de l'estat
(Arch. cur., vii. 158-161.)

[1221] Harangue de M. de Bellievre aux Suisses a la diette tenue a Baden,
Mackintosh, Hist. of England, iii., Appendix L.

[1222] Bellievre to Charles IX., Baden, Dec. 15, 1572, Mackintosh, App. L,
p. 360. De Thou, iv. (liv. liii.) 642.

[1223] As early as September 3d the superintendent of the mint submitted
specimens of two kinds of commemorative medals: the one bearing the
devices, "_Virtus in Rebelles_" and "_Pietas excitavit Justitiam_;" and
the other, "_Charles IX. dompteur des Rebelles, le 24 aoust 1572_." The
Mem. de l'estat (Archives cur., vii. 355-357) contain the elaborate
description furnished by the designer, accompanied with comments by the
Protestant author. The Tresor de Numismatique, etc. (Paul Delaroche,
etc.), Med. francaises, pt. 3d, plate 19, Nos. 3, 4, and 5, gives
facsimiles of _three_ medals, the first two mentioned above, and a third
on which Charles figures as Hercules armed with sword and torch
confronting the three-headed Hydra of heresy. The motto is, "Ne ferrum
temnat, simul ignibus obsto."

[1224] Smith to Walsingham, Digges, 252.

[1225] Leicester to Walsingham, Sept. 11th, Digges, 251.

[1226] Walsingham to Smith, Nov. 1, Digges, 279. The politic Montluc,
Bishop of Valence, seems to allude to the same alteration in his master:
"Au diable soyt la cause qui de tant de maux est cause, et qui d'ung bon
roy et humain, s'il en fust jamais, l'ont contrainct de mectre la main au
sang, qui est un morceau si friant, que jamais prince n'en tasta qu'il n'y
voulust revenir." De Noailles, iii. 223, 224.

[1227] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 29, 30.

[1228] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 29 (liv. i., c. 6).

[1229] Letter of May 22, 1571/2, Digges, 193.

[1230] Relation of Sigismondo Cavalli. I follow the resume of Baschet, La
diplomatie venitienne, 556, 562.

[1231] "Leurs butins et richesses ne leur proffitarent point, non plus
qu'a plusieurs massacreurs, sacquemens, pillardz et paillards de la feste
de Sainct-Barthelemy que j'ay cogneu, au moins des principaux, qui ne
vesquirent guieres longtemps qu'ils ne fussent tuez au siege de la
Rochelle, et autres guerres qui vindrent empres, et qui furent aussi
pauvres que devant. Aussi, comme disoient les Espagnolz pillards, '_Que el
diablo les avia dado, el diablo les avia llevado_.'" OEuvres, i. 277 (Ed.
of Hist. Soc. of Fr., 1864). I need only refer to the fate of the famous
assassin who boasted of having killed four