[1715] Claude Haton, II, 784, 785.
[1716] Paris furnished the King 4,000 soldiers at its own expense. The new troops were lodged in the faubourgs of St. Germain, St. Marceau, and Notre-Dame des Champs (ibid., 787).
[1717] Claude Haton, II, 788-89; D’Aubigné, Book VII, chap. xix. From this circumstance the duke was often called Le Balafré. (C. S. P. For., No. 450, November 10, 1575.)
[1718] Claude Haton, II, 797.
[1719] C. S. P. For., No. 422, October 29, 1575. The King called these pilgrimages “nouaines” (cf. ibid., No. 506, Dr. Dale to Lord Burghley, December 20, 1575).
[1720] Protestant worship was provisionally authorized in the towns held by the confederates. Angoulême and Bourges refused to open their gates to Alençon and so he was offered Cognac and St. Jean-d’Angély instead. The prince of Condé was refused admittance to Mezières (Claude Haton, II, 805, note).
[1721] For details as to this levy, see Claude Haton, II, 804. This tax was laid upon the clergy, as well as others, and called forth a protest from the former, who pleaded an edict issued by Henry III at Avignon shortly after his return from Poland, forbidding the governors to enforce the payment of tailles, munitions, etc., upon the clergy.
[1722] Fontanon, IV, 840.
[1723] Claude Haton, II, 820.
[1724] Paris remonstrated against this (ibid., 828 and note 1).