serenissimam dominam Joannam Albretiam, reginam Navarrae,
Mem. de Conde, iv. 669-679; and Vauvilliers, Histoire de Jeanne d'Albret,
iii. Pieces justif., 221-240. It is dated Tuesday, September 28, 1563. De
Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 442. The Card. de la Bourdaisiere (_ubi supra_)
merely says: "Tout le monde dit a Rome, que la Reine de Navarre fut aussi
privee audit Consistoire, mais il n'en est rien, bien est-elle citee."
Mem. de Castelnau, liv. v., c. ix.

[302] It needed no very extraordinary penetration to read "Philip" under
the words of the monitorium: "Ita ut in casu contraventionis (quod Deus
avertat) et contumaciae, regnum, principatus, ac alia cujuscunque status et
dominia hujuscemodi, dentur et dari possint _cuilibet illa occupanti, vel
illi aut illis quibus Sanctitati suae et successoribus suis dare et
concedere magis placuerit_."

[303] Summary of the protest in De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 441-447; and
Vauvilliers, ii. 7-17; in full in Mem. de Conde, iv. 680-684. "Quant au
fait de la Reine de Navarre, qui est celuy qui importe le plus, ledit
sieur d'Oysel aura charge de luy faire bien entendre," says Catharine in a
long letter to Bishop Bochetel (_ubi infra_), "qu'il n'a nulle autorite et
jurisdiction sur ceux qui portent titre de Roy ou de Reine, et que ce
n'est a luy de donner leur estats et royaumes en proye au premier
conquerant."

[304] See the interesting letter of Catharine to Bochetel, Bishop of
Rennes, French ambassador at Vienna, Dec. 13, 1563, in which the papal
assumption is stigmatized as dangerous to the peace of Christendom. "De
nostre part nous sommes deliberez de ne le permettre ny consentir," she
says, and she is persuaded that neither Ferdinand nor Maximilian will
consent. Le Laboureur, i. 783.

[305] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 447. Castelnau (liv. v., c. ix.) gives a
wrong impression by his assertion that "the Pope could never be induced to
reverse the sentence against the Queen of Navarre."

[306] Le Laboureur, ii. 610, 611; Brantome, Hommes illustres (OEuvres, ix.
259). We cannot accept, without much caution, the portraits drawn of the
prince by the English while they were still smarting with resentment
against him for concluding peace with the king without securing the claims
of Elizabeth upon Calais. "The Prince of Conde," wrote Sir Thomas Smith,
April 13, 1563, "is thought ... to be waxen almost a new King of Navarre.
So thei which are most zelous for the religion are marvelously of