counsels been followed, incomparably the greater part of the district
would have embraced the Reformation.]

[Footnote 859: La Planche, 284-286.]

[Footnote 860: Letter of Francis II. to Gaspard de Saulx, Seign. de
Tavannes, April 12, 1560, _apud_ Negotiations relatives au regne de
Francois II., etc. (Collection de documents inedits), 341-343.]

[Footnote 861: With a label attached to their necks bearing this
inscription: "Voicy les chefs des rebelles."]

[Footnote 862: La Planche, 286-289.]

[Footnote 863: Letter of the Vte. de Joyeuse to the king, April 26,
1560, _apud_ Neg. sous Francois II., 361-363.]

[Footnote 864: La Planche, 293.]

[Footnote 865: Hence the festival of Corpus Christi witnessed in some
places serious riots, especially in Rouen, where a number of citizens of
the reformed faith refused to join in the otherwise universal practice
of spreading tapestry on the front of their houses when the host was
carried by. Houses were broken into, at the instigation of the priests,
and near a score of persons killed. Languet, Paris, June 16th, Epist.
sec., ii. 59, 60.]

[Footnote 866: La Planche, 294; Hist. eccles., i. 194; Floquet, Hist. du
parl. de Normandie, ii. 284, 288, 294, 302-306, etc. At Dieppe the
Huguenots had gone so far as to erect, with the pecuniary assistance
afforded by Admiral Coligny, an elegant and spacious "_temple_," as the
Protestant place of worship was styled. Vieilleville, much to his
regret, felt compelled to demolish it (Aug., 1560), for it stood in the
very heart of the city. I quote a part of his secretary's appreciative
description: "C'estoit ung fort brave edifice, _ressemblant au theatre
de Rome qu'on appelle Collisee, ou aux arenes de Nysmes_. On fut _trois
jours_ a le verser par terre, et ne partismes de Dieppe que n'en
veissions la fin." Mem. de Vieilleville, ii. 448, etc.; Floquet, ii.
318-336.]

[Footnote 867: De Felice, liv. i., c. 12 (Am. ed., p. 111).]

[Footnote 868: See La Planche, 312, 313, and the "Histoire des cinq
rois" (Recueil des choses mem), 1598, p. 99, for the punishment of the
possessor of a copy of a virulent pamphlet against the cardinal,
entitled _Le Tigre_ (see the note at the end of this chapter); and
Negociations sous Francois II., 456, for a letter from court ordering
search to be made for the author and publisher of the "Complaincte des
fideles de France contre leurs adversaires les papistes." "En ung lundy
apres Pasques, 15^e du moys, fut