[342] "On peut presumer qu'il n'y eut jamais en France plus de quinze on seize cent mille reformes.... La France possedait a peine quinze millions d'habitans. Ainsi les protestans n'en formaient guere que le dixieme." Lacretelle, Histoire de France pendant les guerres de religion, ii. 169, 170. The entire passage is important. [343] Giov. Michiel, Rel. des Amb. Ven., i. 412. [344] Capefigue, from MS., Hist. de la reforme, de la ligue, etc., ii. 408. [345] Jean de Serres, iii. 47, 48; De Thou, iii., liv. xxxvi. 504; Mem. de Castelnau, l. v., c. x.; Pasquier, Lettres, iv., 22, _ap._ Capefigue, ii. 410. [346] Granvelle to the Emperor Ferdinand, April 12, 1564, Pap. d'etat, vii. 467. [347] Of solicitude on this score, the only evidence I have come across is furnished by the following passage of one of the "Occurrences in France," under date of April 11, 1565, sent to the English Government. "Orders are also taken in the court that no gentleman shall talk with the queen's maids, except it is in the queen's presence, or in that of Madame la Princesse de Roche-sur-Yon, except he be married; and if they sit upon a form or stool, he may sit by her, and if she sit upon the ground he may kneel by her, but not lie long, as the fashion was in this court." State Paper Office, Calendar, 331. [348] Edict of Vincennes, June 14, 1563, and Declarations of Paris, Dec. 14, 1563; of Lyons, June 24, 1564; and of Roussillon, Aug. 4, 1564. Isambert, Recueil des anc. lois. franc., xiv. 141, 159, 170-172, and Drion, Hist. chronol., i. 102-108. See Jean de Serres, iii. 35-41, 55-63, and after him, De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 411, 412, 504, 505. [349] Jean de Serres, iii. 54, 55, 64, 65, etc. De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvi.) 503, etc. [350] Ibid., _ubi supra_. There are no similar cases of assassination on the part of Huguenots at this period. That of Charry at court seems to have resulted partly from revenge for personal wrongs, partly from mistaken devotion on the part of one of D'Andelot's followers to his master's interests. See Languet, letter of Feb. 3, 1564, Epist. secr., ii. 284. [351] Jean de Serres, iii. 65-82; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvi.) 505; Lettres de Monseigneur le Prince de Conde a la Roine Mere du Roy, avec Advertissemens depuis donnez par ledit Seigneur Prince a leurs Majestez, etc, (Aug. 31, 1564, etc.), Mem. de Conde, v. 201-214.