Note 1030 — Chapter XI

Louis of Nassau without doubt was in close connection with the leading French Protestants. See Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, I, 229; II, 196, 403. It was extremely difficult to repress the ardor of the Protestants at Valenciennes, owing to its nearness of the French border and the number of Calvinist preachers whom the Huguenots sent into the country in June, 1566 (ibid., II, 135). For the influx of Calvinist preachers into the country as early as 1561 see Languet, Epist. secr., II, 155. The prince of Condé was reputed to have sold a tapestry for 9,000 florins, which he gave to the cause there (Poulet, I, 439).