the authorship of the last
mentioned work to Francis Hotman (who died in 1590); whereas the author
wrote after Maimbourg and Varillas, whose statements he controverts.
(Pref., p. ii., and p. 86.) Hotman, as noticed elsewhere, was the author
of the preceding and much more authentic book.]

[Footnote 891: Not, however, precisely in the ranks of the clergy.
Marillac was a layman, whose success in negotiation had been rewarded
with the archiepiscopal see of Vienne. In his youth he had been
suspected of composing an apology for a "Lutheran" burned at the stake
in Paris; and he died broken-hearted, seeing the ruin to which both
church and state were tending, two months after the Assembly of
Fontainebleau. La Place, 72, 73; La Planche, 360, 361. Neither was
Montluc of Valence a clergyman. Paris, Negotiations sous Francois II.,
Notice, p. xxxvii.]

[Footnote 892: It was not unfrequently recommended, as a species of
panacea for the evils in the church, that the bishops should all be sent
off to their dioceses. An edict to that effect had recently been
promulgated, and it was supposed that the parish curates would soon be
directed to follow their example. (Languet, ii. 68.) "What else will
result from this I know not," quietly adds the sensible diplomatist,
"but that they will betray their ignorance and baseness, and that the
contempt and hatred already entertained for them by the people will be
augmented." Elsewhere, in expressing the same view of the absurdity of
the order, he gives this unflattering description of the prelates: "cum
plerique sint plane indocti et praeterea luxu, libidinibus, et aliis
sceleribus perditissimi," etc. (Ibid., ii. 73.)]

[Footnote 893: "Autant de deux escus que les banquiers avoyent envoyes a
Rome, autant de cures nous avoyent-ils renvoyes," adds Montluc. La
Place, 56.]

[Footnote 894: The harangue of Montluc is contained word for word,
though with erroneous date, in the Recueil des choses memorables (1565),
pp. 286-305; also in La Place, 55-58; Mem. de Conde, 557-562. Summary in
De Thou, ii. 797-800; Jean de Serres, De statu rel. et reip. (1571), i.
99-106.]

[Footnote 895: "Et qu'en tout evenement nous ne voulons perir pour luy
complaire." La Place, 60; La Planche, 354.]

[Footnote 896: "Et sur ce, ne fault espargner les Italiens qui occupent
la troisiesme partie des benefices du royaume, ont pensions infinies,
succent nostre sang comme sangsues," etc. La Place and La Planche, _ubi
supra_