sostenuto di fare in benefizio di quella parte." G. B.
Adriani, Istoria de' suoi tempi, ii. 378.

[1161] Cuniga to Philip, Sept. 8th, Simancas MSS. Gachard, Bull. de
l'acad. de Bruxelles, xvi. 249, 250.

[1162] "A. N. S. mi faccia gratia di basciar i piedi in nome mio, col
quale mi rallegro con le viscere del cuore che sia piaciuto alla Dva. Msa.
d'incaminar, nel principio del suo pontificato, si felicemente e
honoratamente le cose di questo regno." Salviati to Card. sec. of State,
Aug. 24, Mackintosh, iii., App. G., p. 355.

[1163] "Non si risolvo a credere che si fusse fatto tanto a un pezzo."
Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[1164] "De quoy nous aseurons que en leoures Dieu aveques nous, tant pour
nostre particulier coment pour le bien qui en reviendre a toute la
cretiente et au service et honeur et gloyre de Dieu," etc.

[1165] "Et randons par cet ayfect le temognage de nos bonnes et droyctes
yntantions, cor ne les avons jeames eu aultre que tendant a son honneur,"
etc. Letter of Catharine de' Medici to Philip II., Aug. 28, 1572, in Musee
des archives nationales; documents originaux de l'hist. de France, exposes
dans l'Hotel Soubise (published by the Gen. Directory of the Archives,
1872), p. 392.

[1166] Philip had evidently no intimation that a massacre was in
contemplation. When Mr. Motley says (United Netherlands, i. 15): "It is as
certain that Philip knew beforehand, and testified his approbation of the
massacre of St. Bartholomew, as that he was the murderer of Orange," the
statement must be interpreted in accordance with that other statement in
the same author's earlier work (Rise of the Dutch Republic, ii. 388): "The
crime was not committed with the connivance of the Spanish government. On
the contrary, the two courts were at the moment bitterly opposed to each
other," etc. As the eminent historian can scarcely be supposed to
contradict himself on so important a point, we must understand him to mean
that Philip had, indeed, long since instigated Catharine and her son to
rid themselves of the Huguenot leaders by some form of treachery or other,
but was quite ignorant of, and unprepared for, the particular means
adopted by them for compassing the end.

[1167] St. Goard to Charles, Sept. 12th, Bodel Nijenhuis, Supplement to
Groen van Prinsterer, Archives de la maison d'Orange Nassau, 124-126. St.
Goard was not deceived by Philip's pious congratulations. "Ce faict," he
writes to Catharine, a week later (ibid., pp. 12