ing a restitution of his wife's domains,
or an equivalent for them, besieged the pontiff with accounts of his
scandalous intimacy with French heretics of rank. "Repetile lo que otras
vezes le havia dicho, y con quanto escandolo y ofension de la religion
se tractava en Francia, estrechandose en amistad con Vandoma y almirante
Chatiglon, obispo de Valencia, y los demas principales hereges, con gran
desconsuelo y desfavor de los catholicos; y de como no era hombre apto
para una legacion semejante," etc. He accused him of already aiming at
the pontifical see, as if it were now vacant, and urged his immediate
recall. Letter of Vargas to Philip II. from Rome, Nov. 7, 1561; Papiers
d'etat du cardinal de Granvelle, vi. 403, 404; see also pp. 405, 406.]

[Footnote 1207: Examine the curious passage in Santacrucii, de civil.
Galliae diss. comment., 1470, 1471.]

[Footnote 1208: See the correspondence of Vargas with Philip II.
(letters of Sept. 30, Oct. 3 and 7, 1561), Papiers d'etat du card.
Granvelle, vi. 342, 372, and 380; De Thou, iii. 78, 79; or the very full
account of Prof. Soldan, i. 515-521.]

[Footnote 1209: Rel. di Marc' Antonio Barbaro, Rel. des Amb. Ven., ii.
88, 89. "E proceduto esso ambasciatore con la regina e Navarra con
parole quasi sempre aspre e severe, minacciando di guerra dal canto del
re suo, et dicendo in faccia alle lor maesta parole assai gagliarde e
pungenti, e levando al re di Navarra del tutto la speranza della
ricompensa, stando le cose in quei termini, et ponendoli inanzi
l'inimicizia di Filippo."]

[Footnote 1210: "Etenim si de ilia (spe) ejiceretur dubium non erat,
quin se totum ad Calvinistas converteret, et qui cum pudore ac
simultatione illis favebat, perfricta fronte eorum sectam ita
promoveret, ut brevissimo tempore totum Galliae regnum occuparet."
Sanctacrucii, de civ. Gall. diss. comment., 1471.]

[Footnote 1211: Ibid., 1473.]

[Footnote 1212: Santacrucii, de civ. Galliae diss. com., 1472, 1473. That
the whole affair was planned in deceit and treachery, is patent not only
from Santa Croce's account both in his letters and in his systematic
treatise, but from the whole of the Vargas correspondence. Even when the
Pope--much to the ambassador's disgust--thought of complying with
Antoine's request to intercede with Philip for some indemnification for
the loss of the kingdom of Navarre, he took the pains to explain that
his urgency would not amount to importunity, much less to a command; hi