Pius V., Pope, is said to have threatened Charles IX., ii. 195; his nuncio tries to prevent peace being concluded with the Huguenots, ii. 228; praises the Duke of Nemours for his severity, ii. 245; approves by a bull the crusade at Toulouse, ii. 279; his sanguinary injunctions after the battle of Jarnac, ii. 308, 309; severely reproves Santa Fiore for sparing any heretics, ii. 335, 568; his congratulatory letters after the battle of Moncontour, ii. 336; recalls his troops ii. 342; his bull against Queen Elizabeth, ii. 359; opposes the peace ii. 360, 365, 369; alarmed at the prospects of the Huguenot ascendancy in France, he despatches his nephew, the Cardinal of Alessandria, as legate, to Paris, ii. 400; the king's assurances, ii. 400-403; the conditions required for granting a dispensation for the marriage of Henry of Navarre and Margaret of Valois, ii. 410, note; gives no dispensation until after the marriage, his bull being dated Oct 27, 1572, ii. 427; his letters to Charles, Catharine, Anjou, etc., instigating them to exterminate the heretics, ii. 564, seq.; his thirst for Huguenot blood, ii. 567, 568; redeems the Huguenot captives of Mornas in order to have the satisfaction of ordering their public execution, ii. 568.

Placard, the, of 1534. Feret sent to Neufchatel to have it printed, i. 164; its authorship, ib.; its publication opposed by Courault and other prudent reformers, i. 165; its contents, ib.; it produces great popular excitement in Paris, i. 167; a copy posted on the door of the king's bedchamber, ib.; anger of Francis I., ib.; barbarous executions consequent upon it, i. 171, 177; marks an epoch in the history of the Huguenots, i. 193.

Placard, the year of the, i. 164, etc.

Placards and pasquinades, both for and against the reformed doctrines, i. 163.

Place, Pierre de la, President of the Cour d'Aides, and a historian, murdered in the massacre at Paris, ii. 479.

Plague, the, in Paris and Orleans, ii. 85.

Planche, Regnier de la, consulted by Catharine de' Medici, i. 410.

Pleasantries, Huguenot, ii. 192.

Plessis Mornay, Philippe du, writes for Coligny a memorial on the Flemish project, ii. 416.

Poissy, the prelates at, i. 493; Beza and other French Protestants invited to a conference, i. 494; wrangling of the prelates, i. 499; their demand, i. 542; their character, i. 547.

Poissy, the Colloquy of, the Huguenots petition for fair treatment at, i. 505; vexatious delay, i. 506; the Huguenots determine to leave unless their petition is granted, i. 507; an informal decree in their favor, ib.; the last efforts of the Sorbonne to prevent the conference prove abortive, i. 508; the Huguenot ministers and delegates of churches proceed from St. Germain to Poissy, i. 509; list of the former, ib.; the assembly in the nuns' refectory, i. 510; the prelates, i. 511; diffidence of Beza, i. 512; Chancellor L'Hospital's oration at the opening, ib.; the Huguenots are summoned, i. 513; a cardinal's sneer and Beza's retort, i. 514; Beza's prayer and address, i. 514-521; he is interrupted by the theologians of the Sorbonne with cries of "Blasphemy!" i. 519; Cardinal Tournon tries to cut short the conference, i. 521; but Catharine declines to permit its interruption, i. 522; advantages gained, ib.; the prelates' notion of a conference, i. 526; arrival of Peter Martyr, i. 527; Cardinal Lorraine replies to Beza, i. 528; Cardinal Tournon's new demand, i. 529; Beza asks a hearing, ib.; he replies, i. 532, 533; speeches of Claude D'Espense and Claude de Sainctes, i. 532; Cardinal Lorraine's demand that the Huguenot ministers should subscribe to the Augsburg Confession, i. 533; Beza's reply, i. 533-565; anger of the prelates, i. 536; speeches of Martyr and Lainez, i. 536; close of the colloquy, i. 537; is followed by a private conference, i. 538; and the arrival of five Protestant theologians from Germany, i. 544; causes of the failure of the colloquy, i. 546.

Poitiers, demands of the clergy at, i. 431; captured by the king, ii. 71; siege of, by the Huguenots, ii. 324, 325.

Poland, news of the massacre, how received in, ii. 553; Henry of Anjou elected king, ii. 593; ambassadors from, come to France, ii. 598; their magnificent reception, ib.

"Politiques," or Malcontents, the party of the, ii. 615; their unsuccessful rising, ii. 625.

Poltrot, Jean, de Merey, assassinates Francois de Guise, ii. 103; his history, ii. 104; his torture and execution, ii. 105; accuses Beza and Coligny of having instigated the murder, ii. 106.

Poncher, Bishop of Paris, i. 71.

Pons, ii. 283.

Pont, Baron du, ii. 476.

Popincourt, a Protestant place of worship at Paris, destroyed by Constable Montmorency, ii. 37.

Populace, cruelty of, i. 366.

Porcien, the Prince of, ii. 193; attempt to assassinate, ii. 194.

Poulain, Poulin, or Polin, otherwise called Baron de la Garde, i. 246; ii. 361, 576.

