Note 736 — Chapter XIV · MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES. [August to October, 1572.]
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Juan de Cuniga, embassador at Rome, writes to Philip II. that “the French here declare that the king meditated this stroke since the day he made peace;” but in another place he adds, that “he was credibly informed, if the assault on the admiral was projected a few days before, and authorized by the king, all the rest was inspired by circumstances.” Bulletin Acad. Sci. Bruxelles, xvi. (1849) p. 250.