[Footnote 1236: Mem. de Conde, i. 67, etc.; Letter of Santa Croce (Nov.
15, 1561), in Cimber et Danjou, vi. 5, 6, and Aymon, i. 5.]

[Footnote 1237: Santa Croce, _ubi supra_. Of the Cardinal of Ferrara's
apprehensions and the grounds for them, Shakerley, the legate's own
organist, and a spy of the English ambassador, secretly wrote to
Throkmorton from the French court at St. Germain: "Here is new fire,
here is new green wood reeking; new smoke and much contrary wind blowing
against Mr. Holy Pope; for in all haste the King of Navarre with his
tribe will have another council, and the Cardinal [of Ferrara] stamps
and takes on like a madman, and goeth up and down here to the Queen,
there to the Cardinal of Tournon, with such unquieting of himself as all
the house marvels at it." Shakerley to Throkmorton, Dec. 16, 1561, State
Paper Office. Printed in Froude, vii. 391. When a "holy friar" was
preaching before the court, his sermon "being without salt," the hearers
laughed, the king played with his dog, Catharine went to sleep, and
Ferrara "plucked down his cap." Same to same, Dec. 14, 1561, "two
o'clock after midnight." This industrious correspondent, who employed
the small hours of the night in transmitting to the English ambassador
his master's secrets, confessed to Throkmorton that he had no belief in
the depth of Ferrara's assumed concern, having "so marked the living of
priests" that he believed that "whensoever they are sure to have the
same livings that they have without being troubled, they care not an the
Pope were hanged, with all his indulgences," Letter of Dec. 16, 1561.
State Paper Office.]

[Footnote 1238: Journal de Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 60, etc.]

[Footnote 1239: Ibid., i. 65; a highly colored, partisan, and
consequently inaccurate account is given by Claude Haton, i. 214-221. T.
Shakerley, in his letter of Dec. 16th, relates the friar's interview
with Catharine, who, on seeing the fellow's boldness and the strength of
his popularity among the merchants of Paris (at least sixty of whom
escorted him), easily accepted his disclaimers, told him "she was much
content to hear that his preaching was good, without giving trouble to
the people," and bade him "go his way and preach and fear no harm, for
it should always please her son and her that the people should be taught
as in old time they had been preached unto." The intercession of the
Parisians, accompanied "by offers of forty thousand crowns pledge of