Pragmatic Sanction of St Louis, i. 26; of Bourges, i. 29, 30; anger of the Pope at, i. 31; abrogated, i. 32; re-enacted, i. 33, 35; abrogated by Francis I., i. 36; still recognized by parliament, i. 40; its restoration demanded, i. 459.

Pre aux Clercs, the public grounds of the university, psalm-singing on the, i. 314.

Prelates, French, cited to Rome and condemned, ii. 141.

Prerogative, royal, books upon, ii. 615, 616.

Presidial judges, no appeal from their decisions in cases of heresy, i. 279.

Primacy of France divided between the Archbishops of Lyons and Sens, i. 118.

Princes, scanty revenues of, i. 8.

Prior, the Grand, of France, i. 269; at Saverne, ii. 13.

Privas, a Huguenot place of refuge, ii. 280.

Processions, indecent, i. 59; expiatory, i. 142, and especially, i. 173, etc.; to intercede for help in the war against La Rochelle, ii. 592.

Profane oaths a test of Catholicity, ii. 134, 585.

Profligacy of the court, the, ii. 132, note; alienation of, from the Huguenots, ii. 133.

Protestants of France, appeal to the Swiss and Germans, i. 191; persecuted in various places, i. 216, 217; the tongues of the victims cut out, i. 217; or iron balls forced into their mouths, i. 257; place a remonstrance in the chamber of Henry II., i. 308; they appeal to Catharine de' Medici, i. 362; a second and more urgent appeal, i. 364. See Huguenots.

Protestantism, causes of its sudden development in the last years of Henry II. and the reign of Francis II., i. 399-403.

Provence, Huguenots of, under Mouvans, i. 407; disorders and bloodshed in, ii. 47; saved from witnessing a massacre of the Protestants in 1572 by the magnanimity of the Count de Tende, ii. 527; demands of the tiers etat of, ii. 603.

Provins, preaching of friars at, ii. 5, 6, 279; intolerance at, ii. 191, 241, 242.

Psalms, versified by Marot and Beza, sung on the Pre aux Clercs, i. 314; indignation of Henry II. at, i. 315; set to music for worship by Bourgeois and others, especially by Goudimel, in several parts, ii. 517, note.

Puigaillard, ii. 503, 504, 512, 513, 617.

Punishments, barbarous, i. 45; especially for heresy, i. 46.

Puyroche, M., his monograph on the massacre at Lyons, ii. 513, note.

Q.

Quercu, or De Chesne, i. 23, 50.

Quintin, Jean, orator for the clergy in the States General of Orleans, makes a speech of insufferable arrogance, i. 458; he pictures the sad straits of the clergy, and asks for the restoration of the Pragmatic Sanction, i. 459; his word for the down-trodden people, i. 460; he is compelled to apologize to Admiral Coligny, ib.

R.

Rabasteins, massacre of the garrison of, ii. 361.

Ramee, Pierre de la, or Ramus, assassinated at the instigation of Charpentier, ii. 478.

Rapin, a Protestant gentleman sent by the king, judicially murdered by the Parliament of Toulouse, ii. 239.

"Rapin, Vengeance de," ii. 351.

Rapin, Viscount of, ii. 230, note.

Read, M. Charles, i. 446; ii. 569.

Rector of the university, i. 22.

Reform, abortive efforts at, i. 61.

Reformation, the French, becomes a popular movement, i. 196.

Regnier, a Huguenot gentleman of Quercy, spared in the massacre at Paris, through the magnanimity of his personal enemy Vezins, ii. 480; by his bravery and determination saves Montauban for the Huguenots, ii. 574, 575.

"Reiters," i. 11.

Relics, reverence for, i. 49; great variety of, i. 50.

Renaissance, era of the, i. 41.

Renaudie, Godefroy de Barry, Seigneur de la, leader in the Tumult of Amboise, i. 379; assembles the malcontents at Nantes, i. 380; is betrayed by Des Avenelles, i. 382; his death, i. 389; his body hung and quartered, i. 392; inscription over his remains, ib.; an alleged admission of disloyal intentions on his part, i. 394.

Renee de France, Duchess of Ferrara, her hospitality, i, 179; her court, i. 205; her eulogy by Brantome, i. 206; on her return to France, rebukes the Duke of Guise, i. 437; affords a safe asylum to the Huguenots at Montargis, ii. 73, 110, 111, 327; her letter to Calvin respecting the Duke of Guise, ii. 109; her answer to Malicorne, ii. 111; her aversion to war, ii. 327, note.

Renel, Marquis de, murdered by Bussy d'Amboise, ii. 472.

Rentigny, Madame de, courageously refuses a pardon based on recantation, and is executed as a Protestant, i. 311.

Renty, ii. 352.

Representative government, long break in history of, i. 13; demanded by the "tiers etat" at Pontoise, i. 492.

Rescue of Protestant prisoners, i. 367.

Retz, De, Count and Marshal (Albert de Gondy), ii. 339, 443; at the blood council, ii. 447, 448, 449; obtains the office and property of Lomenie, including Versailles, and then causes him to be put to death, ii. 485, 527, 638.

Re-union of Romanists and Protestants, hopes of, long entertained, i. 159.

Rhinegrave, the, ii. 71, 298, 334.

Ribault, Jean leads the first expedition to colonize Florida, ii. 199; returns to Florida in command of the third expedition, ii. 200; flayed and quartered by the Spaniards, ib.

