_ubi supra_; La Planche, 251,
252; La Place, 34, 35; De Thou, ii. 767, 768; Mem. de Castelnau, liv.
i., c. 8; Throkmorton to the queen, March 21, 1560, Forbes, State
Papers, i. 376, 377. Vieilleville, if we may credit Carloix, foresaw the
impossibility of keeping his honor in this mission, and refused to take
it. Mem. de Vielleville, ii. 420, etc.]

[Footnote 829: La Planche, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 830: La Planche, 254; La Place, 35; De Thou, ii. 769; Davila,
25. Sir Nich. Throkmorton, March 21, 1560, Forbes, State Papers, i. 380.
M. Mignet has shown (Journal des Savants, 1857, 477, note) that the
death of La Renaudie cannot have taken place before the evening of the
19th, or the morning of the 20th.]

[Footnote 831: Even in their letter to their sister, the Queen Dowager
of Scotland (April 9, 1560), the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of
Guise had the assurance to speak of the affair of Amboise as "a
conspiracy made to kill the king, in which we were not forgotten."
Forbes, State Papers, i. 400.]

[Footnote 832: Cf. the commission in the Recueil des choses memorables
(1565), 19-24; La Planche, 252, 253; De Thou, ii. 768; Davila, 24.;
Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. ii., c. 15.]

[Footnote 833: Recueil des anc. lois fr., xiv., 24-26; La Planche, 253,
254; Languet, ii. 48, 49; De Thou, ii. 769. It need scarcely be added
that the aim of the insurgents is misrepresented to be, "under veil of
religion, to ravage all the rich cities and houses of the kingdom."]

[Footnote 834: La Planche, 257, 262.]

[Footnote 835: "The 17th of this present there were twenty-two of these
rebellis drowned in sacks, and the 18th of the same at night twenty-five
more. Among all these which be taken, there be eighteen of the bravest
captains of France." Throkmorton to the queen, March 21st, Forbes, i.
378.]

[Footnote 836: La Planche, 257, 263.]

[Footnote 837: Throkmorton, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 838: La Planche, 263, 265; La Place, 34, 35; Hist. du tumulte
d'Amboise, _apud_ Mem. de Conde, i. 327; D'Aubigne, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 839: Ibid., 254-258; La Place, 35; Hist. du tumulte, _ubi
supra_; Throkmorton, _ubi supra_, i. 380.]

[Footnote 840: La Planche, 258.]

[Footnote 841: Memoires de Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne (Ed. Pantheon
lit.), 472.]

[Footnote 842: La Planche, 267.]

[Footnote 843: I have followed in the text the account of La Planche. La
Place, 36, represents Conde as voluntarily making his appearance and
declarat