[352] "Articles respondus par le Roy en son Conseil prive, sur la requeste presentee par plusieurs habitans de la ville de Bourdeaux," etc. The signature of the secretary, Robertet, was affixed Sept. 5, 1564; but such was the obstinacy of the judges of Bordeaux, that the document was not published in the parliament of that city until nearly eight months later (April 30, 1565). Mem. de Conde, v. 214-224. Cimber et Danjou, Archives curieuses, vi. 271-278. The Protestants petitioned for another town in place of St. Macaire, which had been assigned them for their religious worship--the most inconveniently situated in the entire "senechaussee." They desired a city which they could go to and return from on the same day. They stated that "la plus grande partie des plus notables familles de la ville de Bourdeaux est de la religion reformee." This part of their request the king referred to the judgment of the governor. [353] Ordonnance du roi Charles IX., 6 aout, 1564, Nantes MS., Bulletin, xiii. (1864), 203, 204. [354] Aymon, i. 277, 278, and Cimber et Danjou, Archives cur., vi. 167. As by this time both Papists and Huguenots knew Catharine de' Medici to be a woman utterly devoid of moral principle, it may fairly be considered an open question whether there was any one in France more deceived than she was in supposing that she had deceived others. [355] Sir Thomas Smith to the queen, from Tarascon (near Avignon), Oct. 21, 1564, enclosing "Articles of pacification for those of the religion in Venaissin and Avignon agreed to by the ministers of the Pope and those of the Prince of Orange, Oct. 11, 1564." Signed by the vice-legate, Bishop of Fermo, and Fabrizio Serbellone, State Paper Office. [356] Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 55, 56, 68. [357] "Lundi passe, viiie du present mois, ung peu avant les trois heures apres midy, monsieur le reverendissime cardinal de Lorraine, vestu du robbon et chappeau, ... est entre en Paris." Account written two days after the occurrence by Del Rio, attached to the Spanish embassy in Paris. Papiers d'etat du card. de Granvelle, viii. 600-602. [358] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. vi., c. iii.; Jean de Serres, iii. 85, 86; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvii.) 533-537; Mem. de Claude Haton, i. 381-383; Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 70-72; Conde MSS., in Duc d'Aumale, Princes de Conde, i. 518; Le Livre des Marchands (Ed. Pantheon) 424, 425, where the ludicrous features of the scene are, of course, most brightly colored. "J'espere bien aussi m'en resentir ung jour," wrote the cardinal himself, a few weeks later, from Joinville. Pap. d'etat du card. de Granvelle, viii. 681. [359] Jehan de la Fosse, 72.