roit dict de sa part_, je n'auroit failly
pourveoir par toutz moyens a la seurete de ceste ville: _sy bien, Sire,
que et les cors_ (corps) _et les biens de ceulx de la relligion auroient
este saisiz et mis soubz votre main_ sans aucun tumulte ny scandale."
Mandelot to Charles IX., Sept. 2, 1572, Correspondance, etc., 45.

[1109] Puyroche, 319.

[1110] "Il n'etait pas d'avis," dit-il, "que tout le peuple s'en melat,
craignant quelque desordre, memement un sac." Puyroche, 320.

[1111] "Quelques deux cens," says Mandelot to Charles IX., Sept. 2d; but
he was anxious to make the number as small as possible. Jean de Masso,
"receveur general" (Sept. 1st), says, "sept a huit vingt," and sieur
Talaize (Sept. 2d), "deux cent soixante et trois." So also Coste (Sept.
3d). Puyroche, 365, 366.

[1112] Mandelot tells Charles IX. (Sept. 17th) that he had sent all the
_poorer_ Huguenots to other prisons; that he had left here only the rich
and those who had borne arms for the Protestant cause. To exhibit his own
incorruptibility, he added that there were among them, of his own certain
knowledge, at least twenty who would have paid a ransom of thirty thousand
or even forty thousand crowns, "qui estoit assez," he significantly adds,
"pour tenter ung homme corruptible." Correspondance du roi Charles IX. et
du Sieur de Mandelot, 71, 72.

[1113] Correspondance, etc., p. 46, 47.

[1114] Puyroche, La Saint-Barthelemy a Lyon et le gouverneur Mandelot,
_ubi supra_; Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 321-343; Crespin, Hist. des
martyrs, 1582, p. 725, etc., _apud_ Epoques de l'eglise de Lyon (Lyon,
1827), 173-185; De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 602-604, etc.; Jean de Serres
(1575), iv., fol. 45, etc. The number of Huguenots killed is variously
estimated, by some as high as from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred
(Crespin, _ubi supra_). It must have been not less than seven hundred or
eight hundred; for private letters written immediately after the
occurrence by prominent and well-informed Roman Catholics state it at
about seven hundred, and they would certainly not be inclined to
exaggerate. The rumor at Paris even then set it at twelve hundred. See the
letters in Puyroche, 365-367. Among the one hundred and twenty-three names
that have been preserved, the most interesting is that of Claude Goudimel,
who set Marot's and Beza's psalms to music, and who was killed by envious
rivals. At the time of his death he was engaged in adapting the psalms to
a more