e Conde, Pieces inedits, i. 520.

[361] Philip II. to Alva, Dec. 14, 1563, Pap. d'etat du card. de
Granvelle, vii. 269; Alva to Philip II., Dec. 22, 1563, ib., vii. 286,
287.

[362] Granvelle to the Baron de Bolwiller, March 13, 1565, ib., ix. 61,
62.

[363] Ibid., _ubi supra_. "Je vous asseure, comme il est veritable, qu'il
n'y a aultre chose en cecy que simple visitation de fille a mere."

[364] Prof. Kluckholn, strangely enough, speaks of Jean de Serres's
Commentarii de statu relig., etc., as "zuerst im Jahre, 1575, erschienen"
(Zur Geschichte des angeb. Buendnisses von Bayonne, Abhand. der k. bayer.
Akademie, Muenchen, 1868, p. 151). I have before me the earlier edition of
1571, containing verbatim the passage he quotes, with a single unimportant
exception--"ecclesiarum" instead of "religiosorum."

[365] J. de Serres, Comment, de statu reipublicae et religionis in Gallia
regno, Carolo IX. rege (1571), iii. 92. The Prince of Conde, in his long
petition sent to Charles, Aug. 23, 1568, at the outbreak of the Third
Civil War, says expressly in reference to events a year preceding the
Second War: "Quandoquidem ego et alii Religionis reformatae viri fuerimus
jampridem admoniti de inito Baionae consilio cum Hispano, ad eos omnes
plane delendos atque exterminandos qui Religionem reformatam in tuo regno
profiteantur." Ibid., iii. 200.

[366] The remark is said to have been accidentally overheard by Henry of
Navarre, afterward Henry the Fourth, of whose presence little account was
taken in consequence of his youth. (He was just eleven years and a half
old.) But his intimate follower, Agrippa d'Aubigne, would have been likely
to give him as authority, had this been the case. He only says: "Les plus
licentieux faisoient leur profit d'un terme du Duc d'Alve a Baionne, que
dix mille grenouilles ne valloient pas la teste d'un saumon." Hist. univ.,
liv. iv., c. v. (i. 206). Jean de Serres, _ubi supra_, iii. 125, gives the
expression in nearly the same words: "Satius esse unicum salmonis caput,
quam mille ranarum capita habere."

[367] Smith to Leicester and Cecil, July 2-29, 1565, State Paper Office,
Calendar, 403.

[368] "On apelloit ce bon prelat 'le cardinal des bouteilles,'" says
Lestoile, "pource qu'il les aimoit fort, et ne se mesloit gueres d'autres
affaires que de celles de la cuisine, ou il se connoissoit fort bien, et
les entendoit mieux que celles de la religion et de l'estat." In
chronicling the death of Louis,