[1735] C. S. P. For., Nos. 614, 625, 662, February 14-22, March 8, 1576. Mayenne, whose marquisate was erected into a duchy on January 1, 1576, had succeeded his brother, the duke of Guise, as chief commander of the royal forces, and advanced toward Lorraine in order to prevent the reiters from joining the enemy. Henry III had sent Biron (he had been made a marshal in the June preceding—ibid., No. 178, June 13, 1575) to them to persuade them not to enter France, representing that a truce had been concluded between the King and the duke of Alençon. But the prince of Condé replied that if the duke had made his peace with the King, he, the prince, had not. Biron failed and La Noue was sent, who likewise was unsuccessful (Claude Haton, II, 824, 825).
[1736] C. S. P. For., No. 662, Dale to Smith and Walsingham, March 8, 1576; Claude Haton, II, 832.
[1737] C. S. P. For., No. 740, April 17, 1576.
[1738] Dr. Dale wrote truly to Lord Burghley saying that the Protestants had “gotten more without any stroke stricken than ever could be had before this time by all the wars, as appears by the note of the provinces that are to be under the government of them and their friends.”—C. S. P. For., No. 777, May 11, 1576.
[1739] La Popelinière, III, 361.
[1740] This claim ran back to the reign of Charles VII; the original amount was 25,000 livres. Louis XI altered it to 6,000 livres, plus the county of Gaure and the town of Fleurance, and this revised form was approved by Charles VIII in 1496 (cf. C. S. P. For., No. 672, §5; May 16, 1576).
[1741] Henry of Navarre’s memoir is given in extenso in ibid., No. 671, May 15, 1576.
[1742] La Popelinière, III, 365.
[1743] Maffert, Les apanages en France du XVIe au XIXe siècle (1900).
[1744] Articles du maréchal de Dampville, gouverneur de Languedoc et des Etats du pays, présentés au Roi pour la décharge de la province, May 2, 1576.—Coll. Godefroy, XCIV, No. 21.