f the courtiers, long glutted with the spoils of
"Lutherans"--real or pretended--the case of Philippine de Luns showed
very clearly, some two or three months later.]

[Footnote 628: Besides the accounts of the disastrous battle of St.
Quentin given by the Memoires of Rabutin, Coligny and other
contemporaries, and by De Thou and other historians of a somewhat later
date, the graphic narrative of its incidents contained in Prescott's
Reign of Philip the Second (lib. i., c. vii.) is well worthy of
perusal.]

[Footnote 629: Prescott, i. 240, note.]

[Footnote 630: "Comme feu soubs la cendre." Recueil gen. des anc. lois
fr., xiii. 134.]

[Footnote 631: By an unpardonable negligence, Mr. Browning places the
"affaire de la rue St. Jacques" before the battle of St. Quentin, in the
month of May, 1557. History of the Huguenots, i. 45.]

[Footnote 632: A contemporary account of the affair by the reformer
Knox, dated Dieppe, Dec. 7, 1557, although it adds little to our
knowledge of the incidents, is of considerable interest. I cite a few
sentences: "Almost in everie notabill Citie within France thair be
assemblit godlie Congregationis of sic as refusit all societie with the
sinagoge of Sathan, so were (and yit are) dyvers Congregationis in
Paris, and kirkis having thair learnit ministeris for preishing Chrystis
Evangell, and for trew ministratioun of the halie Sacramentis instited
be him. The brute whairof being spred abrod, great search was maid for
thair aprehensioun, and at lenth, according to the pre-disingnit consall
of oure God, who hath apoyntit the memberis to be lyke to the heid, the
bludthirstie wolves did violentlie rusche in amongis a portioun of
Chrystis simpill lambis. For thois hell-houndis of Sorbonistis,
accompanyit with the rascall pepill, and with sum sergeantis maid apt
for thair purpois, did so furiouslie invade a halie assemblie convenit
(nye the number of four hundreth personis) to celebrat the memorie of
oure Lordis deth," etc. Printed from MS. volume in possession of Dr.
McCrie, in David Laing's Works of John Knox (Edinb., 1855), iv. 299.]

[Footnote 633: "As ravisching wolves rageing for blood, murderit sum,
oppressit all, and schamfullie intreatit both men and wemen of great
blude and knawin honestie." Knox, _ubi supra_, p. 300.]

[Footnote 634: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 73-75. This detailed and
most authentic account is taken verbatim from that of Crespin, which may
be read in the Galerie c