[2] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 428, 429. The letter is followed by an examination of the edict, article by article, as affecting the Protestants. Ib. i. 429-431. [3] Abbe Bruslart, Mem. de Conde. i. 70. Barbaro spoke the universal sentiment of the bigoted wing of the papal party when he described "the decree" as "full of concealed poison," as "the most powerful means of advancing the new religion," as "an edict so pestiferous and so poisonous, that it brought all the calamities that have since occurred." Tommaseo, Rel. des Amb. Ven., ii. 72. [4] Claude Haton, 211. "Et longtemps depuis ne faisoient sermon qu'ilz _Acab_ et _Hiesabel_ et leurs persecutions ne fussent mis par eux en avant," etc. In fact, Catharine seemed fated to have her name linked to that of the infamous Queen of Israel. A Protestant poem, evidently of a date posterior to the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, is still extant in the National Library of Paris, in which the comparison of the two is drawn out at full length. The one was the ruin of Israel, the other of France. The one maintained idolatry, the other papacy. The one slew God's holy prophets, the other has slain a hundred thousand followers of the Gospel. Both have killed, in order to obtain the goods of their victims. But the unkindest verses are the last--even the very dogs will refuse to touch Catharine's "carrion." "En fin le jugement fut tel Que les chiens mengent Jhesabel Par une vangeance divine; Mais la charongne de Catherine Sera differente en ce point, Car les chiens ne la vouldront point." Appendix to Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 1, 110. [5] _Ante_, i. 477. [6] Mem. de Claude Haton, 211, 212. [7] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 431. [8] Abbe Bruslart, Mem. de Conde. i. 70, 71. [9] Declaration of Feb. 14, 1561/2, Du Mont, Corps diplomatique, v. 91, 92. [10] And, indeed, with modifications which were to render it still more severe. Letter of Beza to Calvin, Feb. 26, 1562, Baum, ii., App., 167. [11] The registry took place on Friday, March 6th. Isambert, xiv. 124; La Fosse, 45, who says "Ledict edict fut publie en la salle du palais en ung vendredy, 5e [6e] de ce moys, _la ou il y eut bien peu de conseillers et le president Baillet qui signerent_." [12] The same prelate to whom Cardinal Lorraine doubtless referred in no complimentary terms, when, at the assembly of the clergy at Poissy, he said, "qu'il estoit contrainct de dire, _Duodecim sumus, sed unus ex nobis Diabolus est_, et passant plus outre, qu'il y avoit ung evesque de la compagnie ... qui avoit revele ce qui se faisoit en laditte assemblee," etc. Journal de Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 50. [13] See the document in Schlosser, Leben des Theodor de Beze, App., 359-361; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 436, 437.