s
aim was only to feed Antoine with false hopes while France was in so
precarious a situation: "esto seria por cumplir con Vandome y
entretenerle, por estar Francia en los terminos en que esta," etc.
Papiers d'etat du cardinal de Granvelle, vi. 344.]

[Footnote 1213: De Thou, iii. 78, 79.]

[Footnote 1214: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 419 (the author of
which, however, erroneously gives the end of November as the date of
their departure); Jean de Serres, Commentarii de statu relig. et
reipubl., i. 345 (who makes the same mistake); De Thou, iii. 99. "Cur
autem aliquid adhuc spei habeam, illud etiam in causa est quod _nudius
tertius_ Guisiani omnes serio discesserunt, omnibus bonis invisi, ac
plerisque etiam malis. Abiit quoque Turnonius et Conestabilis....
Probabile est aliquid simul moliri, sed tamen incerto eventu. De hoc
intra paucos dies certi erimus, utinam ne nostro malo." Letter of Beza
to Calvin, Oct. 21, 1561, Baum, ii., App., 110.]

[Footnote 1215: That the Huguenots were about this time as sanguine as
their opponents were despondent, may be seen from the prediction of
Languet (letter of October 9th), that unless the opposite party
precipitated a war within two or three months, everything would be safe;
so great would be the accession of strength that the reformers would
actually be the strongest. At court everything tended in that direction,
and the queen mother herself was not likely to try to stem the current.
Martyr, it was reported, had several times brought tears to her eyes,
when conversing with her. "However," dryly observes the diplomatist, "I
am not over-credulous in these matters." Epist. secr., ii. 145.]

[Footnote 1216: Throkmorton to Queen Elizabeth, Paris, November 26,
1561, State Paper Office.]

[Footnote 1217: Others besides Jeanne were apprehensive. The Viscount de
Gruz, in his memorial to Queen Elizabeth (Sept. 24, 1561), stated that
the king's constitution was so bad that he was not likely to live long,
for he ate and slept very little. His brothers were equally infirm in
health. Monsieur D'Orleans had a very bad cough, and the physicians
feared that he had the disease of his late brother, Francis; while
Monsieur D'Anjou had been ill for more than a year, and was dying from
day to day. State Paper Office.]

[Footnote 1218: Letters of Beza, Oct. 21st and Nov. 4th, _ubi supra_.
"Tantum abest ut impetrarim (abeundi facultatem) ut etiam regina ipsa me
accersitum expresse rogarit ut sal