inexcusable negligence.
Memoires de Conde, i, 310.]

[Footnote 773: La Planche, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 774: Arret du parlement, of September 6, 1559, in Memoires de
Conde, i. 308, 309.]

[Footnote 775: In August there were nineteen Protestants in Parisian
dungeons, sentenced to be executed for heresy, some in one place, some
in another. A man and a woman were rescued, on the twenty-first of this
month, while on their way to execution at Meaux. Forbes, State Papers,
i. 211, 212.]

[Footnote 776: La Planche, 221, 223; Hist. eccles., i. 144--147, where
the account is taken word for word from La Planche; De Thou, ii. 691,
692; Felibien, Hist. de Paris, ii. 1069; Mem. de Castelnau, liv. i., c.
4.]

[Footnote 777: "La royne Catherine de Medicis, florentine, nation
desireuse de nouvellete ... haissoit, comme belle mere, la Royne sa
fille, qui l'esloignoit des affaires et portoit l'amitie du Roy son fils
a MM. de Guise, lesquels ne luy deportoient du gouvernement qu'en ce
qu'ils cognoissoient qu'elle ne pouvoit nuire, luy donnant credit en
apparence sans effect," Mem. de Tavannes, ii. 260.]

[Footnote 778: La Planche, 211; Hist. eccles., i. 141, seq.; Beza to
Bullinger, Sept. 12, 1559; Baum, ii., App., 3.]

[Footnote 779:

"Vers l'Eternel, des oppresses le pere,
Je m'en iray, luy monstrant l'impropere
Que l'on me fait; et luy feray priere," etc.
]

[Footnote 780: "Coppie de lettres envoyees a la Royne Mere par un sien
serviteur apres la mort du feu Roy Henri deuxieme." Cimber et Danjou,
Archives curieuses, iii. 349, etc. The substance of Villemadon's letter,
which is dated August 26th, 1559, is given by La Planche, 211, 212, and,
after him, by Hist. eccles., i. 141, 142.]

[Footnote 781: La Planche, 219; Hist. eccles., i. 143; cf. Forbes, State
Papers, i. 226.]

[Footnote 782: La Planche, 220; Hist. eccles., _ubi supra_. It is not at
all improbable that those who endeavored to influence Catharine showed
too little discretion in their zeal, and needlessly provoked her
displeasure by reference to the judgment of God upon her husband. So, at
least, thought the judicious Frenchman Languet, who added, with some
bitterness, that whoever urged upon them moderation was rewarded for his
pains by being called a traitor to the faith. Epist. secretae, ii. 41.]

[Footnote 783: Or, Trouillard, according to Castelnau, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 784: La Planche, 223-225; Castelnau, liv. i., c. 4; De Thou,
ii. 69