[1566] The articles were sent to the Catholic camp on July, 6.
[1567] Hist. du Languedoc, V, 543, note; C. S. P. For., No. 1,090, July 11, 1573.
[1568] Lery, Histoire mémorable de la ville de Sancerre, contenant les entreprises, buteries, assaux et autres efforts des assiégeans: les résistances, faits magnanimes, la famine extrème et délivrance des assiegez, 1574; Discours de l’extrème famine etc. dont les assiegez de la ville de Sancerre ont été affligez et ont usé environ trois mois, Arch. cur., VIII, 21.
[1569] C. S. P. For., No. 1,101, July 23, No. 1,107, July 31, 1573. In Languedoc and Dauphiné the Huguenots were strong, and possessed of many towns (see a letter of Louis of Nassau in Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, IV, 75 and the “Names of all the towns in the south of France of which the Huguenot party could be sure of, together with a list of the noblemen attached to the party” in Appendix XXXII).
[1570] Vie de La Noue, 99; C. S. P. For., No. 965, May 16, No. 1,095, July 23, 1573. A deputation of Huguenots of Languedoc came to Fontainebleau in September, 1573 (cf. Letter of Schomberg to Louis of Nassau, September 29, 1573, Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, IV, 211 and Appendix 117).
[1571] Long, 115, 116. The instrument of government contained 89 articles.
[1572] C. S. P. For., Nos. 972, 986, March 20 and 30, 1573. The collection of these forced loans was expedited by the presence of Strozzi’s men-at-arms and the Scotch Guard in the Louvre; and two bands of Swiss at St. Cloud. In this way, Charles IX was able to collect the money “without danger of commotion,” and avoided that worst of expedients to the crown, the States-General (see particulars in Dr. Dale’s letter to Burghley of January 11, 1573, ibid., No. 1,291). In June the assembly of the clergy agreed to furnish the queen mother 200,000 livres and within three years to redeem 1,800,000 livres’ worth of the King’s debts. The clergy made a great stroke by obtaining the creation of four receivers-general for the collection of these subsidies, the appointments to which they sold for between 600,000 and 700,000 livres, thus saving themselves that amount in the final (ibid., No. 1,027, June 9, 1573). But this relief came too late for the government to continue the prosecution of the war before La Rochelle. The capitulation with the Rochellois was too far advanced to be withdrawn. Moreover, the crown itself was anxious to close the war.
[1573] Catherine de Medici to Schomberg, September 13, 1572, Arch. de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, IV, Appendix, No. 13; Weill, 86; Revue retrospective, V, 363.
[1574] Nég. Tosc., III, 876. On July 7 the Tuscan ambassador wrote: “E, se questo regno si liberassi delle guerre civili, saria facil cosa la rompessi con Spagna; chè questo, credo, sia il fine di tutti li trattamenti che fa Orange in questo regno.”—Ibid., 883.
[1575] Ibid., IV, 108, 109.