e names of nine are given. Archives curieuses, vii. 264.
[1089] The procureur Cosset did not neglect his own interests, if, as we
are informed, his house and courtyard were so full of stolen furniture
that it was scarcely possible to enter the premises.
[1090] Memoires de l'estat, _apud_ Archives curieuses, vii. 261-270.
[1091] See _ante_, chapter xviii., p. 432.
[1092] Recordon, le Protestantisme en Champagne (from the MSS. of N.
Pithou, seigneur de Chamgobert), Paris, 1863, 174-192; Mem. de l'estat,
Archives curieuses, vii. 271-292.
[1093] Dr. Henry White, besides mistaking the Huguenot for the Papist, has
incorrectly stated the circumstances. Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 450.
See Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 295, and De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 601.
[1094] Memoires de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 295. "Le mesme fut fait a Paris
et en d'autres lieux aussi," writes the same historian.
[1095] Ibid., _ubi supra_.
[1096] Ibid., 296.
[1097] Memoires de l'estat de France, _ubi supra_, 297.
[1098] Mem. de l'estat, 298, 299.
[1099] Ibid., 299, 300.
[1100] A horrible story is told of the discovery of some human relics
several weeks later. Ibid., 305.
[1101] See _ante_, p. 502.
[1102] Mem. de l'estat, 309-315.
[1103] Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 349-351. "Puigaillard ... homme au
reste indigne de vivre pour l'acte detestable par luy commis en la
personne de sa premiere femme tuee a sa sollicitation pour en espouser une
autre qu'il entretenoit." (P. 351.)
[1104] Registres consulaires, _apud_ "La Saint-Barthelemy a Lyon et le
gouverneur Mandelot," by M. Puyroche, p. 311. This monograph which I quote
from the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, in which it
first appeared (vol. xviii., 1869, pp. 305-323, 353-367, and 401-420), is
by far the most accurate and complete treatise on this subject, and
contains a fund of fresh information based upon unpublished manuscripts,
especially the local records.
[1105] Charles IX. to Mandelot, Aug. 22, 1572, Correspondance du roi
Charles IX. et du sieur de Mandelot, published by P. Paris, 1830 (pp. 36,
37). A portion of this letter has already been given.
[1106] Charles IX. to Mandelot, Aug. 24, 1572, Correspondance, etc.,
39-42.
[1107] "Monsieur de Mandelot, vous croirez le present porteur de ce que je
luy ay donne charge de vous dire." Ibid., 42.
[1108] "Suivant icelles (the king's letters of Aug. 22d and 24th) et _ce
que le sieur du Perat m'au
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