his remarks on Alençon’s conduct, 107; his interference in the quarrel between du Guast and Thoré, 118; regrets the Queen’s departure, 123; sends Maximilian a present of grey-hounds and lime-hounds, 124; undertakes to pay Casimir and his troops 500,000 francs, 127; pledges jewels to Duke of Lorraine, _ib._; his unwilling consent to the truce, 128; disclaims all responsibility for Alençon, 141; goes to Lyons, 145; his fondness for pilgrimages, 145, 156, and _note_; goes to Bourbon-les-Bains, 149; more favourable to Alençon’s enterprise, 150; witnesses Salceda’s execution, 153; his interview with him, 154; his reply to the Spanish ambassador, 155; makes a pilgrimage to Nôtre Dame de Liesse, 156; commands the Bretons to build fifty galleys, _ib._; orders money to be paid to Alençon, _ib._; expected in Paris, 158; sends commissioners through France, _ib._; who returned without success, 172; his financial expedients, 160; his extravagance, 172, 178; his conduct unfavourably criticised, 173; moves troops to the frontier, _ib._; presses the Duke of Lorraine to betroth his daughter to Epernon, 176; his affection for Joyeuse and Epernon, 178; institutes a new order of Flagellants, 179; orders footmen who mimicked the Flagellants to be whipped, 180; his devotion to religious observances, 182; sends M. de Ferrier to the King of Navarre, _ib._; going to Foullenbraye to drink the Spa waters, 183; in bad health, _ib._; urged by the Pope to accept and publish the decrees of the Council of Trent, 184; wishes to make Epernon governor of Metz, _ib._; hopes to profit by the troubles at Cologne, 185; will go to Lyons, _ib._; sends a courier with an autograph letter to Joyeuse, 187; hurries back to Paris, _ib._; going to Lyons, _ib._; his outbreak against his sister, 192; writes to Navarre accusing her, 193; sets out for Lyons to meet Joyeuse, 194; his demands from the Pope through Joyeuse, 197; refused, 198; goes to Saint-Germain en Laye on account of the plague, 201; his financial difficulties, _ib._; not sorry for Alençon’s absence, 203; regrets his outburst against his sister, _ib._; said to have written to Alençon cautioning him, 205; holding assemblies at Saint-Germain, 206; attempts to enforce his sumptuary laws about dress, 207; intends to reform, 210; in retirement at Saint-Germain, 211; returns to Paris, 213; meets Alençon, _ib._; going to take Cambrai under his protection, 214; resolved to make Joyeuse’s father governor of Languedoc, _ib._; his attack on the Prior of Champagne, 215-216, and _note_;