en gelungen das sie das
Koenigreich Polen ann sich practicirt, das sie darvon so hochmuethig wordenn
das sie muessen nun Hern der ganze weltt werdenn."

[1337] Letters of Landgrave William, Sept. 8th, Oct. 17th and Nov. 6th,
1573, Groen van Prinsterer, iv. 116*, 118*, 123*. See also Soldan, ii.
552-556, who, as usual, is very full and satisfactory in everything
bearing upon the relations of France to Germany. Rudolph, Maximilian's
son, who succeeded his father three years later, was unfortunately far
from embodying the excellences desired by the landgrave. It may be
questioned whether the Protestants of Germany would have fared worse even
under a Valois than under this degenerate Hapsburger.

[1338] Louis of Nassau to William of Orange, December, 1573. Groen van
Prinsterer, iv. 278-281.

[1339] Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic, ii. 534-538. J. de Serres, iv.,
fol. 134, gives the date as April 17th. This volume of Serres was
published in the succeeding year, 1575.

[1340] The writer of an anonymous letter (now in the library of Prince
Czartoryski), who saw Henry as he rode into Heidelberg, with Louis of
Nassau on his right hand, and Duke Christopher, the elector's son, on his
left, thus describes his personal appearance: "Homo procera statura,
corpore gracili, facie oblonga pallida, oculis paululum prominentibus,
vultu subtruculento, indutus pallio holoserico rubri coloris." Heidelberg
letter "de transitu Henrici," etc., Dec. 22, 1573, _apud_ Marquis de
Noailles, Henri de Valois et la Pologne (Paris, 1867), iii. (Pieces
justif.), 532.

[1341] Germany seems to have been full of blind rumors of treacherous
designs on the part of its French neighbors. I have before me a pamphlet
of little historical value, and evidently intended for popular
circulation, entitled "Entdeckung etlicher heimlichen Practicken, so
jetzund vorhanden wider unser geliebtes Vatterland, die Teutsche Nation,
was man gaentzlich willens und ins werck zubringen, gegen den Evangelischen
fuergenommen habe, durch einen guthertzigen und getrewen Christen unserm
Vatterland zu guetem an tag geben. M.D.LXXIII."

[1342] De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.), 22; Mem. de Pierre de Lestoile (ed.
Michaud et Poujoulat), i. 27.

[1343] "Was sich in Franckreich zugetragen, weiss man auch."

[1344] The minute of the conversation drawn up by the elector palatine
with his own hand, and printed by Lalanne in the appendix to the fourth
volume of his edition of Brantome's Work