ace, Commentaires, etc., 20; J. de Serres, De statu rel., etc. (1570),
i., fol. 18; Hist. eccles., i. 123; De Thou, ii. 674; Davila (Cottrell's
tr.), p. 11; Santa Croce, v. 1438, etc. It is characteristic that so
important a date as that of the fatal tournament should be differently
stated; La Place, the Hist. eccles., and De Thou making it June 29th.
The confusion is increased by subsequent writers. Motley (Rise of the
Dutch Republic, i. 204) making Henry die on the 10th of July of the
wound inflicted _eleven_ days before, and Prescott (Philip the Second,
i. 295) representing him as lingering _ten_ days and dying on the
_ninth_ of July.]

[Footnote 726: Professor Baum published the "Maniere et Fasson," on the
occasion of the Tercentenary of the French Reformed Church, in 1859, in
an elegantly printed pamphlet, itself a fac-simile of the original in
all respects, except the use of Roman in place of Gothic letters. This
pamphlet in turn is out of print, and it is to Professor Baum's kindness
that I am indebted for the copy of which I have made use.]

[Footnote 727: Printed with marginal notes giving all modifications in
other early editions in Joh. Calvini Opera (Baum, Cunitz, et Reuss),
1867, v. 164-223--a work which is the result of almost incredible labor
and research. In February, 1868, the distinguished senior editor wrote
to me: "Nous avons deja maintenant copie de notre main et collationne a
Neufchatel, a Geneve et autres endroits, quelque chose comme _six mille
pieces, lettres et consilia et autres calviniana_."]

[Footnote 728: The beautiful petitions for "all our poor brethren who
are dispersed under the tyranny of Antichrist," and for prisoners and
those persecuted by the enemies of the Gospel, were not in the original
edition, but appear in that of 1558. Calv. Opera, Baum, Cunitz and
Reuss, vi. 177, note.]

CHAPTER IX.

FRANCIS THE SECOND AND THE TUMULT OF AMBOISE.

[Sidenote: The victims breathe more freely.]

[Sidenote: Epigrams on the death of Henry.]

The plans carefully matured by Henry for the suppression of the reformed
doctrines were disarranged by his sudden death. The expected victims of
the Spanish Inquisition, which he was to have established in France,
breathed more freely. It was not wonderful that the "Calvinists,"
according to an unfriendly historian, preached of the late monarch's
fate as miraculous, and magnified it to their advantage;[729] for they
saw in it an interpositio