tc.;
Registers of Parliament, ibid., ii. 341, etc., and _apud_ Felibien,
Hist. de Paris, Preuves, iv. 798, Arret of April 28th and 29th.
According to the information that had reached Calvin, twelve had been
killed and forty wounded by Longjumeau and his friends (Calvin to
Bullinger, _ubi supra_). The parliamentary registers do not give the
precise number. The good curate of S. Barthelemi makes no allusion to
any attack, but sets down the loss of the Roman Catholics at three
killed and nine wounded. Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 41. Hubert
Languet says seven were killed. Epist. secr., ii. 117.]
[Footnote 1032: Letters patent of Fontainebleau, April 19, 1561, Mem. de
Conde, ii. 334, 335; La Place; and Hist. eccles., _ubi supra_; De Thou,
iii. (liv. xxviii.) 52.]
[Footnote 1033: How the devoted adherents of the Roman church received
this edict and its predecessor appears from the Memoires of Claude
Haton. In the city of Provins, a short distance from Paris, one or two
preachers reluctantly consented to read it in the churches; but "maistre
Barrier," a Franciscan and curate of Sainte Croix, instead of the
required proclamation, made these remarks to the people at the
commencement of his sermon: "On m'a cejourd'-huy apporte ung memoire et
papier escript, qu'on m'a dict estre la coppie d'un edict du roy, pour
vous le publier; et _veult-on que je vous dye que les chatz et les ratz
doibvent vivre en paix les ungs avec les aultres_, sans se rien faire de
mal l'ung a l'autre, et que nous aultres Francoys, e'est assavoir les
heretiques et les catholicques, fassions ainsi, et que le roy le veult.
_Je ne suis crieur ni trompette de la ville pour faire telles
publications._ Dieu veuille par sa misericorde avoir pitie de son eglise
et du royaume de France, les deux ensemble sont prestz de tomber en
grande ruyne; Dieu veuille bailler bon conseil a nostre jeune roy et
inspirer ses gouverneurs a bien faire; ils entrent a leur gouvernement
par ung pauvre commencement, mais ce est en punition de noz pechez."
Memoires de Claude Haton, i. 123, 124.]
[Footnote 1034: La Place, 124-126; Histoire eccles., i. 288, etc.; De
Thou, iii. (liv. xxviii.) 52, 53. The remonstrance of parliament was, in
point of fact, little more than an echo of the strenuous protest of the
Spanish ambassador to the queen mother. See Chantonnay to Catharine de'
Medici, April 22, 1561, Memoires de Conde, ii. 6-10.]
[Footnote 1035: According to Claude Haton, the edi
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