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

by James Westfall Thompson

[1520] C. S. P. For., No. 419, Captain Thomas Morgan to Lord Burghley from Flushing, June 16, 1572; Gachard, Correspondance de Philippe II, II, 268, Alva to Philip II, July 18, 1572.

[1521] La Popelinière, XXVII, 108; Fillon Collection, No. 133, Charles IX to the Duke of Longueville, governor of Picardy from Blois, May 3, 1572. Enjoins him to repair the fortifications of Picardy, and to be on guard against the duke of Alva, who was arming under the pretext of repressing the Gueux.

[1522] Gachard, Correspondance de Philippe II, II, 356 and note 3; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 425-26; Mém. de la Huguerye, 105; see La Popelinière’s account (XXVII, 107), of the situation of the city. It was the capital of Hainault.

[1523] C. S. P. For., No. 406, June 10, 1572, to Torcy.

[1524] Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 437.

[1525] Coll. Godefroy, CCLVIII, No. 8. French dispute with Spain over navigation of the Sluys.

[1526] Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 441-42.

[1527] In ibid., 463-64, 467-68, will be found a list of the principal officers of the prince of Orange and of the towns at his devotion (cf. C. S. P. For., No. 374, July, 1572).

[1528] Ibid., Nos. 478, 511, July, 1572.

[1529] The estates met at Dordrecht on July 15 (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 447).