(liv. li.) 537, 538.

[870] La Mothe Fenelon, vii. 292.

[871] Ibid., v. 13.

[872] Ibid., vii. 317-319.

[873] "Que Monseigneur le Duc vienne!" Despatch of Aug. 28, 1572. Corresp.
diplom., v. 111.

[874] Pius the Fifth--Saint Pius, for his name is commemorated in the
prayers of the Church on the 5th of May--was, we are told by his
biographer, a model of severity to his own kindred; and, if the fact that
he elevated his grand-nephew, Michael Bonelli, to the sacred college
should be alleged as casting some doubt upon this characteristic of his,
we must hasten to add that he did so, we are assured, only in consequence
of the urgent solicitations of Cardinal Farnese and others. He deserves
the credit, however, of yielding to their persuasions with reasonable
promptness, for the nomination of his nephew took place within two months
of the Pope's accession. Michael, being like his uncle a native of the
vicinity of Alessandria, in Piedmont, naturally succeeded to the
designation of "il cardinale Alessandrino," which Pius relinquished on
assuming the tiara. Gabutius, Vita Pii Quinti Papae, _apud_ Acta Sanctorum
(Bolandi) Maii, Sec. 48, p. 630.

[875] The Guises, in the same spirit, had at one time proposed as a
candidate for Margaret's hand the Cardinal of Este, for whom they hoped
easily to obtain from the Pope a dispensation from his vow of celibacy.
Walsingham to Cecil, Feb. 18, 1571, Digges, 42.

[876] Capilupi, Lo stratagema di Carlo IX., 1573, Orig. edit., p. 11;
Gabutius, Vita Pii Quinti, _ubi supra_, Sec. 244-246, p. 676.

[877] So also says Tavannes: "Il est renvoye avec paroles generales que Sa
Majeste ne feroit rien au prejudice de l'obeissance de Sa Sainctete."
Memoires (ed. Petitot), iii. 198. Tavannes is explicit in his declarations
that the massacre was not premeditated. "Tant s'en faut que l'on pensast
faire la Sainct Barthelemy a ces nopces, que sans Madame, fille du Roy,
qui y avoit inclination, il se deslioit" (iii. 194). "L'entreprise de la
Sainct Barthelemy, qui n'estoit pas seulement pourpensee, et dont la
naissance vint de l'imprudence huguenotte." Ibid., iii. 198.

[878] _E.g._: "Si j'avois quelque autre moyen de me vanger de mes ennemis,
je ne ferois point ce mariage; mais je n'en ai point d'autre moyen que
cetui-ci." Cardinal D'Ossat's letter of Sept. 22, 1599, to Villeroy,
Lettres (ed. of 1698), ii. 100. It must be noticed that D'Ossat had a
particular purpose in producing testimony to show