i consigli." Relaz.
di Francesco Giustiniano, 1538, Alberi, i. 203.]

[Footnote 226: The document contained a proviso that, should Francis be
liberated, the Dauphin was to restore to him the sovereignty for the
term of his natural life. It was dated Madrid, November, 1525. Isambert,
Recueil des anciennes lois, etc., xii. 237-244.]

[Footnote 227: "Le mercredy _penultiesme jour de janvier_, au dict an,
ils furent espousez an diet lieu de _Saint Germain_ (_en Laye_). Apres
furent faictes _jouxtes et tournois et gros triomphes_ par l'espace de
huict jours ou environ." Journal d'un bourgeois, 302. Olhagaray states
the date differently, viz., January 24th; _ubi infra_, 488.]

[Footnote 228: See Olhagaray, Histoire de Foix, Bearn, et Navarre
(Paris, 1609), 487.]

[Footnote 229: He was born April, 1503, and was consequently eleven
years younger than Margaret.]

[Footnote 230: Catharine's bitter reproach addressed to her husband has
become famous: "Had I been king, and you queen, we had been reigning in
Navarre at this moment." Prescott, Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, iii.
353. Olhagaray gives another of her speeches: "O Roy vous demeures Jean
d'Albret, et ne penses plus au Royaume de Navarre que vous avez perdu
par vostre nonchalance." _Ubi supra_, 455.]

[Footnote 231: The Spanish conquest of Navarre is narrated at length by
Prescott, Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, iii. 347-367. See also
Olhagaray, 454, etc., and Moncaut, Histoire des Pyrenees, iv. 233-271.
It will be borne in mind that the great crime of John d'Albret was his
adhesion to Louis XII. of France, in his determined struggle with Julius
II.; and that Ferdinand's title was justified by a pretended bull of
this Pope giving the kingdoms of his enemies to be a prey to the first
invader that might seize them in behalf of the Pontifical See. The bull,
however, is now generally admitted to be a Spanish forgery. See
Prescott, _ubi supra_. Baron A. de Ruble observes (Mem. de La Huguerye,
1, note): "On sait aujourd'hui que cette bulle est apocryphe."]

[Footnote 232: Brantome does, indeed, accuse Henry of using severity
toward his wife, on account of her religious innovations, until
threatened with the displeasure of Francis; but the truth seems to be
that the King of Navarre was himself not ill-disposed to the religious
reformation.]

[Footnote 233: M. Herminjard has been criticised for inserting too many
of Bishop Briconnet's epistles in the first volume of h