oires of Guise. Altogether the matter is in a singularly interesting
position. Could the manuscript seen by M. Capefigue be found and
re-examined critically, the truth might, perhaps, be reached. M. Henri
Martin, in his excellent Histoire de France, x. 79, note, accepts the
document as genuine.]

[Footnote 1024: The "plebe e populo minuto," the Venetian Michiel tell
us, "e quello che si vede certo con gran fervenzia e devozione
frequentar le chiese, e continuar li riti cattolici." Relations des Amb.
Ven. i., 412.]

[Footnote 1025: "Aulcuns desditz ecclesiasticques," is Claude Haton's
ingenuous admission respecting his fellow priests of this period,
"estoient fort vicieux encores pour lors, et les plus vicieux estoient
ceux qui plus resistoient auxditz huguenotz, jusques a mettre la main
aux cousteaux et aux armes." Memoires, i. 129.]

[Footnote 1026: Memoires de Conde, i. 27.]

[Footnote 1027: "In viginti urbibus aut circiter trucidati fuerunt pii a
furiosa plebe." Letter of Calvin to Bullinger, May 24, 1561, _apud_
Baum, ii., App., 33. At Mans, on Lady-Day (March 25th), so serious a
riot took place, that the bishop felt compelled to apologize in a letter
to Catharine (April 23d), in which he excuses his flock by alleging that
they were exasperated beyond endurance by the sight of a Huguenot
"assemblee" openly held by day in the "Faubourg St. Jehan," contrary to
the royal ordinances--some of the attendants, he asserts, coming out of
the meeting armed. His letter is to be found in the Mem. de Conde, ii.
339.]

[Footnote 1028: And was openly denounced by his clergy from the pulpit,
in Passion Week, as an "apostate," a "traitor," a "new Judas," etc.
Bulletin, xxiii. 84.]

[Footnote 1029: De Thou, iii. (liv. xxviii.) 51, 52; Histoire eccles.,
i. 287; La Place, 124; Calvin to Bullinger, Baum, ii., App., 33; Journal
de Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, ii. 27. Interesting documents from the
municipal records of Beauvais, Bulletin, xxiii. (1874) 84, etc. Letter
of Chantonnay, Rheims, May 10, 1561 (Mem. de Conde, ii. 11), who adds:
"L'Admiral ha tant peu avec le credit qu'il ha ver Monsieur de Vendosme
[Navarre], que l'on a execute deux ou trois de ceulx du peuple; lequel
depuis s'est leve de nouveau, et a pendu le bourreau qui feit
l'execution."]

[Footnote 1030: "Car, de toutes les choses, la plus incompatible en ung
estat, ce sont deux religions contraires."]

[Footnote 1031: Journal de Bruslart, Memoires de Conde, i. 26, e