ch. cur., vii. 370.

[1122] Ibid., 371.

[1123] "Il n'y a aultre que vous," said they, "qui puisse commander aux
armes ceans, contenir le peuple en l'obeissance au roy, et la ville en
paix." Reg. secr. du parlement, 9 Septembre, 1572, _apud_ Floquet, 120.
See also Reg. de l'hotel-de-ville de Rouen, 7 Septembre, _ibid._

[1124] Floquet, 122.

[1125] Mem. de l'estat, _apud_ Archives curieuses, vii. 373.

[1126] Memoires de l'estat, _apud_ Arch. curieuses, vii. 372; Floquet,
iii. 127. Floquet is incorrect in stating that the names of only about a
hundred are known. We have (Mem. de l'estat. Archives curieuses, vii.
372-378) a partial list of 186 men, whose names and trades are generally
given, and of 33 women--that is 219, besides a reference to many others
whose names the writer did not obtain.

[1127] "Les autres estoyent _accommodez_ a coups de dague. Les massacreurs
usoyent de ce mot _accommoder_, l'accommodans a leur bestiale et
diabolique cruaute." Mem. de l'estat, _ubi sup._, 372.

[1128] Mem. de l'estat, _ubi sup._, 378.

[1129] Ibid., 379. The story of the massacre is well told in the Mem. de
l'estat, and by M. Floquet, whose original sources of information throw a
flood of light upon the transactions; also by De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.)
606; Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 27; Jean de Serres (1575), iv., fol. 50.

[1130] One of them, Jean Coras, had committed an unpardonable offence.
When passing in 1562 with the Protestant army through Roquemadour, in the
province of Quercy, he had taken advantage of the opportunity to examine
the relics of St. Amadour, of whom the monks boasted that they possessed
not only the bones, but also some of the flesh. He was never forgiven for
having exhibited the close resemblance of the holy remains to a shoulder
of mutton. De Thou, iv. 606, note.

[1131] Mem. de l'estat, Archives curieuses, vii. 381-385; De Thou, _ubi
supra_; Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 27, 28 (liv. i., c. 5); Jean de Serres
(1575), iv., fol. 50.

[1132] President Lagebaston even says that, had this been suffered to go
on a week longer--so rapidly were the Protestants flocking to the
mass--there would not have been eight Huguenots in town.

[1133] Registers of Parliament, in Boscheron des Portes, Hist. du parl. de
Bordeaux (Bordeaux, 1877), i. 241.

[1134] Letter of President Lagebaston to Charles IX., October 7, 1572,
Mackintosh, Hist. of England, iii., App. E, 351-353. See also De Thou, iv.
651, 652, and Agrippa d'