cte mageste_ devant laquelle ledict Sr. dandelot avoit confesse
destre sacramentayre et _qui leust_ (qu 'il l'eut) _mene tout droit au
feu comme il meritoit_ ... que _monsieur le cardinal de Lorrayne_,
lequel sa Sainctete a fait son Inquisiteur, ne se sauroit excuser quil
nayt _grandement failly_ ayant laysse perdre une si belle occasion dun
_exemple si salutayre_ et qui luy pouvoit porter tant dhonneur et de
reputation, mais _quil monstre bien que luy mesme favorise les
hereticques_, dautant que lors que ce scandale advynt, il estoit seul
pres du roy, sans que personne luy peust resister ne l'empescher duser
de la puyssance que sadicte Sainctete luy a donnee." Of course, Paul
could not let pass unimproved so fair an opportunity for repeating the
trite warning that subversion of kingdoms and other dire calamities
follow in the train of "mutation of religion." The punishment of
D'Andelot, however, to which he often returned in his conversation, the
Pontiff evidently regarded as a thing to be _executed_ rather than
_spoken about_, and he therefore begged the French ambassador to write
the letter to the king in his own cipher, and advise him "to let no one
in the world see his letter." Whereupon Card. La Bourdaisiere rather
irreverently observes: "Je croy que le bonhomme pense que le roy
dechiffre luy mesme ses lettres!" a supposition singularly absurd in the
case of Henry, who hated _business_ of every kind. La Bourdaisiere
conceived it, on the other hand, to be for his own interest to take the
first opportunity to give private information of the entire conversation
to the constable, D'Andelot's uncle, and to advise him that it would go
hard with his nephew, should he fall into Paul's hands ("quil feroit un
mauvais parti sil le tenoit"). Soldan, Gesch. des Prot. in Frank., i.
(appendix), 607, 608; Bulletin de l'histoire du prot. francais, xxvii.
(1878), 103, 104.]

[Footnote 672: Letter of Calvin, Aug. 29, 1558, Bonnet, Eng. tr., iii.
460.]

[Footnote 673: De Thou (liv. 20), ii. 568, etc., 576, etc.]

[Footnote 674: Prescott, Philip II., i. 268-270, has described the
straits in which Philip found himself in consequence of the deplorable
state of his finances. Henry was compelled to resort to desperate
schemes to procure the necessary funds. As early as February, 1554--a
year before the truce of Vaucelles--he published an edict commanding all
the inhabitants of Paris to send in an account of the silver plate they
posses