dre en Guyenne au printemps, en passant par Poitiers, Bordeaux,
Bayonne, d'aller ensuite a Toulouse, de demeurer l'hiver suivant en
Provence et en Languedoc, et _d'agir vigoureusement contre les
heretiques_." Mignet, Journal des Savants, 1857, 419, from Simancas MSS.
The Spanish ambassador saw so much that appalled him in the rapid
progress of the Reformation in every part of France, that he feared
alike for the North and the South, when the king was not present to
check its growth.]

[Footnote 818: La Planche, 238, 239; Hist. eccles., i. 158, 159; De
Thou, ii. 754-762 (where La Renaudie's harangue is given at length);
Castelnau, liv. i., c. 8; Davila, 22; La Place, 33. Hist. du tumulte
d'Amboise, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 819: De Thou, ii. 762, 763.]

[Footnote 820: Castelnau, 1. i., c. 8; La Planche, 245, 246; Hist.
eccl., i. 164; La Place, 33; De Thou, ii. 763. The Histoire du tumulte
d'Amboise, _apud_ Recueil des choses memorables (1565), i. 5, and Mem.
de Conde, i. 329, describes Des Avenelles as "prest de se donner a
louage au premier offrant;" adding "estant ambitieux et necessiteux tout
ensemble, il pensa avoir trouve le moyen pour se rendre riche et
memorable a jamais." For a favorable view of Des Avenelles's motives,
see De Thou, ii. 775. The 12th of February was the date when these
tidings reached the Guises, as appears from the speech of Morage or
Morague, sent in March to deliver to parliament for registry the edict
of amnesty for past religious offences. Mem. de Conde, i. 337. The king,
who had started on his hunting tour from Blois on the 5th of February,
was, when the news came, between Marchenoir and Montoire (places north
and northwest of Blois). The first intimations must, however, have been
very vague and general, since, on the 19th of February, the Cardinal of
Lorraine wrote to Coignet, French ambassador in Switzerland, directing
him to set one or two persons to watch La Renaudie ("a la queue de la
Regnaudie pour l'observer de loin, n'en perdre connaissance ni jour, ni
nuit"), and seize him the moment he entered the French
territories--evidently supposing him to be still in Switzerland and far
from Amboise. Letter of Card. Lorraine from Montoire, Feb. 19, 1560,
Imp. Lib. Paris, Mignet, Journal des Savants, 1857, 420, 421. It was,
doubtless, the receipt of more definite warnings that led the Guises to
hasten the termination of the king's pleasure excursion. On the 22d of
February, Francis arrived a