ut from the government and the king taken
from her hands, to prevent which she left Monceaux, her own house, _for
Orleans_, thinking they were secure there, because the Prince of
Rochesurion (being governor of the king's person and also of Orleans) was
not conjoined with the King of Navarre, the Duke of Guise, and the
constable, in their purposes. The King of Navarre, perceiving this, would
not consent to the king going to Orleans, and, after great disputes
betwixt the queen mother and him, she, with the king, were constrained to
reside all this Easter at Fontainebleau." Throkmorton to the queen, March,
20, 1562, State Paper Office, Summary in Calendar.

[52] "Combien que le Chancelier luy dict, qu'il n'y esperoit plus rien,
qu'elle n'avoit point de resolution, qu'il la congnoissoit bien." Memoires
de la vie de Jehan l'Archevesque, Sieur de Soubise, printed from the
hitherto unknown MS. in the Bulletin, xxiii. (1874), 458, 459.

[53] Four of the seven letters that constituted the whole correspondence
are printed in the Mem. de Conde, iii. 213-215. Jean de Serres gives two
of them in his Comment. de statu rel. et reip., ii. 38, 39. They were laid
by Conde's envoy before the princes of Germany, as evidence that he had
not taken up arms without the best warrant, and that he could not in any
way be regarded as a rebel. They contain no allusion to any promise to lay
down his arms so soon as she sent him word--the pretext with which she
strove at a later time to palliate, in the eyes of the papal party at home
and abroad, a rather awkward step. The cure of Meriot, while admitting the
genuineness of the letters, observes: "La cautelle et malice de la dame
estoit si grande, qu'elle se delectoit de mettre les princes en division
et hayne les ungs contre les aultres, affin qu'elle regnast et qu'elle
demeurast gouvernante seulle de son filz et du royaume." Mem. de Cl.
Haton, i. 269. The queen mother's exculpatory statements may be examined
in Le Laboureur, Add. aux Mem. de Castelnau, i. 763, 764.

[54] Bruslart, in Mem. de Conde, i. 75, 76; J. de Serres, ii. 20; La
Fosse, 46; De Thou, iii. 134. The date is variously given--March 17th or
18th.

[55] J. de Serres, ii. 21; De Thou, _ubi supra_; the Prince of Conde's
declaration of the causes which have constrained him to undertake the
defence of the royal authority, etc., _ap._ Mem. de Conde, iii. 222, etc.;
same in Latin in J. de Serres, ii. 46.

[56] Throkmorton to the queen, M