[1705] Correspondance de Philippe II, III, 209 and note.
[1706] Ibid., 271.
[1707] Ibid., 333.
[1708] Ibid., 348.
[1709] Correspondance de Philippe II, III, 319, 320.
[1710] C. S. P. Ven., No. 622, March 22, 1575. In Arch. nat., K. 1537, No. 22, is the report of a Spanish spy, written from Calais on March 18, 1575, which confirms the suspicion of English tampering in France. Printed in Appendix XXXVI.
[1711] Schomberg’s observations were absolutely just, for on July 23, 1575, at Heidelberg, an instrument was signed by Charles Frederick, the elector palatine, Henry, prince of Condé, and Charles de Montmorency, in which the count palatine acknowledged the receipt from the English Queen of 50,000 “crowns of the sun, each crown being of the value of six English shillings sterling,” which amount was transferred to “Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condé, chief of those of the religion in France, as well as of those Catholics with them associated” (i. e., the Politiques). Elizabeth’s name was to be shielded throughout, the elector assuming entire liability for repayment which was to be made “before the army now levied in Germany for service in France shall depart to France” (see C. S. P. For., No. 254, “The obligation and quittance of the prince of Condé,” July 23, 1575, Heidelberg; cf. ibid., Ven., 627; July 12, 1575, the guess of the Venetian ambassador in France). Cf. ibid., No. 633, September 7, 1575. The Venetian ambassador seems to have thought that trouble in Ireland would prevent England from advancing any more to the Huguenots (ibid., No. 631, August 9, 1575). The harvest of 1575 was generally good. But no invading army would enter France before the grain was cut and stacked (cf. ibid.).
[1712] C. S. P. Ven., No. 634, September 11, 1575.
[1713] Ibid., For., No. 388, October 3, 1575; L’Estoile, anno 1575; see the interesting details of Henry III’s curious fits of contrition in Frémy, “Henri III, pénitent; étude sur les rapports de ce prince avec diverses confréries et communautés parisiennes,” Bull. du Com. d’hist. et d’archéol. du diocèse de Paris, 1885.
[1714] Claude Haton, II, 780; Walsingham to Burghley, State Papers, Foreign, Elizabeth, CV, No. 51, printed in Appendix XXXVII. From Dreux the duke issued a manifesto, September 17, 1575, in which he explained his conduct and complained of the undue taxation and the imposition which the people were suffering in the King’s name, declaring that he would take under his protection all the French of the two religions, and demanding the call of the Estates-General for redress of grievances (Claude Haton, II, 781 and note). Alençon styled himself “Gouverneur-général pour le roy et protecteur de la liberté et bien publique de France” (C. S. P. For., No. 365, September, 1575).