[13] “Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon.” [14] “Mémoires du Duc de Luynes.” [15] A _compagnie d’ordonnance_ was composed of from seventy-five to three hundred men, one third being men-at-arms, or heavy cavalry, the rest foot-soldiers. [16] La Noue, “Mémoires.” [17] Saint-André had also been taken prisoner, but among his captors was a Huguenot gentleman named Bobigny whom he had deeply injured, and who proceeded to revenge himself by blowing out the unfortunate marshal’s brains with a pistol. [18] It was here that Lord Grey de Wilton had been incarcerated after being made prisoner at Guines, in 1558. His captor, the Comte de la Rochefoucauld, treated him most harshly, and he only recovered his liberty by the sacrifice of practically the whole of his fortune. [19] Smith to Cecil, March 12, 1563, State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series. [20] The post of Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom. [21] Henri Martin, “Histoire de France jusqu’en 1789.” [22] D’Aubigné, “Histoire Universelle.” [23] Brantôme. [24] M. Henri Bouchot, “les Femmes de Brantôme.” [25] She was the daughter of Louis de la Beraudière, Sieur del’ Île Rouet, in Poitou. [26] By the King of Navarre she had had a son, Charles de Bourbon, who became Archbishop of Rouen. [27] “Un royaume par escript,” means the illusory kingdom in the South promised Antoine by Philip II. of Spain. [28] Henri Martin, “Histoire de France jusqu’en 1789.” [29] Isabelle’s father, Gilles de la Tour, Sieur de Limeuil, was the second son of Antoine de la Tour, Vicomte de Turenne. From Gilles’s elder brother, François, sprang, in the fifth generation, the celebrated Maréchal de Turenne. [30] He must not be confused with his cousin, Florimond Robertet, Sieur d’Alluye, who was also a Secretary of State. [31] La Ferrière, “Trois amoureuses au xvi^e siècle.” [32] J. A. Froude, “History of England,” vol. vii. [33] Condé to Elizabeth, 8 March, 1563, in the Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.” [34] Middlemore to Cecil, 30 March, 1563. [35] Cecil to Smith, 4 June, 1563. [36] _Ibid._ [37] J. A. Froude, “History of England.” [38] Notre-Dame. [39] The Porte Saint-Antoine. [40] The name of the unfortunate gentleman was Couppé. [41] Middlemore to Cecil, 17 June, 1563, State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series. The _dé noûment_ of this affair is a singular illustration of the impotence or unwillingness of the Law to punish crimes committed against the Protestants by the ferocious rabble of the capital.