oticed, leans to this supposition.
Ibid., 405.]

[Footnote 956: Ibid., 406; D'Aubigne, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 957: See Michele Suriano's account, Rel. des Amb. Ven., i.
528. The ambassador seems to have entertained no doubt of the complete
success that would have crowned the movement had Francis's life been
spared: "Il quale, se vivea un poco piu, non solamente averia ripresso,
_ma estinto dal tutto_ quell' incendio che ora consuma il regno." The
Spanish ambassador, Chantonnay, writing to his master, Nov., 1560,
confirms the statements of Protestant contemporaries respecting the plan
laid out for the destruction of the Bourbons, and then of the admiral
and his brother D'Andelot; but the wily brother of Cardinal Granvelle,
much as he would have rejoiced at the destruction of the heads of the
Huguenot faction, was alarmed at the wholesale proscription, and
expressed grave fears that so intemperate and violent a course would
provoke a serious rebellion, and perhaps give rise to a forcible
intervention in French affairs, on the part of Germany or England. "Pero
a mi paresce que seria mas acertado castigar poco a poco los culpados
que prender tantos de un golpe, porque assi se podrian meter en
desesperacion sus parientes, y causar alguna grande rebuelta y admitir
mas facilmente las platicas de fuera del reyno ... o de Alemania o de
Inglaterra." Papiers de Simancas, _apud_ Mignet, Journal des Savants,
1859, p. 39.]

[Footnote 958: Mem. de Castelnau, liv. ii., c. 12; La Planche, 404;
Memoires de Mergey (Collection Michaud and Poujoulat), 567. The Count of
La Rochefoucauld, hearing through the Duchess of Uzes--a bosom confidant
of Catharine, but a woman who was not herself averse to the
Reformation--that Francis had remarked that the count "must prepare to
say his _Credo_ in Latin," had made all his arrangements to pass from
Champagne into Germany with his faithful squire De Mergey, both
disguised as plain merchants.]

[Footnote 959: La Planche, 404; De Thou, ii. 835 (liv. xxvi.). The
latter does not place implicit confidence in these reports, while
conceding that subsequent events would induce a belief that they were
not destitute of a foundation. According to Throkmorton, also, writing
to Cecil, Sept. 3, 1560, the chief burden was to rest with the clergy,
who gave eight-tenths of the whole subsidy. State Paper Office.]

[Footnote 960: Ibid., 403; De Thou, iii. 82.]

[Footnote 961: Throkmorton's despatches from Orlean