om whose actions
an appeal was open to the king. Relazioni Venete (Alberi, Firenze),
serie 1, i. 234, 235.]

[Footnote 11: Yet the old prejudice against city life had not fully died
out. So late as in 1527, Chassanee wrote: "Galliae omnis una est nobilium
norma. Nam rura et praedia sua (dicam potius castra) incolentes _urbes
fugiunt, in quibus habitare nobilem turpe ducitur_. Qui in illis degunt,
ignobiles habentur a nobilibus." Catalogus Gloriae Mundi, fol. 200.]

[Footnote 12: Michel Suriano, Rel. des Amb. Ven., i. 488.]

[Footnote 13: Mignet, _ubi supra_, ii. 160, etc.]

[Footnote 14: Rel. dell' Amb. Marino Cavalli (1546), _ubi supra_, i.
229.]

[Footnote 15: It would seem that the Venetian ambassadors were never
free from apprehension lest their admiration of what they had seen
abroad might be construed as disparagement of their own island city.
Hence, Marino Giustiniano (A. D. 1535), after making the statement which
we have given in the text, is careful to add: "_Pur non arriva di
richezza ad una gran gionta quanto Venezia; ne anco ha maggior popolo_,
per mio giudizio, di che loro si gloriano." Rel. Venete (Alberi,
Firenze), serie 1, i. 148.]

[Footnote 16: The lowest estimate, which is that of Guicciardini (Belgiae
Descriptio, apud Prescott, Philip II., i. 367), is probably nearest the
mark; the highest, 800,000, is that of Davila, Storia delle Guerre
Civili, 1. iii. (Eng. trans., p. 79). Marino Cavalli, in 1546, says
500,000; Michel Suriano, in 1561, between 400,000 and 500,000. M.
Dulaure is even more parsimonious than Guicciardini, for he will allow
Paris, in the sixteenth century, not more than 200,000 to 210,000 souls!
Histoire de Paris, iv. 384. Some of the exaggerated estimates may be
errors of transcription. At least Ranke asserts that this is the case
with the 500,000 of Fran. Giustiniani in 1537, where the original
manuscript gives only 300,000. Franzoesische Geschichte, v. (Abschn. 1),
76.]

[Footnote 17: See, for example, the MS. receipt, from which it appears
that, in 1516, Sieur Imbert de Baternay pledged his entire service of
plate to help defray the expenses of the war. Capefigue, Francois
Premier et la Renaissance, i. 141.]

[Footnote 18: Marino Giustiniano (1535), Rel. Venete (Alberi), i, 185,
Francois de Rabutin, Guerres de Belgique (Ed. Pantheon), 697.]

[Footnote 19: Marino Giustiniano, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 20: M. A. Boullee (in his Histoire complete des
Etats-Generaux, i. 181