hundred men that day with his
own arm, and who afterward, having embraced a hermit's life, was finally
hung for the crime of murdering travellers (Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 20);
and to that of Coconnas, put to death for the part he took in the
conspiracy of which I shall shortly have to speak.

[1232] Memoires de Sully, i. 28, 29.

[1233] See _ante_, p. 530-532.

[1234] Apostolicarum Pii Quinti Epistolarum libri quinque. Letter of March
26, 1568, p. 73.

[1235] Pii Quinti Epistolae, 111.

[1236] Ibid., 150.

[1237] Ibid., 152. See _ante_, chapter xvi, p. 308.

[1238] "Nullo modo, nullisque de causis, hostibus Dei parcendum est."

[1239] "Catholicae religionis hostes aperte ac libere ad internecionem
usque oppugnaverit." Ibid., 155.

[1240] "Deletis omnibus," etc. Ibid., 155.

[1241] Ibid., 160, 161.

[1242] Ibid., 166.

[1243] "Nec vero, vano pietatis nomine objecto, te eo usque decipi sinas,
ut condonandis divinis injuriis falsam tibi misericordiae laudem quaeras:
nihil est enim ea pietate misericordiaque crudelius, quae in impios et
ultima supplicia meritos confertur." Ibid., 242.

[1244] "Haereticae pravitatis inquisitores per singulas civitates
constituere." Ibid., 242.

[1245] Letter of Jan. 29, 1570, ibid., 267.

[1246] Letter of April 23, 1570, ibid., 275.

[1247] Letter to Cardinal Bourbon, Sept. 23, 1570, ibid., 282, 283.

[1248] Letter to Charles IX., January 25, 1572, ibid., 443.

[1249] Saint Pius V. is, I believe, the only pope that has been canonized
since Saint Celestine V., near the end of the thirteenth century.

[1250] "Qui autem a militibus captivi ducebantur, eos Pius pretio
redemptos, in jusque sibi vindicatos, atque Avenionem perductos, publico
supplicio afficiendos _pro ardenti suo religionis studio_ decrevit."
Gabutius, Vita Pii Quinti, Acta Sanctorum Maii, Sec. 97, p. 642.

[1251] "Id Pius ubi cognovit, de Comite Sanctae Florae conquestus est, quod
jussa non fecisset, dudum imperantis, _necandos protinus esse haereticos
omnes quoscumque ille capere potuisset_." Ibid., Sec. 125. It must not be
forgotten that, in holding these sentiments, Pius V. did not stand alone;
his predecessors on the pontifical throne were of the same mind. We have
seen the anger of Paul IV., in 1558, upon learning that Henry II. had
spared D'Andelot (see _ante_, chapter viii., vol. i., p. 320). Paul was
for instantaneous execution, and _did not believe a heretic could ever be
converted_. He told the