Mothe Fenelon's
despatch of January 20, 1569. Correspondance diplomatique, i. 137, 138.
Another letter of a later date gives even larger figures--30,000 foot
(25,000 of them arquebusiers) and 7,000 or 8,000 horse, besides recruits
expected from Montauban. Ibid., i. 147.

[614] Upwards of 23,000 horse and 200 ensigns of foot (which we may
perhaps reckon at 40,000 men). Despatch of La Mothe Fenelon, Dec. 5, 1568,
Corresp. diplomatique, i. 29.

[615] Memoires de Tavannes, iii. 38. De Thou, iv. 154, assigns 18,000 foot
and 3,000 horse to Conde; and 12,000 foot and 4,000 horse, exclusive of
the Swiss (who, according to Tavannes, numbered 6,000), to Anjou.

[616] Jean de Serres, iii. 295, 296.

[617] "Resolution qui sembloit la plus necessaire aux Reformez, pource que
difficilement pouvoient-ils maintenir une telle troupe sans solde et sans
magazins reglez." Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c. 6 (i. 273).

[618] See "Tableau des phenomenes meteorologiques, astronomiques, etc.,
mentionnes dans les Memoires de Claude Haton."

[619] Jean de Serres, iii. 304, 305; De Thou, iv. (liv. xliv.) 159.

[620] "Cette Roine, _n'aiant de femme que le sexe_, l'ame entiere aux
choses viriles, l'esprit puissant aux grands affaires, le coeur invincible
aux adversitez." Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 8.

[621] Jean de Serres, iii. 306, 307.

[622] Jean de Serres, iii. 296, 297; Relation sent from La Rochelle, La
Mothe Fenelon, i. 173. The Prince of Conde had also made a solemn
protestation in writing, and before a large assembly, before entering upon
any belligerent acts. The substance of these frequent documents is so
similar that I have deemed it unnecessary to do more than refer to it. See
J. de Serres, iii. 249, 250. The Huguenot soldiers had, at the same time,
taken an oath to support the cause until the achievement of a peace
securing the undisturbed enjoyment of life, honors and religious liberty,
and to submit to a careful military discipline. Ibid., iii. 251, 252-255,
where the oath and a summary of the rules of discipline are inserted.

[623] "Projet d'alliance du Prince d'Orange avec l'Amiral de Coligny et le
Prince de Conde pour obtenir entiere liberte de conscience dans les
Pays-Bas et en France. Le--aout l'an 1568." Groen Van Prinsterer, Archives
de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, iii. 282-286.

[624] Letter of Favelles (Dec., 1568), Groen Van Prinsterer, Archives,
etc., iii. 312-316.

[625] He was not a "marechal," as Mr. Motley inadv