ra_.]

[Footnote 1135: "Would that he had been dumb, or that we had been deaf!"
the Cardinal of Lorraine is said to have exclaimed in the prelatic
consultation. La Place and Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., _ubi supra_; J.
de Serres, i. 273.]

[Footnote 1136: La Place, 170; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 330, 331,
where the protest is reproduced.]

[Footnote 1137: "Me excludere volebant adversarii, ne interessem,
tanquam hominem peregrinum. Regina tamen mater per Condaeum principem eo
ipso articulo, cum profisciscendum erat, evocavit et adesse voluit."
Letter of Martyr to the Senate of Zurich, Sept. 19, 1561, Baum, ii.,
App., 67.]

[Footnote 1138: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 332.]

[Footnote 1139: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 332-348; La Place,
170-177; De Thou, iii. 70; J. de Serres, i. 273-280. The impression made
by the cardinal's speech upon his Romanist and Protestant hearers
differed widely. According to the Abbe Bruslart (Mem. de Conde, i. 52),
he spoke "en si bons et elegans termes, et d'une si bonne grace et
asseurance, que nos adversaires mesmes l'admiroient." Stuck makes him
speak "admodum inepte" (_ap._ Baum, ii., App., 66); while Beza writes:
"Nihil unquam audivi impudentius, nihil ineptius.... Caetera ejusmodi quae
certe mihi nauseam moverunt" (Ib., 63, 64). Peter Martyr judged more
leniently (Ib., 67, 68). It is, therefore, hardly likely that Beza said,
as Dr. Henry White alleges without referring to his authority (Massacre
of St. Bartholomew, 64); "Had I the Cardinal's eloquence I should hope
to convert half France."]

[Footnote 1140: La Place, 178; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., _ubi supra_;
Jean de Serres, i. 280; De Thou, iii. 71.]

[Footnote 1141: La Place, etc., _ubi supra_; J. de Serres, i. 281.]

[Footnote 1142: "Nobis certum est," says Beza in a letter of Sept. 17th,
"vel mox congredi vel protestatione facta discedere, si pergant diem de
die ducere." Baum, ii., App., 64.]

[Footnote 1143: "Quid novi sperare possim non video. Nempe vel ipsa
necessitas aliquid extorquebit, vel, quod Deus avertat, expectanda sunt
omnia belli civilis incommoda. Quotidie ex diversis regni partibus multa
ad nos tristia afferuntur in utramque partem, quoniam utrinque peccatur
plerisque locis." Letter of Beza, Sept. 17th, _ubi supra_. In a similar
strain Stuck writes on the next day: "In Gascony and Normandy scarcely
an image is any longer to be seen; masses have ceased to be said.
Undoubtedly, unless the li