[52] "Combien que le Chancelier luy dict, qu'il n'y esperoit plus rien, qu'elle n'avoit point de resolution, qu'il la congnoissoit bien." Memoires de la vie de Jehan l'Archevesque, Sieur de Soubise, printed from the hitherto unknown MS. in the Bulletin, xxiii. (1874), 458, 459. [53] Four of the seven letters that constituted the whole correspondence are printed in the Mem. de Conde, iii. 213-215. Jean de Serres gives two of them in his Comment. de statu rel. et reip., ii. 38, 39. They were laid by Conde's envoy before the princes of Germany, as evidence that he had not taken up arms without the best warrant, and that he could not in any way be regarded as a rebel. They contain no allusion to any promise to lay down his arms so soon as she sent him word--the pretext with which she strove at a later time to palliate, in the eyes of the papal party at home and abroad, a rather awkward step. The cure of Meriot, while admitting the genuineness of the letters, observes: "La cautelle et malice de la dame estoit si grande, qu'elle se delectoit de mettre les princes en division et hayne les ungs contre les aultres, affin qu'elle regnast et qu'elle demeurast gouvernante seulle de son filz et du royaume." Mem. de Cl. Haton, i. 269. The queen mother's exculpatory statements may be examined in Le Laboureur, Add. aux Mem. de Castelnau, i. 763, 764. [54] Bruslart, in Mem. de Conde, i. 75, 76; J. de Serres, ii. 20; La Fosse, 46; De Thou, iii. 134. The date is variously given--March 17th or 18th. [55] J. de Serres, ii. 21; De Thou, _ubi supra_; the Prince of Conde's declaration of the causes which have constrained him to undertake the defence of the royal authority, etc., _ap._ Mem. de Conde, iii. 222, etc.; same in Latin in J. de Serres, ii. 46. [56] Throkmorton to the queen, March 20, State Paper Office. [57] March 23d. "Ce meme jour (lundi xxiii.) le Prince de Conde s'en partit de Paris pour s'en aller a une sienne maison, combien qu'il avoit dict qu'il ne bougeroit de Paris que M. de Guise ne s'en fut parti." Journal anonyme de l'an 1562, _ap._ Baum, iii. App., 175, note. [58] Letter of March 28th, Baum, ii., App., 175, 176. [59] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 3. [60] Letter to Fonssomme, OEuvres choisies, ii. 248. [61] One of the latest exploits of the populace was the disinterring of a Huguenot buried in the cemetery of the Holy Innocents, and throwing his body into a public sewer! March 15th, Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 45. [62] "Je cuide que si les novices des couvens et les chambrieres des prestres seulement se fussent presentez a l'impourveue avec des bastons de cotterets (cotrets) es mains, que cela leur eust fait tenir bride." Mem. de la Noue, c. ii. [63] Circular letter dated Paris, March 25th, _apud_ Baum, ii., App., 172.