puo riputar poi tutti li danari della Francia esser
suoi; perche nelli suoi bisogni, sempre che li dimanda, gli sono portati
molto volontariamente _per la incomparabil benevolenza di essi popoli_."
Relaz. Ven. (Alberi), ii. 172.]

[Footnote 28: Cayet, Hist. de la guerre sous le regne de Henry IV., i.
248. We shall see that Francis carried out the same ideas of absolute
authority in his dealings both with reputed heresy and with the Gallican
Church itself. He seems even to have believed himself commissioned to do
all the thinking in matters of religion for his more intellectual
sister; for, if Brantome may be credited, when Constable Montmorency, on
one occasion, had the temerity to suggest to him that all his efforts to
extirpate error in France would be futile until he began with Margaret
of Angouleme, Francis silenced him with the remark: "No more on that
subject! She loves me too much; she will never believe anything but what
I desire." Femmes illustres: Marguerite, reine de Navarre.]

[Footnote 29: "Stanno a quelli soggetti piu che cani." Relaz. Ven., ii.
174.]

[Footnote 30: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 31: "Mercatores aspernantur," says Chassanee in 1527, "ut vile
atque abjectum omnium genus." Catal. Gloriae Mundi, fol. 200.]

[Footnote 32: Mignet, _ubi supra_, ii. 173.]

[Footnote 33: See the sketch by Daniel, Histoire de France, reprinted in
Leber, Collection de pieces relatives a l'histoire de France, vi, 266,
etc.; also Mignet, _ubi supra_, ii. 177, etc.]

[Footnote 34: Mignet, _ubi supra_, ii. 212; Floquet, Histoire du
parlement de Normandie, tom. i.; Daniel, _ubi supra_; Vicomte de
Bastard-D'Estang, Les parlements de France, i. 189.]

[Footnote 35: The formula is worthy of attention: "Quand on vous
apportera a sceller quelque lettre, signee par le commandement du Roi,
si elle n'est de justice et raison, ne la scellerez point, encore que
ledit Seigneur le commandast par une ou deux fois; mais viendrez devers
iceluy Seigneur, et lui remonstrerez tous les points par lesquels ladite
lettre n'est pas raisonnable, et apres que aura entendu lesdita points,
s'il vous commande la sceller, la scellerez, car lors le peche en sera
sur ledit Seigneur et non sur vous." In full in M. de Saint-Allais, De
l'ancienne France (Paris, 1834), ii. 91; see also Capefigue, Francois
Premier et la Renaissance, i. 106.]

[Footnote 36: Certainly not than with the Parliament of Aix. See its
shortcomings in the papers of Prof