Riviere, M. de la, first Protestant pastor of Paris, i. 295; he is treacherously murdered, at Angers, by M. de Montsoreau, ii. 512.

Roanne, la, the common prison of Lyons, ii. 515; butchery of Huguenots in, ii. 516.

Roche Abeille, La, Huguenot victory at, ii. 319.

Rochefort, De, orator for the noblesse in the States General of Orleans, i. 457.

Rochefoucauld, Count de la, escapes into Germany, hearing of the proscriptive plans of the court, i. 442; ii. 349, 428, 439, 451; he is murdered on St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 470.

Rochelle, La, the city of, secured for the Prince of Conde by the skill of Francois de la Noue, ii. 226, seq.; the alleged payment to Catharine de' Medici, in order to be free from a garrison, ib., note; execution of Protestants at, in 1552, ii. 227, 272; refuses, in 1568, to receive a garrison, ii. 250; its government and privileges, ii. 270-273; iconoclasm at, ii. 272; places for Protestant worship in, accorded by Charles IX., ib.; Constable Montmorency's roughness, ii. 273; becomes a city of refuge, ii. 280; strengthens its works, ii. 342; the tidings of the massacre at Bordeaux determine it to refuse to admit the emissaries of Charles IX., ii. 524; in Protestant hands, ii. 573; a great number of refugees in, ii. 576; refuses to receive Biron, who is sent as royal governor, ii. 578; first skirmish before, ii. 579; mission of La Noue to, ib.; he is badly received, ii. 580; the Rochellois reject the royal proposals, ii. 581; they make advances to La Noue, ib.; description of La Rochelle, ii. 582, 583; resoluteness of the Rochellois, ii. 583; their military strength, ii. 584; they fight and pray, ii. 585; bravery of the women, ii. 586; determination of the inhabitants, ii. 587; La Noue retires, ib.; the promised aid from England miscarries, ii. 588; great losses of the royal army before, ii. 591; treacherous attempt upon, Dec., 1573, ii. 616; the severe punishment for it approved by Charles IX., ii. 617; resumes arms, at the persuasion of La Noue, in the beginning of the fifth religious war, 1574, ii. 622.

Roche-sur-Yon, La, Prince of, his warning respecting the danger impending over the Huguenots from the designs adopted at Bayonne, ii. 197.

Rochetti, Louis de, an inquisitor, becomes a Protestant and is burned alive at Toulouse i. 289.

Roma, De, a Dominican monk, his threat, i. 76; his cruelty, i. 235.

Roman Church, how far responsible for the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 562, seq.

Romans, the Huguenots of, i. 404.

Rome, quarrels of France with, i. 279; Protestants never more exposed to disaster than when such quarrels exist, ib.; the couriers going to, stripped of their dispatches on the frontiers, i. 495; rejoicings at, over the news of the massacre of the Protestants in France, ii. 530.

Romorantin, the edict of, May, 1560, i. 410.

Ronsard, the poet, takes the sword against the Huguenots, ii. 68.

Roquefort, ii. 351.

Rouen, capital of Normandy, persecution at, i. 217; rescue of a Protestant bookbinder at, i. 367; Protestant assemblies in, i. 408; seven thousand gather in the new market-place and sing psalms, i. 430; besieged by the king, ii. 77; makes a brave defence, ii. 79; its fall, ib.; vexatious delays in publishing the edict of Amboise at, ii. 129; partiality of parliament, ii. 130; its protest against the return of Protestant exiles, ii. 131; it meets with a decided rebuff, ii. 131, 132; riot when the edict of pacification of Longjumeau is published at, ii. 241; troops quartered upon the Huguenots, ii. 244; violence at, ii. 249; Protestants attacked at, March 4, 1571, ii. 374; massacre of, ii. 519-521.

Roussel, Gerard, i. 74, 75, 83, 150, 151; retires to Strasbourg, i. 84; his excessive caution, i. 85; his theology and fortunes, i. 97; his death, i. 98.

Roussillon, county of, Spanish, ravaged by M. de Piles, ii. 351.

Roussillon, declaration of Aug. 4, 1564, infringing upon the edict of pacification of Amboise, ii. 161, 162.

Roy, Etienne le, a singer ii. 429, 431.

"Royal council," the name given to meetings at which the king is not present, ii. 33.

Roye, Eleonore de, wife of Louis de Conde, her grief and death, ii. 145, 303, note.

Roye, Madame de, mother-in-law of Conde, arrested, i. 437; but subsequently declared innocent, i. 465.

Ruble, Baron de, his remarks respecting La Huguerye's misrepresentation of the character of the Queen of Navarre, ii. 425.

Rubys, an agent in the massacre at Lyons, ii. 504, note, 514.

Russanges, De, a goldsmith, betrays the Protestants of Paris, i. 360.

S.

Sacramentarians excepted from the pardon extended in the Declaration of Coucy, i. 179.

Sadolet, Bishop, his kindness to the Waldenses or Vaudois of Provence, i. 242.

Sague, an agent of the King of Navarre, arrested, i. 424.

Sainctes, Claude de, his speech at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 532; complains of Huguenot boldness, i. 570; a violent advocate of persecution, ii. 254.

"Saint," the prefix of, insisted upon by the Sorbonne, i. 223.

