The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 / The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II

by James Westfall Thompson

[1324] “L’amiral demeurant toujours le principal gouverneur et conseiller en toutes les affaires des huguenots.”—Castelnau, Book VII, chap. vi.

[1325] Jean de Serres, 333.

[1326] D’Aubigné, III, 58.

[1327] Claude Haton, II, 557.

[1328] Ibid.

[1329] D’Aubigné, III, 57; Jean de Serres, 326, gives details.

[1330] Jean de Serres, 331.

[1331] C. S. P. For., No. 294, June 6, 1569.

[1332] Queen Elizabeth was perfectly safe in making the loan, as the jewels were worth three times the sum advanced (Bourgon, Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, II, 334-36). C. S. P. For., No. 258, May 12, 1569; Duc d’Aumale, I, 70, note 2; John Casimir and the duke of Deuxponts both promised reiters.

[1333] C. S. P. Ven., No. 460, September 15, 1569.