appeared so farre forward, hathe
thought good before hande, for the daunting of suche as might have semed
to be doers therin, to prevent their purpose by handeling of these
counsaillors in this sorte." Throkmorton to Queen Elizabeth, June 13,
1559, Forbes, State Papers, i. 128.]

[Footnote 700: Vieilleville, ii. 401-404; De Thou, ii. 667; Forbes,
State Papers, i. 127.]

[Footnote 701: Mem. de Vieilleville, ii. 405. The date of Henry's visit
to parliament is not free from the same contradictory statements that
affect many of the most important events of history. De Thou, and,
following him, Felibien, Browning, and others, place it five days later
than I have done in the text. La Place, the anonymous "Discours de la
mort du Roy Henry II." (in the Recueil des choses memorables, published
in 1565, and later in the Memoires de Conde), Castelnau, the Histoire
eccles., etc., are our best authorities. As Sir Nicholas Throkmorton
gave an account of the _Mercuriale_ in his despatch to the queen of June
13th (Forbes, State Papers, i. 126-130), I am surprised that Dr. White,
who refers, to this interesting paper (although by an oversight
ascribing it to June 19th) should, while correcting M. de Felice's
error, have preferred the date of June 15th. "Massacre of St.
Bartholomew," Am. ed., p. 51.]

[Footnote 702: Discours de la mort du Roy Henry II. (Recueil des choses
memorables, 1565.) Dulaure, Hist. de Paris, ii. 434-437. Cf. also the
maps accompanying that work.]

[Footnote 703: The Discours de la mort du Roy Henry II. add that Henry
demanded the reason of the Parliament's delay to register an edict they
had received from him against the "Lutherans"--doubtless the
last--establishing the inquisitorial commission of three cardinals.
"Cest edict estoit sorti de l'oracle dudict cardinal de Lorreine." Baum,
Theodore Beza, ii. 31, note, etc., has already called attention to the
gross inaccuracies of Browning, in his description of the incidents of
the _Mercuriale_, as well as of the king's visit to parliament. (Hist.
of the Huguenots, i. 54, etc.). Among other assertions altogether
unwarranted by the evidence, he states that Henry, in order to entrap
the unwary, "declared himself free from every kind of angry feeling
against those counsellors who had adopted the new religion, and begged
them all to speak their opinions freely," etc. (p. 55). If true, this
would rob Du Bourg's course of half its heroism.]

[Footnote 704: "Whereas,"