upra_.

[433] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. vi., c. iv., c. v.; La Noue, c. xi.; De
Thou, iv. (liv. xlii.) 5, 6. Davila, l. iv., p. 110, alludes to the
accusation, extorted from Protestant prisoners on the rack, that "the
chief scope of this enterprise was to murder the king and queen, with all
her other children, that the crown might come to the Prince of Conde," but
admits that it was not generally credited. The curate of Saint Barthelemi
is less charitable; describing the rising of the Protestants, he says: "En
ung vendredy 27e se partirent de toutes les villes de France les
huguenots, sans qu'on leur eust dit mot, mais ils craignoient que si on
venoit au dessein de leur entreprise qui estoit de prendre ou tuer le roy
Charles neuvieme, qu'on ne les saccagea es villes." Journal d'un cure
ligueur (J. de la Fosse), 85.

[434] La Noue, and De Thou, _ubi supra_.

[435] The historian, Michel de Castelnau, sieur de Mauvissiere, had been
sent as a special envoy to congratulate the Duke of Alva on his safe
arrival, and the Duchess of Parma on her relief. As he was returning from
Brussels, he received, from some Frenchmen who joined him, a very
circumstantial account of the contemplated rising of the Huguenots, and,
although he regarded the story as an idle rumor, he thought it his duty to
communicate it to the king and queen. Memoires, liv. vi., c. iv.

[436] Mem. de Castelnau, _ubi supra_. It is probable that the French court
partook of Cardinal Granvelle's conviction, expressed two years before,
that the Huguenots would find it difficult to raise money or procure
foreign troops for another war, not having paid for those they had
employed in the last war, nor holding the strongholds they then held.
Letter of May 7, 1565, Papiers d'etat, ix. 172.

[437] Mem. du duc de Bouillon (Ancienne Collection), xlvii. 421.

[438] La Fosse, p. 86, represents Charles as exclaiming, when he entered
the Porte Saint Denis: "Qu'il estoit tenu a Dieu, et qu'il y avoit quinze
heures qu'il estoit a cheval, et avoit eust trois alarmes."

[439] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. vi., c. v.; La Noue, c. xiii. (Anc. Coll.,
xlvii. 180-185); De Thou, iv. 8; J. de Serres, iii. 129-131; La Fosse, 86;
Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ., i. 210.

[440] "Ravi d'avoir allume le feu de la guerre," says De Thou, iv. 9.

[441] De Thou, _ubi supra_.

[442] The circumstance of two messengers, each bearing letters from the
same person, while the letters made no allusion to e