Saint Andre, Jacques d'Albon, Marshal of, i. 266; his rapid advancement, i. 272; makes terms with the Guises, i. 354; his influence with Constable Montmorency, i. 469; becomes one of the triumvirs, i. 470, 471; he returns a defiant answer to Catharine de' Medici, when ordered to go to his government, ii. 27; lays siege to and takes Bourges, ii. 71, 72; is killed in the battle of Dreux, ii. 95; enmity of Catharine de' Medici toward, ii. 97. See Triumvirs.

Saint Denis, battle of, Nov. 10, 1567, ii. 213.

Saint Etienne, ii. 353.

Saint Germain, Conference of, 1561, i. 539; its article on the eucharist rejected by the Roman Catholic prelates, i. 541; assembly of notables at, i. 574; conference of, January 28, 1562, ii. 7; its profitless discussions, ii. 8; delight of Mouchy and his companions at its close, ii. 8, 9; flight of the court from, ii. 626.

Saint Germain, the edict of pacification of, ending the third civil war, Aug. 8, 1570, ii. 363; dissatisfaction of the clergy, ii. 365; sincerity of the peace, ii. 367.

Saint-Germain-des-Pres, the old abbey of, ii. 483, note.

Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, church of, i. 174; bell of, ii. 455, 470, note.

Saint Goard, ii. 537, 538.

Saint Heran, Governor of Auvergne, his reported magnanimity, ii. 527.

Saint Hippolyte, Wolfgang Schuch at, i. 116.

Saint Jacques, Rue, affair of, Sept. 4, 1557, i. 303, 304; savage treatment of the prisoners, i. 305; malicious rumors respecting Protestants, i. 306; trials and executions, i. 307.

Saint Jean d'Angely, ii. 312; disastrous siege of, by the Roman Catholic army, ii. 339, seq.

Saint Lo, in Normandy, i. 408; ii. 631, 632.

Saint Medard, the "tumult" of, i. 571, seq.

Saint Michael's Day, the Huguenots to rise upon (Sept. 29, 1567), ii. 205; the secret leaks out, ii. 206.

Saint Paul, Francois de, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509.

Saint Quentin, defeat of, August 10, 1557, i. 302.

Saint Remy, Nicole de, a mistress of Henry II., and a Spanish spy, suggests the marriage of Cardinal Bourbon in the contingency of the death of all Catharine de' Medici's sons, ii. 180, 181.

Saint Romain, Archbishop of Aix, cited by the Pope, ii. 141, 161.

Saint Romain, M. de, ii. 600.

Saint Thomas, M. de, ii. 511.

Sainte Chapelle, founded by Saint Louis, its relics, i. 174.

Sainte Foy, De, or Arnauld Sorbin, a violent Roman Catholic preacher, ii. 254; instigates the massacre of Orleans, ii. 508; acts as confessor of Charles IX. before his death, ii. 637.

Sainte Gemme, La Noue's success at, ii. 361.

Saintes, ii. 283, 361.

Salcede, sentenced to be boiled alive for counterfeiting, i. 46.

Salic law, the, a bit of pleasantry, ii. 208.

Salignac, Abbe, confers with the Protestants at Poissy, i. 538; his professed sympathy with the Reformation, and his timidity, i. 538, 539.

Salviati, papal nuncio in France, his testimony respecting the want of premeditation of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, and the king's ignorance, ii. 435, 436, 531, 535, 564.

Sancerre refuses to admit a garrison, in 1568, ii. 250; ford near, ii. 269; a Huguenot place of refuge, ii. 280; fruitless siege of, by Martinengo, ii. 297; siege of, in 1573, ii. 589; incipient famine in, ii. 590; terrible straits of, ii. 595, 596; capitulation of, ii. 597.

Sansac, ii. 325, 344.

Santa Croce, Cardinal, sent as nuncio to France, i. 548; his reluctance, i. 549; his alarm at the time of the assembly of notables at Saint Germain, i. 575; he claims the surrender of Cardinal Chatillon to the Pope, ii. 228, 229.

Santa Fiore, pontifical general in France, his instructions, ii. 319, note; severely reproved by Pius V. for having spared any heretics that fell into his hands, ii. 335, 568; recalled, 342.

Sapin, a member of the Parliament of Paris, executed by order of Conde, by way of retaliation, ii. 80.

Saumur, ii. 324, 503, 504, 512.

Saunier, or Saulnier, Matthieu, i. 90.

Saverne, conference of, between the Duke of Wuertemberg and the Guises, ii, 13-17.

Savoy, Duke of, intercession of Charles IX. with, in behalf of the Waldenses, or Vaudois, of Piedmont, ii. 390; collects an army to overwhelm Geneva, ii. 557.

Saxony, the elector of, refuses to let Melanchthon go to France, i. 185; his severe language to the reformer, ib.; refuses to help the Huguenots, ii. 217.

Schism, the, i. 28.

Schmidt, Professor C., on Roussel's mysticism, i. 97.

Schomberg, Gaspard de, a negotiator, ii. 71, 290, 550, 551, 608.

Schuch, Wolfgang, tragic end of, i. 116.

Sebastian, King of Portugal, affronts Charles IX. by declining the hand of Margaret of Valois, ii. 379.

Sebeville, Pierre de, i. 83.

