etters signed by the queen mother, containing
some rather surprising suggestions. "La Royne luy escrivoit qu'elle estoit
resolue de favoriser les Huguenots, d'ou elle esperoit son salut contre le
gouvernement du triumvirat ... qu'elle soupconnoit vouloir oster la
couronne a ses enfans; et prioit madame de Savoye d'aider lesdits
Huguenots de Lyon, Dauphine et Provence, et qu'elle persuadast son mary
d'empescher les Suisses et levee d'Italie des Catholiques." Mem. de
Tavannes (Petitot ed.), ii. 341, 342. Tavannes did not dare to detain the
messenger, nor to take away his letters; and if, as his son asserts, the
enmity of Catharine, which the discovery of her secret gained for him,
delayed his acquisition of the marshal's baton for ten years, he certainly
had some reason to remember and regret his ill-timed curiosity.

[77] Mem. de la Noue, c. iii.; De Thou, iii. 138; Letter of Beza, of April
5th, Baum, ii., App., 177; Jean de Serres, ii. 24, 25; Bruslart, Mem. de
Conde, i. 79. Chamberlain (to Chaloner, April 7, 1562), who on his way
from Orleans met the first detachment within a mile of that city--"a
thousand handsome gentlemen, well mounted, each having two or three daggs,
galloping towards him." State Paper Office.

[78] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 7.

[79] April 7th. Mem. de Conde, iii. 221; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii.,
9; J. de Serres, ii. 58, 59; De Thou, iii. 139. The historian of the
reformed churches, as well as Beza in his letter of March 28th (Baum, ii.,
App., 176), complains bitterly of the slowness and parsimony of the
Parisian Protestants, who seemed to be unable to understand that war was
actually upon them.

[80] April 8th. "Declaration faicte par M. le prince de Conde, pour
monstrer les raisons qui l'ont contraint d'entreprendre la defence de
l'authorite du Roy," etc. Mem. de Conde, iii. 222-235; Jean de Serres, ii.
42-57; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 9, 10; De Thou, iii. 139-141.

[81] Traicte d'association, etc., April 11th. Mem. de Conde, iii. 258-262;
J. Serres, ii. 31-37; De Thou, iii. 141.

[82] See Pasquier's letter to Fonssomme, already referred to, which
contains a vivid picture of the confusion reigning in Paris, the surprise
of the papal party, and the delight of the untrained populace at the
prospect of war. OEuvres (ed. Feugere), ii. 246-250.

[83] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. iii., c. 8.

[84] Ibid., liv. iii., c. 9.

[85] Even so late as May 8, 1562, the English minister re