gives up his campaign against Damville, 218; estranged from his wife, 219; said to be thinking of a divorce, 220; sends Epernon to Aquitaine, _ib._; intends going to Lyons, _ib._; wears black mourning for Alençon, 221; goes to Lyons, 224; asks Navarre to come to him, offering to make him Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, _ib._; returns from Lyons, 227; building a church for himself and his penitents, _ib._; his campaign against vice, _ib._; goes to the Loire, 228; is driven away from Blois by the plague and returns to Saint-Germain, 230; has a chance of trying his power of healing scrofula, 231; undecided as to assisting the Netherlanders, 232; grants their ambassadors a private audience, 234; invested with the Garter, 235; reluctant to take up the cause of the Netherlands, _ib._; distressed at attempt to assassinate Navarre, 236; his final answer to the Netherland ambassadors, 237; suspected of secretly approving of the Guises’ plans, 240; neglects the Duke of Bouillon’s warning, 241; difficulties of his position, 244; sends deputies in vain, 246; on condition of receiving 100,000 crowns a month from the clergy, orders the Huguenots to leave France within fifteen days, 247-248, and _note_; recalls his army, 248; sequestrates Navarre’s property, 249; resolves not to let a Huguenot remain in France, 250; sends some Huguenot women to England under his safe conduct, _ib._; given up to his devotions and living like a hermit, _ib._; Parliament removed to Tours by him, 256