Seguier, President of the Parliament of Paris, makes a manly speech against the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition, i. 289, 290; his leaning to Protestantism, i. 329.

Senlis, the bishop of, translates the "Hours" of Margaret of Angouleme in a Protestant fashion, i. 151.

Sens, provincial council of, i. 138; its decrees against heresy, i. 139; persecution at, i. 256; massacre of, ii. 46, 55.

Serbelloni, Fabrizio, cousin of Pope Pius IV., massacres the Protestants at Orange, ii. 48, 49.

Serignan, Viscount of, ii. 230, note.

Sermons, seditious and fanatical, ii. 5, 240, 279, 523.

Serres, Jean de, the historian, ii. 572, note, et al.

Servetus, Michael, burned contrary to the desire of Calvin, i. 212; his execution approved by Melanchthon and other reformers, ib.

Sevyn, Pierre de, a Protestant member of the Parliament of Bordeaux, killed, ii. 524.

Shakerley, Thomas, organist of the Cardinal of Ferrara, papal legate: he is a spy in the pay of Throkmorton, i. 566, note; his account of the French court, ib.

Sigismund Augustus, King of Poland, letter of Pius V. to him, ii. 564.

Sismondi, M. de, on the massacre of Vassy, ii. 24.

Smith, Sir Thomas, his account of the riotous conduct of the Parisian mob, ii. 96, 97; his tribute to the Duke of Guise, ii. 112; his remonstrance against the edict of pacification of Amboise, ii. 116; his altercation with Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, ii. 128; his words as to the Prince of Conde, ii. 145, note; his view of the design of the "progress" of Charles IX., ii 158; on the growth of Protestantism in France, ii. 182; his account of an interview with the Cardinal of Lorraine, ii. 321, note; his account of the offer of a ring by Charles IX. to the Cardinal of Alessandria, ii. 402, note; his plea for Queen Elizabeth, ii. 422, note; his letter respecting the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 546.

Soldan, Professor, his view respecting the cities offered by the king to the Huguenots, ii. 358, note; as to the terms of the edict of Boulogne, ii. 594, note.

Soleure, the canton of, ii. 557.

Sommieres, brave defence of, ii. 589.

Sorbin. See Sainte Foy, De.

Sorbonne, or theological faculty, i. 22; its great authority, i. 23; its intolerance, i. 24; declaration of, i. 71; condemns Luther's teachings, i. 108; its recommendations, i. 110; reprobates Melanchthon's articles, i. 187; publishes twenty-five articles of faith, March 10, 1543, i. 223; denounces the Parliament of Paris as heretical, i. 328; despatches Artus Desire to invoke the aid of Philip II., i. 467, 468; declares it impossible to have two religions in a kingdom without confusion, ii. 228.

Soubise, M. de, entreats Catharine to throw herself into the arms of the Huguenots, ii. 31; at Lyons, ii. 102; his humanity, ib.; taken prisoner at Jarnac, ii. 306.

Souillac, Huguenot reverse at, ii. 348.

Spanish ambassador's house in Paris the centre of intrigue, ii. 181.

Spanish troops recalled, ii. 342.

States General an object of suspicion, i. 11; rarely convoked, i. 12; compensating advantages, i. 13.

States General of Orleans, elections for, i. 430; complaints inserted in the "cahiers," ib.; demands of clergy at Poitiers, i. 431; opening of, Dec. 13, 1560, i. 454; the chancellor's address, i. 455; Cardinal Lorraine's effrontery, i. 456; De Rochefort's address for the noblesse, ib.; L'Ange for the tiers etat, i. 458; Jean Quintin's arrogant speech for the clergy, ib.; Admiral Coligny presents a Huguenot petition, i. 461; the States prorogued, ib.; meanwhile persecution to cease, i. 462; meet at Pontoise, i. 488; speech of Bretagne, vierg of Autun, for the tiers etat, i. 489; demands of the tiers etat, i. 490; representative government, religious toleration and an impartial council insisted upon, i. 492; the prelates at Poissy, i. 493; an invitation extended to Beza and other Frenchmen, i. 494.

Strasbourg intercedes for Protestants of France, i. 191; but receives an unsatisfactory reply, i. 192.

Strozzi, Philip, ii. 319, 576, 583, 584, 623.

Stuart, a Scotch gentleman, said to have shot the constable in the battle of Saint Denis, ii. 215; murdered in cold blood at Jarnac, ii. 304.

Sturm, John, lecturer in Paris, and afterward rector of the University of Strasbourg, writes to beg Melanchthon to come to France, i. 182.

Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of, his escape in the massacre of Paris, ii. 477.

Sureau du Rosier, Hugues, an instrument in the forced conversion of Navarre and Conde, ii. 499.

Suriano, Michel, a Venetian ambassador, his account of the Protestant ministers, i. 463; his lugubrious account of France, i. 569.

Swiss, hesitation of the Protestant cantons to seem to countenance rebellion, ii. 56; bravery at the battle of Dreux, ii. 94; levy of six thousand men sent for, ii. 196; causes distrust among the Huguenots, ib.; they escort Charles IX. to Paris, ii. 207; after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 558.

Sympathy of the judges with the Protestants, i. 300.

