[1656] Catherine risked a Protestant uprising in order to sate her vengeance upon the man who had slain Henry II. The Venetian ambassador, however, conjectured that there was more of policy than of revenge in the act. “It was certainly more to please the Parisians from whom she hoped to have efficient aid than for any other reason that she had Montgomery put to death.”—C. S. P. Ven., No. 588, May 20, No. 597, June, 1574. Matignon was made a marshal of France as his reward (ibid., For., No. 176, June 13, 1575). For particulars of Montgomery’s execution see Arch. cur., VIII, 223 ff.; and the Discours de la mort et execution de Gabriel comte de Montgommery, par arrest de la court, pour les conspirations par luy commises contre le roy, Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1574.
[1657] Nég. Tosc., III, 926-27, April 5 and May 11, 1574.
[1658] “Tenuti per forastieri e Alemanni.”—Rel. vén., II, 228.
[1659] Claude Haton, II, 778. These bandits were sometimes called “Foruscits” or “Fuorisciti,” from the Italian uscir fuora (see a letter of the cardinal of Armagnac in Rev. hist., II, 529).
“En 1576 les paysans du Dauphiné s’étant soulevés, entreprirent vainement ce qu’ils ont exécuté plus de deux siècles après cette époque. Ils se rassemblèrent en un corps considérable pour piller et brûler les châteaux, et exterminer les gentilshommes. Mandalot, à la tête d’une troupe déterminée, dissipa avec promptitude ce rassemblement qu’on appela la ‘Ligue des Vilains.’”—Histoire ou mémoire de ce qui se passa à Lyons pendant la ligue, appelée la Sainte-Union, jusqu’à la reddition de la ville sous l’obeissance du roi Henri IV, Bibliothèque de Lyon, No. 1,361.
[1660] “On taschast de réconcilier par tous moyens les malcontens et principalement ceux qui, par le passé, ont eu crédit et autorité en France, qui pourront augmenter les troubles et soustenir la mauvaise et pernicieuse volonté de ceux qui voudroient invertir l’ancienne et naturelle succession de la couronne de France.”—Du Ferrier to Catherine de Medici, June, 1574, in Frémy, Un ambassadeur liberal sous Charles IX et Henri III, 235.
[1661] Articles proposed by the count palatine’s ambassador for a pacification (C. S. P. For., No. 1,556, anno 1574). The post was subsidized by the French King by way of Reinhausen, Neustadt, Kaiserslautern, Limbach (near Hamburg), Saarbrück, St. Avold, and Metz (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, V, 49).
[1662] Vie de La Noue, 87.
[1663] The Poles made a hard attempt to prevent Henry from leaving the kingdom. They were dissatisfied that he assumed the title of King of France without consulting them, and wanted him to govern his new kingdom through ministers chosen from among them, and to employ himself in military exploits against the Tartars and Turks (Languet, Epist. secr., I, 121).
[1664] Frémy, Un ambassadeur liberal sous Charles IX et Henri III, 232.