120-123, whose
account of this episode in the reformer's life is well written and
interesting. For the general facts above stated the best authority is,
as usual, La Planche, 373-377; see also La Place, 71; De Thou, ii. 807,
827; Hist. eccles., i. 205; Castelnau, l. ii., c. 9; Davila, 34, 35;
Calvin's Letters (Bonnet), iv., pp. 132, 137, 143, 147-151.]
[Footnote 934: Calvin to Bullinger, Dec. 4th, and to Sulcer, Dec. 11,
1560 (Bonnet, iv. 149 and 151).]
[Footnote 935: La Planche, 377; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. ii., c. 19.]
[Footnote 936: La Planche, _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 937: Sommaire recit de la calomnieuse accusation de M. le
prince de Conde, in the Recueil des choses mem. (1565), 722-754, and
Memoires de Conde, ii. 373-395--a contemporaneous account by one who
speaks of himself as "ayant assiste a la conduicte de la plus grand part
de tout le negoce."]
[Footnote 938: "Nevertheless, upon his coming, being accompanied with
his brethren, the Cardinal of Bourbon and Prince of Conde, after they
have [had] done their reverence to the king and queens, the Prince of
Conde was brought before the council, who committed him forthwith
prisoner to the guard of Messrs. de Bresy and Chauveney, two captains of
the guard, and their companies of two hundred archers." Despatch of Sir
Nicholas Throkmorton, _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 939: "The King of Navarre goeth at liberty, but as it were a
prisoner." Despatch of Sir Nich. Throkmorton, _ubi supra_. "Tanquam
captivus." Same to Lord Robert Dudley, same date, State Paper Office.]
[Footnote 940: La Place, 73; La Planche, 380, 381; Castelnau, 1. ii., c.
10.]
[Footnote 941: La Place, 74: La Planche and Castelnau, _ubi supra_;
Sommaire recit, _ubi supra_. "Madame de Roy (Roye), the Admiral of
France his sister ... is taken and constituted prisoner." Despatch of
Sir Nich. Throkmorton, Orleans, November 17, 1560, Hardwick, State
Papers, i. 139.]
[Footnote 942: "The Dutchess of Ferrara, mother to the Duke that now is,
according to that I wrote heretofore to your Majesty, is arrived at this
Court, the 7th of this present, and was received by the King of Navarre,
the French King's brethren, and all the great Princes of this Court."
_Ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 943: Brantome, Femmes illustres, Renee de France; La Planche,
381; La Place, 74; "que si elle y eust este, elle l'eust empesche, et
que ceste playe saigneroit long temps apres, d'autant que jamais homme
ne s'estoit attache a
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