Synod, the first national, held in Paris, May, 1559, i. 335-337; the second, Poitiers, March 10, 1561, ii. 62, note; the third, Orleans, April 25, 1562, ii. 61; the seventh, La Rochelle, April 2-11, 1571, ii. 387.

T.

Tadon, ii. 580.

Tailor of the Rue St. Antoine, his bold speech and execution, i. 276, 277.

Talaize, ii. 516, note.

Tanquerel, a doctor of the Sorbonne, declares that the Pope can depose heretical kings, i. 566.

Tavannes, Gaspard de, Marshal, remonstrates against the peace, and favors the revival of the confraternities, ii. 245, 246; author of plot to seize Conde and Coligny, ii. 266, 339; the king's estimate of his character, ii. 409; his blunt advice, ii. 429, note; at the council of blood, ii. 447, 448 note; he rides through the streets of Paris encouraging the "blood-letting," ii. 476.

Teil, a Protestant captain, ii. 329.

Teligny, ii. 256, 357, 359, 363, 384; marries Louise de Chatillon, daughter of Admiral Coligny, ii. 387; a conversation with Charles IX., ii. 408, 409; opposes the proposition of the Vidame de Chartres to leave Paris, as a mark of distrust of the king, ii. 446, 453; he is among the first victims of the massacre, ii. 471.

Tende, the Count of, ii. 298; he refuses to massacre the Protestants in Provence, ii. 527; his speedy death attributed to poison, ib.

Terrides, a captain of Anjou, ii. 323.

Tessier, ii. 509.

Theatrical effects, i. 58.

Theophilus, letter signed, to Catharine de' Medici, i. 409.

Thionville, brilliant capture of, i. 321.

Thore, a younger Montmorency, ii. 441, 452, 625, 628.

Thou, Christopher de, First President of the Parliament of Paris, member of the commission that condemned Conde to death, i 438; his son's attempt to clear the memory of, i. 440; ii. 371; his unmanly speech at the "lit de justice," when Charles IX. assumes the responsibility of the massacre, ii. 493; presides at the trial of La Mole and Coconnas, ii. 629.

Thou, Jacques Auguste, de, the historian, son of Christopher, ii. 330, note; at the marriage of Henry of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, ii. 428; on his father's part in the action of parliament at the time of the massacre, ii. 493, note.

Thouars falls into the hands of the Huguenots, ii. 282.

"Three Bishoprics," the, i. 66.

Throkmorton, Sir Nicholas, English ambassador, his account of the wound of Henry II., i. 340; of the dismay after the Tumult of Amboise, i. 387; of the perplexity of the Guises, i. 413; his information respecting plans of Philip II. and the Pope, i. 426, 427; respecting the illness of Francis II., i. 443; his account of matters at the French court, February 16, 1562, ii. 17, 18; urges Cecil to induce Queen Elizabeth to put away the candles and cross from the altar in her royal chapel, ii. 19; regards the Huguenots as the stronger party, ii. 42; entreats Queen Elizabeth to inspirit Catharine de' Medici, ii. 47; invokes her aid for the Huguenots, ii. 55; is captured by the Huguenots and remains with them, ii. 72; is hated by Catharine de' Medici, ib.; his frankness with Queen Elizabeth, ii. 74; he asks her to help heartily, ii. 75; his altercation with Sir Thomas Smith, ii. 128; Chantonnay's boast that with his assistance he could overturn the state, ii. 181.

Tiers Etat, its patient endurance, i. 13; its radical demands at the States General of Pontoise, i. 490 seq.

"Tiger, Letter to the, of France," a virulent pamphlet against Cardinal Lorraine, i. 444-448; written by Francois Hotman, i. 446.

Title-pages, deceptive, i. 275.

Toledo, Don Frederick of, routs Genlis and takes him prisoner, ii. 415.

Toleration, religious, demanded by the tiers etat at Pontoise, i. 492.

Toulouse, execution of Jean de Caturce at, i. 150; character of the city according to Protestant and Roman Catholic authors, ib; massacre of Huguenots at, May, 1562, ii. 52-54; commemorated in 1762, but the commemoration forbidden by the French government in 1862, ii. 54; the parliament, instead of publishing the edict of Amboise, forbids the profession of the reformed religion, ii. 128; the parliament of, murders judicially M. Rapin, a Protestant gentleman sent by the king, ii. 239; reluctantly registers the edict of pacification of 1568, ii. 240; a "crusade" preached at, ii. 278; massacre of, in 1572, ii. 521, 522.

Tour, Jean de la, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509.

Tournon, Cardinal of, i. 139; his arguments to dissuade Francis I. from intercourse with heretics, i. 188; instigates the persecution of Protestants, i. 282; his reported bad faith, i. 285; tries to cut short the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 521; his new demand, i. 529.

Tours, the Protestants of, attacked while at worship, ii. 162.

Tourtray M. de, executed on the Place de Greve, ii. 628.

Toussain, Pierre, on the timidity of Lefevre and Gerard Roussel, i. 86.

Trade despised, i. 15.

Traps for heretics, i. 367.

Treacherous diplomacy, ii. 220.

Treaty of amity between Charles IX. and Queen Elizabeth, April 18, 1572, ii. 398.

Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, i. 322.

