I see such a reparation
as our friendship demands." (Gaffarel, 437.)

[Sidenote: Sanguinary revenge of De Gourgues, April, 1568.]

The French ambassador continued to press his claim, and, in
particular, to demand the release of the French prisoners,
even up to near the time when a private citizen, Dominique de
Gourgues, undertook to avenge his country's wrongs while
satisfying his thirst for personal revenge. De Gourgues was
not, as has usually been supposed, a Huguenot; he had even
been an adherent of Montluc and of the house of Guise
(Gaffarel, 265). But, having been captured in war by the
Spaniards, in 1566, he had been made a galley-slave. From that
time he had vowed irreconcilable hatred against the Catholic
king. He obtained a long-deferred satisfaction when, in April,
1568, he surprised the fort of Caroline, slew most of the
Spanish soldiers, and placed over the remainder--spared only
for the more ignominious punishment of hanging upon the same
trees to which Huguenots had been suspended--the inscription,
burned with a hot iron on a pine slab: "I do this not as to
Spaniards, nor as to seamen, but as to traitors, robbers, and
murderers." (The words are given with slight variations. See
"La Reprinse de la Floride par le Cappitaine Gourgue,"
reprinted by Gaffarel, 483-515; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 354-356;
De Thou, iv. 123-126.)

FOOTNOTES:

[265] Froude, Hist. of England, vii. 519. Seethe courteous summons of
Charles, April 30, 1563, Forbes, State Papers, ii. 404, 405, and
Elizabeth's answer, May 7th, ibid., ii. 409-411; Conde's offer in his
letter of June 26, 1563, Forbes, ii. 442. See also the extended
correspondence of the English envoys, in the inedited documents published
by the Duc d'Aumale, Princes de Conde, i. 423-500.

[266] Froude, vii. 520; Castelnau, liv. v., c. ii. Compare Forbes, ii.
422.

[267] "The plage dothe increace here dayly, wherby our nombres are decayde
within these fowr days in soche sorte, as we have not remayning at this
present (in all our judgements) 1500 able men in this towne. They dye nowe
in bothe these peces upon the point of 100 a daye, so as we can not geyt
men to burye theym," etc. Warwick to the Privy Council, July 11, 1563.
Forbes, ii. 458.

[268] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 417-420; Mem. de Castelnau, liv. v., c.
ii. and iii.; Cimber et Danjou, v. 229; S