., in Dulaure, Hist. de Paris, iii.
355-357, and Atlas.]

[Footnote 714: "Duquel lieu tous les prisonniers de leans pouvoyent ouir
les clairons, hault-bois et trompettes dudict tournoy." Discours de la
mort du Roy Henry II., Recueil des choses memorables, p. 5; Memoires de
Conde, i. 216.]

[Footnote 715: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 716: "I am credibly enformed, that the Frenche King, after the
perfection of the ceremonies toching his doughter and King Philip, and
his suster to the Duke of Savoy, myndeth himself to make a journey to
the countreis of Poictou, Gascoigne, Guyon, and other places, for the
repressing of religion; and to use th' extremest persecution he may
against the protestants in his countreys, and the like in Scotlande; and
that with celerite, ymediatly after the finishing of the same
ceremonies." Throkmorton to Cecil, May 23, 1559, Forbes, State Papers,
i. 101.]

[Footnote 717: "Paix blasmable, dont les flambeaux de joye furent les
torches funebres du roy Henry II." Mem. de Tavannes, ii. 242.]

[Footnote 718: "The last of this present." Throkmorton to Council, June
30 and July 1, 1559. Forbes, State Papers, i. 151. So in a subsequent
letter, relating a message to him from the constable on July 1st, he
speaks of "the mischaunce happened the daie before to the king." Ibid.,
i. 154.]

[Footnote 719: Hist. eccles., i. 123, 124. Catharine de' Medici's dream,
in which the Huguenots saw a parallel to that of Pilate's wife, was not
a fabrication of theirs. According to her daughter Margaret, Catharine
had many such visions on the eve of important events. "Mesme _la nuict
devant la miserable course de lice_, elle songea comme elle voyoit le
feu Roy mon pere blesse a l'oeil, comme il fust; et estant esveillee,
elle le supplia _plusieurs fois_ de ne vouloir point courir ce jour, et
vouloir se contenter de voir le plaisir du tournoi, sans en vouloir
estre. Mais l'inevitable destin ne permit tant de bien a ce royaume,
qu'il put recevoir cet utile conseil." Memoires de Marguerite de Valois
(edition of French Hist. Soc.), 42.]

[Footnote 720: Pierre de Lestoile, 14.]

[Footnote 721: Lettere di Principi, iii. 196, apud Ranke, Civil Wars and
Monarchy in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, Am. tr., p. 167. Sir
Nicholas Throkmorton, who alone of the diplomatic corps was an
eye-witness, thus describes the scene in a letter written the same
evening: "Wherat it happened, that the King, after he had ronne a go