Trent, the Council of, closes its sessions, Dec., 1563, ii. 152; confirms the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, and renders indelible the line of demarcation between the two religions, ii. 153, 154; Cardinal Lorraine makes a fruitless attempt to have the decrees received in France, ii. 155; able treatise of Du Moulin against them, ii. 155, 156.

Triumvirate, the, formed by Montmorency, Guise, and St. Andre, i. 470, 471; a spurious statement of its objects, i. 471-473; it retires in disgust from Saint Germain, i. 556.

Triumvirs, petition of, ii. 58; they amuse Conde before Paris with negotiations until reinforcements arrive, ii. 90, 91; they consult Catharine de' Medici respecting the engagement, ii. 92, 93.

"Trivium" and "quadrivium," i. 20.

Trouillas, an advocate, pretended orgies in the house of, i. 365; he insists on being put on trial for these orgies, and not for heresy, and is tardily released, i. 365, 366.

Troyes, progress of Protestantism in, i. 562; great crowds at the Huguenot services, ii. 11; massacre of Huguenots in the prisons of, ii. 128, 129; formation of the "Christian and Royal League" at, ii. 246; violence at, ii. 249; Protestants returning from worship attacked, ii. 432, 433; massacre of, Sept 4, 1572, ii. 507, 508.

Truchares, a political Huguenot, mayor of La Rochelle, ii. 227.

Truchon, a judge, much edified by the signs of concord, just before the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 197.

Tuileries, new palace of the, built by Catharine de' Medici, ii. 598.

Turenne, ii. 625.

Turks, French civilities to, ii. 181.

Tytler-Fraser, Mr., ii. 291, note.

U.

University of Paris, i. 20; the four nations, i. 21; the faculties, ib.; chancellor and rector, i. 22; number of its students, i. 24; gives name to a quarter of the city, i. 24; barbarism at, i. 42.

Unlettered persons forbidden to discuss matters of faith, i. 281.

Uzes, Duke of, ii. 604.

V.

Val, Du, Bishop of Seez, confers with the Protestants at Poissy, i. 538.

Valence, Huguenots of, seize the church of the Franciscans, i. 404; a public assembly of the citizens, i. 405; progress of good morals, ib.; orders sent for the extermination of the Protestants, i. 406; treacherous treatment of, i. 407.

Valenciennes captured by Count Louis of Nassau, ii. 412.

Valery, ii. 203.

Valette, Jean de la, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, ii. 181.

Varillas, M, an untrustworthy historian, ii. 25, 26; his good remarks respecting Admiral Coligny, ii. 315.

Vasari paints three pictures in the Vatican, by order of Pope Gregory XIII. to commemorate the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 533, and note.

Vassy, a town in Champagne, part of the dower of Mary, Queen of Scots, ii. 19; establishment of the Huguenot church at, ii. 19, 20; arrival of the Duke of Guise, ii. 21; massacre of, March 1, 1562, ii. 21, 22; pamphlets respecting it, ii. 22, 23; upon whom rests the guilt of the butchery, ii. 23-26.

Vatable, i. 43.

Vaud, Pays de, conquered by Berne, i. 197.

"Vauderie," crime of, i. 63.

Vaudrey, Anne de, bailli of Troyes, an agent in the massacre of Troyes, ii. 507, 508.

Vaudois, execution of, at Arras, i. 63.

Vaudois, or Waldenses, of Piedmont, mission of the four "evangelical" cantons in their behalf, i. 309; Charles IX. intercedes in their behalf with the Duke of Savoy, ii. 390.

Vaudois, or Waldenses, of Provence, i. 230; their industry and thrift, ib.; their villages in the Comtat Venaissin, i. 231; they send delegates to the Swiss and German reformers, i. 232; their doctrines and practices, ib.; cause the Bible to be translated by Olivetanus, i. 233; preliminary persecutions of, i. 234; iniquitous order of the Parliament of Aix against, i. 235; followed by the "Arret de Merindol," i. 236; temporarily saved by Chassanee, i. 238; report of Du Bellay respecting their character and history, i. 240; pardoned by Francis I., i. 241; are again summoned by the Parliament of Aix, ib.; they publish a new confession, i. 242; stealthy organization of an expedition against, i. 245; villages burned, and the inhabitants butchered, i. 246, 247; destruction of Merindol, i. 247; destruction of Cabrieres, i. 248; of La Coste, i. 249; the results, i. 250; Francis led to give his approval to the massacre, i. 251; an investigation ordered, ib.; impunity of most of the culprits, i. 252.

Venaissin, Comtat. See Comtat Venaissin.

Venetian ambassadors, opinions of, i. 10.

Verbal orders respecting the massacre in the provinces, ii. 502, 514.

Verbelai, ii. 226.

Verez, De, throws himself into Geneva with a body of French soldiers, i. 197.

Vergne, La, ii. 302.

Versailles, the title how obtained by the king, ii. 485.

Vertueil, the King of Navarre dismisses his escort at, i. 435.

"Very Christian King," title of, i. 35.

Vezelay, birthplace of Theodore Beza, i. 497; refuses to admit a garrison in 1568, ii. 250; a place of refuge, ii. 280; sustains a successful siege, ii. 343, 344.

Vezins, a Roman Catholic gentleman of Quercy, magnanimously saves the life of his personal enemy, the Huguenot Regnier, ii. 480, 481.

