was not long definitely premeditated. "Sire," he
said, "estant arrive le sieur de Beauville avecques lettres de Vostre
Majeste, qui confirmoyent les nouvelles des tres-crestiennes et heroicques
deliberation et exequutions faictes non-seulement a Paris, mais aussi
partout voz principales villes, je m'asseure qu'il vous plaira bien me
tant honorer ... que de vous asseurer que entre tous voz tres humbles
subjects, je ne suis le dernier a an (en) louer Dieu et a me resjouir. Et
veritablement, Sire, c'est tout le myeus (mieux) que j'eusse ose jamais
desirer ni esperer. Je me tienz asseure que des ce commencement les
actions de Vostre Majeste accroistront chacung jour a la gloire de Dieu et
a l'immortalite de vostre nom," etc. Card. Lorraine to the king, Rome,
Sept. 10, 1572, MSS. Nat. Library, _apud_ Lestoile, ed. Michaud et
Poujoulat, 25, 26, note.

[1153] Conjouissance de Mr. le Cardinal de Lorraine, au nom du Roy, faicte
au Pape, le vije jour de sept. 1572, sur la mort de l'Admiral et ses
complices. Correspondance diplom. de La Mothe Fenelon, vii. 341, 342. Also
Jean de Serres (1575) iv., fol. 56, and in a French translation appended
to Capilupi, Lo stratagema di Carlo IX. (1574), 111-113, and reproduced in
Mem. de l'estat, Arch, cur., vii. 360.

[1154] "Literis romanis aureis majusculis descriptum, festa fronte
velatum, ac lemniscatum, et supra limen aedis Sancti Ludovici Romae
affixum."

[1155] The genuineness of this medal, in spite of the clumsy attempts made
to discredit it, is established beyond all possible doubt. The Jesuit
Bonanni, in his "Numismata Pontificum" (2 vols. fol., Rome, 1689), has
figured and described it as No. 27 of the medals of Gregory XIII. A
translation of his account and a facsimile of the medal may be seen in the
Bulletin de la Societe de l'hist. du prot. francais, i. (1852) 240-242. It
is also admirably represented in the Tresor de Numismatique (Delaroche,
etc., Paris, 1839), Medailles des papes, plate 15, No. 8. The late
Alexander Thomson, Esq., of Banchory, Aberdeenshire, purchased at the
papal mint in the city of Rome, in 1828 or 1829, among other medals for
which he applied, not less than seven copies of this medal, six of them
struck off expressly for him from the original die still in possession of
the mint. See his own account, given in his Memoir by Professor Smeaton,
and reproduced in the _New York Evangelist_ of October 17, 1872.

[1156] Recueil des lettres missives de Henri IV.,