294; Claude Haton, II, 540; (September 25) C. S. P. For., No. 2,561, §1, September 30, 1568; ibid., Ven., No. 433, September 28, 1568. A supplementary edict suppressed all offices of judicature and finance held by the Huguenots (C. S. P. For., No. 2,674, December 16, 1568).

[1281] Ibid., No. 2,363, July 20, 1568.

[1282] Ibid., No. 2,467, August 27, 1568.

[1283] C. S. P. Ven., No. 430, September 11, 1568. Other sources of revenue were a loan upon the security of the wine duties for several years—a heavy burden upon the people (Claude Haton, II, 547)—which yielded about 300,000 crowns per annum. In addition, the King raised a benevolence of 50,000 crowns from Paris, and Venice loaned 100,000 crowns (C. S. P. For., No. 2,640, November 22, 1568) later increased to 200,000. The Pope later authorized the sale of 50,000 crowns’ worth of the temporalities of the church, but the sales were so managed by certain of the clergy that the government got little from them (ibid., No. 233, April, 1569, summary of an ordinance of Charles IX).

[1284] For details see Norris to Cecil, C. S. P. For., No. 2,550, September 25, 1568.