the
provinces represented, I give the list contained in the preamble:
"Guyenne, Vivaretz, Gevaudan, Seneschaussee de Toloze, Auvergne, haute et
basse Marche, Quercy, Perigord, Limosin, Agenois, Armignac, Cominges,
Coustraux, Bigorre, Albret, Foix, Lauraguay, Albigeois, pais de Castres et
Villelargue, Mirepoix, Carcassonne, et autres pais et provinces
adjacentes."

[1321] Requete de l'assemblee de Montauban, in Haag, La France
Protestante, x. (Pieces just.) 114-121.

[1322] Jean de Serres, iv., fols. 113, 114; De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.) 12,
13; Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 106.

[1323] Histoire du Languedoc, v. 322.

[1324] Agrippa d'Aubigne, _ubi supra_.

[1325] Jean de Serres, iv. (lib. xii.) fol. 114; D'Aubigne and De Thou,
_ubi supra_. See also Languet (Epistolae secretae, i. 216), who, writing
November 14, 1573, considers the Huguenots to be virtually demanding the
re-enactment of the edict of January, 1562.

[1326] De Thou and D'Aubigne, _ubi supra_. Hist. du Languedoc, v. 322:
"pourvu que lesdits de la religion donnent ordre de leur part, qu'il ne
soit entrepris aucune chose au contraire, comme il est avenu ces jours
passes, ce que je leur defens tres-expressement." Charles IX. to Damville,
Oct. 18, 1573. Unfortunately, neither the promise nor the condition was
observed over scrupulously.

[1327] The king's aunt, the Duchess of Savoy, his mother, and his brothers
of Anjou and Alencon.

[1328] Relazione di Giov. Michiel, 1561, Tommaseo, i. 418-420.

[1329] De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.) 18.

[1330] Of this Queen Elizabeth reminded La Mothe Fenelon in a conversation
reported by him June 3, 1573, Corr. dipl., v. 345, 346.

[1331] La Mothe Fenelon to Charles IX., July 26, 1573, Corr. dipl., v.
382.

[1332] The story was certainly not invented by his mother, "comme il
estoit sorty de sa derniere maladye _aussy jaune que cuyvre, tout bouffy,
deffigure, bien fort petit et mince_." No wonder that Leicester, while
expressing the hope that the account might be false, hinted that it
operated against the proposed marriage. La Mothe Fenelon to Charles IX.,
November 11, 1573, Correspondance diplomatique, v. 443.

[1333] Despatch of Aug. 20, ibid., v. 394.

[1334] The correspondence of La Mothe Fenelon, as preserved, is not
destitute of interest. See volumes v. and vi., _passim_; as also Le
Laboureur, Additions a Castelnau, vol. iii., pp. 350, _seq._

[1335] De Thou, v. 12.

[1336] "Achten's dafuer dieweil es den Franzos