y subsequently to the conclusion of peace returned
and completed his work of devastation. Conde to Charles IX., April 5,
1568, MS., Archives du dep. du Nord, _apud_ Duc d'Aumale, i. 572.

[515] "Nous avons fait la folie, ne trouvons donc estrange si nous la
beuvons. Toutefois il y a apparence que le breuvage sera amer." La Noue,
_ubi supra_.

[516] De Thou, iv. 55, 56; Jean de Serres, Comm. de statu, etc., iii. 160;
Conde's petition of Aug. 23d, ibid., iii. 218; Mem. de Claude Haton, i.
357-359, who, however, makes the singular blunder of placing the incident
of Rapin's death after the peace of Amboise in 1563. The cure's
description of the zeal of the Toulouse parliament for the Roman Catholic
Church confirms everything that Protestant writers have said on the
subject: "Laditte court de parlement avoit tousjours resiste a laditte
pretendue religion et faict executer ceux qui en faisoient profession,
nonobstant edict a ce contraire faict en faveur d'iceux huguenotz." See
also Raoul de Cazenove, Rapin-Thoyras, sa famille, sa vie, et ses oeuvres
(Paris, 1866), 47-49--a truly valuable work, and a worthy tribute to a
distinguished ancestry.

[517] "Edictum promulgant, hac addita exceptione, _Reservatis clausulis
quae secreto Senatus commentario continentur_." J. de Serres, iii. 160,
161; De Thou, _ubi supra_. See the petition of Conde of Aug. 23d. J. de
Serres, iii. 220, etc.

[518] Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 527, etc.

[519] "Sire," said a nobleman, after listening to the arguments against
the peace made by some of the remonstrants, and to Charles's replies, "it
is too much to undertake to dispute with these canting knaves; it were
better to have them strapped in the kitchen by your turnspits." Ibid., ii.
530.

[520] Playing upon the chancellor's name, Sainte Foy, one of the court
preachers, exclaimed in the pulpit: "Be not astonished if the Huguenots
demolish the churches, for they have turned all France into a _hospital_
instead"--"donnant a entendre que par le chancelier nomme Hospital, la
France estoit pauvre, pourtant qu'il a par trop encore de douceur pour les
huguenots qui ont ruine le pais de France." Jehan de la Fosse, 93, 94.

[521] Floquet, Hist. du parlement de Normandie, iii. 36-42.

[522] Memoires de Claude Haton, ii. 533, 534. Similar regulations were
made in many other places "cumplurimis in locis." Jean de Serres, iii.
156.

[523] Jean de Serres, iii. 158, 159.

[524] De Thou, iv. 77, 78; Castel