les fosses du donjon dudit chasteau, soubz les arches du pont de la
poterne_, comme nous semblant _lieu le plus cache et secret_ d'alentour
dudit chasteau, d'autant que _l'on ne va souvent ny aysement esdits
fossez, et que les herbes y sont communement grandes_," etc. Le Tigre,
108.]

[Footnote 814: The author of that terrible invective, "Le Tigre,"
reminds the cardinal of this crime in one of the finest outbursts of
indignant reproach: "N'oys-tu pas crier le sang de celuy que tu fis
estrangler dans une chambre du boys de Vincennes? S'il estoit coupable,
que [pourquoi] n'a il este puny publiquement? Ou sont les tesmoingts qui
l'ont charge? Pourquoy as-tu voulu en sa mort rompre et froisser toutes
les loix de France, si tu pencoys que par les loix, il peut estre
condemne?" Also in the _versified_ "Tigre," lines 315-326. It is only
just to La Renaudie to add that, according to La Planche, those who knew
him best acquitted him of the charge of being much influenced by these
and other personal considerations. Hist. de l'estat de France, 238,
316-318.]

[Footnote 815: "Homme, comme l'on dit, de grand esprit, et de diligence
presque incroyable." Hist. du tumulte d'Amboise, in Recueil des choses
memorables (1565), and Memoires de Conde, i. 324.]

[Footnote 816: According to De Thou, ii. 762, March 15th. So Davila, 22,
and La Place, 33. Calvin (Letter to Sturm, March 23, 1560, Bonnet, iv.
91) says "before March 15." Castelnau, i. 6, says March 10th.]

[Footnote 817: The uniform statement of the contemporary authorities
from whom our accounts of the "Tumult" are derived, is to the effect
that the blow was to be struck at Blois, but that, on discovering their
peril, the Guises hastily removed the court, for greater safety, to the
castle of Amboise. And yet the correspondence of the English
commissioners discloses the fact that the time of the removal had been
decided upon on the 28th of January, several days before the Nantes
assembly. See Ranke, Am. ed., 176. "The Frenche King, as it is said, the
5th of February removeth hens towardes Amboise; and will be fifteen
dayes in going thither." Despatch of Killigrew and Jones, from Blois,
January 28, 1559/60, Forbes, State Papers, i. 315. In fact, the general
outline of the royal progress was indicated by the Spanish ambassador,
Perrenot Chantonnay, to Philip II., so far back as December 2, 1559: "La
cour, lui avait-il ecrit, a le projet _de passer le cureme_ a Amboise,
de se ren