[1606] C. S. P. For., Nos. 1,132, 1,138, August 18-22, 1573.
[1607] The attack was aggravated by a heavy cold taken while hunting so that Charles IX was compelled for a season to quarter himself in a small inn at Vitry. He was not scarred by the pox but he lost flesh alarmingly by reason of the illness and never recovered his health, and passed into quick consumption (cf. C. S. P. For., No. 1,229, November 18, 1573, Dr. Dale to Burghley).
[1608] Nég. Tosc., III, 891; R. Q. H., XXXIV, 485.
[1609] C. S. P. For., No. 1,235, November, 1573.
[1610] The écu which formerly had circulated as 57 sous tournois went up to 58; Spanish pistols, which were at 55 rose to 56; testons de France valued at 12 sous by the edict rose to 12 sous 6 d. tournois. Bad coin was driven out of the realm. Claude Haton, II, 749, 750.
[1611] Ibid., 752, 753.
[1612] Claude Haton, II, 760 (1574).
[1613] See details in C. S. P. Ven., No. 567, December 30, 1573. The queen mother was accused of planning to take La Rochelle by surprise (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, IV, 309-11; Nég. Tosc., III, 896).
[1614] C. S. P. Ven., Nos. 568, 569, January 22, February 1, 1574.
[1615] For details of this war see Chronique des guerres en Poitou, Aunis, Xaintonge et Angoumois de 1574 à 1576, ed. by Fontenelle de Vaudoré, Paris, 1841.