de ceste guerre et _que vous ne pourrez bien d'un seul
mot faire cesser_." "Et sur cella, Madame, je supliray Dieu qui tient les
cueurs des Roys en sa main disposer celui du Roi et le vostre a mectre le
repos en ce royaulme a sa gloire et contentement de Vos Majestes, _maugre
le complot de M. le Cardinal de Lorrayne_, dont il a descouvert la trame a
Villequagnon," etc.

[805] Discours du massacre fait a Orange, from the Mem. de l'etat de
France sous Charles IX., Archives curieuses, vi. 459-470; De Thou, iv.
483.

[806] Floquet, Histoire du Parlement du Normandie, iii. 87-112, whose
account is in great part derived from the registers of the parliament and
the archives of the Hotel de Ville of Rouen. De Thou, iv. (liv. l.) 483,
certainly greatly underestimates the number of Protestants killed, when he
limits it to _five_.

[807] See _ante_, chapter xvi.

[808] Jehan de la Fosse (Sept., 1571), 132.

[809] Ibid. (Nov., 1571), 133.

[810] Jehan de la Fosse (Dec., 1571), 134.

[811] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 4 (liv. i., c. 1); De Thou, iv. (liv. l.)
487-489; Discours de ce qui avint touchant la Croix de Gastines (from Mem.
de l'etat de Charles IX.), in Cimber et Danjou, Arch. cur., vi. 475, 476;
Jehan de la Fosse, _ubi supra_. According to the recently published
journal of La Fosse, Charles the Ninth expressed himself to the preachers
of Paris, who had come to remonstrate with him in language which may at
first sight appear somewhat suspicious: "attestant ledict roy vouloir
vivre et mourir en la religion de ses predecesseurs roys, religion
catholique et romaine, toutefois qu'il avoit fait abattre la croix pour
certaine cause laquelle il vouloit taire et avoir faict plusieurs choses
contre sa conscience, toutefois par contrainte a cause du temps, et
supplioit les predicateurs n'avoir mauvaise opinion de luy" (pp. 138,
139). There is good reason, however, to believe that the secret reason
which the king was unwilling to name was not a contemplated massacre of
the Protestants, but rather the Navarrese and English marriages, and the
war with Spain in the Netherlands.

[812] Walsingham to Burleigh, Dec. 7, 1571, Digges, p. 151. "Marshal
Montmorency repaired to this town the third of this moneth accompanied
with 300 horse. The next day after his arrival he and the Marshal de Coss
conferred with the chief of this town about the plucking down of the
cross, which was resolved on, and the same put in execution, the masons
emplo