egnant sentence: "Voila l'issue et fin de
l'histoire que j'avoye propose d'ecrire, _pour un commencement de
beaucoup de troubles, guerres et divisions: car d'injustice procede tout
mal_." Significant and prophetic words to be written and published the
year before the outbreak of the first civil war! The editor of 1743, p.
217, well observes that the execution of Du Bourg may be regarded as one
of the chief causes of the conspiracy of Amboise, which broke out soon
after, and, consequently, of the troubles agitating France for nearly
forty years.]

[Footnote 792: La Planche, 227-235; Hist. eccles., i. 153-155.]

[Footnote 793: There was no proof that Antoine Minard's murder was
wrought by a Protestant hand. An address of Du Bourg, in which he
reminded the unrighteous judge of the coming judgment of God, was, after
the event, perversely construed as a threat of assassination. A
Scotchman, Robert Stuart, a kinsman of the queen, was charged with
firing the fatal pistol-shot, but even under the torture revealed
nothing. Public opinion was divided, some attributing the catastrophe to
Minard's well-known immorality ("d'autant," says La Planche, "qu'il y
estoit du tout adonne, et qu'il ne craignoit de seduire toutes les dames
et damoiselles qui avoyent des proces devant luy," etc.), others to his
equally flagrant injustice, others still to the "Lutherans." La Planche,
233, 234.]

[Footnote 794: Not, as La Planche, 235, and the Hist. eccles., i. 154,
state, Otho Henry, but his successor, Frederick III. Baum, Theodor Beza,
ii. 35, 36; Languet, Epistolae sec., ii. 36.]

[Footnote 795: So the English agents, Killigrew and Jones, wrote from
Blois, Dec. 27, 1559: "Bourg was not executed, till about the xx of this
present: who before his deathe made suche an oration to the Lords of the
parliament, _as it moved as many of them as were there to shede
teares_," Forbes, State Papers, i. 290.]

[Footnote 796: La Place, 22, 23; Crespin, Galerie chretienne, ii.
318-322.]

[Footnote 797: La Place, 23; Crespin, Galerie chretienne, ii. 322, 323;
Hist. eccles., i. 155, 156; De Thou, ii. 700-703.]

[Footnote 798: La Planche, 236. "Inter quos," writes Jean Crespin in the
colophon to the edition of his Actiones et Monimenta Martyrum of 1560,
"egregie cordatus Dei Martyr Annas a Burgo supremae Parisiensis Curiae
senator, xxiij. die mensis Decemb. anni M.D.LIX. admirabilem martyrii
coronam accepit." In the preface dated Feb. 26th--two months a