hat the duke and the cardinal
understood and were pleased with the substance of the treaty (Soldan,
Gesch. des Prot. in Frankreich, i. 266, note).]

[Footnote 680: "Henricus rex se propterea quacumque ratione pacem inire
voluisse dicebat, 'quod intelligeret, regnum Franciae ad heresim
declinare, magnumque in numerum venisse, ita ut, si diutius diferret,
neque ipsius conscientiae, neque regni tranquillitati prospiceret: ... se
propterea ad quasvis pacis conditiones descendisse, ut regnum haereticis
ac malis hominibus purgaret.' Haec ab eo satis frigide et cum pudore
dicebantur." Santa Croce, De civil. Gall. diss. comment., 1437.]

[Footnote 681: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 682: "Selon l'article secret de la paix," says Tavannes (Mem.,
ii. 247, Ed. Petitot), "les heretiques furent bruslez en France, plus
par crainte qu'ils ne suivissent l'exemple des revoltez d'Allemagne, que
pour la religion." But, it may be asked, was there anything novel in
this? It had needed no _secret article_, for a generation back, to
conduct a "Christaudin" to the flames.]

[Footnote 683: The English commissioners, Killigrew and Jones, in a
despatch written eight or nine months later, express the current belief
respecting the wide scope of the persecution: "Wheras, upon the making
of the late peace, _there was an appoinctement made betwene the late
Pope, the French King, and the King of Spaine, for the joigning of their
forces together for the suppression of religion_; it is said, that this
King mindethe shortly to send to this new Pope [Pius IV.], for the
renewing of the same league; _th' end wherof was to constraine the rest
of christiendome, being protestants, to receive the Pope's authorite and
his religion_; and therupon to call a generall counsaill." Letter from
Blois, January 6, 1559/60, Forbes, State Papers, i. 296.]

[Footnote 684: "Voila," says Agrippa d'Aubigne, "les conventions d'une
paix en effect pour les royaumes de France et d'Espagne, en apparence de
toute la Chrestiente, glorieuse aux Espagnols, desaventageuse aux
Francois, _redoutable aux Reformez: car comme toutes les difficultez qui
se presenterent au traicte estoient estouffees par le desir de repurger
l'eglise_, ainsi, apres la paix establie, les Princes qui par elle
avoient repos du dehors, _travaillerent par emulation a qui traitteroit
plus rudement ceux qu'on appeloit Heretiques_: et de la nasquit l'ample
subject de 40 ans de guerre monstrueuse." Histoire univers