(Memoires de Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de Tavannes, ed. Petitot, i.
410.)]

[Footnote 524: Dr. Wotton to the Council, Paris, April 6, 1547, State
Paper Office, and printed in Fraser-Tytler, England under the Reigns of
Edward VI. and Mary, i. 35, etc.]

[Footnote 525: De l'Aubespine (Cimber et Danjou), iii. 284, 285.]

[Footnote 526: Relaz. Venete, ii. 437, 438.]

[Footnote 527: The legate Santa Croce describes his qualities thus:
"Erat Montmorantius animo alacri et prompto, ingenio acri, corpora
vivido, somni ac vini parcissimus, negotiis vehementer deditus, etc." He
mentions as remarkable the facility with which, in the midst of the most
pressing affairs of state or military exigencies, he could give his
attention, as grand master of the royal household, to the most minute
matters respecting the king's food or dress. De Civilibus Gall. Dissens.
Comment. (Martene et Durand, Ampliss. Coll., v. 1429).]

[Footnote 528: The devoted "_connestabliste_" Begnier de la Planche does
not conceal the aversion the head of the family which he delights in
exalting entertained for letters: "Il avoit opinion," he writes, "que
les lettres amolissoyent les gentilshommes et les faisoyent degenerer de
leurs majeurs, et mesmes estoit persuade que les lettres avoyent
engendre les heresies et accreu les lutheriens en telle nombre qu'ils
estoyent au royaume; en sorte qu'il avoit en peu d'estime les scavans,
et leurs livres." Histoire de l'estat de la France tant de la republique
que de la religion sous le regne de Francois II., p. 309.]

[Footnote 529: The people were as a body declared attainted of treason,
their _hotel-de-ville_ was razed to the ground, their written privileges
were seized and reduced to ashes. The bells that had sounded out the
tocsin, at the outbreak of the insurrection, were for the most part
broken in pieces and melted. One miserable man was hung to the clapper
of the same bell that he had rung to call the people to arms. Others for
the like crime were broken on the wheel or burned alive. Tristan de
Moneins, lieutenant of the King of Navarre, had been basely murdered by
the citizens: they were now compelled to disinter his remains, being
allowed the use of no implements, but compelled to scrape off the earth
with their nails! De Thou, i. 459, etc.]

[Footnote 530: Brantome, Homines illustres (Oeuvres, viii., 129).]

[Footnote 531: Sir John Mason to Council, Poissy, Sept. 14, 1550, State
Paper Office.]

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