aternities of the Holy Ghost
in Burgundy. Blaise de Montluc's proposition of a league with the king as
its head had been declined; the monarch needed no other tie to his
subjects than that which already bound them together. Agrippa d'Aubigne,
Hist. univ., liv. iv., c. v. (i. 206.)

[390] Letter of Charles IX. to M. de Matignon, July 31, 1565, _apud_
Capefigue, Hist. de la Reforme, de la Ligue, etc., ii. 419, 420. The same
letter stipulated for the better protection of the Protestants by freeing
them from domiciliary visits, etc.

[391] Maniquet to Gordes, August 1, 1565, Conde MSS. in Aumale, i. 528.

[392] Letter of Villegagnon to Granvelle, May 25, 1564, Papiers d'etat,
vii. 660. The Huguenots figure as "les _Aygnos_, c'est-a-dire, en langue
de Suisse, rebelles et conjures contre leur prince pour la liberte."

[393] Letter of May 27, 1564, Ibid., vii., 666.

[394] Letter of N. de St. Remy, June 5, 1564. Ibid., viii. 24, 25. "Le
peuple l'aymeroit trop mieulx pour roy que nul aultre de Bourbon."

[395] Catharine never forgave Ambassador Chantonnay for having boasted
that, with Throkmorton's assistance, he could overturn the State. "Jusqu'a
dire que Trokmarton, qui estoit ambassadeur d'Angleterre au commencement
de ces troubles, pour l'intelligence qu'il a avec les Huguenots, et luy
pour celle qu'il a avec les Catholiques de ce royaume, sont suffisans pour
subvertir cet Estat." Letter to the Bishop of Rennes, Dec. 13, 1563, La
Laboureur, i. 784.

[396] Granvelle to Philip II., July 15, 1565. Papiers d'etat, ix. 399,
402, etc.

[397] See Alex. Sutherland's Achievements of the Knights of Malta (Phila.,
1846), ii. 121, which contains an interesting popular account of this
memorable leaguer.

[398] Papiers d'etat du card. de Granvelle, ix. 545, etc.

[399] Giovambatista Adriani, Istoria de' suoi tempi (Ed. of Milan, 1834),
ii. 221.

[400] Sir Thomas Smith to Cecil, Nantes, Oct. 12, 1565, State Paper
Office, Calendar.

[401] Sir Thomas Smith to Leicester, Nov. 23, 1565, State Paper Office.

[402] "Al qual tempo si riservo tale esecuzione per alcuni sospetti, che
apparivano negli Ugonotti, e per difficolta di condurvegli tutti, e ancora
perche piu sicuro luogo era Parigi che Molino." Giovambatista Adriani,
Istoria de' suoi tempi (lib. decimottavo), ii. 221.

[403] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxix.) 660-664; Castelnau, liv. vi., c. ii.;
Jehan de la Fosse, 76; Davila, bk. iii. 98.

[404] The edict, of course, is not t