3] Despatch of Aug. 24th, Corresp. diplom., vii. 324, 325.

[1184] Charles IX. to La Mothe Fenelon, Aug. 25, 1572, ibid., 325, 326.

[1185] Charles IX., Aug. 26th and 27th, Corresp. dipl., vii. 331, etc.,
and a justificatory "Instruction a M. de la Mothe Fenelon."

[1186] Letter of Burleigh, etc., Sept. 9th, to Walsingham, Digges, 247.
The truth of the statement is called in question by M. Cooper, editor of
La Mothe Fenelon's Correspondance diplomatique.

[1187] The interview is described both by La Mothe Fenelon (Corresp.
diplom., v. 122-126), and by the English council, despatch of Sept. 9th to
Walsingham (Digges, 247-249). Hume has a graphic account, History of
England, chap. xl.

[1188] This striking, and, certainly, somewhat undiplomatic speech is
reported by the ambassador himself in his despatches (Corresp. dipl., v.
127). It looks as if the honest Frenchman was not sorry to let the court
know some of the severe criticisms that were uttered respecting a crime
with which he had no sympathy. La Mothe Fenelon tells of the impression,
proved erroneous by the king's letter, "qu'ilz avoient que ce fut ung acte
projecte de longtemps, et que vous heussiez accorde avecques le Pape et le
Roy d'Espaigne de faire servir les nopces de Madame, vostre seur, avec le
Roy de Navarre, a une telle execution pour y atraper, a la foys, toutz les
principaulx de la dicte religion assembles." La Mothe Fenelon to Charles,
Sept. 2, 1572, _ubi supra_, v. 116.

[1189] La Mothe Fenelon endeavored, he says, to persuade the English that
there were not over five thousand, and that Catharine and Charles were
sorry that one hundred could not have answered. Corr. diplom., v. 155.

[1190] See the despondent despatch of October 2d, Corresp. diplom., v.,
155-162.

[1191] La Mothe Fenelon to Catharine, ibid., v. 164.

[1192] Letter of Sept. 26th, Digges, 262.

[1193] See _ante_, chapter xviii., p. 495.

[1194] As well as by the queen mother's assurances respecting the massacre
in the provinces--too heavy a draft upon the credulity of her royal
sister. "Pour ce qu'ilz disent que, voyant les meurtres qui ont este
faictz en plusieurs villes de ce royaume par les Catholiques contre les
Huguenotz, ils ne se peuvent asseurer de l'intantion et volonte du Roy,
qu'ilz n'en voyent quelque punission et justice et ses edictz mieux
observes, _elle cognoistra bientost que ce qui est advenu es autres lieux
que en ceste ville, a este entierement contre la v