Gaillard, Rivalite de la France et d'Espagne, tom. V. p. 294.

[270] Garnier, Histoire de France, tom. XXVII. p. 567.

[271] "Pour tant de restitutions ou de concessions que revenoit-il a la
France? moins de places qu'elle ne cedoit de provinces." Gaillard,
Rivalite de la France et d'Espagne, tom. V. p. 292.

[272] Charles the Fifth, who in his monastic seclusion at Yuste, might
naturally have felt more scruples at a collision with Rome than when, in
earlier days, he held the pope a prisoner in his capital, decidedly
approved of his son's course. It was a war of necessity, he said, in a
letter to Juan Vazquez de Molina, and Philip would stand acquitted of
the consequences before God and man.

"Pues no se puede hazer otra cosa, y el Rey se ha justificado en tantas
maneras cumpliendo con Dios y el mundo, por escusar los danos que dello
se seguiran, forzado sera usar del ultimo remedio." Carta del Emperador
a Juan Vazquez de Molina, 8 de Agosto, 1557, MS.

[273] "Il nous a semble mieulx de leur dire rondement, que combien
vostre majeste soit tousjours este dure et difficile a recepvoir
persuasions pour se remarier, que toutesfois, aiant represente a icelle
le desir du roi tres-chrestien et le bien que de ce mariage pourra
succeder, et pour plus promptement consolider ceste union et paix, elle
s'estoit resolue, pour monstrer sa bonne et syncere affection, d'y
condescendre franchement." Granvelle, Papiers d'Etat, tom. V. p. 580.

[274] "El Conde la dijo, que aunque las negativas habian sido en cierto
modo indirectas, el no habia querido apurarla hasta el punto de decir
redondamente que no, por no dar motivo a indignaciones entre dos tan
grandes Principes." Mem. de la Academia, tom. VII. p. 268.

[275] "Osservando egli l'usanza Francese nel baciar tutte l'altre Dame
di Corte, nell'arriuar alla futura sua Reina, non solo intermise quella
famigliare cerimonia, ma non uolle ne anche giamai coprirsi la testa,
per istanza, che da lei ne gli fusse fatta; il che fu notato per
nobilissimo, e degno atto di creaeza Spagnuola." Campana, Filippo
Secondo, parte II. lib. 11.

[276] The work of extermination was to cover more ground than Henry's
capital or country, if we may take the word of the English
commissioners, who, in a letter dated January, 1559, advised the queen,
their mistress, that "there was an appoinctment made betwene the late
pope, the French king, and the king of Spaine, for the joigning of their
forces together fo