his letter was written by Catharine's own hand well accounts for
the spelling. Negociations, etc., 791.]

[Footnote 981: Memoires de Castelnau, liv. iii., c. 2. In July, 1561,
the salaries of the officers of the Parliament of Paris were in arrears
for nearly a year and a half. Memoires de Conde (Edit. Michaud et
Poujoulat), 579.]

[Footnote 982: "Che certo non puo piu." Relaz. di Giovanne Michele,
_ap._ Tommaseo, Relations des Amb. Ven., i. 408.]

[Footnote 983: And yet--such are the inconsistencies of human
character--this queen, whose nature was a singular compound of timidity,
hypocrisy, licentiousness, malice, superstition, and atheism, would seem
at times to have felt the need of the assistance of a higher power. If
Catharine was not dissembling even in her most confidential letters to
her daughter, it was in some such frame of mind that she recommended
Isabella to pray to God for protection against the misfortunes that had
befallen her mother. The letter is so interesting that I must lay the
most characteristic passage under the reader's eye. The date is
unfortunately lost. It was written soon after Charles's accession: "Pour
se, ma fille, m'amye, recommende-vous bien a Dyeu, car vous m'aves veue
ausi contente come vous, ne pensent jeames avoyr aultre tryboulatyon que
de n'estre ases aymaye a mon gre du roy vostre pere, qui m'onoret pluls
que je ne merites, mes je l'ayme tant que je aves tousjour peur, come
vous saves fayrement ases: et Dyeu me l'a haulte, et ne se contente de
sela, m'a haulte vostre frere que je ayme come vous saves, et m'a laysee
aveque troys enfans petys, et en heun reaume (un royaume) tout dyvyse,
n'y ayent heum seul a qui je me puise du tout fyer, qui n'aye quelque
pasion partycoulyere." God alone, she goes on to say, can maintain her
happiness, etc. Negociations, etc., 781, 782.]

[Footnote 984: "C'est folie d'esperer paix, repos et amitie entre les
personnes qui sont de diverses religions.... Deux Francois et Anglois
qui sont d'une mesme religion, ont plus d'affection et d'amitie entre
eux que deux citoyens d'une mesme ville, subjects a un mesme seigneur,
qui seroyent de diverses religions." La Place, p. 85; Histoire eccles.,
i. 264.]

[Footnote 985: Yet the Huguenots, more enlightened than the chancellor,
while not renouncing the notion that the civil magistrate is bound to
maintain the true religion, justly censured L'Hospital's statements as
refuted by the experience of the greater