imilar
discourse, just about six months before, to Throkmorton, much to the
good knight's disgust. He had expressed a recognition of the faults
prevalent in the church, and pretended to be desirous of reforming it in
an orderly manner. "I am not so ignorant," he said, "nor so led with
errors that reigne, as the world judgeth." He declared himself in favor
of a general council, and spoke with satisfaction of an edict just
despatched to Scotland, "to surcease the punishment of men for
religion." "And of this purpose," adds the ambassador with pardonable
sarcasm, "he made suche an oration as it were long to write, _evon as
thoughe he had bene hired by the Protestants to defend their cause
earnestly_!" Despatch to the queen, Feb. 27, 1559/60, Forbes, State
Papers, i. 337, 338.]

[Footnote 904: Sommaire recit de la calomnieuse accusation de M. le
prince de Conde, Memoires de Conde, ii. 373; Languet, ii. 66.]

[Footnote 905: Throkmorton to Cecil, Sept. 3, 1560, State Paper Office;
La Place, 68, 69; La Planche, 345, 346; De Thou, ii. 804-806; Castelnau,
1. ii., c. 7.]

[Footnote 906: La Planche, p. 375. Instructions to M. de Crussol, going
by order of the king to the King of Navarre, Aug. 30, 1560, _apud_
Negoc. sous Francois II., pp. 482-486. The beginning of this paper,
directing Crussol to express regret that Navarre had not come to the
council of Fontainebleau, and to announce the result of its
recommendations, is sufficiently conciliatory. If, however, Navarre
should hesitate to obey the summons, the agent was bidden to frighten
him into compliance. On the first show of resistance, Francis would
collect his own troops, consisting of thirty thousand or forty thousand
foot, and seven hundred or eight hundred horse, expected levies of ten
thousand Swiss, and six thousand or seven thousand German lansquenets.
Philip had assured him of the assistance of all his forces, foot and
horse, both from the side of Netherlands and of Spain. The Dukes of
Lorraine, Savoy, and Ferrara would bring fourteen thousand to sixteen
thousand foot and one thousand five hundred horse. The king's
arrangements were complete, and he was resolved to make an example. The
arrest of La Sague was, however, not to be mentioned. Letter of Francis
to the King of Navarre, Aug. 30, in Recueil des choses mem. (1565), 75,
76, and Mem. de Conde, i. 573.]

[Footnote 907: See the message in cipher appended to a despatch to the
French ambassador at Madrid, Aug.