mber of six,
were lykewise taken and slayne, as the Frenche tearme it, de sang froid."
Wright, Queen Elizabeth, i. 314. See also Cardinal Chatillon's letter to
the Elector Palatine, June 10, 1569, in which the writer declares
significantly of Conde's murder by Montesquiou, "ce qu'il n'eust ose
entreprendre sans en avoir commandement _des plus grands_." Kluckholn,
Briefe Friedrich des Frommen, ii. 336.

[661] Letter of Henry of Navarre to the Duke of Anjou, "escript au Camp
d'Availle le xiie jour de juillet 1569." Lettres inedites de Henry IV.
recueillies par le Prince Augustin Galitzin (Paris. 1860), 4-11.

[662] The Huguenot loss is given by Jean de Serres (iii. 316) at 200
killed and 40 taken prisoners. Agrippa d'Aubigne states it at 140
gentilhommes (Hist. univ., i. 280). The Earl of Leicester's words are: "In
which conflicte was slayne on both sydes, as we heare, not above foure
hundred men" (Wright, Queen Elizabeth, i. 313, 314). Castelnau speaks of
over a hundred Huguenot gentlemen slain and an equal number taken
prisoners (liv. vii., c. 4). The "Adviz donne par Mr Norrys, ambassadeur
pour la royne d'Angleterre, prins de ses lettres, envoyees de Metz, le 18
d'Avril" (La Mothe Fenelon, i. 362), agrees with Leicester, but is unique
in making Anjou's loss greater than that of the Huguenots. De Thou makes
the Protestants lose 400. The untruthful Davila says, "the Huguenots lost
not above seven hundred men, but they were most of them gentlemen and
cavaliers of note."

[663] Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 281. La Fosse and others have preserved one of
the good Catholic stanzas composed on this occasion:

L'an mil cinq cent soixante et neuf
Entre Congnac et Chateauneuf
Fust apporte sur une anesse
Le grand ennemi de la messe.
(Journal d'un cure ligueur, 104.)

[664] "On donna l'honneur de cette defaicte a M. de Tavannes." La Fosse,
104.

[665] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlv.) 177. Claude de Sainctes, afterward Bishop
of Evreux, who, it will be remembered, figured at the colloquy of Poissy,
is credited with the suggestion of the chapel.

[666] The principal authorities consulted for the battle of Jarnac, or of
Bassac, as it is also frequently called, from the abbey near which it
raged, are: Jean de Serres, iii. 309-315; De Thou, iv. (liv. xlv.)
173-176; Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 4; Ag. d'Aubigne, i. 278-281; Le vray
discours de la bataille donnee par monsieur le 13. iour de Mars, 1569,
entre Chasteauneu