and instead of
exhibiting displeasure at Poynings's presumption, seemed disposed to blame
him that he had not sent a thousand men instead, for his fault would have
been no greater. Dudley to Cecil, Oct. 30, 1562, Forbes, State Papers, ii.
155.

[176] De Thou, iii. 328; Froude, vii. 436; Sir Thomas Smith to
Throkmorton, Paris, Oct. 17, 1562, Forbes, State Papers, ii. 117.

[177] "But thei will have there preaching still. Thei will have libertie
of their religion, and thei will have no garrison wythin the towne, but
will be masters therof themselves: and upon this point thei stand."
Despatch of Sir Thomas Smith, Poissy, Oct. 20, 1562, Forbes, State Papers,
ii. 123.

[178] The plundering lasted eight days. While the Swiss obeyed orders, and
promptly desisted, "the French suffered themselves to be killed rather
than quit the place whilst there was anything left." Castelnau, liv. iii.,
c. 13. The _cure_ of Meriot waxes jocose over the incidents of the
capture: "Tout ce qui fut trouve en armes par les rues et sur les
murailles fut passe par le fil de l'espee. La ville fut mise au pillage
par les soldatz du camp, qui se firent gentis compaignons. _Dieu scait que
ceux qui estoient mal habillez pour leur yver_ (hiver) _ne s'en allerent
sans robbe neufve._ Les huguenotz de la ville furent en tout maltraictez,"
etc. Mem. de Claude Haton, i. 288.

[179] On the siege of Rouen, see the graphic account of De Thou, iii.
(liv. xxxiii.) 328-335; the copious correspondence of the English envoys
in France, Forbes, State Papers, vol. ii.; the Hist. eccles. des egl.
ref., ii. 389-396 (and Marlorat's examination and sentence _in extenso_,
398-404); J. de Serres, ii. 259; La Noue, c. viii.; Davila (interesting,
and not so inaccurate here as usual, perhaps because he had a
brother-in-law, Jean de Hemery, sieur de Villers, in the Roman Catholic
army, but who greatly exaggerates the Huguenot forces), ch. iii. 73-75;
Castelnau, liv. iii., c. 13.

[180] It is to be noted, however, that the order of the Prince of Conde,
in the case of Sapin (November 2, 1562), makes no mention of the judicial
murder of Marlorat, but alleges only his complicity with parliament in
imprisoning the king, his mother, and the King of Navarre, in annulling
royal edicts by magisterial orders, in constraining the king's officers to
become idolaters, in declaring knights of the Order of St. Michael and
other worthy gentlemen rebels, in ordering the tocsin to be rung, and