170, 171. Coupled with demands for
the restitution of the edict without restriction or modification, the
prohibition of insults, the protection of the churches, the permission to
hold synods, the recognition of Protestant marriages, and that the
religion be no longer styled "new," "inasmuch as it is founded on the
ancient teaching of the Prophets and Apostles," we find the Huguenot
ministers, true to the spirit of the age, insisting upon "the rigorous
punishment of all Atheists, Libertines, Anabaptists, Servetists, and other
heretics and schismatics."

[256] The text of the edict of Amboise is given by Isambert, Recueil des
anc. lois franc., xiv. 135-140; J. de Serres, ii. 347-357; Hist. eccles.
des egl. ref., ii. 172-176; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. (liv. iii.) 192-195. See
Pasquier, Lettres (OEuvres choisies), ii. 260.

[257] Smith to the queen, April 1, 1563, in Duc d'Aumale, Princes de
Conde, i. Documents, 439.

[258] Smith to D'Andelot, March 13, 1563, State Paper Office.

[259] Journal de Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 125: "de expresso Regis
mandato iteratis vicibus facto." Claude Haton is scarcely more
complimentary than Bruslart: "elle (la paix) estoit faicte du tout au
desavantage de l'honneur de Dieu, de la religion catholicque et de
l'authorite du jeune roy et repos public de son royaume." Memoires, i.
327, 328.

[260] Elizabeth of England was herself, apparently, awakening to the
importance of the struggle, and new troops subsidized by her would soon
have entered France from the German borders. "This day," writes Cecil to
Sir Thomas Smith, ambassador at Paris, Feb. 27, 1562/3, "commission
passeth hence to the comte of Oldenburg to levy eight thousand footemen
and four thousand horse, who will, I truste, passe into France with spede
and corradg. He is a notable, grave, and puissant captayn, and fully bent
to hazard his life in the cause of religion." Th. Wright, Queen Elizabeth
and her Times, i. 125. But Elizabeth's troops, like Elizabeth's money,
came too late. Of the latter, Admiral Coligny plainly told Smith a few
weeks later: "If we could have had the money at Newhaven (Havre) _but one
xiii daies sooner_, we would have talked with them after another sorte,
and would not have bene contented with this accord." Smith to the queen,
April 1, 1563, in Duc d'Aumale, i. 439.

[261] Letter from Orleans, March 30, 1563, MSS. State Paper Office, Duc
d'Aumale, i. 411.

[262] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 203. Theo