[139] Unlucky Bishop Montluc has received the doubtful credit of having laid this pretty snare for the Huguenot chiefs, but with what reason it is beyond my ability to conjecture. The same brain could scarcely have indited the bitter reply to the petition of the triumvirs, and devised the cunning project of entangling their opponents. Evidently the Bishop of Valence has received some honors to which he is not entitled. [140] Mem. de Guise, 494; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 59. "Conclusion," says the duke in his confidence in the success of his project, "la religion reformee, en nous conduisant et tenant bon, comme nous ferons jusques au bout, s'en va aval l'eau, et les admiraux, mal ce qui est possible: toutes nos forces entierement demeurent, les leurs rompues, les villes rendues sans parler d'edits ne de presches et administration de sacremens a leur mode." A memorandum of eight articles from the triumvirs to Navarre, seized at the same time, showed the intention to arrest the Prince of Conde. Ib., ii. 60. [141] J. de Serres, ii. 170-180; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., _ubi supra_; De Thou, iii. 164-168. Harangue of Bishop Spifame to the emperor, Le Laboureur, Add. aux Mem. de Castelnau, ii. 28-38. Memoires de Jehan de l'Archevesque, Sieur de Soubise, Bulletin, xxiii. (1874) 460, 461. [142] La Noue, c. v., p. 597; De Thou, iii. 168, 169, etc. [143] J. de Serres, ii. 180; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 61, 62. [144] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 62; La Noue, c. iv. [145] La Noue, c. vii., p. 600. "Ledict seigneur prince de Conde," says Jean Glaumeau of Bourges, in his journal, "voyant qu'il ne pouvoit avoir raison avec son ennemy et qu'il ne le pouvoit rencontrer, ayant une armee de viron trente ou quarante milles hommes, de peur qu'ilz n'adurassent (endurassent) fain ou soif, commence a les separer et envoya en ceste ville de Bourges, tant de cheval que de pied, viron quatre milles, et y arriverent le samedi xie jour de juillet." Bulletin, v. (1857) 387. [146] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 61. [147] "Si celle-cy y faut, nous ferons la croix a la cheminee." Mem. de la Noue, c. vi. 598, 599. [148] The author of the Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 61, regards the failure of the confederates promptly to put to the death--as Admiral Coligny and others had insisted upon their doing--a Baron de Courtenay, who had outraged a village girl, and their placing him under a guard from which he succeeded in making his escape, as "the door, so to speak, through which Satan entered the camp." [149] De Thou, iii. 171. [150] Abbe Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 90; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 66; Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 52. The latter erroneously calls it an edict "de par le roi;" but certainly gives the essence of the order according to the popular estimate when he says "qu'il estoit permis au peuple de tuer tout huguenot qu'il trouveroit, d'ou vint qu'il y en eust en la ville de Paris plusieurs tues et jetes en l'eau."