holic faith, express a desire for the dispensation,
restore ecclesiastical property in his domains, and marry Margaret before
the Church. Charles IX. to Ferralz (Ferrails), July 31, 1572, _apud_
Mackintosh, iii., Appendix III.; Fr. von Raumer, Briefe aus Paris
(Leipsic, 1831), i. 292.

[896] Journal de Lestoile, p. 24; Le Reveille-Matin des Francais, etc.;
Arch. curieuses, vii. 172; Dialogi Eusebii Philadelphi, i. 31;
Vauvilliers, iii. 177; Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 12:--"Ce vieux bigot avec
ses cafarderies fait perdre un bon temps a ma grosse soeur Margot."

[897] Charles IX. to Mandelot, Blois, May 3, 1572, Correspondance du roi
Charles IX. et du sieur de Mandelot, Gouverneur de Lyons, edited by P.
Paris (Paris, 1830), pp. 9-11. Also Charriere, Negociations du Levant,
iii. 228.

[898] "Toutes mes fantaisies sont bandees pour m'opposer a la grandeur des
Espagnols," etc. Henri de Valois et la Pologne en 1572, par le Marquis de
Noailles (3 vols., Paris, 1867), i. 8.

[899] De Noailles, i. 10.

[900] "De tenir le Roy Catholique en cervelle, et donner hardiesse a ces
gueulx des Pais-Bas de se remuer et entreprendre," etc. Ibid., i. 9.

[901] De Thou, iv. 674; Motley, Dutch Republic, ii. 369, etc.

[902] "Thence with great celerity the Count Lodovick should send 500 horse
to Bruxels under the conduct of M. de la Nue (Noue), where if he hap to
find the Duke of Alva, it will grow to short wars, in respect of the
intelligence they have with the town, who undertook with the aid of 100
soldiers to take the duke prisoner. If he retires to Antwerp, as it is
thought he wil, then it is likely that all the whole country will revolt.
I the rather credit this news for that it agreeth with the plot laid by
Count Lodovick, before his departure hence," etc. Walsingham to Burleigh,
Paris, May 29, 1572, Digges, 204.

[903] Queen Elizabeth to Walsingham, July 23, 1572, Digges, 226-230.

[904] "More tremendous issues," Mr. Froude forcibly remarks, "were hanging
upon Elizabeth's decision than she knew of. But she did know that France
was looking to her reply--was looking to her general conduct, to ascertain
whether she would or would not be a safe ally in a war with Spain, and
that on her depended at that moment whether the French government would
take its place once for all on the side of the Reformation." History of
England, x. 370.

[905] In fact, he was acting in violation of the instructions of Louis of
Nassau, by whom he had been