u, liv. vii., c. 5.

[692] De Thou, iv. 185-188; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 285; Anquetil, Esprit de
la ligue, i. 297.

[693] Discours envoye de La Rochelle a la Royne d'Angleterre. La Mothe
Fenelon, ii. 158, etc.

[694] De Thou, iv. 188; Lestoile, 22; J. de Serres, iii. 524; Castelnau,
liv. vii., c. 6.

[695] Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 7; De Thou, iv. 192; Jean de Serres, iii.
327 (who states the Roman Catholic loss as higher than given in the text).
Brantome ascribes the defeat of Strozzi to the circumstance that the
matches of _his_ troops were put out by the rain, and that his infantry,
unsupported by cavalry, was at the mercy of Mouy and the Huguenot
troopers. Colonnels fr., OEuvres, ed. Lalanne, vi. 60. But the "Discours
envoye de la Rochelle a la Royne d'Angleterre" (La Mothe Fenelon, ii. 160)
states that the Huguenots would have done much greater execution and
perhaps put an end to the dispute, "n'eust ete que, tout ce jour la, la
pluye fut si extreme et si grande que noz harquebouziers ne pouvoient plus
jouer." La Roche Abeille, or La Roche l'Abeille, is a hamlet seventeen
miles south of Limoges.

[696] According to J. A. Gabutius, the biographer of Pius V. (sec. 120, p.
646), the Pope sent 4,500 foot and 1,000 horse, and Cosmo, Duke of
Florence, 1,000 foot and 200 horse. Besides these, many nobles attached
themselves to the expedition as volunteers. Santa Fiore was instructed to
leave France _the moment he should perceive that the heretics were treated
with_. "Quod si ipse summus copiarum Dux, vel de pace vel de rerum
compositione quidquam Catholicae religioni damnosum praesentiret; [Pius V.]
imperavit e vestigio aut converso itinere in Italiam remearet, aut ad
Catholicum exercitum in Belgio cum haereticis bellantem sese conferret et
adjungeret."

[697] De Thou, iv. 192; Vie de Coligny, 364; Gasparis Colinii Vita, 81;
Jean de Serres, iii. 331. Charles IX. in a letter to La Mothe Fenelon,
from St. Germains des Pres, July 27, 1569, alludes to the successes of the
Huguenots, whom Anjou cannot resist, "ayant donne conge a la pluspart de
sa gendarmerye de s'en aller faire ung tour en leurs maisons." Corresp.
diplom., vii. 35, 36. The furlough, which was to expire on the 15th of
August, was afterward extended by Anjou to the 1st of October.

[698] See Vie de Coligny, 364; De Thou, iv. 192; Jean de Serres, iii. 345,
346.

[699] Yet the "Guisards" were never tired of asserting the contrary. Sir
Thomas Smith tells u