e. Duc d'Aumale, Princes de Conde, Pieces justif., i.
363.

[117] Sir T. Chaloner, ambassador in Spain, to Sir Nicholas Throkmorton,
May 1, 1562, Haynes, State Papers, 382, 383.

[118] April 17th. Mem. de Conde, iii. 281-284.

[119] May 15th and 16th, Mem. de Conde, iii. 284-287.

[120] Froude, History of England, vii. 404.

[121] Throkmorton to the queen, April 1, 1562, State Paper Office.

[122] Cecil to Mundt, March 22, 1562, State Paper Office.

[123] Wm. Hawes to Throkmorton, July 15, 1562, State Paper Office.

[124] Hist. eccles., iii. 143-145; De Thou, iii. 233, 234.

[125] Almost all the members of Conde's council favored a call upon the
German Protestant princes for prompt support. But "the admiral broke off
this plan of theirs, saying that he would prefer to die rather than
consent that those of the religion should be the first to bring foreign
troops into France." It was, therefore, concluded to send two gentlemen to
Germany, to remain there until the conclusion of the war, in order to
explain the position of the Huguenots. Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii.
23.

[126] Mem. de Conde, i. 79, 80. Cf. Baum, ii., App., 177.

[127] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 14; Mem. de Conde, i. 81-83, and
iii. 256; De Thou, iii. 143.

[128] "Que sans sa venue a Paris, il fust arrive vers les Pasques, plus de
quinze centz chevaulx de tous costez du royaume, pour saccager la ville,"
etc. Response a la Declaration que faict le Prince de Conde, etc. Mem. de
Conde, iii. 242.

[129] Mem. de Conde, iii. 388-391; Hist, eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 30,
31; Jean de Serres, ii. 63; De Thou, iii. 152.

[130] J. de Serres, ii. 112-117; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 27-29;
Mem. de Conde, iii. 392, 393; De Thou, iii. 153, 154.

[131] Jean de Serres, ii. 118-150; Mem. de Conde, iii. 395-416; Hist.
eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 32-46; De Thou, iii. 154-157. It is incredible
that, as De Thou suggests, this answer should have been penned by Montluc,
Bishop of Valence. On the other hand, it bears every mark of having
proceeded from the pen of that learned, eloquent, and sprightly writer,
Theodore Beza. As a literary production it fully deserves the warm
encomium passed upon it by Professor Baum: "It is a masterpiece in respect
both to the arrangement and to the treatment of the matter; and, with its
truly Demosthenian strength, may, with confidence, be placed by the side
of the most eloquent passages to which the French language