te.

[1260] J. de Serres, De statu, etc., iv., fol. 63; De Thou, iv. (liv.
liii.) 647.

[1261] Reveille-Matin, 200; Eusebii Philadelphi Dialogi (1574), i. 57.

[1262] Arcere, Histoire de la Rochelle, i. 405. The records of the customs
showed that 30,000 casks of wine were brought in. An ample supply of
powder was also secured by offering a bonus of ten per cent, to all that
imported it from abroad.

[1263] Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 65; De Thou, iv. 649.

[1264] "Affirmabant vero haudquaquam se facere contra officium et antiqua
sua privilegia, per quae illis tribueretur exemptio ab omni praeterquam ex
sua civitate delecto ab ipsis praesidio, et facultas sese suis armis
custodiendi." Such was the claim of the Rochellois in answer to Strozzi's
summons. Jean de Serres, iv. 63.

[1265] Arcere, i. 412.

[1266] Ibid., i. 422; De Thou, iv. (liv. liii.) 654; J. de Serres, iv.,
fols. 75, 76.

[1267] Delmas, Eglise ref. de la Rochelle, 105, 106. The same author cites
Henry IV.'s eulogy: "Il etait grand homme de guerre, et plus grand homme
de bien." See also De Thou's strong expressions, viii. (liv. cii.) 8.

[1268] See the detailed "Carte du Pays d'Aulnis, avec les Isles de Re,
d'Oleron, et Provinces voisines, dressee en 1756," prefixed to the first
volume of Arcere, Histoire de la Rochelle.

[1269] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 34, 35 (liv. i., c. 6); De Thou, iv. (liv.
liii.) 655-656; Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 75; Arcere, i. 427-429.

[1270] Arcere, i. 429, partly on MS. authority.

[1271] Ibid., i. 430.

[1272] The attitude of the Huguenot general had been and yet was one of
the strangest. That he was able in the end to extricate himself without a
stain attaching to his honor is still more remarkable. Both king and
Protestants understood full well that he would counsel nothing which was
not for the interest of both; and it was, therefore, no violation of his
duty as envoy of Charles, if, as Jean de Serres informs us, when urging an
amicable arrangement, he privately advised the Rochellois to admit no one
into the city in the king's name, before receiving ample provisions for
their security. Commentarii de statu religionis et reipublicae, iv., fol.
75.

[1273] Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 76.

[1274] Ibid., iv., fol. 81.

[1275] See the very clear account in the "Description chorographique de
l'Aulnis," by Arcere, prefixed to his history of La Rochelle, i. 97, etc.

[1276] Compare Arcere, i. 418, etc., and, especially