1.]

[Footnote 785: La Planche and De Thou, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 786: Epistolae secretae, ii. 30.]

[Footnote 787: See _ante_, c. viii., p. 275. The authority of the
Memoires de Tavannes (ii. 258)--"Les chambres ardentes sont erigees pour
persecuter les Huguenots, et ce d'autant plus que les princes du sang et
les freres de Coligny favorisoient la religion nouvelle"--cannot weigh
against the positive statement of the preamble of Henry II.'s edict of
Paris, Nov. 19, 1549, _ante_, c. viii., p. 275. Yet Drion, Hist. chron.
de l'eglise prot. de France, i. 63, places the original institution
here.]

[Footnote 788: Drion, i. 64; Hist. eccles., i. 151. On the other hand,
Protestant sympathizers sometimes interfered with the course of law in
the interest of their brethren in the faith. "Since our arrivall to this
towne," wrote Killigrew and Jones from Blois, Nov. 14, 1559, "there were
xvii persones taken for the worde's sake, and committed to the
sergeaunts to be conveyed to Orleauns, and other places therabouts, to
be prosecuted. Notwithstanding, it hathe so happened, as the prisoners
in the way betwene this towne and Orleans were rescued, and taken from
the sergeaunts who had charge of them, by sixty men on horsebacke, and
so were conveyed away." Forbes, State Papers, i. 261. At Rouen, Jan. 29,
1560, a bookbinder was snatched from between two friars, as he was being
led in a cart to be burned alive, a cloak thrown over him, and he
conveyed out of the hands of his enemies. Unfortunately, the gates
having been closed, he was recaptured the same night, and the cruel
sentence was executed the next day, with a guard of 300 men-at-arms, for
fear of the people. Memorandum of Feb. 8th, State Paper Office.]

[Footnote 789: La Planche, 236, 337; De Thou, ii. 705, 706.]

[Footnote 790: "Comme d'abus." La Place, 19; Crespin, Gal. chretienne,
ii. 304.]

[Footnote 791: La Planche, 209, 210; La Place, 20; Hist. eccles., i.
138, 139; Crespin, Galerie chretienne, ii. 305-318; Forbes, State
Papers, i. 185. The Memoires de Conde, i. 217-304, reprint entire a
contemporary pamphlet entitled, "La vraye histoire, contenant l'inique
jugement et fausse procedure faite contre le fidele serviteur de Dieu
_Anne du Bourg_, conseillier pour le Roy, en la Cour du Parlement de
Paris," etc. (Paris) 1561. It contains in full the interrogatories and
replies, Du Bourg's confession, etc., and will amply repay a careful
reading. It concludes with a pr