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
[325] "Recit d'une entreprise faite en l'an 1565 contre la Reine de
Navarre et messeigneurs les enfans," etc., etc.; Cimber et Danjou,
Archives curieuses, vi. 281-295. The year should be 1564. The best
authority is, however, that of De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvi.) 496-499, who
states that he simply gives the account as he had it from the lips of
Secretary Rouleau, who brought the tidings to France, and from the
children of the domestic of Isabella who detected the conspiracy. See,
also, Leon Feer, in Bulletin, xxvi. (1877), 207, etc., 279, etc.
[326] Michel de l'Hospital frankly told Santa Croce that the misfortunes
of France came exclusively from the French themselves, "e della vita dei
preti, molto sregolata, i quali non vogliono esser riformati, e
principalmente quelli del Concilio, e poi nelle loro lettere rejiciunt
culpam in Papam." "Io so," adds the nuncio himself, "che sono loro che non
vogliono esser riformati, e hanno mandati di qua certi articoli che hanno
parimente mandati a Roma, circa gli quali io vi posso dir che se Sua
Santita li accordasse, conformamente alle loro petitioni, sariano i piu
malcontenti del mondo; ma no le hanno fatte ad altro fine che per haver
occasione di mostrar di qua, che il Papa e quello che non vuole, mentre
che sono loro che non vogliono quella riformatione del clero." Santa Croce
to Borromeo, March 28, 1563, Aymon, i. 230, 231; Cimber et Danjou, vi.
138.
[327] "Il quale (Cardinal di Lorreno) con la morte del suo fratello,
havera manco spiriti, e credo io che terra piu conto della satisfattione
di Sua Santita che di qua." Santa Croce to Borromeo, Blois, March 28,
1563, shortly after Guise's death. Aymon, i. 233; Cimber et Danjou, vi.
140.
[328] "Sed hae nugae ipsi nequaquam placebant." Languet, letter of Feb. 3,
1564, Epist. secr., ii. 283.
[329] Letter of Santa Croce to Borromeo, Melun, Feb. 25, 1564, Aymon, i.
258, 259; Letter of Beza to Bullinger, Geneva, March 6, 1564, Simler Coll.
(Zurich) MSS.; Languet, March 6, 1564, Epist. secr., ii. 286, 287. There
has been great confusion respecting this altercation between Lorraine and
L'Hospital. According to Henri Martin (Histoire de France, x. 194), it
took place "a propos d'un nouvel edit qui accordait aux reformes quelques
facilites pour l'enseignement et l'exercise de leur religion en maisons
privees dans les villes ou le culte public leur etait interdit." M. Jules
Bonnet has kindly made search for me in the Zurich and Paris libraries,
and obtained corroborative proof of what I already suspected, that M.
Martin and others had confounded the scene at _Melun_ in February, 1564,
with another quarrel between the same persons in March, 1566, at
_Moulins_. See the documents, including the letter of Beza referred to
above, published together with my inquiries, in the Bulletin de la Soc. du
prot. fr., xxiv. (1875) 409-415.
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