ey could go to and return from on the same
day. They stated that "la plus grande partie des plus notables familles de
la ville de Bourdeaux est de la religion reformee." This part of their
request the king referred to the judgment of the governor.

[353] Ordonnance du roi Charles IX., 6 aout, 1564, Nantes MS., Bulletin,
xiii. (1864), 203, 204.

[354] Aymon, i. 277, 278, and Cimber et Danjou, Archives cur., vi. 167. As
by this time both Papists and Huguenots knew Catharine de' Medici to be a
woman utterly devoid of moral principle, it may fairly be considered an
open question whether there was any one in France more deceived than she
was in supposing that she had deceived others.

[355] Sir Thomas Smith to the queen, from Tarascon (near Avignon), Oct.
21, 1564, enclosing "Articles of pacification for those of the religion in
Venaissin and Avignon agreed to by the ministers of the Pope and those of
the Prince of Orange, Oct. 11, 1564." Signed by the vice-legate, Bishop of
Fermo, and Fabrizio Serbellone, State Paper Office.

[356] Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 55, 56, 68.

[357] "Lundi passe, viiie du present mois, ung peu avant les trois heures
apres midy, monsieur le reverendissime cardinal de Lorraine, vestu du
robbon et chappeau, ... est entre en Paris." Account written two days
after the occurrence by Del Rio, attached to the Spanish embassy in Paris.
Papiers d'etat du card. de Granvelle, viii. 600-602.

[358] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. vi., c. iii.; Jean de Serres, iii. 85, 86;
De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvii.) 533-537; Mem. de Claude Haton, i. 381-383;
Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 70-72; Conde MSS., in Duc d'Aumale, Princes
de Conde, i. 518; Le Livre des Marchands (Ed. Pantheon) 424, 425, where
the ludicrous features of the scene are, of course, most brightly colored.
"J'espere bien aussi m'en resentir ung jour," wrote the cardinal himself,
a few weeks later, from Joinville. Pap. d'etat du card. de Granvelle,
viii. 681.

[359] Jehan de la Fosse, 72.

[360] Harangue de l'Admiral de France a Messieurs de la Cour de Parlement
de Paris, du 27 janvier 1565, avec la reponse. Papiers d'etat du card. de
Granvelle, viii. 655-657. M. de Crussol, in a letter of February 4, 1565,
alludes to the admiral's flattering reception by the clergy and by the
Sorbonne, "qui sont alle le visiter et offert infiny service;" and states
that both parties were gratified by the interview. Conde MSS., in Duc
d'Aumale, Princes d