Note 725 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Discours de la mort du Roy Henry II., Recueil des choses mém., in initio, and Mém. de Condé, i. 213-216; La Planche, 202; La Place, Commentaires, etc., 20; J. de Serres, De statu rel., etc. (1570), i., fol. 18; Hist. ecclés., i. 123; De Thou, ii. 674; Davila (Cottrell's tr.), p. 11; Santa Croce, v. 1438, etc. It is characteristic that so important a date as that of the fatal tournament should be differently stated; La Place, the Hist. ecclés., and De Thou making it June 29th. The confusion is increased by subsequent writers. Motley (Rise of the Dutch Republic, i. 204) making Henry die on the 10th of July of the wound inflicted eleven days before, and Prescott (Philip the Second, i. 295) representing him as lingering ten days and dying on the ninth of July.