Vialard, President, at Rouen, ii. 519.

Vieilleville, Marshal of, magnanimously refuses to take advantage of a royal patent giving him a share of the confiscated property of heretics, i. 282; sent as envoy to the Huguenots, ii. 210; remonstrance of, ii. 255; the king's estimate of, ii. 409.

"Vierg," the designation of an officer at Autun, i. 489.

Vigor, Archbishop of Narbonne, a violent Roman Catholic preacher, ii. 254, 375, 634.

Villars, Count de, burns books from Geneva at Pont St. Esprit, i. 428; influences Constable Montmorency, i. 469; appointed admiral after the death of Coligny, ii. 523, 524.

Villegagnon, Vice-admiral of Brittany, sent with a Protestant colony to Brazil, i. 291; founds Fort Coligny, i. 292; becomes an enemy of the Protestants, i. 293; and brings ruin on the expedition, i. 294; vows eternal enmity to the Huguenots, ii. 180; writes to Renee of France, ii. 327.

Villemadon's letter of remonstrance to Catharine de' Medici, i. 363.

Villemongys, i. 392.

Villeneuve, capture of, by the Huguenots, ii. 589.

Viole, Claude, his speech in the "mercuriale" of 1559, i. 334.

Virel, Jean, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509.

Viret, the reformer, intercedes for the poor non-combatants at Lyons, ii. 102.

Visconte, affair in the house of, i. 361.

"Viscounts," the army of the, ii. 226; they march to meet Conde, and defeat the troops collected by the Governor of Auvergne at Cognac, or Cognat, ii. 230; relieve Orleans, ib.; take Blois, ib.; list of the viscounts, ii. 230, note.

Visions of celestial hosts, ii. 334.

Vitelli, Chiappin, routs Genlis and takes him prisoner, ii. 415.

Vivarez, Montbrun's exploits in, ii. 621.

Vore de la Fosse sent to Melanchthon, i. 182; his interviews with him, and his letters, i. 183.

Vulcob, M. de, French ambassador to the Emperor of Germany, ii. 550.

W.

Waldenses. See Vaudois.

Walsingham, Francis, on the peace of Saint Germain, ii. 368; receives the assurances of the king as to his intention to observe the peace, ii. 371; on the attempts to dissuade Anjou from marrying Queen Elizabeth, ii. 379; on the English marriage and the anxiety of the Huguenots, ii. 382; his enthusiastic description of Count Louis of Nassau, ii. 384, note; urges Queen Elizabeth to advocate the invitation of Coligny to court, ii. 388, note; he sets forth the critical nature of the situation, ii. 416; he mentions rumors of Elizabeth's desertion of her allies, ii. 420; he praises Coligny's magnanimity, ii. 421; his reply to Catharine de' Medici respecting Coligny's loyalty, ii. 495, 547; on the forced conversions of Navarre and Conde, ii. 499; his conversation with the queen mother as to the maintenance of the edict of pacification, ii. 547, 548.

War, the first civil, or religious, April, 1562, to March 19, 1563, ii. 34-115; its results, ii. 118; it prevents France from becoming Huguenot, ii. 119; the second civil war, Sept., 1567, to March 23, 1568, ii. 203-234; the third civil war, Sept., 1568, to Aug. 8, 1570, ii. 274-366; the fourth civil war, Dec., 1572, to July, 1573, ii. 582-593; meagre results of, ii. 594; beginning of the fifth civil war, 1574, ii. 622.

Westmoreland, Earl of, his rebellion, ii. 358.

White, Henry, Dr., the remark respecting Cardinal Lorraine which he ascribes to Beza, i. 529; cf. also ii. 46, 252, 427, note, 527, note.

Whittingham, Wm., Dean of Durham, ii. 292, note.

Winter, severity of the, 1568-1569, ii. 286, 297.

Winter, Admiral, carries money, cannon, and ammunition to La Rochelle, ii. 296.

Wolmar, Melchior, i. 43; a teacher of Calvin, i. 199.

Wolrad, Count of Mansfeld, succeeds the Duke of Deux-Ponts in command of the German auxiliaries of the Huguenots, ii. 318, 335, 364.

Worship, Protestant places of, assigned at the most inconvenient distances, ii. 163, 164, note, 432, note.

Wotton, Dr., his view of the court of Henry II. of France, i. 261.

Wringle, Pierre de, or Van, the printer of Serrieres, near Neufchatel, i. 233.

Wuertemberg, Christopher, Duke of, sends theologians to Poissy, who come too late for the colloquy, i. 544; meets the Guises at Saverne, ii. 13; he remonstrates with them respecting the persecution of the Huguenots, ii. 14; his judgment on the whole matter, ii. 17; he declines the offer of the post of lieutenant-general of the king, ii. 113.

Y.

Year, the old French, begins at Easter, i. 276.

Yolet, ii. 603.

Yverny, Madame d', butchered in the massacre at Paris, ii. 474.

Z.

Zuleger, a councillor of the elector palatine, sent to France to see the state of affairs at the time of the second civil war, ii. 218; he reports favorably to the Huguenots, ii. 219.

Zurich, intercedes for the French Protestants, i. 191; but receives an unsatisfactory reply, i. 192; intercedes with Henry II., after the affair of the Rue St. Jacques, with little success, i. 309, 310.

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