History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 2Baird, Henry Martyn
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History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 2
Baird, Henry Martyn
Huguenots
[160] Histoire eccles., ii. 296-306 (the terms of capitulation, ii. 304,
305); Mem. de Castelnau, liv. iii., c. xi. (who maintains they were
implicitly observed); Throkmorton, in Forbes, State Papers, ii. 41;
Davila, bk. iii., p. 71; De Thou, iii. 198, 199. "Bituriges turpiter a
duce praesidii proditi sese dediderunt, optimis quidem conditionibus, sed
quas biduo post perfidiosissimus hostis infregit." Beza to Bullinger,
Sept. 24, 1562, Baum, ii., Appendix, 194. M. Bourquelot has published a
graphic account of the capture of Bourges in May, by the Huguenots, under
Montgomery, and of the siege in August, from the MS. Journal of Jean
Glaumeau, in the National Library (Bulletin de l'hist. du prot. fr., v.
387-389). M. L. Lacour reprints in the same valuable periodical (v.
516-518) a contemporary hymn of some merit, "Sur la prise de Bourges." We
are told that a proverb is even now current in Berry, not a little
flattering to the Huguenot rule it recalls:
"L'an mil cinq cent soixante et deux
Bourges n'avoit pretres ny gueux." (Ibid., v. 389.)
[161] Jean de Serres, De statu relig. et reip., ii. 258, 259.
[162] This conclusion was arrived at as early as Aug. 29th. Froude, Hist.
of England, vii. 433. Seventy thousand crowns were to be paid to the
prince's agents at Strasbourg or Frankfort so soon as the news should be
received of the transfer of Havre, thirty thousand more within a month
thereafter. The other forty thousand were in lieu of the defence of Rouen
and Dieppe, should it seem impracticable to undertake it. Havre was to be
held until the Prince should have effected the restitution of Calais and
the adjacent territory according to the treaties of Cateau-Cambresis,
although the time prescribed by those treaties had not expired, and until
the one hundred and forty thousand crowns should have been repaid without
interest. The compact, signed by Queen Elizabeth at Hampton Court, Sept.
20, 1562, is inserted in Du Mont, Corps Diplomatique, v. 94, 95, and in
Forbes, State Papers, ii., 48-51.
[163] See the declaration in Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 415, 416;
and Forbes, State Papers, ii. 79, 80. J. de Serres, ii. 261, etc. Cf.
Forbes, State Papers, ii. 60, 69-79.
[164] Throkmorton to the queen, Sept. 24, 1562. Forbes, State Papers, ii.
64, 65.
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