de Sainctes, Saccagement (in Cimber et Danjou). It is almost
superfluous to add that the Roman Catholic and Protestant authorities
differ widely in the coloring given to the event. If any reader should
be inclined to think that I have given undue weight to the Huguenot
representations, let him examine the Roman Catholic De Thou--here, as
everywhere, candid and impartial.]

[Footnote 1252: De Thou, iii. (liv. xxix.) 118-123; Eecueil des choses
mem., 686-695; Memoires de Conde, ii. 606, etc.]

[Footnote 1253: Abbe Bruslart accuses Chancellor L'Hospital of packing
the convention with delegates of the parliaments who were his creatures;
"La pluspart desquels avoient este eleus et choisis par monsieur le
Chancelier De l'Hospital, _qui n'estoit sans grande suspition_." Journal
de Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 70.]

[Footnote 1254: Strange to say, Santa Croce employs, in his letters to
Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, the very same despairing expressions as those
for the use of which in his Latin commentaries he condemns Gualtieri. He
wishes to be recalled; he declares: "Che questo regno e nell' estrema
ruina, che non vi e speranza alcuna, che si vede cascar a occhiate, che
tutto e infetto, in capite et in membris," and that he does not want to
be present at the funeral of this wretched kingdom. Letter of January 7,
1562, Aymon, i. 21, 22; Cimber et Danjou, vi. 16,17.]

[Footnote 1255: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 1256: Letter of Santa Croce, Jan. 15, 1562, Aymon, i. 35-40.]

[Footnote 1257: Of _forty-nine_ opinions, _twenty-two_ were given in
favor of an unconditional grant of the Protestant demand for churches,
_sixteen_ for a simple toleration of their religious assemblies and
worship, such as had been informally practised for the last two months,
while _eleven_ stood out boldly for the continued hanging and burning of
heretics. Among the most determined of these last were the Constable and
Cardinal Tournon. Much to their regret, they saw themselves compelled to
acquiesce in a liberal policy which they detested, in order to avoid
opening the doors wide to the establishment of Protestantism in France.
See Baum, Theodor Beza, ii. 499. Compare, on the course of the
proceedings, Beza's letters and those of Santa Croce, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 1258: See the text of the Edict of January, in Du Mont, Corps
diplomatique, v. 89-91; Mem. de Conde, iii. 8-15; Agrippa d'Aubigne,
liv. ii., t. i. 124-128; J. de Serres, etc.]

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