ve deprived us of all that
it was in their power to take from us, and if it be God's will that we
never recover what we have lost, still we shall be happy, and our
condition will be a good one, inasmuch as these losses have not arisen
from any harm done by us to those who have brought them upon us, but
solely from the hatred they bear toward me for the reason that it has
pleased God to make use of me in assisting His Church."

[719] Jean de Serres, iii. 356, 357; Mem. of Coligny, 136; De Thou, iv.
216, 217; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 302.

[720] Jean de Serres, iii. 363; De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.) 221; Castelnau,
vii., c. 8.

[721] De Thou, iv. 216; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 302. The place was also
known by the name of Foie la Vineuse.

[722] Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 305.

[723] In the heat of the engagement, the excited imaginations of the
combatants even saw visions of celestial champions, as Theseus was fabled
to have appeared at Marathon. A renegade Protestant captain afterward
assured the Cardinal of Alessandria that on that eventful day he had seen
in mid-air an array of warriors with refulgent armor and blood-red swords,
threatening the Huguenot lines in which he fought; and he had instantly
embraced the Roman Catholic faith, and vowed perpetual service under the
banners of the pontiff. There were others, we are told, to corroborate his
account of the prodigy. Joannis Antonii Gabutii Vita Pii Quinti Papae (Acta
Sanctorum, Maii 5), Sec. 125, pp. 647, 648.

[724] Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 307. "Ne se trouva oncques gens plus fidelles
au camp catholicque que lesditz estrangers, et singulierement les Suisses,
lesquelz ne pardonnerent a ung seul de leur nation germanique de ceux qui
tomberent en leurs mains." Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 582.

[725] "Che non avesse il comandamanto di lui osservato d'ammazzar subito
qualunque heretico gli fosse venuto alle mani." Catena, Vita di Pio V.,
_apud_ White, Mass. of St. Bartholomew, 305, and De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.)
228. With singular inconsistency--so impossible is it generally to carry
out these horrible theories of extermination--the Roman pontiff himself
afterward liberated D'Acier without exacting any ransom. De Thou, _ubi
supra_. "Si Santafiore lui avoit obei," says an annotator, "Jacques de
Crussol (D'Acier) ne se seroit pas converti, et n'auroit pas laisse une si
illustre poterite."

[726] On the battle of Moncontour, consult J. de Serres, iii. 357-362; De
Thou, iv. 224-228; Ca