CHAPTER XIV.

1563-1567.

THE PEACE OF AMBOISE AND THE BAYONNE CONFERENCE 126 Charles demands Havre of the English 126 The Siege 127 How the Peace was received 128 Vexatious Delays in Normandy 129 The Norman Parliament protests and threatens 130 A Rude Rebuff 131 Commissioners to enforce the Edict 132 A Profligate Court alienated from Protestantism 132 Profanity a Test of Catholicity 134 Admiral Coligny accused of Guise's Murder 135 His Defence espoused by the Montmorencies 135 Petition of the Guises 136 The King adjourns the Decision 137 Embarrassment of Catharine 137 Charles's Majority proclaimed 138 The King and the Refractory Parisian Parliament 139 The Pope's Bull against Princely Heretics 141 Proceedings against Cardinal Chatillon 141 The Queen of Navarre cited to Rome 141 Spirited Reply of the French Council 142 Catharine seeks to seduce the Huguenot Leaders 144 Weakness of Conde 145 Recent Growth of Protestantism 146 Milhau-en-Rouergue 147 Montpellier--Bearn 148 Jeanne d'Albret's Reformation 148 Attempt to kidnap her 150 Close of the Council of Trent 152 Cardinal Lorraine's Attempt to secure the Acceptance of its Decrees 154 His Altercation with L'Hospital 155 General Plan for suppressing Heresy 156 "Progress" of Charles and his Court 157 Calumnies against the Huguenots 159 Their Numbers 159 Catharine's New Zeal--Citadels in Protestant Towns 160 Interpretative Declarations infringing upon the Edict 160 Assaults upon Unoffending Huguenots--No Redress 162 Conde appeals to the King 163 Conciliatory Answers to Huguenot Inhabitants of Bordeaux and Nantes 164 Protestants excluded from Judicial Posts 165 Marshal Montmorency checks the Parisian Mob 166 His Encounter with Cardinal Lorraine 166 The Conference at Bayonne 167 What were its Secret Objects? 168 No Plan of Massacre adopted 169 History of the Interview 170 Catharine and Alva 172 Catharine rejects all Plans of Violence 175 Cardinal Granvelle's Testimony 176 Festivities and Pageantry 176 Henry of Bearn an Actor 177 Roman Catholic Confraternities 179 Hints of the Future Plot of the "League" 180 The Siege of Malta and French Civilities to the Sultan 181 Constable Montmorency defends Cardinal Chatillon 182 The Court at Moulins 183 Feigned Reconciliation of the Guises and Coligny 184 L'Hospital's Measure for the Relief of the Protestants 185 Another Altercation between Cardinal Lorraine and the Chancellor 186 Progress of the Reformation at Cateau-Cambresis 187 Insults and Violence 192 Huguenot Pleasantries 192 Alarm of the Protestants 193 Attempts to murder Coligny and Porcien 194 Alva sent to the Netherlands 195 The Swiss Levy 196 Conde and Coligny remonstrate 197 Discredited Assurances of Catharine 198 "The very Name of the Edict employed to destroy the Edict itself" 199

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The Huguenot Attempts at Colonization in Florida 199 The First and Second Expeditions (1562, 1564) 199 Third Expedition (1565) 200 Massacre by Menendez 200 Indignation of the French Court 201 Sincere Remonstrances 201 Sanguinary Revenge of De Gourgues 202