despatched for aid to France. Apprehending
danger, Nassau repeatedly bid him avoid the direct road to Mons, and make
a circuit through the territory of Cambray, and effect a junction with the
Prince of Orange. Genlis justified his neglect of these directions by
alleging the orders of Admiral Coligny. De Thou, iv. 680.

[906] Motley, Dutch Republic, ii. 383, 384; De Thou, iv. 680, etc.

[907] It may be noted, by way of anticipation, that Genlis, after an
imprisonment of over a year, was secretly strangled by Alva's command, in
the castle of Antwerp. With characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the
report that the prisoner had died a natural death. Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[908] Walsingham to Burleigh, July 26, 1572, Digges, 225.

[909] It was such arguments as these that afterward, when everything that
might be so employed as to justify or palliate the atrocity of Coligny's
assassination was eagerly laid hold of, were construed as threats of a
Huguenot rising, in case Charles should refuse to engage in the Flemish
war. Compare, _e.g._, the unsigned extract found by Soldan (ii. 433) in
the National Library of Paris, No. 8702, fol. 68. But does it need a word
to prove that the reference was to a _papal_ rising, or, at least, papal
compulsion to violate the edict of toleration?

[910] Walsingham to Leicester, July 26, 1572, Digges, 225, 226.

[911] This document was written by the illustrious Philippe du Plessis
Mornay, then a youth twenty-three years of age, and bears the impress of
his vigorous mind. De Thou gives an excellent summary (iv., liv. li.,
543-554); and it may be found entire in the Memoires de Du Plessis Mornay
(ii. 20-37). Morvilliers, Bishop of Orleans, and keeper of the seals until
Birague's appointment in January, 1571, was requested by the king to
prepare the answer of the opposite party in the royal council--a task
which he discharged with great ability. Summary in De Thou, iv. (liv. li.)
555-563, and Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 9, 10. Jean de Tavannes's memoirs of
his father contain arguments of Marshal Tavannes and of the Duke of Anjou.
dictated by the marshal, against undertaking the Flemish war, as both
unjust and impolitic.

[912] Memoires de Tavannes (Ed. Petitot), iii. 290.

[913] In this case the chief spy, according to the Tocsain contre les
massacreurs, p. 78, and the younger Tavannes, was Phizes, sieur de Sauve,
the king's private secretary for the Flemish matter; and Tavannes is
certainly co