92] "La Royne et mons de Morvillier trettent eus deus seulz avecques
eus, _ce sont aujourdhuy les grans cous_." See two important letters of
Lorraine to his sister-in-law, the Duchess of Nemours, April 24th and May
1, 1570, in Soldan, Geschichte d. Prot. in Frank., ii. Appendix, 593, 594,
from MSS. of the Bibliotheque nationale.

[793] "Though of late the Cardinal of Lorrain hath had access to the
king's presence, yet is he not repaired in credit, neither dealeth he in
government." Walsingham to Leicester, Aug. 29, 1570, Digges, Compleat
Ambassador, p. 8.

[794] Ibid., _ubi supra_. Yet it is but fair to add that Walsingham notes
that "the great conference that is between the queen mother and the
cardinal breedeth some doubt of some practise to impeach the same."

[795] Letter of April 23, 1570, Pii Quinti Epistolae, 272.

[796] Relations des Amb. Ven. (Tommaseo), ii. 110. Correro's relation is
of 1569.

[797] Baschet, La diplomatie venitienne, p. 518.

[798] The only account of this striking occurrence which I have seen is
given by Jehan de la Fosse, p. 122.

[799] Walsingham and Norris to Elizabeth, Jan. 29, 1571, Digges, 24.

[800] "The best ground of continuance," he writes to Leicester, "that I
can learn, by those that can best judge, is the king's own inclination,
which is thought sincerely to be bent that way." Jan. 28, 1571, Digges,
28.

[801] "Thus, sir, you see, for that he is not settled in religion, how he
is carried away with worldly respects, a common misery to those of his
calling." Ibid., 30.

[802] Walsingham to Leicester, Aug. 29, 1570, Digges, 8.

[803] De Thou, iv. 330-333. See Digges, 30.

[804] Letter of the Queen of Navarre to the queen mother, Dec. 17, 1570,
Rochambeau, Lettres d'Antoine de Bourbon et de Jehanne d'Albret (Paris,
1877), 306. A few lines of this admirable paper (which is, however, much
mutilated) may be quoted as having an almost prophetic significance: "Et
vous diray, Madame, les larmes aus yeulx, avecq une afection pure et
entiere que, s'il ne plaist au Roy et a vous nous aseureur nos tristes
demandes, que je ne puis esperer qu'une treve ... en ce royaulme par ceste
guerre siville, car nous y mourrons tous plustost que quiter nostre Dieu
et nostre religion, laquelle nous ne pouvons tenir sans exersise, non plus
qu'un corps ne saure vivre sans boire et manger.... Je vous en ay dit le
seul moyen; ayes pitie de tant de sang repandu, de tant d'impietes
commises en la ...