[542] Vie de Coligny (Cologne, 1686), 349, 350; J. de Serres, iii. 166.

[543] Ibid., iii. 165; Recordon, from MSS. of N. Pithou, 155-157; MS. Mem.
historiques des Antiquites de Troyes, by Duhalle, _apud_ Bulletin de
l'hist. du prot. fr., xvii. (1868) 376. Of the royal edicts guaranteeing
the Protestants, the last author remarks that "ils firent plus de bruit
que de fruit."

[544] Duc d'Aumale, Princes de Conde, ii. 364, Pieces justificatives.

[545] J. de Serres, iii. 168; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 262.

[546] Jean de Serres does not expressly state that he refers to the
combatants, but I presume this to be his meaning.

[547] Relazione di Correro, Rel. des Amb. Ven., ii. 120.

[548] "Montauban, etc., faisoient conter les cloux de leurs portes aux
garnisons qu'on leur envoyoit." Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 261. It was the
_garrisons_ only that were refused; the royal governors were promptly
accepted. M. de Jarnac, for instance, had no difficulty in securing
recognition at La Rochelle; but he was not permitted to introduce troops
to distress and terrify the citizens. See the letters of the "Maire,
Echevins, Conseilliers et Pairs," of La Rochelle to Charles the Ninth,
April 21st, June 6th and 30th, etc. Le Laboureur, Add. aux Mem. de
Castelnau, ii. 547-551. They deny the slanderous accusation that the Roman
Catholics have not been permitted to return since the peace, asserting, on
the contrary, that they have greeted them as brethren and fellow-citizens.
They appeal to M. de Jarnac himself for testimony to the good order of La
Rochelle. "Meanwhile," they say, "we are preserving this city of yours in
all tranquillity, and maintain it, under your obedience, with much greater
security, devotion, affection, fidelity and loyalty, such as we have
received from our predecessors, than would do all others who were
strangers and mercenaries, and not its natural subjects and inhabitants."
Norris to Queen Elizabeth, June 23, 1568: "The towne of Rochelle hathe now
the thirde time bin admonished to render itself to the king." State Paper
Office, Duc d'Aumale, ii. 367.

[549] His wife, Charlotte de Laval, whose brave Christian injunctions, as
we have seen, decided the reluctant admiral to take up arms in the first
religious war (see _ante_, chapter xiii., p. 35), lay dying of a disease
contracted in her indefatigable labors for the sick and wounded soldiers
at Orleans, whilst the admiral was at the siege of Chartres. On the
conclusion of