full by La Place, 93-109;
Hist. eccles., i. 270-274; De Thou, iii., liv. xxvii., 11, etc. Letter
of Beza to Bullinger, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 997: "Son discours, qu'il lut presque tout entier, fut long et
ennuyeux.... rempli de lonanges fades, et de flatteries outrees, fit
rougir, et ennuya les assistans." De Thou, iii. 11, 12. Quintin's
address drew forth from the Protestants a written reply, directed to the
queen, exposing his "ignorance, calumnies, and malicious omissions." It
is inserted in Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 275-277.]

[Footnote 998: La Place, 109, 112; De Thou, iii. 12, 14; Hist. eccl., i.
280.]

[Footnote 999: Beza, Letter to Bullinger, Geneva, Jan. 22, 1561; Baum,
Th. Beza, ii., App., 21, 22; Calvin to Ministers of Paris, Lettres
franc., ii. 348.]

[Footnote 1000: "Hanc supplicationem, scribitur ad nos, Regina ex
Amyraldi manu acceptam promisisse se Concilio exhibituram, et magna
omnium spes est nobis omnia haec concessum iri, modo privatis locis et
sine tumultu pauci simul conveniant.... Ita brevi futurum spero ut
Gallia tandem Regem et nomine et re christianissimum habeat." Beza, _ubi
supra_.]

[Footnote 1001: Catharine's fears that the States would enter upon the
discussion of matters affecting her regency undoubtedly had much to do
with this action (Hist. eccles. des eglises ref., i. 280: "qu'on
craignoit vouloir passer plus outre en d'autres affaires qu'on ne
vouloit remuer"). Ostensibly in order to avoid confusion and expense,
each of the thirteen principal provinces was to depute only two
delegates to Pontoise.]

[Footnote 1002: Letter of Charles IX., Jan. 28, 1561, Memoires de Conde,
ii. 268.]

[Footnote 1003: March 1st, "puysque la volunte du Roy est," Mem. de
Conde, ii. 273. When the secretary of state, Bourdin, brought to
parliament the mandates of Charles and Catharine from Fontainebleau, of
Feb. 13th and 14th, ordering its registry, he stated that Charles had
granted this document "at the urgent prayer of the three estates, and in
order to obviate and provide against troubles and divisions, while
waiting for the decision of the General Council granted by the Pope." On
the 22d of February a new missive of the king was received in
parliament, enjoining the publication of the letter of January 28th,
with the modification that any of the liberated prisoners that would not
consent to live in a Catholic fashion must leave the kingdom under pain
of the halter. Mem. de Conde, ii. 27